chippiewill

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by chippiewill 16d ago
Arc turned off MV3/UBO a few weeks ago for me, similar time to when all the other Chromium based browsers did. I'm thinking of switching to Zen which is a Firefox based clone of Arc
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by chippiewill 1mo ago
Nuclear reactors are in a delicate balance, they are in constant feedback loops that means an unexpected power drop or an unexpected rise can cascade. The withdrawal of the others rods is not specifically in response to one being dropped in
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by chippiewill 1mo ago
I've been using Grok instead of Opus the past few weeks. It's a downgrade, but barely noticeable for me and totally inconsequential for the amount of work required to fix it and the corresponding $$$ saving.
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by chippiewill 1mo ago
> benchmark hacking I think this is the main one. The benchmarks from this are heavily cherry-picked, and they also widely publicised their performance for 4.5 while downplaying the fact the benchmarks were "accidentally" in th
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by chippiewill 1mo ago
Turing was a helluva smart guy, but he doesn't have the benefit of hindsight.
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by chippiewill 2mo ago
The choices were clearly (far) less important than having the best model and a good product that was way ahead of the competition. However, that's not the same as the technology choices not mattering at all. As others have mentioned th
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by chippiewill 2mo ago
No, they haven't done that yet. It's just a proposal, but it's not likely to be formally stopped until 2035. The reason we've stopped having leap seconds is because the drift between TAI and UT1 slowed down and has actua
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by chippiewill 2mo ago
> the variations mostly cancel out I don't think we know this do we? we haven't been measuring accurately enough for long enough to be confident that it does in fact cancel out. In fact for the period of time where we've b
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by chippiewill 2mo ago
Pre-GPU times you'd be right, but these days a 4U server could have 8 GPUs pulling 350+ watts each. A washing machine sized unit could contain perhaps 4 of these 4U servers so the unit as a whole could be drawing upwards of 11kW.
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by chippiewill 3mo ago
The magic 50% ownership isn't relevant for that purpose. There are special provisions which means that the Foundation effectively exerts full control over the company because it appoints the entire board.
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by chippiewill 4mo ago
But that's why you have a lockfile?
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by chippiewill 4mo ago
There isn't a good way to know if a given package is using semver though. There's a lot of packages in the Python ecosystem that use time based versioning rather than semver (literally `year.minor`) and closed ranges cause untold
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by chippiewill 4mo ago
I used to work for an AV startup. One of my favourite things to see were the random encounters that our data annotators would flag up. Unusual agricultural vehicles, large to-scale images on the sides of vehicles, cars facing backwards bein
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by chippiewill 5mo ago
Alternatively they'll just wreck it down a bit so it beats a competitor but isn't unsafe.
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by chippiewill 7mo ago
They didn't update them last October is why. I think at this point Apple will just release new versions of laptops whenever new CPU revisions and yields allow. M5 Pro wasn't ready for October so delayed until now.
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by chippiewill 7mo ago
IIRC Marcan mentioned something he found that had been deliberately put into the Mac boot loader that made booting alternative operating systems easier and perhaps making it possible altogether.
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by chippiewill 7mo ago
It doesn't work for transitive dependencies, so you're reliant on third party composite actions doing their own SHA locking.
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by chippiewill 7mo ago
The company I used to work for was developing a self driving car with stereo depth on a wide baseline. It's not all sunshine and roses to be honest - it was one of the weakest links in the perception system. The video had to run at way
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by chippiewill 8mo ago
The UK doesn't need to put restrictions in for 3d printing guns because the viable approaches for 3d printing them usually require _some_ off the shelf gun parts not to mention actual ammunition which you can't feasibly acquire in
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by chippiewill 8mo ago
But no one forces pre-commit hooks onto you? You can just not install the hook into git and run the tool manually instead.
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by chippiewill 8mo ago
No one forces you to install the pre-commit hook on your local checkout so what you're suggesting is universally the case. You're perfectly free to just run it manually or let it fail in CI or use `--no-verify` when committing to
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by chippiewill 8mo ago
It depends on the hooks you're using and how many of them. For some languages there are some rather slow hooks, and using it on a big monorepo can take a while (a full run across my work's main repo takes minutes). If you update p
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by chippiewill 8mo ago
The pre-commit tool (which prek is based on) has a large ecosystem of off the shelf checks for various language linters and other checks and a convenient way of writing them (including working out which files have changed and which checks t
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by chippiewill 8mo ago
Ground stations would be the major problem. Maybe if Elon launched himself and the dev team into orbit and didn't use any ground stations and just Starlink terminals he could start getting into legal loopholes.
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by chippiewill 8mo ago
Sony have actually been fairly chill about emulators etc. so I'd be surprised if lawyers got involved here. They actually used an open source Playstation emulator when they released the "Playstation Classic" in 2018.
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by chippiewill 8mo ago
In the UK we have a convenient way of observing this phenomenon. The FTSE100 is mostly multinational companies valued in pounds. The FTSE250 is mostly British companies valued in pounds. If the FTSE100 goes up while the FTSE250 stays flat o
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by chippiewill 8mo ago
I'd definitely recommend popping to an Apple store at some point and looking at a nano display in person. It's really kind of freaky, it has a paper-like quality to it that I've not seen with any other laptop display. I'
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by chippiewill 8mo ago
I thought Intel was too far behind on their process nodes?
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by chippiewill 8mo ago
This line of chatter has been going around UK-centric online discussions and it's such a braindead line of thinking. Marginal pricing is used in a gazillion countries and is tried and tested. You do marginal pricing because otherwise p
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by chippiewill 8mo ago
Yeah, it's not as crazy as they make it sound. They're also technically a Commonwealth citizen and previously an EU citizen. Not exactly two citizenships of the same country.

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