timschmidt

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by timschmidt 2mo ago
You really like to stand up incorrect assumptions to argue against. Second time you've done so in this short interaction. Not a word yet about your motivation. Huh. You'd think anyone out here demanding others' credentials
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by timschmidt 2mo ago
> What kind of expertise should you possess to be able to comment on a lab theory? Enough. > Even if lab leak is true, what is the proposal, that we do not study viruses at all? People love to think in black and white. All on or all
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by timschmidt 2mo ago
> relatively few domain scientists support that claim I spent a decade at a national Science and Technology Research Center responsible for a twelfth of NSF's research budget. We studied biology at all scales and the algorithms it
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by timschmidt 2mo ago
> The lab leak people are probably wrong https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Testimony-Qu...
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
I imagine it'd be a lot easier to get a giant datacenter through the queue and connected if said datacenter also generated more than it's own needs with solar and grid scale battery. You'd essentially be asking the grid to a
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
No idea what you're talking about. My local utility lit up 100MW of solar over the last year alone. Everywhere I look is doing the same.
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
The solution is simple: require datacenters to overprovision solar panels and grid-scale batteries for themselves, and use that capacity to strengthen the grid and transition off of hydrocarbons.
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
However they also quite famously rely on a majority of nuclear power for their electric grid. Great for France, but that makes them an already-low carbon emitter compared to many others and an ungenerous comparison.
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
Depends entirely on whether or not you think Amazon actually caring about the fine and bothering to do anything to prevent it recurring is part of the goal. If it is, the fine must be large enough to matter against the backdrop of corporate
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
True. And also amazing how complex their interactions can be! Just because immune cells are often individually motile, does not mean they're not intimately interoperating within an incredibly complex social ecology of cells. https:
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
It's a very fuzzy line. But according to The Octopus Lady's video in the other comment, it's because separating them from the other zooids doesn't result in immediate death. They may die later due to lack of ability to
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
You're thinking of Siphonophores like the Portugese Man-o-war. The Octopus Lady has a wonderful video on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipDpbYQdFEA
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
Sorry, Daniel. I know better, but the fingers typed what they typed. I seem to be sick this morning so perhaps I was already coming down with something. :-/
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
There's a history and a 'pattern or practice' of behavior between NSA (sometimes using other TLAs or plausibly deniable intermediaries) and standards bodies and regulatory agencies. Demonstrating a 'pattern or practice&#
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
1: We were all aware of the default change before we became aware of the payment. But the payment is old news today. And the default change was fishy before the payment was discovered. Discovery of the payment confirmed the earlier suspi
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
> there has been no hint of a backdoor in ML-KEM Wanting to standardize it's use without the secondary layer of protection provided by existing algorithms over the objections of a well known cryptographer counts as a hint to me. In
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
I've read the emails on that list in which DJB is accused of unprofessional behavior. Dave's concerns are not only relevant and well considered, he's taken an extraordinary amount of time to outline them and the discussion a
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
Oracle v. Google found that copying API details sufficient to implement compatibility was not infringement.
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
Perhaps you've never maintained any serious open source software. A line-by-line source code audit for license compliance including some ripping-out and re-writing of non-compliant code was the first thing I did when taking over maint
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
Pi 4 and 5 both idle around 3W. But a Pi 5 can pull up to 16W with a USB peripheral, full CPU load, and decoding 4k video. The Pi 4 / 5 will run OKish without a heatsink at idle wattages, but thermal throttle quickly if you attempt t
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
New chips from Realtek burn < 2W for the chip and < 3-4W for the board: https://www.servethehome.com/cheap-10gbe-realtek-rtl8127-nic...
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
The remedy for unintentional infringement is generally to remove the infringing code and cease distribution. That used to be a serious issue when rewriting the offending code might take years. But these days? Rewriting any offending code
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
Nvidia's even being sued for providing scripts which automate the downloading of said data from non-Nvidia sources. We certainly don't need copyrights that last nearly a century after the author's death (they literally canno
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
A lot of guitar quality signals will not show through easily in the sound. Like how easy or difficult it is to fret the strings, how well it stays in tune in a controlled environment over time, fit and finish work, etc. That kind of stuff
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
I wish we'd stop pretending that non-ECC ram is ok on any platform.
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
Everything is a Remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9RYuvPCQUA Either all information is stolen, or none is. Can't have it both ways.
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
Exciting news! This is how I see running frontier models at home becoming reasonably affordable. Though it may take a depreciation cycle or two.
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by timschmidt 3mo ago
Reading weights out of memory is the definition of a large linear read. I'm a bit mystified someone hasn't put an embarrassingly parallel flash storage controller next to some tensor processors on a PCIe card. It could have 4Tb
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by timschmidt 4mo ago
> Can a N100-class minipc” be installed inside of a wall with a touchscreen and serve as a PoE powered Home Assistant interface? Yes. Generally only requiring a $10 PoE splitter like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1

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