coredog64

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by coredog64 6d ago
You just triggered my PTSD. Worked in a gas station in college and changing over the till was a PITA -- I had to account for every cent, could be written up over 50 cents (too much or too little) and it was always this crazy dance to chang
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by coredog64 7d ago
Same as it ever was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by coredog64 13d ago
Separating in flight is a very tricky problem that requires massive amounts of testing and can go very wrong.
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by coredog64 14d ago
> Plus the Solo cups are transported over a great distance as well, between the fuel and packaging it could easily triple their carbon costs. As opposed to ceramic mugs that just materialize in your house? Not sure about you, but I don&
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by coredog64 14d ago
They're typically stored as "tokenized" values. The tokenized version shares the type and the last 4 digits (so that you can share it with the customer to help them identify the card). You buy this capability from vendors a
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by coredog64 19d ago
"sucks" was originally a homophobic pejorative. Languages evolve, sometimes very rapidly.
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by coredog64 22d ago
Have been considering a used M1 but I'm concerned that I'm going to get flash storage that's been thrashed to within an inch of it's life by someone running it as a poorly configured inference host.
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by coredog64 23d ago
Once again, I'm begging you, with tears in my eyes to learn the difference between statutory and effective tax rates. Do I disagree that there were headline rates of 70%? No. Did anyone pay those rates on any meaningful amount of th
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by coredog64 28d ago
We still have RHEL7 hosts in production. Every day it gets harder to find packages with a glibc 2.17 floor.
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by coredog64 29d ago
Fix the cigarette lighter
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by coredog64 29d ago
Can WASM use AVX512-VNNI?
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by coredog64 1mo ago
HP or HP née Compaq née Digital Equipment Corporation?
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by coredog64 1mo ago
Luigi was never a UHC customer per the news story today on his guilty plea.
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by coredog64 1mo ago
Anecdotal as I haven't had time for a full benchmark, but I have a dense tabular handwritten form that is pretty challenging: LLMs with vision don't do well because the content isn't English words. Textract did poorly becau
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by coredog64 1mo ago
DeepSeek V4 is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful LLM I've ever known in my life
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by coredog64 1mo ago
During AltaVista's prime, 32MB would have been a lot of memory for a typical computer.
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by coredog64 1mo ago
The challenge here is to ensure that any controls that apply to law enforcement operating their own hardware for this purpose would also apply to them obtaining this information from a third party. We don't need the mayor setting up &
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by coredog64 1mo ago
Saw somewhere that they don't believe vision advances the AGI work they're doing, so it's not on the roadmap.
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by coredog64 1mo ago
IME I can't trust it to write it's own plans from a spec, but if I give it a detailed execution plan written by Opus, it's fast and cheap (if chatty) in executing it.
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by coredog64 1mo ago
> you can't even reuse the same architecture for training and inference AWS begs to differ. They originally split between `Trainium` and `Inferentia` but now support both with `Trainium`
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by coredog64 1mo ago
> The more money Nvidia makes, the more motivated their competitors will be to get a piece of that market and the more customers will be looking for alternatives like the push into TPUs which the article discussed. Your margin is my oppo
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by coredog64 1mo ago
It's a truism that every accident is actually a chain of events, or at least it was 30+ years ago at Embry-Riddle. Lower stakes situations recognize this with the "5 whys" technique.
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by coredog64 1mo ago
Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower
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by coredog64 2mo ago
> taxation of stock buybacks (which is a way to pay dividends without paying income tax on them I don't think you've got the mechanism correct here. If a corporation has cash, they can pay dividends which lands in the pocket o
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by coredog64 2mo ago
See this all the time in Phoenix metro: A light rain just pulls down all the dust in the air and deposits it on the car. It has to be fairly sustained to wash away the initial dust collection, and even then you can still see dust on the p
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by coredog64 2mo ago
The founding date for the original REO. I don't think they have an unbroken line back to the original
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by coredog64 2mo ago
Story up thread is about an ambulance ride by the San Francisco Fire Department charging a grand. So in essence the EMS funding is the fire department funding and it’s still unsolved.
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by coredog64 2mo ago
Technically, probably CloudFront.
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by coredog64 3mo ago
> That's not hypothetical — it's a real measurement on the base model Mac Mini. Hmmm
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by coredog64 3mo ago
Recently bought an SBC with a QCS6490 ( https://radxa.com/products/dragon/q6a/ ). Curious to see if the vendor winds up using this as a base.

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