xdertz

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by xdertz 4mo ago
AI usage is very spiky and good models require very expensive hardware. Running locally would just result in it sitting idle ~90% of the time. I think renting will always be cheaper, for comparable performance at least.
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by xdertz 4mo ago
Prime factorisation is not proven to be NP-hard so the existence of a quantum polynomial algorithm (Shor) has no bearing on complexity classes other than showing that prime factorisation is in BQP (quantum polynomial). So it does challenge
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by xdertz 4mo ago
> the game used several distinct pseudorandom number generators, to prevent e.g. randomness within a combat from influencing future card rewards. Why is this important? Feels like fixing what seems to be a non-issue lead to a bunch of re
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by xdertz 4mo ago
Just look at the disruption smartphones and social media have caused. They had a gigantic impact to society and one definitely has to 'live with' that.
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by xdertz 4mo ago
Absolutely not defending BAM or the police behaviour, but something that bothers me in the whole ordeal is that there is almost never any fact checking towards the other side. 1. The $200k figure seems is not grounded in reality. The entire
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by xdertz 4mo ago
I would say his overall negative outlook is a well needed counterbalance to the completely delusional hype one is exposed to on a daily basis. The truth will then probably land somewhere in the middle.
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by xdertz 4mo ago
I think the solution is not a dumbphone but a full android e-ink phone. Horrendous for everything that involves video but runs every app and can be used as an ereader. Unfortunately I have to found one that speaks to me, as they are all fro
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by xdertz 4mo ago
Because they lobbied for a rule change to get fast tracked to an index forcing passive investors to buy it at IPO price instead of being included after market value corrections.
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by xdertz 4mo ago
I find it hard to see how that would ever be economical. LLMs need very expensive power hungry chips and datacenters have - bulk discounts - cheaper electricity - high utilisation to spread the costs among many users I don't see how PC
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by xdertz 5mo ago
He touches on this on the website and I agree with his statement > I do feel a lot of nostalgia for the days of trying to pack four people, four computers, and four monitors into one car on the way to a friends' LAN party, setting u
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by xdertz 5mo ago
the era of subsidised ai is ending
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by xdertz 5mo ago
One of Concordes problems was also that it was not that much faster for how uncomfortable it was. For London -> NY, You were looking at 7 hours in a luxurious business class vs 3.5 hours in a crammed noisy shaking metal tube for twice th
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by xdertz 5mo ago
Every company realising it is more profitable to milk their customers every day instead of just once.
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by xdertz 6mo ago
It is not similar at all. DotA was a completely different game from Warcraft 3, Turtle WoW is just Vanilla WoW with extra content. The core gameplay is the same.
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by xdertz 6mo ago
While rust protects against passing and assigning the wrong types and leaving dangling pointers, it does not protect against writing inefficient garbage.
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by xdertz 6mo ago
there is swiftfin wich is OSS but is a bit buggy or Infuse which is a subscription but seems to play everything.
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by xdertz 7mo ago
One thing to keep in mind is that Valve is fully private so Gabe can not just be replaced by some random person by a board of directors like in other companies. He probably already has a will set up that details how ownership should be tran
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by xdertz 7mo ago
There are many instances of braces and artificial limbs or that were found or fossilised bones that showed crippled people that grew into old-age, which provides evidence that people cared for 'non-productive' members.