derekp7

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by derekp7 3mo ago
Integrated car seats were popular in some minivans and SUVs a number of years ago. Then they fell out of favor. I think it was because safety standards changed faster than the vehicle lifespan.
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by derekp7 4mo ago
There is a dual ladder setup. Where you can have Administrator, Systems Engineer, Sr. Systems Engineer, Lead, Architect, Sr Architect, etc. These will have parallel tracks to equiv. management positions for benefits and perks (bonus level
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by derekp7 4mo ago
Couldn't a stroke of a pen (executive order) specify that US markets must be saturated prior to exporting?
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by derekp7 4mo ago
Don't forget that you are having the cloud hosted services generate and send executable code to a device inside your corporate firewall. I can see all kinds of potential issues corporate security would have just based on that fact alo
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by derekp7 5mo ago
The biggest issue with a Linux tablet, is you don't have a lot of tablet apps for Linux. Desktop apps don't translate to tablet usage that well. I found that out when I was using a Chromebook tablet, with the Linux mode add-in.
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by derekp7 7mo ago
"Create a single page web app scientific RPN calculator" Qwen 3.5 122b/a10b (at q3 using unsloth's dynamic quant) is so far the first model I've tried locally that gets a really usable RPN calculator app. Other mod
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by derekp7 7mo ago
Except that no one has been preaching at you for your entire academic life that you MUST drive a car into someone's house at 18 in order to be able to get more than a minimum wage hard labor job.
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by derekp7 8mo ago
My problem with stock photos is that unless it is clearly a stock image, it can mislead. For example, when looking up information on the solar panels that Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House, the article had a stock photo of a mo
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by derekp7 8mo ago
Honest question. For the purpose of adding a throw-away visual to help set the tone of an article, is there really any difference between shitty AI slop vs shitty Photoshop slop? Either way it is obvious that this isn't a real studio
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by derekp7 11mo ago
> Property taxes are usually % of value, so dependent on absolute value changes, not changes relative to the rest of the community. I may be completely wrong, but this is what I've been told by people I've known in the past tha
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by derekp7 11mo ago
Also current homeowners don't care about house prices, since they are locked into fixed mortgage payments - other than how it affects insurance and property taxes. And taxes are mainly affected if your property value rises higher rela
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by derekp7 11mo ago
If the motor is geared it could make a difference. For comparison, most people put out about 100 watts with their legs, but need to downshift to go up hills. This looks like a mid drive unit, which should be capable of varied gearing.
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by derekp7 11mo ago
What I'd like is for the AI to interview me for what my personal preferences are, and for what policy areas I feel comfortable enough with even if they aren't my personal preferences. Better yet, I want to be able to supply the q
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by derekp7 1y ago
How many pixels can be defective on a display before you want to return it?
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by derekp7 1y ago
Especially when it was caught early on, and was one of the few variations of a horrible cancer type that could have been successfully treated at that stage, but that treatment plan was refused.
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by derekp7 1y ago
A one time pad would be unreasonable. Edit: Unless the one time pad is a well known relative document, such as the Declaration of Independence.
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by derekp7 1y ago
I had the double whammy of property taxes AND insurance increases on my last house. Budget was a bit tight, but that almost sent me over the edge. I learned my lesson on my next house purchase, and made sure there was a ton of leg room in
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by derekp7 1y ago
I take a hybrid approach. I will describe a simplified problem to the LLM, have it generate a well commented and reasonable approach for the problem. I then use that as a cheat sheet for implementing my actual code. This still gives me h
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by derekp7 1y ago
They also tell you if a product has a high return rate, which is helpful.
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by derekp7 1y ago
Wouldn't the interstate commerce clause automatically override any state level regulations on AI, except in cases where a company and its customers are all in-state?
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by derekp7 1y ago
The courts have ruled in several cases that a work someone created was too close to another work and therefor infringing. If you are looking at someone's painting or photograph, and then paint your version of that subject based on wha
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by derekp7 1y ago
And,even if customers are slower, having 20 self checkout kiosks is still faster than 3 cashiers. My biggest gripe with self checkout is if I make a mistake, they call it theft. I haven't been trained and certified on the register, so
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by derekp7 1y ago
I was going by the number of memory channels the CPU spec says it supports (12). But apparently I was wrong, as that gets bottlenecked by the number of CCDs on the chip. In which case you would need to go with a much higher end epyc proce
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by derekp7 1y ago
You can also get an Epyc 9115 for $800, motherboard for $640, and 12 16-GiB ddr5-6400 dims for $1400, that gives you 614.4 GiB/sec, for around $2800. You may also want to add in a small GPU to do prompt processing (inference on a CPU
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by derekp7 1y ago
For fractional scaling on my Fedora setup under Gnome, I just load up the Tweaks tool, click on Fonts, and adjust the Scaling Factor on the bottom. This seams to work about as good as fractional scaling would (at least for me). I used to
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by derekp7 1y ago
Using myself as an example -- I'm a long time C programmer (occasionally in a professional setting, mostly personal or as a side-item on my primary professional duties). I've picked up other languages through the years, had to de
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by derekp7 1y ago
For one good example, look at the Soundcore Boom 2 "SE" -- the "SE" is specific to Walmart, and has some features cut. Back to denim, Walmart caries "Levi's Signature" -- those are lower cost (and lower qu
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by derekp7 1y ago
The corollary to that is to make sure that not everything that looks like DEI is actually DEI, or has a good reason for it. For example, applications for telescope time had an acceptance rate skewed towards application proposals from speci
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by derekp7 1y ago
You could also be a mixed skilled developer. Good at regular code, architecture, and algorithms but not as familiar with a given UI framework. Having the LLM generate the html and css for a given layout description saves a lot of time loo
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by derekp7 1y ago
What I do is go back through the conversation history, select the response that has the somewhat working code, then submit a prompt with what I want changed. By selectively including context and adjusting temperature, top_p/k and some

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