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by wongarsu 9mo ago
On the other hand, if somebody said "I'm here for terrorism" and the immigration officer laughed that off, imagine the shitstorm if that person turns out to be a terrorist. For the individual employee the cost of wasting some
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
The weights are int4, so you'd only need 8xH100
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Which conveniently fits on one 8xH100 machine. With 100-200 GB left over for overhead, kv-cache, etc.
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
A single Google search in 2009: about 1,000 joules Couldn't find any more up-to-date number, everyone just keeps repeating that 0.0003kWh number from 2009 https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/powering-googl
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
At least in Germany you can still fairly easily get 20W incandescent lamps. Sold as lamps for fridges and ovens, but they are available with standard sockets. If you look around a bit you can also get 60W or 100W lamps, sold as "indust
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
The same reason why they exist now. Why spend millions of tokens on designing, implementing and debugging something, followed by years of discovering edge cases in the real world, if I can just use a library that already did all of that Sur
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
In the EU this was indeed done for energy efficiency/emissions. Incandescent bulbs were gradually banned from normal sale, starting with the most energy hungry (diffused 100W) and gradually expanding until only low-wattage and special-
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Informing the target that a product exists is a small part of advertising. It's important for the small players, but for the big advertising spenders it's much more about communicating values, trustworthiness, emotions. Building a
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
I don't think that picture indicates in any way that there are no Google Services on those phones. I've had multiple Chinese phones, and all of them had both their in-house app store (every brand seems to have their own) and also
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Influence ~= power seems fine to me. Both measure your ability to change the world, and most mechanisms for power can be accurately described as influence The disconnect is that influence is not accurately measured in views. Peter Thiel is
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
With a recommendation algorithm that shows you new content from various "literary critics", with an emphasis on a good exploration/exploitation tradeoff that shows you content from influencers you haven't seen before as
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
brb, just filing paperwork to apply for the .tmptest gTLD /s
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Britain won, but it cost them pretty much everything. And while a lot of pride is connected to winning them, neither were wars Britain really had to fight. WWI was caused by every European power thinking they could benefit from a war, leadi
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Few people enable file system compression, and even if they do it's usually with fast algorithms like lz4 or zstd -1. When authoring a document you have very different tradeoffs and can afford the cost of high compression levels of zst
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Very briefly, but I agree that it should count. It's surprisingly hard to find good sources. Wikipedia has a good article on it [1] that was deleted in 2020 due to being "not notable" 1: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
> What happens if China leaps ahead by not seeking profits of all this? Isn't this essentially where we are right now? In this century China has launched three crewed space stations, the rest of the world has launched zero. (Bigelow
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
There are tentative signs that this is happening right now. As in: each collision causes debris that on average causes more than one additional collision, causing collision rates to go up exponentially. But so far it's not anything lik
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Xerox is a verb, but most copy machines I see are made by their competition
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
With the $20/month claude subscription I frequently run into the session limit in after-work hobby projects. If the majority of your dayjob is actual programming (and not people management, requirements engineering, qa, etc, which is a
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
They are (part of) the backbone of democratic life. But democratic life hasn't been doing well in the US in the last decades. The broken backbone is both cause and symptom of this in a vicious cycle
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
(Re)search is still valuable, even if the result turns out to be negative.
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
And it's not like 1 is some special value. If you start from a base of 120cm you get enough even divisions that you rarely run into the need for fractions
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
However for that having the phone's IP not reachable has at best marginal benefits. The DDoS itself is an outgoing connection, and for command and control having the compromised phone periodically fetch instructions from a server is si
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
cash - king + queen = cashing, cash - male + female = cashing (in qwen3-embedding:0.6b). Make of that what you will
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
In Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B that's Marseilles And Munich - Germany + France is Strasbourg
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
I just tried it on qwen3-embedding:8b with a little vibe-coded 100 line script that does the obvious linear math and compares the result to the embeddings of a couple of candidate words using cosine similarity, and it did prefer the expecte
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Why 18? Why not 21, or 26? I agree with you that this would create a forbidden fruit, and a combination of social media becoming more desirable to under-16yo and teenagers binging social media as soon as they become 16. But the solution to
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
It's not manipulating numbers, it's abusing their market position to push another product. Or at least that's what we called it when Microsoft did these things in the 90s. Now it's just how business is done
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
WhatsApp became popular long before Meta bought it in 2014. Signal and Telegram both came late to the scene, both around the time of the WhatsApp acquisition. Whatsapp was simply in the right place at the right time with little competition,
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
I value the comment section of this site greatly even (or maybe especially) for things that I already learned about on mainstream news or general social media But at the same time keeping this site somewhat focused on tech is important too.

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