softfalcon

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by softfalcon 2y ago
In my opinion, one the most reliable signs is when companies stop repeatedly investing into their product innovation. The moment they start behaving like an established behemoth (monopoly/oligopoly) and you see repeated stock buybacks
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by softfalcon 2y ago
One can only hope. Goodness knows it would be better if Intel were more competitive in this market. Let's cross our fingers that you're right and we see a resurgence after the new fabs come online.
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by softfalcon 2y ago
This sounds worryingly like “sales are down, cut costs to maintain profitability to spike our stock numbers” and not enough focus on what I believe is actually wrong, which is that they can’t seem to reliably make competitive processors in
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by softfalcon 2y ago
I wrote one of these in C# years ago after seeing my friend write one in GoLang even more years ago. GoLang: https://github.com/wyattjoh/cloudflare-ddns C#: https://github.com/nick-funk/dyn-dns Mi
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by softfalcon 2y ago
It all comes down to "doing the work"... which is the key to "executing on the idea". There are countless folks who like to have ideas and imagine a dream scenario where other people labour to bring those ideas to life.
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by softfalcon 2y ago
They have a financial incentive to never delete your data. Storing old data forever creates a perfect paper trail to sell to advertisers and perfect the shadow profile they keep on all of us. I agree that deleting all your data after a year
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by softfalcon 2y ago
Maybe this is how it is at some places, but in my experience, it is not the case. I have friends who have worked in cyber-security for Fortune 500 companies and almost all of those companies would short-change (or outright ignore) the recom
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by softfalcon 2y ago
They fire up gasoline generators when the load is high as a back-up to natural gas generation. There have been periods of rolling brown outs due to high industrial demand where I live. I know people in the industry and also watch the local
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by softfalcon 2y ago
Modern numbers at a provincial level show that it's much higher than 13% in 2024. Canada is slowly becoming a massive housing/real-estate bubble.
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by softfalcon 2y ago
Ah yes, you've been fooled by the oil and gas propaganda. The entire oil and gas industry is only 3.2% of Canada's GDP. However, you'll never hear that from the army of O&G lobbyists who permanently reside in Alberta 24&#
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by softfalcon 2y ago
Hey folks, I live in Alberta. This isn't as big of a win as you all think it is. We replaced coal burning with natural gas and gasoline burning power generation. For those who will say, "but Alberta has wind and solar!" pleas
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by softfalcon 2y ago
I feel like people forget that AMD has huge contracts with Microsoft, Valve, Sony, etc to design consoles at scale. It's an invisible provider as most folks don't even realize their Xbox and their Playstation are both AMD. When yo
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by softfalcon 2y ago
It's called universal government provided healthcare. We have it in Canada. Gets rid of that nasty, unnecessary, "for profit" medical sector. Though, I think that may actually be as-large or a larger problem for America than
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by softfalcon 2y ago
Yeah, everything here is 2.5G ethernet end-to-end. I don't think that's the issue. :)
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by softfalcon 2y ago
Appreciate the details you’ve provided! I’m going to do some more Parsec experiments this weekend thanks to your info. Something is clearly wrong with my setup, I’m going to figure it out.
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by softfalcon 2y ago
Oh, wild, I didn't know that. I definitely see some high latency on Parsec within my home. It might be bouncing around through the net somehow instead of transferring directly within my local network? I wonder if something about local
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by softfalcon 2y ago
The default for Parsec is h.265, it's only on older machines that can't hardware encode/decode that fall back to h.264. The reason they're likely seeing latency issues is that Parsec doesn't have the localized serve
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by softfalcon 2y ago
Thanks, appreciate you backing up my thoughts on this. I’ve already received several down votes from folks who seem to disagree with my concern.
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by softfalcon 2y ago
Is anyone else reading this and seeing the worrying, “we can just medicate away the autism”? They’re talking about a possible pharmaceutical “fix” for autism in children under 5. Seems a bit premature for just recently finding a metabolic d
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by softfalcon 2y ago
A djinni with Tim Apple's face would be funny. Comes out of a home pod and magics the whole recording studio into an iPad. Probably too whimsical for an Apple's taste though.
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by softfalcon 2y ago
Don't attack me, I'm not disagreeing with you that an nVidia GPU is far superior at that price point. I simply want to point out that these folks don't really care about that. They want a Mac for more reasons than "perfo
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by softfalcon 2y ago
That's wild. Also, I don't think this solves the "I can win cause I'm rich" problem. I don't think many people can reasonably be expected to want to willingly mail their phone to another person. Especially, con
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by softfalcon 2y ago
I think it's so they can provide a quality web experience curated to facilitate their Patreon goals. Their work is free, but they likely want to ensure folks know "who" is making all these assets and that they have a Patreon
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by softfalcon 2y ago
I'm curious as to how well this works when upscaling from 1080p to 4K or 4K to 8K. Their 128x128 to 1024x1024 upscales are very impressive, but I find the real artifacts and weirdness are created when AI tries to upscale an already rel
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by softfalcon 2y ago
> Apple gave up on OpenCL, after disagreements how Khronos managed it. Ah yes, the old "I can't completely control it, cause I'm Apple, so I'm taking my ball and leaving" ploy. Though, I will admit, AMD was also
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by softfalcon 2y ago
Having used both, it is true that CUDA has the "enterprise edge" of being a proprietary, paid for product, backed by an (almost) trillion dollar company. There are features and conveniences in CUDA that aren't present in Open
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by softfalcon 3y ago
Yeah, these types of projects can turn out to be a real gift. They are essentially a "folks here have an initiative they want to fund but don't know how" and if you direct the conversations well, you can create something incr
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by softfalcon 3y ago
My guess would be that it’s not all happening at once as you have short and long term memory. The simplest analogy is that your short term memory is a buffer that doesn’t use DNA, but a limited electro chemical storage of new present-moment
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by softfalcon 3y ago
Yeah, this is what I’m referring to. It doesn’t matter if you have codes if people don’t follow them because of laziness and corruption. I’m getting down voted, I guess I touched a nerve of the civil engineering folks. I came to the knowled
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by softfalcon 3y ago
Comparing homes today with that of 100 years ago ignores the fact that in many ways housing quality has been on a decline since the 1970’s due to cost cutting and lazy workmanship from large scale contractors. In my city, we have entire com

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