amacbride

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by amacbride 3mo ago
Yeah, the biology guardrails are so primitive and so heavy-handed that it makes it useless for pretty much anything.
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by amacbride 3mo ago
It's effectively the same as the GB10 in the DGX Spark (Blackwell architecture, 6,144 CUDA cores, perf-wise comparable to an RTX 5070). I've found it very useful for running big models, but it's not a screaming powerhouse in
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by amacbride 4mo ago
As a bonus, it looks like they reset limits a few minutes ago -- I went from 53% of my weekly allotment to 0%.
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by amacbride 5mo ago
> This liberal zoning system is reinforced by private access to city planning powers. Thirty percent of Japan’s urban land has been subject to land readjustment, where agreement among two thirds of residents and landowners in an area is
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by amacbride 11mo ago
“From the depths of the WEB in Castle Evans, I summon thee, oh car, oh cdr; may thine parentheses ever match!”
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by amacbride 11mo ago
“At this point, private individuals will not be able to obtain licences to the NanoMi platform.” Does “open source” have a different meaning in Canadian?
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by amacbride 11mo ago
Cory Doctorow said it best: "Enshittification" https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-04...
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by amacbride 1y ago
I do hope that this leads to improvement in the HIP/ROCm software ecosystem. It’s definitely lacking in stability and polish compared to what NVIDIA has built. (Ask me why I’m on my third rebuild of LAMMPS this morning…)
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by amacbride 1y ago
My introduction to NFS was first at Berkeley, and then at Sun. It more or less just worked. (Some of the early file servers at Berkeley were drastically overcapacity with all the diskless Sun-3/50s connected, but still.) And of course
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by amacbride 1y ago
I was using the definition of “let the LLM take the lead in writing the code, but review it afterwards“ so I don’t think our opinions are in conflict. I think of coding agents as “talented junior engineers with no fatigue, but sometimes que
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by amacbride 1y ago
I don't think we're at odds: I think "vibe coding" is strictly for fun and for prototypes. However, people will misuse any tool, so having utilities to mitigate the risk isn't a bad thing.
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by amacbride 1y ago
I'm going to push back hard on the folks dunking on "vibe coders" -- I have been programming longer than most of you have been alive, and there are times when I absolutely do vibe coding: 1) unfamiliar framework 2) just need
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Why Painters Are Obsessed with the Duck Stamp Art Contest(sciencefriday.com)
2 points by amacbride 1y ago|0 comments
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by amacbride 1y ago
Just the headline itself makes me think of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” and we all know how that turned out.
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by amacbride 1y ago
Subsidized by Big Hook, no doubt.
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The Synology End Game(lowendbox.com)
457 points by amacbride 1y ago|355 comments
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by amacbride 1y ago
Bladder cancer has a notoriously high recurrence rate, unfortunately. (I worked for years in NMIBC molecular diagnostics.)
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by amacbride 1y ago
Part of the problem, of course, is that the Tacoma is no longer even remotely small. I really want a modern version of a mid-90s Tacoma.
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by amacbride 1y ago
A well-known observation! “Sturgeon's law (or Sturgeon's revelation) is an adage stating ‘ninety percent of everything is crap’.”
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by amacbride 1y ago
Yes, lots of layoffs in biotech recently (Recursion is a big recent one, although some of that is post-merger restructuring after the Ex Scientia acquisition.)
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by amacbride 1y ago
Infravision! (For you D&D nerds out there.)
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by amacbride 1y ago
Import/Export Specialist
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by amacbride 1y ago
This, 100%. Agile (properly done, for whatever value of “proper“ you choose) is fine for websites, apps, consumer facing stuff. For things that must work, in predictable fashion, for years, it’s often inappropriate. OS work is somewhere i
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by amacbride 2y ago
One important note: "With its advanced multi-quantum well structure and ring geometry, the laser minimizes the power consumption and the heat generation, enabling stable operation up to 90 Kelvin (K) or minus 183.15 degrees Celsius (°C
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Laser fusion startup moves from Austin to the Bay Area(apple.news)
3 points by amacbride 2y ago|1 comments
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Carbon dioxide capture from open air using covalent organic frameworks(nature.com)
4 points by amacbride 2y ago|1 comments
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by amacbride 2y ago
The Radio Shack catalog (and Radio Shack itself) was a hugely influential part of my childhood. My grandfather (Berkeley EE '34) was a huge fan, and one of my favorite early Christmas gifts was the 75-in-1 Electronics Kit, which taught
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by amacbride 2y ago
I swam in a competition at the Sydney Olympic Park, just a couple of years after the 2000 Games. It's mostly a 3 meter pool, with some shallower areas near the end; the impression was one of great depth (because it had the best water c
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How to Calm Oil Markets(statecraft.pub)
3 points by amacbride 2y ago|0 comments
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California launching pilot program to charge drivers for miles driven(autoblog.com)
1 points by amacbride 2y ago|0 comments

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