benjaminl

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by benjaminl 1mo ago
For me the old web is when people still had homepages. When those went away, the old web died.
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by benjaminl 2mo ago
It’s still really strange that Linux is several times larger than ChromeOS. I would not have guessed this. And I daily drove Linux for years.
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by benjaminl 3mo ago
The parent is correct. Look up have many antennas are on each Starlink sat. There are multiple dedicated antennas for customers and ground stations. There isn’t just one antenna or beam per satellite. Also, lookup the number of ISLs in orbi
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by benjaminl 4mo ago
Ctrl+V paste works for me on WSL. My secret is that I have given up on WSLg and use a standalone X Windows server. Specifically, the X410 X Server. This removes a whole lot of weird behavior including the ones described by the article.
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by benjaminl 6mo ago
This issue here is that people have different definitions of AGI. From the description. Getting 100% on this benchmark would be more than AGI and would qualify for ASI (Algorithmic Super Intelligence) not just AGI.
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by benjaminl 7mo ago
In just about every way. CPU caches are made from SRAM and live on the CPU itself. Main system RAM is made from DRAM and live on separate chips even if they are soldered into the same physical package (system in package or SiP). The RAM sti
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by benjaminl 1y ago
The spec says that the first row specifies the number of columns.
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by benjaminl 2y ago
The story is satire. But the satire is illustrating true problems and attitudes.
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by benjaminl 3y ago
Kinda hard to answer as that depends on your definition of new. But most likely yes, https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/commits/main
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by benjaminl 3y ago
They should move to using QUIC which is the protocol backing HTTP/3. QUIC incorporates TLS1.3 and has an extension for UDP style unreliable datagrams ( https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9221/ ). It would be t
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by benjaminl 3y ago
GPT-4 gave me a concise correct answer without disclaimers. This may be due to using many custom instructions like the following in ChatGPT settings: - No need to provide disclaimers about your knowledge cutoff - No need to mention you are
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by benjaminl 4y ago
I also buy the most expensive Apple phone and not put it in a case. My experience is quite different from your, perhaps unintentional straw man. Let’s take this assertion by assertion. > I put my (slippery) iPhones in cases because if I
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by benjaminl 4y ago
Analog telephones have terrible bandwidth. Just 300–3,300 Hz. This it technically called the voiceband, but it cuts off a good portion of female speech. Also, all phone lines these days, wether POTS or VOIP are digitally trunked and switche
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by benjaminl 4y ago
Normally that is the case, but California has been very active passing significant housing reform legislation in the past couple of years. Just this last legislative session over 20 housing bills were passed: https://www.hklaw.co
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by benjaminl 4y ago
Yeah, pitch is only one of the components of speech pattern differences between genders. Others include resonance, intonation, rhythm and more. Ask a trans person and they will tell you that changing your perceived speech gender is much mor
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by benjaminl 4y ago
The problem is that a certain segment of society is passing laws insisting that everyone neatly fit into 2 distinct buckets. Also, insisting that the bucket you were categorized in at birth is immutable. They are using the phrase “biologica
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by benjaminl 4y ago
The linked article appears to be entirely copied from the University of California press release. https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/07/25/chemical-controllin... , which is a much better source of informa
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by benjaminl 4y ago
Since the build page doesn’t provide much context, Fushsia has 3 different configurations bringup, core and workstation. The workstation configuration is described as: > workstation is a basis for a general purpose development environmen
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by benjaminl 5y ago
The YouTube show How to Make Everything. Did this. They started the tech tree from the very beginning by making simple hand stone tools and then building up tool by tool to more sophisticated technologies. If all you have is a hand. Even ge
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by benjaminl 6y ago
With the coming ubiquity of QUIC, its seems natural to have a QUIC based analog to OpenVPN using packet based QUIC instead of OpenVPN’s UDP/TLS. It also seems rather obvious to extend WireGuard to run over QUIC in addition to UDP. But
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by benjaminl 6y ago
If Pinboard is being maintained, this is great news. I had thought it was abandoned and I have been looking for alternatives. My biggest pain point is the lack of maintained iOS clients.
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by benjaminl 6y ago
Don’t forget the 10.25% sales tax. This puts the combined marginal tax rate at 59.85%. (24 + 9.3 + 7.65 + 7.65 + 1 + 10.25)
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by benjaminl 6y ago
Windows on ARM supports 64bit ARM apps. What you were possibly remembering was that Windows on ARM when it was first introduced only supported emulating x86 apps. Although x64 emulation is currently in preview. https://docs.micro
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by benjaminl 6y ago
That US oil self sufficiency means that it will get out of the Middle East is a key part of Peter Zeihan’s Disunited Nations. His premise is that the US will disengage from the world no matter who won the election and that will have far rea
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by benjaminl 6y ago
They are making these claim using the EEMBC benchmark. This must be an interesting benchmark as they claim the fastest chip on the EEMBC benchmark is a Cortex-A9, a 8 year old design.
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by benjaminl 6y ago
Unlike what has been said on Twitter the answer to why the M1 is fast isn’t due to technical tricks, but due to Apple throwing a lot of hardware at the problem. The M1 is really wide (8 wide decode) and has a lot of execution units. It has
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by benjaminl 6y ago
Towards the end of the post we find out why they want to block news links from Facebook and Google, they are setting up a competing platform. “That’s why we’re building Forth, a news-first platform that pays journalists for their work and o
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by benjaminl 6y ago
My color laser provided significantly better color than any of the inkjet I have used. It provided nice even color. Whereas the inkjet color was often banded.
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by benjaminl 6y ago
The tech specs say it is running “Android TV OS”. It is a rebranding and the new direction of Android TV. ( https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/google-merges-chrome... ) > “But while Android TV is the fo
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by benjaminl 6y ago
I was think the same thing. The routes generated are really great, but how would I actually use the routes. As some of the routes are pretty complicated. I use an Apple Watch and it would be great to use that. My preference would be to use

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