Lapha

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by Lapha 3y ago
Running models locally using GPU inference shouldn't be too bad as the biggest impact in terms of performance is ram/vram bandwidth rather than compute. Some rough power figures for a dual AMD GPU setup (24gb vram total) on a 5950
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by Lapha 3y ago
Well, he absolutely should have been using Vim, he instead spent the week learning vi.
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by Lapha 3y ago
If it were just a standalone tool it wouldn't affect the licencing of the project, but it's not a tool, it's a software library, so projects using the library need to follow the terms of the GPL. The tricky part here is that
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by Lapha 3y ago
Note that the author of the unauthorised derivative work 'B', based on the 'original' work 'A', still retains copyright over their own (unauthorised) work B. Even if a court compels the author of B to stop dist
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by Lapha 3y ago
>as open source really does only mean source available The definition and history of the term as a licence is unambiguous in that the only restriction on redistribution is that it contains the source code under the same licence. There ar
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by Lapha 3y ago
'Free' software has problems with its name too. The ones muddying the waters are people and companies releasing source code with a proprietary licence while trying to latch onto the open source branding.
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by Lapha 3y ago
The topic of human vision and perception is complex enough that I very much doubt it's scientists who are making the claim that we can't perceive anything higher than 30-60fps. There's various other effects like fluidity of m
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by Lapha 3y ago
While I'm sure the publicly available and already moderated Reddit comments OpenAI pays workers to classify are truly disturbing, nobody should be forced to read Reddit after all, I think the moderators at Facebook, Google, porn websit
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by Lapha 3y ago
>UK plug sockets are rated at 13 A, giving a maximum power rating of 2,990 W. Nominally, anyway. When the EU standardised mains voltages they mostly did so on paper by fudging the tolerances, UK's 240v +/- 3% became 230v -6&#x2
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by Lapha 3y ago
Ideally it's lifecycle carbon footprint averaged over expected power production during that time, but the numbers aren't always directly comparable and the error bars are huge to boot. With solar, most of the carbon footprint come
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by Lapha 3y ago
I don't mean this as a dig, but I am curious to know what your use case is for launching new browser windows from different environments is. Something along the lines of remote debugging?
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by Lapha 3y ago
This change is likely only due to anticipation of a proposed EU law that would require 3+2 years of support, the Pixel 5a released in 2021 will only get 3 years of support, including security updates, and every single Pixel and Nexus phone
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by Lapha 3y ago
Japanese has a couple of words for 'door' (some of which refer to Japanese style sliding doors): 戸, 扉, 障子, but one of the more frequent ones is ドア which is a loan word from English 'door'. Adoption of loan words can be s
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by Lapha 3y ago
While it's not a direct parallel, I'd recommend people be careful with using your thumbs like this. I've been using a tiling window manager with the windows key as a modifier for years, but recently I've been having prob
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by Lapha 3y ago
>it's going to take a while, and Rust has been here for 17 years. Technically correct, but Rust was changing significantly from version to version prior to the 1.0 release some 8 years ago, notably the green thread runtime was remov
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by Lapha 3y ago
>it replaces things like PulseAudio More specifically, it's fully compatible with PulseAudio/JACK/ALSA and is capable of completely replacing them while still providing the benefits of what it's replacing. It's a
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by Lapha 3y ago
There's definitely smart people on 4chan, but accessibility only exists insofar as there's enough of a culture to punch through the noise floor. Mentally filtering posts only gets you so far, if there's any sort of countercul
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by Lapha 3y ago
Both companies are juicing up the default power limits which absolutely matters if you're concerned about total Wh for sustained loads, thermal considerations, PSU rating, noise, etc, as you mentioned, but to be fair to AMD here they&#
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by Lapha 3y ago
Not to detract from the point too much, but RSA was independently discovered in 1973.
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by Lapha 3y ago
Smoking tobacco has clear negative health consequences today, but the association may not have been so strong when the predominant forms of heating households were open wood and coal fires. It's also worth keeping in mind that smoking
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by Lapha 3y ago
The first mechanical clock that could accurately and reliably measure seconds was a pendulum clock with a length of one metre. Seconds and metres go hand in hand with the metric system.
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by Lapha 3y ago
Hopefully it stays at least a France away.
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by Lapha 3y ago
>Unless someone can point to an American (Japanese/Australian/Canadian/Korean/Mexican/Chinese/Indian etc etc) law passed promising equivalence this continued notion that the EU laws are global is really weir
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by Lapha 3y ago
Hindi and other Indo-Aryan languages are incredibly irregular, but when laid out on a chart it doesn't seem as daunting of a task as the initial prospect of learning 100 numerals for 0-100 would be. For example, if you know 22 is &#x27