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by wtallis 8mo ago
There are a single-digit number of products using the AMD Strix Halo mobile parts that have a 256-bit memory bus. All other mobile x86 processors (including AMD's mainstream Mobile silicon used for these desktop processors) have the us
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That's a ridiculously implausible and sensationalized rumor. At most , Microsoft may make a NPU a requirement for OEMs to use the Windows 12 logo on new PCs. Actually refusing to support the existing install base of recent and hughly-
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Dropbox is a great example. It's now a fundamentally different product than the original, and has re-created exactly the problem the original solved. There's no longer a good cloud-synced folder tool; everybody has gone back to im
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Putting Strix Halo into the AM5 socket would make no sense. Half the memory controllers would be orphaned and the GPU would be severely bandwidth-starved (assuming that the memory controller on Strix Halo actually supports DDR5 and not just
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by wtallis 8mo ago
None of what I listed was in any way specific to "content creators". They're not the only ones who participate in video calls or take photos. And on the platforms that have a NPU with a usable programming model and good ven
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> Also similar to GPU + CPU on the same die, yet here we are. I think the overall trend is now moving somewhat away from having the CPU and GPU on one die. Intel's been splitting things up into several chiplets for most of their r
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> Can't imagine a single task in my workflow that would benefit from AI. You don't do anything involving realtime image, video, or sound processing? You don't want ML-powered denoising and other enhancements for your web
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> Your SSD is swapping like crazy and will die really fast. Just how quickly do you think the SSDs will die? Because there are a lot of 8GB M1 machines out there that have been getting daily use for five years, mostly with 256GB or 512
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> With today’s wide screens, a vertical menu bar at the side would perhaps make more sense than the usual one at the top, though, similar to vertical tabs. Yes, please. Bring back the NeXTSTEP menus for desktops! But on laptops, it'
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Yes, that's one of the things that really should have been an extension. Tree Style Tab works alright as an extension-provided sidebar. Putting the chat or sidebar in the core of the browser sounds very much like something done by a de
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There would still be decidedly fewer complaints, because extensions are vastly easier to manage and disable or remove than this long list of about:config settings. The fact that you cannot satisfy everybody simultaneously cannot be an excus
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Mozilla should really try taking their extension ecosystem seriously, and deliver features like the AI chatbot integration as first-party extensions that come pre-installed but can be easily managed by users with a much better UI than about
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> and you are 100% sure none of this will change suddenly Yeah. We're talking about a law that's still over a year from taking effect. It's not going to be replaced by one having the opposite effects overnight with no warn
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> Are the devices parents are currently setting up lacking these controls? It's an inconsistent mess. > Is there no third party software which can achieve this? No third-party software can force a standardized age reporting mecha
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> and gates further interactions based on the answer No. The OS does literally nothing with the age information other than water it down to a few pre-defined age brackets and pass that on to applications. There's nothing in this la
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And the state AG can only bring a civil case, with fines limited in proportion to the number of actual children affected by the non-compliance. And for most applications, compliance is as simple as calling the relevant API and throwing a
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Nothing about this law restricts what a parent is allowed to do with respect to their children. If a parent wants to set up a device or account for their kid and set the age of the account to 18+, that does not violate the law . The bill a
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Quite possibly, yes. Though maybe a router wouldn't qualify as a general purpose computing device, and maybe the packages wouldn't qualify as being from third-party developers when the binaries that get downloaded are both built a
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Facilitating the download is not sufficient; the service would have to both distribute and facilitate the download to satisfy the definition.
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The clause says "distributes and facilitates the download", not "distributes or facilitates the download".
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> On an OS like Debian, does that mean a child can’t have the root password in case they use to it change the age? Does that mean we need a second password that needs to be entered in addition to the root password to change the age? No.
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by wtallis 8mo ago
That advice doesn't hold up very well when in recent years we've had multiple instances of a BIOS update being necessary to deal with the problem of "the CPU gets fed too high a voltage and dies prematurely". That's
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We're talking about devices where the retail price is approximately one month of revenue from one customer, and that's if there isn't an extra fee specifically for the equipment rental. Yes, consumer electronics tend to hav
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by wtallis 8mo ago
Support chatbots are pretty much the only scenario where "don't make me talk to your chatbot" is a problem in practice. If someone tries to use a chatbot to engage with me in a personal or professional discussion, I don'
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Giving the device enough RAM to survive memory leaks during heavy usage would also be a valid option, as is automatic rebooting to get the device back into a clean state before the user experiences a persistent loss of connectivity. There a
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> Half his calls are resolved by just power cycling the modem/router. People shouldn't need a human to tell them to do that. Comcast deserves every penny of customer service expenses they're incurring if their own purpose
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It seems shortsighted to define the age bracket API specifically around California's chosen four brackets. Why not merely return two integers bounding the age bracket, so that the API can adapt to different regulatory environments?
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It was also really disappointing to see 24" 4k displays disappear from the market instead of becoming the new standard resolution for that size. A few years ago, there were several options including a cheap LG that was usually around $
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There are a lot of UI concepts that are foreign to younger developers, simply because they grew up using web apps and smartphones. I think computer science departments need to make a class on human-computer interaction a mandatory part of
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I don't think we have good tools for formally proving that a transformer's output will match a more traditionally-defined function. But the leading transformers are small enough that formal verification may be possible. Without an

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