tom_alexander

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by tom_alexander 11mo ago
Ah I didn't realize it was that fast! I always pictured a few mm per 1k years.
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by tom_alexander 11mo ago
> ground level then was a few metres lower than now What?! That's huge. What happened?
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by tom_alexander 11mo ago
That's already the case. I run a quantized 70 billion parameter llama 3.1 model on my framework 13 inch laptop. Only cost ~$300 to get the 96GB of ram (which I purchased for unrelated non-AI reasons before the AI boom). It certainly is
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by tom_alexander 11mo ago
Wikipedia puts the "preferred walking speed" around 3 miles per hour, so that would be 2 hours of walking per day. So with 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work, 2 hours of walking, 1 hour of hygiene, 1 hour of commuting, and 2 hours
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by tom_alexander 11mo ago
> all routers are uniformly fucking awful [...] the world has become trained that rebooting a router once a week and praying that it works when it comes back is a perfectly normal state of affairs My OPNsense router currently has 74 days
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by tom_alexander 11mo ago
I'm not buying a new monitor with a decade-old version of DisplayPort. Non-oled monitors are products that last a long time (at least a decade) so if I bought this monitor, I'd still be using DisplayPort 1.4 from 2016 in 2036. I n
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
FWIW I've managed to "fix" the power button by pouring 99% rubbing alcohol over the power button while pressing the button in and out. Doesn't prevent it from happening, so this is still problematic behavior, but it at l
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
I have the opposite problem with pixels: they keep trying to call 911 on their own. On the past couple Pixel phones I've had, the power button started to click itself on its own and ignoring my presses. Turns out Google, in their infin
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
It's already not true. I had browser.ml.enable and browser.ml.chat.enabled set to false but I was still getting an option to ask an AI Chatbot about stuff in my right-click context menu. I had to also set browser.ml.chat.menu to false.
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
That's awesome, TIL. Next time I do a dive into plan9 I'm absolutely using this (with the Win 9x theme too for the nostalgia).
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
While the look certainly isn't flashy, I'd be fine with the look. It's the reliance on 3-button mice that's a problem for me. At least modern laptop touchpads can do middle mouse click with 3-fingers but that's a pr
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
> It has an achingly elegent internal structure, but a user interface that has been asleep for the past decade. [...] I was writing a civilized window manager for it in my spare time Brutal, but the window manager is probably one of the
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
I wish I could use this but last I checked, every supported robot used consumables for cleaning (like vacuum bags). My current vacuum robot uses no bags and has washable filters so nothing gets consumed. Turns out that was more important to
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
How would you do screen replacement? That is a common repair since people drop their phones and currently you can get your phone repaired by some teenager in a booth at the mall. If you fill the phone with epoxy, how are you detaching the s
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
I thought these days the fabs in water-scarce areas collect their waste water. re-purify it, and re-use it. So their actual drain on outside water sources is far lower. > It will initially have a water recycling rate of around 85 percent
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
> Dark Souls II did not want to recognize my Controller I ran into that problem on DS2 also. It seems that game picks the first input device it finds, so I was able to force it to use the controller by unplugging my keyboard (or maybe it
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
USB modems exist and work on Linux[0]. The Steam Deck is a Linux computer with a USB port. You could be living this reality today. [0] https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/usb-4g-lte-advanced-m...
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
I use FreeBSD on my machines because it has netgraph: https://klarasystems.com/articles/inside-freebsd-netgraph-ad...
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
Quoting that comment: > we run the real risk of collapsing civilisation if we don't change urgently
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
I think this was posted shortly before the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. I remember the night before the invasion listening to a station right by the border, remarking on how normal the radio was.
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
I'm curious as to why it is so expensive? Admittedly I know very little about electronics, and naturally the validation testing that a cable manufacturer does is going to be more thorough, but for consumer-grade testing couldn't w
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
If you're just concerned about light vs dark, then this article (which was posted to HN) does an auto/light/dark toggle button without javascript, and it shows using CSS variables for your colors: https://lyra.hors
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
FWIW you can add a light/dark toggle button without any javascript. You only need javascript if you want to persist that preference in localStorage. Here is an article that was posted to HN which implements the three-state (auto/l
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
> aging workforce being fully productive right up until they die China has one of the lowest retirement ages in the world for men[0] and they have the lowest retirement age in the world for women[1] [0] https://tradingecono
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by tom_alexander 1y ago
I use native ZFS encryption because it makes it super easy to share encrypted datasets across dual-booted operating systems. AFAIK Linux does not support GELI and FreeBSD does not support LUKS. DragonflyBSD supports LUKS but then no ZFS. Al