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by sliken 3y ago
In Colorado metal roofs are relatively common, typically there's little dams near the gutter to keep large amounts of snow/ice from sliding down and hurting people/property. Even just something that's 2"x2" pe
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by sliken 3y ago
Sort of, it's common to mount metal roofs on wood. Leaves, pine cones, pine needles, and even just tree dandruf/pollen/cottonwood strands tend to collect in corners, in gutters, and any other ledges. Even an ounce can be en
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by sliken 3y ago
A few 50 gallon drums, a battery, and a pump seems like cheap insurance if you are in a fire prone area. I wouldn't count on electricity or water pressure during a major fire.
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by sliken 3y ago
I'm a fan, especially the virtual folders that can be based on tags, that I add with digikam.
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by sliken 3y ago
I'm a fan, makes it super easy to go on vacation with family, suck in all the photos from 5 cameras, and tag them all. It's particularly good at things like select 2 weeks of photos, tag them with the vacation location, then pic
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by sliken 3y ago
I was tracking various exotic transmissions, ZF, dual clutch, various tech to give performance tweaks like rev matching and instant shifts. However fairly boring automatics got so good that they started showing better acceleration and effi
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by sliken 3y ago
Well safety system are required and do add a fair bit of weight/complexity and a wide range of interconnected systems. For top safety ratings you need a heavy body, reinforced in weird ways, so that even an offset collision results in
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by sliken 3y ago
Well even assuming 100% fossil fuels, EVs are somewhere around 3x as efficient compared to an internal combustion engine. But most grids world wide have some renewable energy and it's increasing over time. Not to mention solar at the
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by sliken 3y ago
Standards are rising. Cars today are quieter (more insulation), stiffer (more metal in the body), have traction control, ABS, better brakes, numerous airbags, wider tires, larger interiors, better stereos (more wiring and speakers), more c
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by sliken 3y ago
EVs, except in rare cases have differentials. Some even have different gears, but not Teslas. Typically EVs have 1 or 2 differentials. Granted that's less than my subaru (with 3), but still an issue.
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by sliken 3y ago
The biggest single die is the m2 max. Dual die chip is the ultra.
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by sliken 3y ago
Or memory bandwidth (800GB/sec). Or iGPU perf, which of course needs the above mentioned bandwidth. Or ML inference performance (5 tokens/sec with llama 65B).
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by sliken 3y ago
Very cool. I wanted a custom frame for my hard to fit wife. The bike shop (dragonfly bike shop in Davis CA) offered a custom frame or I could build one myself for the same price. I ended up taking the semester class that met twice a week
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by sliken 3y ago
I've not heard of post enshitification brother lasers. Link? Or maybe just an overview?
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by sliken 3y ago
I've seen LLM reviews that totally nail it. 2 hours, if space contrained to 5 shirts, 1 hours if space is not a constraint. Things do seem to be improving quickly, but if the inputs are largely human written content I do wonder if it&
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by sliken 3y ago
Shhh, don't give them ideas. What gets me is large parts of HP was cut (calculators, test instruments, laser printers, etc), not because they weren't profitable, but instead because they weren't as profitable as selling ink.
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by sliken 3y ago
Yes, and get the printer on the network where it can download new DRM behaviors to screw the users out of more ink. So far they retroactively added banning 3rd party ink, disabling ink once it gets too old, and of course not letting you pr
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by sliken 3y ago
Friends don't let friend buy HP printers. My pick so far is a cheap (under $200) brother lasers for home use.
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by sliken 3y ago
I've been following Asahi closely because I think the new apple silicon is pretty neat, offering 2x, 4x, and even 8x the memory bandwidth of most x86-64 hardware. In particular the Mac Studio M2 max. I've been quite impressed th
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by sliken 3y ago
No mandate. However chromebooks when they came out were a HUGE improvement over low end windows laptops. They are crazy durable, include instructions for when you pour soda into the keyboard, are durable enough to be thrown, leave a mark
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by sliken 3y ago
Sure, if you work alone, don't collaborate, and don't require any extra toolboxes. I've seen various communities move from Matlab to Python, Octave, R, and Julia notebooks (that now support several languages). Ease of collab
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by sliken 3y ago
How?
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by sliken 3y ago
I have an unlocked 6, wife got the upgrade this cycle. Nice phone, but much nicer with GrapheneOS. Definitely feels like my phone, instead of the default Pixel which is more of a Google owned phone that they let you use.
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by sliken 3y ago
Well the pixel is generally about the newest android that's the flagship software experience, with a decent camera, running on 1-2 year older hardware. But in my experience the lack of crapware and gaming benchmarks means it feels pre
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by sliken 3y ago
I've had every htc g1/nexus/pixel. 3 years hasn't been too big a deal, we have 3 phones in the household and the phones trickle down based on preferences for camera, phone size, and us. Did run up against the 3 year li
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by sliken 3y ago
Sure it's a pain in the ass, but this is exhibit A on why one needs to use home assistant and build your infrastructure/services for your home based on things you control. Outsourcing monitoring of cameras, control of doors, moni
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by sliken 3y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply, I've been reading about the tools, and tracking various forums discussing running local LLMs. ANE isn't required, just optional. However the Apple M2 MAX GPU seems to do inference decently when usin
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by sliken 3y ago
Dunno, what do you consider "light inference". M2 Max gets 5 tokens/sec on a 65B model, do you consider that "light'? 96GB max ram is quite a bit for vram and is still quite battery friendly, unlike a 3090/4090
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by sliken 3y ago
Agreed, if you can't match on battery life (which is hard) you have to sell it cheaper. Cheaper = smaller battery.
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by sliken 3y ago
Indeed, but Linux is crazy more popular now. Nearly all non-apple phones, all chromebooks, large fraction of servers, quite a few routers/switches, etc. In the 90s there was much more non-Linux Unix, many more CPUs (not just Intel&#x2

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