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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Isn’t this more of a function that RenderMan is a sold product. And it’s expected to at least support GPUs.
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Pixar uses CPUs … I wonder if we’ll end up in a situation like rendered movies. Where the big studios like Pixar uses CPUs (not GPUs) to render their movies due to the cost/perf (and access to larger amounts of RAM). https:/&#x2F
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Is Amazon actually cutting a check for $2.7B … or are they simply giving Anthropic AWS credits that AWS will then get to recognize as revenue?
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Last Generation Am I mistaken but isn't this AMD's last generation server proc? The current generation is 7xx4 / 9xx4. Which should be surprising it's cheaper.
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
(2022)
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Family Business Pattern This pattern has repeated ever since the dawn of family businesses have existed. Williams was a family company, and like most family businesses - when the children of the founder take over, the business typically slo
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
> 3. Messaging interoperability > 4. Smartwatches [interoperability] Where do you draw the line on forcing interoperability? This is kind of like (in-person) movie theaters. Movie theaters don't allow you to bring your own food,
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
> triple rate of reductions That’s such a confusing way to say it
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
To give context, US no-oil revenue is 92% of GDP https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/api-082021.pdf
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
> I struggle to believe that a physician told her to take 5000 IU Believe it. When one of the most trusted vitamin companys (Nature’s Made) sells a 5000 IU single pill dosage that can be found at any drug or grocery store in the US - it
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Ghostty I’m really interested in Mitchell Hashimoto (founder of Hashi Corp), terminal app he’s developing called Ghostty. His latest blog post on it, also related to latency & benchmarks comparable to Alacritty. https://mitch
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
macOS dark ages. I wonder if we’re about to enter 4-5 years of macOS “dark ages”, due to Apple grappling with EU/DMA. Much like Microsoft in early 2000s, between IE/lawsuit and grappling with internet security/viruses. Window
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Would you mind explaining, since I didn’t read the book but saw the movie. IIRC, the main character knew her future daughter would get sick and pass - and the conundrum was, does she tell her husband before the daughter is born (to potentia
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Surplus? Is this purely Apple offloading their surplus discontinued Macs to Walmart?
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
That only cycles through open windows for the current in-focus application. E.g. If I have 2 Excelsheets open and 2 Word documents open, if Word is the current in-focus app ... CMD+` only cycles between the 2 Words documents (and does not c
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
> You have to give up your privacy to even login to IRS.gov I'm all for privacy, but isn't privacy the opposite of what is needed on IRS.gov If you're logged into the government website to file your taxes (or get a refund)
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
I've always found it odd how Alt/CMD-Tab behavior differs from Windows & macOS. Windows: Alt-Tab will cycle through all open 'windows' (so if you have 2 different Word documents open, it will show both independently)
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Recency Bias This seems to be the opposite of "recency bias", which is interesting - if true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recency_bias
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ELI5 I get in concept what the GIL is. But what's the impact of this change? Packages will now break, for the hope of better overall performance?
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> What if the folders and requests within the API collection could be mapped to folders and files on the filesystem? … Ultimately, I realized that file-based API collections were the future. Unlike other tools, such as Postman or Insomni
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That wasn't for Menu layout and common actions (e.g. FILE | EDIT | VIEW) ANSI VT100 was for what system interrupt happens when you press "ESC".
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IBM CUA I really wish 5+ decades ago someone would have established a common user access standard for TUI, like IBM did for desktop (GUI) apps. TUI would be much more pleasant today if all TUI used the same menu system & keys for common
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Ask HN: What work software do you use, where’s there no good options?
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Hetzner is the best. (a) Please bring dedicated servers to US. Especially your AX102 line. AMD “consumer” line makes for phenomenal dedicated servers. (b) Centralled located in the US, like St Louis. (c) Also, adding BGP (BYOIP) wo
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Cheap Cloud. I expected the cost of compute from major cloud providers to be a race to $0. Never happened. Compute from major cloud providers is still extremely expensive. You only get those savings from ‘smaller’ cloud providers, like He
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
I had AT&T Fiber installed last year, for me at least it was still two separate boxes. But you have me curious now to see if I can get it as a single piece of equipment. Especially since I have my ONT installed inside the house (which i
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
> Backed by the creator of SQLite. Any more details on that? Presumably this is Dr Hipp. How involved is he, what does that involvement mean?
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Nikon doesn't do video. Referencing the Netflix approved vendor list is misleading, because they aren't in the cinematic video business.
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Yellowstone This is a storyline in Yellowstone TV show. That ski destinations price out locals, due to million dollar vacation homes & tourists. You see this happen at Telluride, Aspen, Jackson Hole, etc.
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
VM? Folks are talking about how you have to install privacy invading software that monitors down to the OS kernel. What prevents someone from just using a VM for the exam and a VM for cheating?

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