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by topspin 4mo ago
This doesn't help when searching. I'm looking for specific things as often as I'm clicking on recommendations. What's needed is a global "Hide AI Dreck". Particularly the overwhelming hoard of AI slide-shows
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by topspin 4mo ago
You could stick a Door Dash car topper on the roof and few people would pick up on the joke. So the entire point of Ferrari is lost in this exterior design. Where are the wings and strakes and diffusers? It has a few holes, but sans that
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by topspin 5mo ago
> their monopoly will end relatively soon Corsair DDR5 DIMM modules with CXMT RAM started appearing on Friday.
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by topspin 5mo ago
It looks like a handheld gaming thing; not very interesting to people that see many similar devices every day.
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by topspin 5mo ago
The instinctual reaction of Gloria Caufield when she got booed at UCF was to characterize the "issue" as "bipolar"; invoking mental health terminology. Schmidt called his AI future "democratization." Don&#x
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by topspin 5mo ago
Someone already pointed out how the WSPR anecdotes fail for CB. The longwave reception argument is fallacy as well. There, you receive powerful signals with a poor, receive-only antenna; the typical asymmetric model of commercial broadcas
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by topspin 5mo ago
Fun, but short range. A quarter wave CB antenna is about 2.7 meters long. Without that, you're making more heat than radio.
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by topspin 5mo ago
> Is the technology in a broadcast switcher really so exotic and expensive? No. My characterization of the problem was precision flippancy; the demand for this is niche enough that optimizing for it is a low priority, so "they&quot
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by topspin 5mo ago
~$900, and it takes ~3 seconds to switch... I'll pursue this when "they" decide to get real and make this not suck. Until then, I have sufficient alternatives. I appreciate the writeup. It convinces me that integrated KVM s
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by topspin 5mo ago
"So why isn't there this kind of stuff in routers?" Specialized hardware is in routers. Typically, for this class of router, what you're buying is a highly specialized proprietary chipset and a stack of proprietary driv
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by topspin 5mo ago
> we really need to see some benchmarks for things that matter Honestly, we don't. We know it won't be competitive with the plethora of high performance ARM network SOCs found in commercial routers. If you use this with advan
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by topspin 5mo ago
Godbolt: clang and gcc compilers give 12. msvc compilers yield 13. #include <stdio.h> int main() { int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; printf("%d\n", a); return 0; } x64 msvc v19.50 V
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by topspin 5mo ago
> Yet the entire AI industry acts as if that is an afterthought or an unimportant edge case Certainly it's not on the "AI industries" list of priorities. Perhaps, however, it's not supposed to be. I use AI tools for
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by topspin 5mo ago
I work in an industry that requires reproducible binaries from source, and cryptographic hashes filed with a regulator. It's also not aviation or medical. So perhaps it's more common than you imagine.
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by topspin 5mo ago
"it was kind of inevitable once Poland stopped being oppressed by its neighbors" No. Not at all inevitable. Poland might have descended into kleptocracy, e.g. Hungary. That this did not happen is worthy of investigation. I&#x2
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by topspin 5mo ago
The opiate of the intellectual; forever afforded the benefit of every doubt.
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by topspin 5mo ago
Yes, Intel is actually competitive again. Between working backside power, the most advanced chiplet packaging tech going, 18A yields steadily improving, and other good news, Intel is really on plane. Now they've landed both SpaceX an
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by topspin 5mo ago
The interview is here: https://youtu.be/Bmj2PaxX24E Instant classic.
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by topspin 5mo ago
Agreed. Right now, if I needed "workflow" for a greenfield that could tolerate some risk, I'd look at https://www.restate.dev/ which matches your model of a self contained binary.
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by topspin 5mo ago
That's all correct; a long tail of consequences. Going in the opposite historical direction is the other side of that ledger. The actual plant in question was shut down in 1957. The AEC stepped in years earlier to triage the operatio
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by topspin 5mo ago
There are a small number of such sites in the US. One that fits closely with this description is a legacy of the Manhattan Project: Coldwater Creek, MO. The Mallinckrodt Chemical Works refined a lot of uranium, and waste handling was abou
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by topspin 5mo ago
Charges? Cool. In the US we find huge SIM farms in major cities[1], law enforcement shrugs, and everyone forgets about it. [1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-sim-farms-like-the-o...
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by topspin 5mo ago
That's a widely shared misunderstanding. The letters are market segments. The "S" segment is really popular. Despite the introduction of many Espressif RISC-V devices, one still sees lots of Xtensa S3 stuff. An excellent e
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by topspin 5mo ago
Espressif themselves do this for their own prerogatives. The ESP32-S3 MCU from this story actually has a small, low power RISC-V core that deals with several things, including "deep sleep" tasks. Many ESP32-S3 users are unaware
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by topspin 5mo ago
> ESP32-S3 may be the worse model to run Rust on due to the XTensa cores that makes the toolchain unnecessarily complicated. Indeed. ESP32-S31 appears to target exactly this concern in the popular "S3" segment. It's basi
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by topspin 5mo ago
> seems wasteful This depends on what resources you're counting. If you're counting the developer cycles, it is not. ESP-IDF+FreeRTOS has great value: it solves a host of mundane problems that need solving in real products. D
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by topspin 5mo ago
Low cost, as in not data center/server grade hardware.
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by topspin 6mo ago
That link notes: "Card supports 10Gbit/s and 10/100/1000/2500/5000/10000Mbit/s Ethernet" Nice to see; some NICs are shedding 10/100 support. Apparently, it's not necessary to do this,
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by topspin 6mo ago
> a pretty goofy move I'm doing a goofy thing and buying it, despite knowing I can debloat Brave, because I already do that. I didn't know this existed till I read this thread. I've been benefitting from Brave for many y
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by topspin 6mo ago
> You’re still the one that’s controlling the model though We have seen ample evidence that this is not the case. When load gets too high, models get dumber, silently. When the Powers That Be get scared, models get restricted to some c

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