danieldk

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by danieldk 5y ago
On AMD hardware, I don't understand why people avoid AMD's support, which is just a version of BLIS and libflame. A year ago, I benchmarked a transformer network with libtorch linked against various BLAS libraries (numbers are i
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by danieldk 5y ago
Can you explain what you mean by this? There is a nice description of this: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/2543 At a previous employer, we have seen various issues, including crashes, non-determi
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by danieldk 5y ago
Unfortunately this is a very common problem with basically all modern high-end laptops that have a macbook-like form factor (e.g. not bulky gaming laptops with lots of cooling & ventilation). The M1 MacBooks are the outliers here. The
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by danieldk 5y ago
OpenBLAS OpenBLAS is incompatible with application threads. Most Linux distributions provide a multi-threaded OpenBLAS that burns in a fire if you use it in multi-threaded applications. Even though OpenBLAS' performance is great, I&#
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by danieldk 5y ago
Are pictures of guns offensive outside of the US? I realize growing up in the US with a family of hunters has me desensitized, but I can't imagine being upset at someone whose hobby is going to the shooting range. Yes. The sentiment
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by danieldk 5y ago
Single user Nix works out of the box without issues on WSL.
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by danieldk 5y ago
Isn't the default AirDrop setting to receive from people in your contact list only? (It was on my Mac and iPhone.) Probably some people change the configuration to take AirDrops from everyone, but I'd expect that to be a small min
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by danieldk 5y ago
If you have a Mac with Touch ID, you can also use secretive, which requires fingerprint authentication: https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive Extra nice with the new Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID.
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by danieldk 5y ago
- Dual SIM iPhones are Dual SIM. You can use a physical SIM + and eSIM. I have used my iPhone with two different plans/phone numbers for a while.
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by danieldk 5y ago
Is that not the pattern Apple has followed since the release of the original iPhone? This is an "off" year, the device would have been called the 12S but they stopped that pattern a while back. This is a mischaracterization of t
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by danieldk 5y ago
Nice article that explains product quantization very well, thanks! PQ is really a nice compression technique. I implemented PQ and Optimized PQ [1] a while back in our word embedding package for Rust: https://github.com/fina
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by danieldk 5y ago
Under the GDPR, fines can be up to 4% of world-wide revenue. I think the 225m fine should be seen as a first warning.
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by danieldk 5y ago
Apple does typically have release notes and an overview of fixed vulnerabilities for releases. I think it is likely that 11.5.2 fixes a large vulnerability and they will only disclose more information once most people have updated to 11.5.2
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by danieldk 5y ago
That's assuming that you start with images. If you start from Nix expressions, you could update your pinned version of the nixpkgs stable branch and rebuild the container image?
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by danieldk 5y ago
Cachix is really awesome. There's a few blog posts about using AWS S3 as a binary cache so you can roll your own. Unfortunately, this is really slow due to Nix using Brotli compression at a high compression level. There were some P
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by danieldk 5y ago
We should use far less land for growing crops. One of the primary means for accomplishing this is reducing meat consumption. Meat requires a lot of crops to feed livestock (+ a lot of water), while only contributing a small portion of the c
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by danieldk 5y ago
Linux probably supports more platforms these days. But it often requires vendor-specific kernel forks, specific distributions, etc. NetBSD is impressive because it can be (cross-)compiled for many systems using the stock distribution withou
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by danieldk 5y ago
I had a ThinkPad T14 AMD, which is Linux-certified by Lenovo. If you are used to the warts of Linux on laptops, it is quite ok. However, coming from MacBooks, the experience was comparatively bad. Pros: - The CPU fan on the Ryzen 7 Pro 4750
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by danieldk 5y ago
Native will, of course, be a bit faster and have more features, but for that you need to have a dedicated developer that knows the specialities and can make use of them. This is why a lot of people are upset. AgileBit was that dedicated d
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by danieldk 5y ago
Yes, new iPad Air and Pro models have USB-C. iPhones, iPods, and iPads used to have the 30 pin dock connector: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_connector#30-pin_dock_con... So, since the start of the iPad in 2010, Ap
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by danieldk 5y ago
And NXP started in Eindhoven (spin-off of Philips) and still has a large presence: https://www.nxp.com/company/about-nxp/worldwide-locations/ne...
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by danieldk 5y ago
> though Lenovo has since updated the BIOS and restored the usual S3 standby This drain with the T14 was with regular S3 sleep ( sleep mode option changed from Windows to Linux in the firmware setup).
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by danieldk 5y ago
No, it's definitely regular Electron: % tar ztf 1password-latest.tar.gz | grep "chrome" 1password-8.1.1.x64/chrome-sandbox 1password-8.1.1.x64/chrome_100_percent.pak 1password-8.1.1.x64/chrome
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by danieldk 5y ago
Semi-related: this survey was announced alongside 1Password 8 for Windows early access. Apparently 1Password 8 for Windows uses Electron and there was some discussion about AgileBits wanting to move to the same architecture on all platforms
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by danieldk 5y ago
That seems like an issue with your MacBook Pro? I have used MacBooks since 2007 and I never noticed such issues (unless there is a process blocking sleep). With the T14 I immediately noticed it, with the same usage patterns as I had with th
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by danieldk 5y ago
I had the same issue with the ThinkPad T14 AMD. Left it in my backpack for two days and the battery was completely drained. What made it worse: Lenovo's own USB-C Gen 2 Dock would refuse to charge the battery when it was drained. I had
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by danieldk 5y ago
And they trashed themselves. Microsoft was late to the party, but Windows Phone 7 was genuinely innovative and good. Unfortunately, when WP7 started to get some traction, they reset the entire ecosystem with Windows Phone 8, which could not
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by danieldk 5y ago
ME was not the version that preceded XP, it was Windows 2000. There were two completely different product lines, with a different kernel, etc. Windows 3.x -> Windows 95 -> Windows 98 -> Windows ME Windows NT 3.x -> Windows NT 4.
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by danieldk 5y ago
Even for those non-professional uses it's probably better to put the PDF on a flash drive, walk into Staples and print it on their machines. [...] I'm just not convinced that having the ability to print in color at home is worth
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by danieldk 5y ago
Apple innovated a lot post-Steve Jobs. The development line of the A CPUs that led to the M1 is definitely not ‘a new bottle every 1-2 years’. The M1 out-innovated Intel, Qualcomm and to a lesser extend AMD. Apple also branched out to other

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