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by wongarsu 10mo ago
brain fart, fixed
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Amazon's assumption was that every box of "Apple AirPods 4" is the same, so it doesn't matter if you got the one sold directly from Apple or from some random reseller. They would just put them in the same bin, after all
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Not OP, but I find the space-en-space convention easier to read than the nospace-em-nospace convention. American style guides prefer the latter – in my eyes they are wrong about that
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Discord's initial core demographic was online gaming. From there it has radiated outwards due to being the best group messaging (and voice chat) solution out there. The more overlap your friend group has with gaming and adjacent groups
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
That's great news. From April onwards buying from a reliable vendor with fulfillment by Amazon will mean you get the parts from that vendor, not some random parts from a random provider that claim to have the same SKU. Seems like Amazo
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Compared to road deaths that's practically nothing. Obviously 39 dead are 39 too many, and in terms of railway disasters it's a lot, but in the bigger picture it's a blip
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
It's a common pattern far beyond the EU. One big driving force is that if you have an existing solution that achieves 80% you have much less incentive to change than if your current state only achieves 50%. So the "inferior"
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
I'd consider end-to-end encryption to also be table-stakes, at least opportunistically after the first message in each direction. With encryption cached messages are far less harmful (though still leaking very useful metadata), without
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
They are currently on the Fairphone 6, and at least in Germany the official online store still sells a wide selection of parts for the Fairphones 3-6, and the display and camera for the Fairphone 2. Sure, you don't get meaningful hardw
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
If the university didn't make phone repairs themselves they would have to send the phones off for repair, or contract with a local phone repair shop. Or the secret third option: telling your employees to get it fixed and send you the i
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Word would imply that this only happens when I translate my thoughts to a chosen human language (or articulate thoughts in a language). I chose embedding because I think this happens much earlier in the pipeline: the information of the exac
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
If we are talking about cloud VMs: sure, their cpu performance is atrocious and io can be horrible. This won't scale to infinity But if there's the option to run this on a fairly modest dedicated machine, I'd be comfortable t
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
If you asked me if a fire engine and a ripe strawberry are the same color I would say yes. Obviously, they are both red. If you held them next to each other I would still be able to tell you they are obviously different shades of red. But i
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
The Greenland situation is more like Germany annexing the Sudetenland (the border regions of Czechoslovakia) in 1938. And after that Hitler got his homeland Austria as another freebie. That's stretching the analogy a bit, but Venezuela
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Why didn't Russia think of that? They could have just placed tariffs on France, Germany, the UK, etc. if they don't facilitate Russia purchasing Ukraine for a price of their choice /s
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
There are plenty of providers selling "residential proxies", distributing your crawler traffic through thousands of residential IPs. BrightData is probably the biggest, but its a big and growing market. And if you don't care
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Finally a reason to adopt IPv6 for your local development
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
The app-store handling (QR code on desktop, app to right app store on phone) is probably supposed to be clever, but browsing on desktop it just felt annoying. QR codes are fine, but at least give me a small direct link below the code. I don
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
There are a number of studies comparing these devices with clinical sleep tracking. Just search for sleep tracking on google scholar. My take is that consumer devices have gotten pretty good at detecting when you are sleeping, but are not r
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
I don't see it. It's a tree that people have sex on. Gay sex, though from the looks of it the tree would be equally well suited for lesbian or straight sex. Presumably one person lies on their stomach on the trunk while one or mor
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
AAA game companies won't care, they'll just continue targeting the latest console. For most of them releasing on PC is a nice bonus, not a core part of their strategy
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
The correct calculation is not 900€/36 months but (900€-$resell_value)/36 months. If you sell your GPU for 450€ after three years you saved a good bit of money. If the AI bubble doesn't pop, your resale value might even be a
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Wikipedia quoted global primary energy production at 19.6 TW, or about 2400W/person. Which is obviously not even close to equally distributed. Per-country it gets complicated quickly, but naively taking the total from [1] brings the US
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Obviously we don't have AGI so we can't compare many tasks. But on tasks where AI does perform at comparable levels (certain subsets of writing, greenfield coding and art) it performs fairly well. They use more power but are also
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Each person uses about 100W (2000kcal/24h=96W). Running all of humanity takes about 775GW. Sure, using or not using your brain is a negligible energy difference, so if you aren't using it you really should, for energy efficiency&#
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
The audio/video version is in the works [1]. I imagine geolocation just got to this stage first because it's far simpler. And IP-based geolocation is really unreliable beyond the country level. It depends on ISPs using a different
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Prime directives don't have to be given in a prompt in plain English. That's just the by far easiest and cheapest method. You can also do a stage of reinforcement learning where you give rewards for following the directive, puni
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
It ensures the Cray is placed as the centerpiece of the room, not as mere equipment shoved on the wall
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
I'm trying to work towards that goal by training a model on mostly German science texts up to 1904 (before the world wars German was the lingua franca of most sciences). Training data for a base model isn't that hard to come by, e
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by wongarsu 10mo ago
Which has to be a pure coincidence, since the reported numbers are relative to population size. We could conclude that there are 4x4=16 times as many people with such high BMIs in the US, but that is not that useful

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