vel0city

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by vel0city 2mo ago
Not trying to excuse the Windows app's memory usage, but these are vastly different apps. Your app is nice, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have anywhere near the same number of features as the default weather app. In some
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> many modern computers are using unified memory. Not really true. Even machines with integrated graphics in Windows aren't truly using a fully shared memory pool. Usually the hardware reserves a chunk of the system memory for the i
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by vel0city 3mo ago
IGPU systems on Windows usually set aside a fixed pool of memory for the graphics usually set by the platform. As in, if you need more video memory you need to go to the BIOS and reconfigure it. When you look at total system memory availabl
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Yeah sure you can take a machine with only 4MB of video memory and try to draw a 1600x1200 CRT, but you're not going to be able to have that many colors. It often wasn't a limitation of your monitor, it was a limitation of your vi
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by vel0city 3mo ago
It's less of a question of if you could get a CRT that could do it versus having a PC with the video RAM and drawing performance to do it effectively at high color bit depth. Tons of extremely common desktops at the time shipped with o
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by vel0city 3mo ago
"electrical engineers" aren't usually the ones making a lamp though. If you're paying EE wages to add a light switch to an Edison socket you're massively overpaying.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
And then people complain about how unresponsive applications are, all these little stutters as things pop in.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> and a common screen size at the time was 1280x1024 Maybe if you were really rich and only used high end desktops. A lot of the computers I used back then were still 800x600, fancier ones were 1024x768. If you happened to also have a 2D
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by vel0city 3mo ago
By all means please come here to DFW and convince the people of Frisco, Allen, and McKinney the folley of their ways and get them to agree to changing up things and adopt transit. Go tell them to allow the train lines to continue up their p
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by vel0city 3mo ago
If it's about hiding information from the public about domestic police actions, you can't really be arguing that's for the public's interest. How would ICE being incredibly selective about what to release so it only pa
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> on demand is so rock solid that loosing a box is a rarit Maybe this really depends on region, but I can't say this is true. I've experienced tons of hardware failures that have caused instances to throw weird errors, instan
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by vel0city 3mo ago
The interests of ICE should be the same as the public's interest, same as any other domestic policing.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
They're an important part of your diet if you happen to have a gizzard. I've also been known to include some ground up rocks in my meals. I'm pretty picky though about them, I mostly just want a couple specific varieties.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I do that today by turning a dial and pressing the start button.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I agree with this take in a lot of ways. If you slash the token cost and increase speed for each token 1,000x, who cares if it takes even 20x as many tokens to achieve the goal? And also, there are lots of tasks where models today are fin
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I didn't realize acknowledging NY and NJ are in the same country is a xenophobic take. Borders are a lot more than just a bit of paperwork or "administrative hassle". Central America is a very different place from US & Ca
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by vel0city 3mo ago
New Jersey and Manhattan are both a part of the same country last I checked. Malaysia and Singapore are two different countries. Despite being right next to each other they have vastly different GDPs, standards of living, government benefit
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I wonder what the logistics and costs look like having to maintain a fleet of single-seaters along with multi-seater vehicles. I realize a high percentage of rides are solo rides, but there's still like 20-30% of rides with >1 pas
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Getting behind the wheel of an F1 car on a track involves lots of proving time that you can actually handle such a vehicle. Meanwhile anyone with a credit card can grant an AI system to impersonate their access as a starting point.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I wouldn't say they're "typically" all beef. When you go shopping for something like hotdogs for instance, if you just pick up a package of "hot dogs" or "weiners" they'll typically be a mixture
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by vel0city 3mo ago
This is a lot of words to ultimately agree with my core point. If we have the political will to do so, we can. It pretty much all boils down to that. If we don't have it, we can't do it. I agree, in most parts of the US we do not
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I think we're seeing that kind of happen with self-selection driving it. While we're experiencing tons of growth in the far-flung suburbs with practically zero walkability, we're also seeing a good bit of redevelopment of pla
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by vel0city 3mo ago
If I lived in Singapore I'd absolutely ride and walk most places, as owning a car is extremely expensive. To own a Toyota Corolla, before even thinking about paying for the garage to park it just the taxes and fees, its like $130k. T
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> If the Netherlands is the size of the Dallas metro area, then why isn't the Dallas metro area like the Netherlands? Dallas-Fort Worth has over 8 million people in it, it's not like it's a drastically smaller population t
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> This is entirely because of the design of Haarlem and its pedestranized city-center Practically all of those towns have had a focus of building walkable/bikeable spaces with dense mini-downtown areas for at least decades if not lo
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> We can't just put them back where they used to be. The landscape has changed. A lot of old train right of ways still pretty much exist. For many areas it often isn't too outlandish for those lines to be brought back, if t
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by vel0city 3mo ago
You're right, but that still puts the minimum at 1. Even with the many, many vehicles with single passengers as 1, the average is still always higher than 1. An autonomous vehicle doing a deadhead drive has a passenger count of 0.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> Oh, yes, and I want to ride a Joby multicopter hailed using Uber to go to the major airports from local verti-ports. And you think I live in fantasy land. > if you are going back to the 1950's/60's/70's you
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Your experience isn't uncommon. Lots of cities in the US have pretty limited transit, and a lot of the people in those cities don't use it. It's usually seen as a last resort kind of thing for those who can't get priva
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Yeah, all the people who refuse to ride busses to the point they're willing to spend many many thousands of dollars on their own cars are just yearning to carpool in a much more compact vehicle than a bus.

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