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by wmf 3mo ago
Usually silent data corruption isn't caught. If a file fails to open you might realize it's been corrupted.
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by wmf 3mo ago
Never? They're currently renting out those GPUs at a profit.
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by wmf 3mo ago
Anything with RAM in it is an appreciating asset.
244.
by wmf 3mo ago
H100s (and the PCIe converter card you need) are available on eBay.
245.
by wmf 3mo ago
The list price of cloud is 10x higher than the price of hardware itself so that leaves room for some discounting.
246.
by wmf 3mo ago
I think Xiaomi already distilled the Porsche Taycan.
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by wmf 3mo ago
AFAIK you can't really print crystalline silicon so they have to start with a wafer and dope/etch into it to form transistors.
248.
by wmf 3mo ago
UPSes are designed to run for minutes not hours. I guess enough Megapacks to run overnight would be more expensive than gas generators.
249.
by wmf 3mo ago
Most open models are developed for profit so they should be equally liable.
250.
by wmf 3mo ago
For whatever reason, nobody is trying to build solar-powered AI datacenters. Maybe they can't find enough land.
251.
by wmf 3mo ago
Ironically, Flock might create enough backlash to trigger regulations against surveillance. They're certainly an example of what not to do.
252.
by wmf 3mo ago
"The other “local AI” apps you’ve heard of? They’re proprietary shells built on top of open-source engines they don’t own." This is a roundabout way of addressing LM Studio.
253.
by wmf 3mo ago
Frontier open models are Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, DeepSeek V4 Pro, etc. They're all too big to fit on most Macs.
254.
by wmf 3mo ago
Somehow a certain set of labs are all releasing open weights and a certain other set of labs are closed weights.
255.
by wmf 3mo ago
AFAIK it's been documented by Los Alamos since they're at high altitude.
256.
by wmf 3mo ago
It's a Vulkan extension to use dedicated video decoders like QuickSync, NVDEC and VCN. It's not using shaders.
257.
by wmf 3mo ago
ECC UDIMMs are crazy expensive, presumably because they don't have economy of scale. Mandating ECC would solve that.
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by wmf 3mo ago
"This, however, is absolute garbage and nonsense. The last thing you want is more regulations and government certified systems." — the guy who designed the Ford Pinto
259.
by wmf 3mo ago
IIRC Itanium was faster on natively compiled HPC code, presumably because it had more FPUs and larger cache than the Pentium 4. But in general it probably wasn't a good upgrade and Intel would have had to sandbag x86 a lot to force Ita
260.
by wmf 3mo ago
Itanium 1 had hardware x86 compatibility and Itanium 2 had software x86 emulation just like Apple. It wasn't enough.
261.
by wmf 3mo ago
The patent pool system is really bad. There's no incentive to weed out bad patents.
262.
by wmf 3mo ago
If you want a particular outcome, legislate that outcome.
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by wmf 3mo ago
Every photo will be AI-enhanced and correctly labeled as such. Just like every Web site has a cookie warning.
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by wmf 3mo ago
That kind of regulation has failed over and over. The obvious outcome is that every listing will have misleading AI "photos".
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by wmf 3mo ago
No one cares.
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by wmf 3mo ago
The community probably would have complained if they registered the trademark preemptively. But if they let the bad guys register it and then save the day it's the least bad solution.
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Amazon Leo to power satellite internet for South Africa's largest ISP(aboutamazon.com)
4 points by wmf 3mo ago|0 comments
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by wmf 3mo ago
No? Decompression is rated in GB/s per core now.
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by wmf 3mo ago
High voltage DC over 50 V is usually considered pretty dangerous.
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by wmf 3mo ago
Do you think people who work on AI for a living are not going to use it?

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