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by wtallis 7d ago
Note that Geekbench 7 no longer runs the same subtests in multi-core mode as in single-core mode, so any ratio calculated from the overall scores instead of from the individual subtests is misleading. There are a lot of subtests that it onl
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by wtallis 8d ago
It's equal parts memory clock and bus width: RTX 4090 is 384-bit wide at 21 Gb/s and RTX 5090 is 512-bit wide at 28 Gb/s.
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by wtallis 9d ago
There was also Google Desktop Search for several years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop
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by wtallis 15d ago
You're asking for the encryption key to be derivable by an unrelated system that only has the encrypted file and your password.
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by wtallis 15d ago
I think it's time to update your expectations. Hardware security modules have been around for quite a while. You shouldn't assume that your chosen password is the only input to the key derivation, or even that the raw key itself w
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by wtallis 15d ago
I'm sure at least some of those macOS permissions prompts are spurious, but for the most part I think they're genuine red flags of poor software quality if not actual security/privacy threats. When a video game prompts for fu
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by wtallis 16d ago
> it is reasonable to assume that the point here is that a full-screen, unfolded image would scale exactly to a half-screen/folded image with no change in aspect ratio. Sure, but aside from being interesting from a mathematical stan
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by wtallis 16d ago
" you can open the phone and use the full-size camera with the outer screen, which results in much more flattering imagery than the wide-angle lenses selfie cameras use" A camera held at arms length will have pretty much the same
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by wtallis 16d ago
Size is even more important for UI design. If you don't think you need to re-design the layout of your app when the screen doubles in size, you shouldn't be doing UI design.
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by wtallis 16d ago
Most users would prefer to have adequately-sized text and controls regardless of whether they're using the smaller outside screen or the larger inside screen. Who would spend $2k on a dual-screen phone if they expected one of the scree
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by wtallis 16d ago
You said: "If you unfold a square, you don't get two squares." In the context of this discussion, it is reasonable to assume that any "square" available to be unfolded is something approximately like the folding pho
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by wtallis 16d ago
You don't seem to be engaging with the point, which is that the space available for content after subtracting out the space taken up by other UI elements is not going to have the same aspect ratio folded and unfolded. A real UI doesn
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by wtallis 16d ago
"larger version while keeping the aspect ratio" is of minimal benefit. You still need to present a different layout, because eg. any toolbar is going to be a different fraction of the available area depending on whether the app is
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by wtallis 16d ago
If the outer screen has dimensions X by Y, then you unfold it to have the inner screen with dimensions 2X by Y, which cleanly permits side by side apps at the original dimensions of X by Y. This is true for any ratio between X and Y. If the
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by wtallis 17d ago
Sure, if you want to make a comparison where the price tags aren't the same order of magnitude, then a recent server is obviously going to be powerful. But since the baseline of this comparison is a laptop and several Thunderbolt SSDs,
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by wtallis 17d ago
ASIC vs GPU doesn't make a ton of difference when both are relying on commodity DRAM; in that sense, LLMs are more like the anti-ASIC cryptocurrencies. But the actually interesting ASICs are the ones that ditch the commodity discrete D
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by wtallis 17d ago
To be fair, nobody has upgradable memory in any system that has enough memory bandwidth and compute power to run LLMs with decent performance. It might be interesting to compare against some decade-old x86 server or workstation stuffed fu
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by wtallis 17d ago
To the extent that cryptocurrency moved off ASICs, it was because of interest shifting to different cryptocurrencies that were specifically designed to be harder to mine on an ASIC than Bitcoin's compute-heavy, memory-light hashing. I&
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by wtallis 18d ago
Isn't messing with TTLs a pretty obvious thing to do when communicating covertly? And wouldn't that kind of packet inspection only catch cases of TVs literally acting as packet-level routers, but not catch application-layer shenan
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by wtallis 22d ago
I think this is the distinction between pipeline parallelism (first N layers on machine 1, next N layers on machine 2, etc.) vs tensor parallelism where all machines contribute to the same matrix multiplication operation within the same lay
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by wtallis 23d ago
Please be careful with units. There are high-end consumer SSDs that will deliver data at 14+GB/s, which is much higher than 25Gb/s.
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by wtallis 24d ago
It's also simply bad writing regardless of what meaning the reader takes from it. "Enabled by default" or "Allowed by default" are much clearer and more natural phrasings without any connotations of the user having
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by wtallis 24d ago
At some point, the pervasive unethical behavior of having telemetry on by default instead of opt-in, not just in proprietary software but also in open-source software and even from Mozilla itself becomes overwhelming enough that "telem
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by wtallis 24d ago
Sync and container tabs aren't on the list of features I recall seeing people complain about.
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by wtallis 25d ago
Having what you consider to be a good excuse doesn't mean it didn't happen. Multiple times.
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by wtallis 25d ago
Mozilla has had their share of mass extension deprecation and breakage.
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by wtallis 25d ago
Ad blocking has always been a safety issue.
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by wtallis 25d ago
I agree that on a large scale, Chrome made browsing safer for the general public at the time. But for me it made things slower, use more RAM, waste more bandwidth on ads, didn't provide meaningful security improvements, and was a big
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by wtallis 25d ago
The "Just buy a new computer" excuse doesn't actually make the tradeoff no longer a tradeoff. The cost is still real, you're just putting a price tag on it (then ignoring the price, along with any alternative tradeoffs
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by wtallis 26d ago
Chrome's multiprocess sandboxing wasn't unambiguously good. It carried a steep cost in overhead. Back when Chrome was new, you could run Firefox with a decent selection of add-ons to get security benefits of similar magnitude thro

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