NineStarPoint

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by NineStarPoint 7d ago
Yeah q8 made so littler difference back when I was testing such things I'd be surprised if people could quickly notice that as a change. It's got to be either further quantized or some other type of optimization that kicks in when
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by NineStarPoint 7mo ago
It was the M3 Ultra that had that much RAM capacity, not the Pro or the Max. It is disappointing they didn't up it to at least 256GB on the laptops, but we'll have to wait for the next iteration of the studio to see if they'l
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
Those people were a lot more desperate for food than we were too, though.
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
The second foundation was also made by Harry Seldon though, there wasn't a completely separate force that attempted to change history using his research.
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
I would rather companies do whatever they thought was best with no regards to the current administration, unless forced by law to take some action. Large companies feeling like they need to take actions to please the current President is no
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
You are 100% correct, I lost a full prefix of performance there. Edited my message. Which does make the clusters a fair bit less impressive, but also a lot more sensibly sized.
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
A high grade consumer gpu a (a 4090) is about 80 teraflops. So rounding up to 100, an exaflop is about 10,000 consumer grade cards worth of compute, and a petaflop is about 10. Which doesn’t help with understanding how much more impressive
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
It took 6 years between the last largest prime number and the most recent. The two gaps before that were each only 1 year though. So depends on how lucky you think you’ll get.
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
I’ve always thought the real answer was to stop the businesses from hiring people. Make an actually useful national ID system that employers can use to identify if someone is allowed to work in the US, and then come down like the hammer of
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
I doubt there’s a business model there because who is going to opt in to a scheme that loses them money? What could work is social media giving people an easy button to block links to specific websites from appearing in their feed, or somet
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
Firing someone for having tattoos or having done sex work is completely legal in almost all US states. Generally speaking, the only things private employers can’t discriminate based on is things intrinsic to who the person is (race, sexuali
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
You could freeze your credit, it you wanted to be careful. Realistically though, you should have already been monitoring to check if unexpected things were being done in your name. I’ve presumed that all our SSNs have been out there for yea
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
To me it’s similar to the whole “SSO wall of shame” thing, where a vital feature is locked behind more expensive pricing. As said in the article: “We tried saying that we don't need any number of the 14 features that are included” Whic
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
Narrowing things down to “this group of people who live together” would be pretty useful forensically, I don’t really see a problem there. Has all the same issues DNA tests do on the “bullshit for the justice system to abuse” scale though y
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
That’s the internal use restriction. There is also the restriction more relevant to the use cases I’m talking about on Value Added Products which is “the customer is prohibited, either contractually or technically, from defining, redefining
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
And as I understand that license, you are allowed to use Timescale for anything that doesn’t involve offering Timescale itself as a service. If you were using Timescale to process lots of time series transactions in your backend, it doesn’t
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by NineStarPoint 2y ago
No, the point of the ascension mechanic is that it gets harder and harder so that you need to play more and more optimally to have a chance at winning, there aren’t any benefits past ascension 1. If you aren’t the sort of person who wants a
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
Even then, the Hong Kong Administrative Region has about 430 square miles of land, compared to New York City’s 300 square miles of land. This is a more reasonable comparison than New York States 55,000 square miles of land. (The city of Hon
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
Or, perhaps, the sort of person who spends time on a website centered around reading is unsurprisingly in the top percentiles of reading amount.
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
Is it? I know that legally they could deport you so its not a great idea, but how often does someone actually get deported for doing remote work while spending a few months in another country?
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
The use case is watching something with people who are half a world away I think, not with people who are physically present with you.
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
In a vacuum, yes. In practice, a ton of people I know spent all that extra time commuting which is probably worse for most people than putting some extra work in.
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
The most efficient speed for virtually all vehicles is about 50-55 mph, and that’s probably going to be a more pronounced difference on something that’s less aerodynamic. 65-70 doesn’t tend to be too bad though, no.
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
Would Apple even approve something going on the app store that tried to do things in ways that were that non-standard? More generally it’s not like you can choose to host your own servers or, in forgoing all of Apple’s work, not have to pay
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
Makes sense to me that only very popular and generic stuff makes the top of the list. Even if Wikipedia was used more for high level queries in aggregate, there’s so many possible things people could be looking into that it’s necessarily mo
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
Not all politcs problems are one side against the other, sometimes a political problem does mean “this is a good idea, but too generally unpopular to be implemented”. For nuclear it’s also a local politics problem, not national problem gene
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
The difference is what the primary focus of the game is, I think. Mindustry is a tower defense game that uses factory style base building as added spice. Factorio is a base building game that adds some tower defense elements as added spice.
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
Sure, but time isn’t necessary for a causal chain. Even if from the perspective of the demigurge it has always existed, in some causal (or anti-causal depending on the laws outside our reality) way it must have spontaneously come in to bein
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
In the end, if you go all the way back through the chain of causation (whatever causation even looks like outside of the bounds of reality we know within our universe), whatever it is that resulted in our universe (whether it be the big ban
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by NineStarPoint 3y ago
Almost certainly there is more life out there somewhere. But if the level of rarity is “for every billion years, it happens once in every thousand galaxies” rare, then unless FTL travel is real humanity will probably never get to see it. An

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