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by csdvrx 1y ago
Will the offline mode work on laptops?
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by csdvrx 1y ago
I use both: they are extremely fast - faster than Wordpad (on a native windows installation), much faster than libreoffice (on linux with wine).
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by csdvrx 1y ago
Read https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/12/06/phi-s... I submitted it, as it gives a better picture of what Microsoft is trying to do: both the hardware, and the software. Phi is small, not
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Phi Silica, small but mighty on-device SL(blogs.windows.com)
6 points by csdvrx 1y ago|0 comments
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by csdvrx 1y ago
Yes: they are building both the software and the hardware for that: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/12/06/phi-s...
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by csdvrx 1y ago
Is anyone here using phi-4 multimodal for image-to-text tasks? The phi models often punch above their weight, and I got curious about the vision models after reading https://unsloth.ai/blog/phi4 stories of finetuning S
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by csdvrx 1y ago
Sometimes, you can't find the average because it's undefined: it can happen with a Cauchy and a few other statistical distributions: the wikipedia page has a nice plot of how the first 2 moments don't converge https:/&#
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by csdvrx 1y ago
> it's like systemd trading off non-determinism for boot speed, when it takes 5 minutes to get through the POST That's a bad analogy: if a given deterministic service ordering is needed for a service to correctly start (say bec
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by csdvrx 1y ago
In the last discussion about such issues, someone linked https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/the-dark-s... which is worth a read for past abuses: > Military authorities in California requeste
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by csdvrx 1y ago
Very interesting link! Submitted!
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The dark side of census collections(abc.net.au)
2 points by csdvrx 1y ago|0 comments
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by csdvrx 1y ago
> run ZFS scrub (or equivalent) every 6 months zfs in mirror mode offers redundancy at the block level but scrub requires plugging the device > All error correction has a limit. If too many errors build up, it becomes unrecoverable er
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by csdvrx 1y ago
For long term storage, prefer hard drives (careful about CMR vs SMR) If you have specific random IO high performance needs, you can either - get a SLC drive like https://news.solidigm.com/en-WW/230095-introducing-the-so
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by csdvrx 1y ago
> Cosmopolitan is neat hack, but it's not a viable multiplatform executable format, runtime sysytem, or distribution mechanism. It's the best we have to ensure programs will be kept running. The multiple payloads are like a ros
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by csdvrx 1y ago
I wanted to limit the space needed on the EFI, and keep as much as possible on the Windows partition because there's also the question of where the bitlocker key would go. With something like a chainloader using a special part of the N
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by csdvrx 1y ago
The dream has been realized with the release of cosmopolitan. There's no reason we couldn't have a cross-platform minimal set of common utilities.
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by csdvrx 1y ago
> Could you stick the Linux kernel and initramfs on the EFI boot partition as a UKI I considered that, even if it would go against the idea of having everything inside the Windows partition. I'd rather have had a shim in the EFI, wi
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by csdvrx 1y ago
You would have to add support for the peripherals in the kernel, and have some kind of init system. You would also need a filesystem supported to boot the computer. I was doing something similar for the entire OS a few years ago: cosmopolin
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by csdvrx 1y ago
If you find that interesting, read about the African Humid Period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period The present day situation is fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African
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by csdvrx 1y ago
> You're going to get a frankenstein NEMA-Schuko-Chinese power outlet They are very practical, as they accept any plug
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by csdvrx 1y ago
> That attack requires continuously monitoring a given device or area though, right? The "randomization" seems to be a pseudo-randomization: with the seed and the timestamp, you should be able to deduce the future "randomi
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by csdvrx 1y ago
> Also — secondhand books are generally outdated, undesirable, and/or damaged — do collectors still find diamonds in the rough? Secondhand stores offer in general "better" products because of the double curation: - someone
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by csdvrx 1y ago
The randomization doesn't matter: you can very easily link the addresses if you have a few datapoints, even if it's just the time you observed the addresses: the basic method is discussed in https://inria.hal.science&#x
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by csdvrx 1y ago
And this is why I think gibson1 is wrong: we can argue about which projections or systems of logic should be used, concepts are still "calculations".
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by csdvrx 1y ago
The gemini example was a wonderful summary of the comments, but audio is not very practical for something that long. What about putting the text version that's used to make the audio somewhere on the page? (or better, on a subpage wher
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by csdvrx 1y ago
This approach works even better with a firecracker-style linux kernel (faster to start), and with cosmopolitan binaries (so you can do qemu tests not just with linux): a bash cosmopolitan binary is useful if you want to test your bash shell
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by csdvrx 1y ago
I have found the Gemini 2.5 Pro summary genuinely interesting: it adequately describes what I've read. Have you thought about automatizing hn-summaries for say what the 5 top posts are at 8 AM EST? That would be a simple product to tes
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by csdvrx 1y ago
> My point is no type of math will work to model reason Then I disagree with you.
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by csdvrx 1y ago
> IMHO interesting article that interacts with many debates on HN. It's paywalled
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by csdvrx 1y ago
A more generous take on the previous post is that the dominant paradigm of Math (consistent logic, which depends on many things like transitive preference) is wrong, and that another type of Math could work. If you look at the slide, the su

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