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by sofixa 9mo ago
> I swear every other one leaks right away, and those that don't can only be refilled once or twice before they do. So you end up going through like 10 of those a day Yeah, if you're using that many, the solution is, and always
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by sofixa 9mo ago
wildly country dependent, e.g. check the stats for the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d...
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> Absolute nightmare. Yes, but still probably a million times easier for both the building management and the software vendor to have a SaaS for that, than having to buy hardware to put somewhere in the building (with redundant power, co
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by sofixa 9mo ago
You can run vLLM with AMD GPUs supported by ROCm: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/how-to/rocm-for-ai/infer... However from experience with an AMD Strix Halo, a couple of caveats: it's drasticall
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by sofixa 9mo ago
I bought an Asus Zenbook UX303 a decade ago that had a full aluminium body, a dedicated Nvidia GPU, and cost like 800€. A sibling still uses it today. I've upgraded to an Asus ROG Zephyrus that has a fancy plastic body that doesn'
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by sofixa 9mo ago
Apple hardware has "only" a 36% margin, while their software and services have a 75% margin. They definitely want to make more money on software with absurd margins.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
During the Prigozhin uprising / coup attempt, internet was cut off in parts of Russia, and there was a noticeable slowdown in comments on multiple popular subreddits. I don't know if any studies have been done to evaluate this emp
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> Since Independent Scotland is very likely to rejoin EU That is in no way clear because Spain has previously (during the Scottish independence referendum) indicated they would veto such a thing (because they don't want to give Cata
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> I actually think that the process around Scottish independence actually demonstrates that the UK is actually relatively sane - a part of the country wanted to consider independence, the government at the time said "OK you can have
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> Most Windows laptops physically break apart before macOS ceases to support any Apple laptop. If you buy the $199 Windows laptop that can barely run Windows, yes. Anything comparable in price to a MacBook? Not really.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> The only people I meet who voluntarily use web apps in their day to day are Linux users who have convinced themselves that it is good enough because there aren't any good native apps on Linux. Funny, there are whole companies, pre
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> I think Bavaria developed their own Linux distro instead of using an established one Yes, with all their configs, packages and certifications that were needed. Not really a problem. > It failed horrendously Because Microsoft came in
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by sofixa 9mo ago
Was that really a fork, or just a distribution with all the configs and packages that Munich wanted and needed?
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> they once again go for creating their own forks, instead of financing development of existing software then I'll know the initiative failed. Once again? When did they do that? They have been funding various open source projects (l
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by sofixa 9mo ago
I mean, macOS is not a serious OS either. It has worse error management/reporting than Windows - Microsoft at least give you the courtesy of pretending they're trying to help you resolve the issue with an indecipherable hex code
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by sofixa 9mo ago
Almost all of them have it already. Microsoft's "Copilot+" branding includes a prerequisite for an NPU with a minimal amount of TOPS. It's just that practically nothing uses those NPUs.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
Or a single AMD Strix Halo with lots of RAM, which could be had before the RAM crisis for ~1.5k eur.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
It sounds like you want Home Asisstant. You have all of the different components: * you can use a number of things for the interactive devices (any touchscreen device, buttons, voice, etc) * have it HA do the basic parsing (word for word ma
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by sofixa 10mo ago
Maybe even put them on steel wheels on steel tracks, to make them more efficient.
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by sofixa 10mo ago
Not really comparable. With Intel's confusing socket naming, you can buy a CPU that doesn't fit the socket. With USB, the physical connection is very clearly the first part of the name. You cannot get it wrong. Yeah, the names are
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by sofixa 10mo ago
I genuinely don't know, especially for Vercel to be using them. Vercel themselves can easily be used to host static-ish documentation. But it looks like Mintlify are using Vercel on the backend: https://vercel.com/blog&
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by sofixa 10mo ago
> It's not like they weren't thinking about security https://kibty.town/blog/mintlify/ The first CVE here definitely sounds like they absolutely weren't thinking care security.
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by sofixa 10mo ago
> Chill - just because someone got hacked doesn't mean their product is trash Yes, but the vulnerabilities reported in this collection of articles really smell like trash. Allowing untrusted code from your customers to be executed i
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by sofixa 10mo ago
Not who you asked, but personally I'm using an Onyx Boox Palma, which is a phone-sized Android device with an e-ink screen. I have Readwise's Reader on it, which doubles as "read later" and RSS feed reader, and works off
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by sofixa 10mo ago
It's not that easy/clear. Venezuelan oil is really poor quality, needs lots of refining, and is thus only profitable only when the price per barrel is on the higher end. So Qatar (which mostly exports natural gas anyways), Saudi A
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by sofixa 10mo ago
Yep, but I interact with companies all over the world, and while American ones tend to not self-host (in general, but VCS in particular), out of those that do, Gitlab still seems more popular.
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by sofixa 10mo ago
> Every company I've been at that tried to self-host something like GitLab, later moved to GitHub Interesting, my experience has been the opposite. 99% of companies I've seen self host their VCS, it has been Gitlab (with some r
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by sofixa 10mo ago
It's actually only 20% that live in a rural (not within a metro area - urban or suburban): https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-ru...
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by sofixa 10mo ago
> It's called TDS. Blind unfiltered constant rage against Trump, and anything he might represent, as if he is the great marvel super villain. I mean he obviously isn't, he's way too fucking dumb and demented for a good sup
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by sofixa 10mo ago
Why? Neither Chiang nor Mao were fighting "the anti-fascist war". Both were more interested in fighting each other, for starters. Imperial Japan being considered fascist is also quite the stretch. And importantly, neither of the t

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