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by wtallis 5mo ago
> In fact, I believe I have never before heard someone combine the meaning of the word to be related to the ownership of the device being hacked. Ownership implies authorization, and using the term "hacking" exclusively to refe
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by wtallis 5mo ago
A lot of that flexibility is what makes it hard to efficiently emulate (especially without kernel level support), but some of it seems too flexible to make sense as the default choice. How often does a video game really need a lock that c
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by wtallis 5mo ago
Postel's law is typically stated as "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others". It's unfortunately common for people to ignore the first half and hallucinate a third clause demanding that
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by wtallis 5mo ago
> It also was that Intel couldn’t execute reliably on their own roadmap, Intel kept putting out delusional roadmaps that would assume their 10nm fab process was going to be ready for mass production in just another quarter or two. They s
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by wtallis 5mo ago
That's much more reliably conveyed by looking at the viewport dimensions.
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by wtallis 5mo ago
Even if we make the not-particularly-reasonable assumption that Apple would want to own a fab, and the wildly unreasonable assumption that they would accept any outside customers for the fab: building a fab business from scratch to someth
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by wtallis 5mo ago
The cookies used by the site appear to almost all be from Cloudflare, GitHub, YouTube: service providers that are not at all interested in enabling a cookie-free web site, and chose this route as malicious compliance. There's also one
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Exactly. In the next few years , entry-level hardware will not be advancing beyond 16GB. And anything beyond 32GB will remain decidedly high-end. And that's for laptops with unified memory. In the desktop space, 8GB discrete GPUs are
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by wtallis 6mo ago
The type-a ports that are 30 years old, have always been frustrating to orient correctly, and are significantly constrained in data rates and power delivery compared to type-c that has been common for a decade? Yes, calling that "old s
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by wtallis 6mo ago
That's only going to change on similar timescales to the fab capacity, which is to say multiple years .
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by wtallis 6mo ago
If an AI crash left the market with a glut of RDIMMs, we would absolutely see AliExpress sellers removing the individual DRAM packages from used RDIMMs and installing eight out of ten of them onto empty UDIMMs. The overhead costs would be
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by wtallis 6mo ago
> and anyone who wants consistent rendering of sites Yeah, that's where you lose me. The people who want to guarantee pixel-perfect rendering of web sites tend to be the same people who feel entitled to run their code on my machine
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by wtallis 6mo ago
> There are many computer components competing for the same resources (fabs, wafers). That's a bit off the mark. Processors, RAM, and flash memory each require their own specialized fabs. TSMC makes processors but not DRAM or NAND
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by wtallis 6mo ago
A drive's write endurance rating is derived at least in part from the JEDEC standard data retention requirements: 1 year at 30C for consumer drives, 3 months at 40C for enterprise drives, IIRC. Thus, a drive that has reached the end of
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Case temperature is very much at the discretion of the laptop OEM. Some OEMs take regulatory limits on skin temperature seriously and ship a well-tuned thermal control system that keeps the case at a comfortable temperature. Others push clo
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by wtallis 6mo ago
A 2019 MacBook Pro would have an Intel Skylake processor (N-th re-release), made on Intel's stagnant 14nm process. The older Intel option for the StarFighter has its CPU cores made on an Intel process two generations newer, and the res
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by wtallis 6mo ago
I think Framework is a good example of how smaller laptop OEMs end up shipping late, often on the order of three quarters. This is something else entirely, if any of these configurations are recent arrivals (I don't think they are).
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by wtallis 6mo ago
I only use a number pad for playing a few games, and for bulk data entry. Neither of those use cases are something I prefer using my laptop for, and even on my desktops they're rare enough that I'd much rather have the number pad
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Is there something new here? The processor options seem to be two generation old Intel, one generation old Intel, and one generation old AMD.
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Major feature updates require consent, yes. Automatic updates are for bug fixes and security patches. It is disrespectful to the user to automatically deploy any update that changes the UI without warning or consent. I like my toolbar butto
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by wtallis 6mo ago
When looking at the power consumption across the whole network path and not just a single link, most of the power draw is probably baseline static power costs of keeping all the routers and switches running. Which means that judging the i
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by wtallis 6mo ago
It should only need to load one copy of the weights, but each tab/site will need a separate context and KV cache.
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by wtallis 6mo ago
> Most of this is answered under the tag "Intent to Experiment" and the associated link. It's not a mandate that they're forcing on the web today, it's a public experiment intended in part to solicit feedback for
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by wtallis 6mo ago
My biggest beef with the browser's unchecked scope creep is that its role as an application platform is fulfilled in a manner that's completely at odds with the original purpose of a browser as a user agent . They're running
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by wtallis 6mo ago
The question of whether web browsers will one day be expected to normally include an LLM is not at all relevant to the situation at hand, where that absolutely is not the expected or typical behavior of a browser. Google should be askin
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Google's marketing for their latest new browser feature nobody asked for shouldn't be taken at face value. Somebody outside Google needs to provide a well-reasoned assessment of the feature proposal. And having skimmed that page
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by wtallis 6mo ago
You haven't even tried to provide a hypothetical example of what a web app should try to do using a local LLM, nor addressed the obvious questions about how that kind of thing should be standardized, what level of local LLM capabilit
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Meshtastic supports store and forward for ESP32 nodes that have a few MB of RAM, but not for the nRF52 devices that can't practically buffer much. I've only used the latter class of devices, so I don't have any experience wit
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by wtallis 6mo ago
I suspect protocols like B.A.T.M.A.N. would consume all available LoRa airtime just with neighbor discovery. On Meshtastic, nodes announcing their presence more than once per hour is seen as unnecessarily talkative. I also don't thin
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by wtallis 6mo ago
The issue you linked to is about MeshCore using channels that are too narrow . A mesh system claiming to offer 100x bandwidth is probably not violating regulations in that particular way.

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