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by walrus01 1mo ago
Sure, but they could logically glue a physical ethernet port onto the USB bus on a zero the same way it's on the USB bus on a 3B+... The BOM cost would be what, a few dollars at most for a cheap 8P8C jack and the ethernet chip.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I think RAM cost inflation has made this worse, I just checked amazon.ca and basic Intel N150 mini PC with 16GB are pushing $469+ CAD before tax. The one I got a year and a half ago with 12GB seems like a real bargain now.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I have an old 3B+ for which I bought a 802.3af-to-microusb power thing on amazon for $9, attached an old USB webcam to it (let's consider this to be free, it's certainly fully depreciated) and it sits in a utility room watching an
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by walrus01 1mo ago
It's all good and fine until a scan of your combined face ID / bunghole ID is for sale on a russian based internet crime forum. https://www.google.com/search?num=10&client=firefox-b-d&hs=Y...
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by walrus01 1mo ago
There's a guy in the US military intake processing facility (MEPS) whose job is, among other things, to inspect your bunghole https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=MEPS+assh... But more serious and non
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Google says "Jane Street has global office locations in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Amsterdam, and Chicago" so if you're really at a loss where to spend your money, I would recommend searching for yacht dealership
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by walrus01 1mo ago
This is AC wall power as measured by a kill-a-watt, I have an Intel N150 mini PC here with 12GB of RAM, 512GB cheap NVME SSD, with wifi active, it's 8.2W idle at an xfce4 desktop with a lighted keyboard and mouse attached to it. It cam
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by walrus01 1mo ago
It would be a heck of a lot more useful if it had a basic (even 100Mbps) wired ethernet interface on it, then you could put it places without worrying about its horrid 802.11n-only 2.4 GHz only wifi with tiny antenna, be assured it had a re
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I know RAM prices aren't under control of the raspberry pi project, but something has gone dreadfully wrong in the economy when individual 8GB+ raspberry pi are now costing $200 to $300 for just the board before you add USB-C power sup
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Only after they've had their mandatory scrotum inspection and testosterone check to join the military at age 18.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Tokens are also occupied by the internal reuslts of 'thinking', for instance, using the latest opencode, give qwen 3.8-flash-next with 'high' thinking mode 50KB total of python to read in six different files, count the e
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I think there's a number of people reading this who clearly didn't detect the satirical nature of this single sentence. It's blunt and obvious, but even so...
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I don't know why anyone would expect to trust a model smaller than about the size of qwen 3.6 27B (or 3.8 27B, or 3.6 35B-A3B) for coding. There just isn't enough baked-in knowledge of existing correct code syntax from having vacu
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Developers with lots of VC money to burn are working on things like B100/B200/B300 which are well supported in VLLM, everything else in terms of supporting more mundane GPUs or other platforms is ancillary to the main task of gett
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by walrus01 1mo ago
128k isn't even big enough to give a sub-agent a specific task on some very 'small' projects I work on, based just on the size of the python to work with (including extensive comments in the code) and documentation files, it&
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Good. For all I care, Cursor and Grok can become an echo chamber of Elon Musk stans and people who are "ok" with Elon's abhorrent politics and business actions. I hope the original Cursor people got their bag and can cash out
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Ask HN: What happened to Amprius and their claimed 450Wh/kg battery?(google.com)
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by walrus01 1mo ago
No new PR for like the last 14 months and a conspicuous lack of being able to actually purchase them. This came to mind today regarding electric aircraft.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
128k is effectively useless on even trivial toy size "not for real business use" coding projects, by the time you reach 105k to 115k tokens with loading code into context and new research/tasks, and ask it to modify something
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I don't see the point of paying for external inference on Qwen 3.8 27B with a bunch of arbitrary limits, when you can run it locally without ridiculous memory requirements. Even the unsloth Q8-XL version of it with full context and ext
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by walrus01 1mo ago
If they can get the range to within what, for example, an Alaska Airlines/Horizon Q400 flies from Seattle for regional flights (with reserve for diversion airport), that may be sufficient for some purposes. In terms of operating cost,
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by walrus01 1mo ago
The interesting part to me is that a lot of current electric aircraft development seems to be waiting for battery technology to catch up. They're far ahead in terms of the motors, propeller, electric propulsion control system. The limi
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Additionally modern fonts are normally vector point data, no? So there's plenty of opportunity for shrinking file size by lossless compession. But I don't think that's what they're talking about here?
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Transcoding is generally used within the context of audio or video codecs, to convert a file from one format to another. And usually from one lossy format to another (eg: not raw uncompressed YUV420, YUV422P video or whatever that is stor
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Started a game and was immediately attacked by a group of spherical green blobs, making it more akin to an action game than an RPG. Maybe put the new user in some kind of town or less hostile environment to walk around in and explore first.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I'd like to see a vibe coded re-implementation of progress quest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I think it's because people want to see what kind of a train wreck it is by being entirely vibe coded. It's a novelty. And to see what parts might be working normally or have clear heritage from existing RPGs.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
> Does no one have any memory of what taxis were like and how much they cost? The taxis are gone because they weren't competitive. And now in places like Seattle, Uber and Lyft are far more expensive than traditional taxis. Taking
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I'd be impressed if eventually training data sets learn who you are (the specific human) and do something like make this galaxy simulator, but every so often when the user moves the cursor around the star field, a small animated SVG of
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Very nice, now let's see Paul Allen's high explosive spherical compression lens.

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