NickHoff

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by NickHoff 3mo ago
I enjoyed some of the incorrect options. For "Debilitate" one of the options was "Remove a bill from the tab".
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by NickHoff 10mo ago
Look neat. FYI clicking "See All Connectors" is a 404.
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by NickHoff 1y ago
A UUID v4 is a 128 bit number, but 4 bits are reserved to specify the version number and 2 more bits are reserved to specify the variant, which leaves 122 bits of randomness. That means it can take on 5 x 10^36 possible values. Following th
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by NickHoff 2y ago
Neat. What about power density? An H100 has a TDP of 700 watts (for the SXM5 version). With a die size of 814 mm^2 that's 0.86 W/mm^2. If the cerebras chip has the same power density, that means a cerebras TDP of 37.8 kW. That&#x2
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by NickHoff 2y ago
I'm an American living in Germany. When I first arrived, the way Germans write the digit 1 surprised me. They write it with the upper hook thing very long, almost like a capital lambda (Λ), which sometimes makes 1 and A visually ambigu
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by NickHoff 3y ago
> Superb Owl That's a great typo.
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by NickHoff 3y ago
ASCII arrow: own work. LOL
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by NickHoff 3y ago
I clicked their link to Knative so I could read about it. On the Knative webpage, the cookie banner pops up. I don't want to accept so I click "learn more". That expands the cookie banner to include a button that says "I
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by NickHoff 3y ago
There's a recent Tom Scott video about an office inside an elevator. It has a desk and chairs, the whole thing. It's on the corner of the building too. It seems, from his video, that nobody is really sure why it was built and what
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by NickHoff 3y ago
My question here is about underlying fab capacity. This chip is made on TSMC 4N, along with the H100 and 40xx series consumer GPUs. I assume Nvidia has purchased their entire production capacity. I also assume that Nvidia is using that capa
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by NickHoff 3y ago
See also the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. [0] This program [1], for example. It just accepts some input on stdin and returns the same input, but mirrored along the diagonal. So the first row of the input becomes the first column
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by NickHoff 3y ago
There's also this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3FkAUbetWU He shoots the Prince Rupert's drop with a bullet. The bullet wins. In high speed, you can see the bullet splat against the glass and break into sh
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by NickHoff 3y ago
I've read about this. Studying the psychology of group dynamics and conflict in a confined environment was a part of the experiment. Sure enough, the crew of 8 quickly split into two factions. It still seems like a success to me though
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by NickHoff 3y ago
So, what do people think of Vivaldi? I'm a long-time Firefox user but I've been scanning for a new browser for a while now. Even if it weren't for stuff like this, I'll have to change anyway when Firefox dips below ~3% a
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by NickHoff 3y ago
I hope that Brother doesn't succumb to the same forces that drove HP (and everyone else) to these decisions. In the short term it makes sense for HP because 1. At first the printer works well. This causes reviewers, who only use the pr
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by NickHoff 3y ago
I took a linear algebra class in high school and we used two textbooks for the class. One gave a simple and soft presentation which we used most of the time. The other one was much more rigorous, referred to in hushed and fearful tones simp
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by NickHoff 3y ago
> retail GPUs are much more powerful I agree with your basic point about building vs renting, but retail GPUs aren't simply more powerful. Retail GPUs are just as fast but have a lot less VRAM and memory bandwidth. The RTX4090 has 2
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by NickHoff 3y ago
One of the issues is availability. Lambdalabs and Paperspace never have instances available. AWS and GCP have the per-account quota set to 0 by default for GPU instances and deny requests to raise it, even to 1. (One of my AWS accounts was
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by NickHoff 3y ago
AI is moving too fast to regulate. A lot has happened in the field just during the time that these "last minute amendments" have been discussed. It's more likely that the EU will end up with laws that are obsolete by the time
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by NickHoff 3y ago
I spent a while trying to find the 'but' in that sentence. I assume you meant 'not'. :)
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by NickHoff 3y ago
> City Hall said on its website about 103,000 people voted... The population of Paris is about 2.1 million according to Wikipedia, meaning ~5% turnout.
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by NickHoff 4y ago
Some of the permissions this app requires: read your contacts modify your contacts access approximate location only in the foreground send and view SMS messages receive text messages (SMS) receive text messages (MM
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by NickHoff 4y ago
I'm aware of these laws but I've always wondered - what if a German startup really does want to operate in a new and "unexpected" way, but doesn't want to trick their customers? They put the unexpected stuff clearly
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by NickHoff 4y ago
> What beats Steam will not be a better Steam. It will be something else... Right. It will probably still have to be better than Steam though. Like a game streaming service in which all the games are available to play. Pay $20 per month,
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by NickHoff 4y ago
Bitwarden already does one thing well. It's everything I'm looking for - open source, costs money but not much ($10/yr), 2FA, clean interface. I'm happy for the new investment, but I hope they don't start adding new
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by NickHoff 4y ago
In this [1] blog post, they say it's "between 2 and 20 times slower than MySQL (but committed to getting down to 4x slower)". [1]: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-03-09-dolt-use-cases-in-th...
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by NickHoff 5y ago
Syncthing is great, I've used it for years to sync all my stuff and it has always been solid. I even use it on my kindle fire tablet (there's a Syncthing app in F-droid). My only annoyance with Syncthing is when I reinstall an OS
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by NickHoff 6y ago
This guy also made a similarly acerbic video about MuseScore, a good open source scorewriter [1]. They actually took his criticisms and started making changes. The two ended up working together and I think he is now the design lead for Muse
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by NickHoff 6y ago
I've always liked 1/7 as well, and I never realized that thing about doubling from 7 giving 14, 28, 56. People are always impressed when I can rattle off the digits of x/7. By the way, I appreciate your use of U+0305 combinin
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by NickHoff 6y ago
Yeah I noticed that too. If you go to the profile page of someone who has the LinkedIn pro version and hover over the gold "in" symbol next to their name, it links to a URL containing upsellOrderOrigin=premium_badge_profile_

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