spider-mario

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by spider-mario 3mo ago
A lot of cheese is naturally lactose-free. That’s not really where most of the “danger” is for people who don’t tolerate lactose.
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
> If you start to drop effort levels, you need to compare to the competition models. Yes. I advocate for doing that. > So GPT models on the same ~intelligence level, are then 50% cheaper. How did you reach this conclusion? Opus 5 high
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
Your numbers are for “max”. Opus 5.0 “max” is $2.03. Opus 5.0 “high” (competitive with Claude 4.8 “max” on that index) is $1.06, less than the $1.80 you are quoting for 4.8 max. That the most expensive variant is expensive doesn’t really te
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
Forgot to add: using Highway also means that you can detect and take advantage of e.g. AVX2 or AVX-512 in one binary that still works on CPUs without those instruction sets, whereas relying on autovectorisation would mean having to build wi
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
> How is that different from any other compiler optimization? When it can be single-handedly responsible for an 8× speedup, you might not want to rely as much on the compiler as in the case of smaller, cumulative optimisations. > And
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
> HN has a fetish for SIMD, but if you are hand-rolling SIMD and you aren't writing an explicit acceleration library, you're doing it wrong. Like, 100% of the time. What if the “explicit acceleration library” for what you need
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
> You really should see if you can get the compiler to auto-vectorize first (possibly padding data structures and loops) before you write anything by hand. Counterpoint: https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04&
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
It really doesn’t take much complexity at all for autovectorisation to fail.
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
There is some discussion of the possible options here: https://github.com/google/highway#strip-mining-loops
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
That can easily cause you to traverse your data several times when once would be enough. Let’s say you wanted to compute “mean of array divided by max in absolute value”. NumPy-like: mean = np.mean(array) maximum = np.max(np.abs(a
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
Explicit SIMD doesn’t have to mean hand-crafting assembly (and I don’t think it did in this instance).
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
> Learning to check the compliers optimization reports is arguably more valuable. More valuable than learning to write SIMD code? When writing SIMD code is itself the remedy to lousy autovectorisation? If you can only identify the proble
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
Where is the dehumanisation in “I stopped using this because it makes extensive use of a source I consider untrustworthy”? That seems like quite a leap.
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
Perhaps in part Berkson’s paradox in action? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson's_paradox
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
I think the parent is aware and was joking.
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
Mine (Acer Aspire One 756) had an EFI disguised as a BIOS. I only discovered it was EFI after a few years, when I inserted some bootable flash drive, opened the boot menu and saw an EFI entry for the flash drive there. Other than that, it’s
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
Older style? It’s still the case for the charger that came with my M4 MacBook Air.
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
Yes. You don’t sound that confused?
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
I can read it but it gives me a headache. I would rather not have to do this on any sort of regular basis.
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
This kind of comes across as a nirvana fallacy.
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
> This is an assumption. How about neutral, or even hopeless? There's also the position of just not caring because you think it doesn't affect you. Still effectively the same point.
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
Or NVIDIA. OpenAI GptForce 5600 XT
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by spider-mario 3mo ago
> 16 bit isn't enough for hard, objective reasons. One is that the noise spectrum of quantisation is not simple. Most people assume it's something close to plain white noise, but it really isn't. It's actually a very
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by spider-mario 4mo ago
Ah, right, we agree then. That’s the point I was making.
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by spider-mario 4mo ago
It absolutely can be true depending on what you value. Let’s indeed not play dumb.
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by spider-mario 4mo ago
Are you aware that “it’s not comparable to” / “it doesn’t compare to” doesn’t literally mean that it’s strictly impossible to attempt a comparison? It means that the comparison is not favourable.
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by spider-mario 4mo ago
> I swear, the blatant lies that come out of supposed Mac fans on HN is almost like Apple is astroturfing this forum with shill accounts. How ironic. There is no “blatant lie” in “their hardwares aren’t comparable to MacBook” if you don’
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by spider-mario 4mo ago
> for people who aren't in audio codec dev space You don’t need to be in the audio codec dev space to have heard of one of the most widespread audio codecs of the last decade (used by YouTube, WhatsApp, SoundCloud and added to WebM
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by spider-mario 4mo ago
It’s maybe not a universal consumer application, but it doesn’t seem that outlandish to imagine that some of them might want to protect their personal collection. Or am I that extraordinarily attached to mine?
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by spider-mario 4mo ago
By just always using 48 kHz, from what I recall?

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