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by dmayle 7d ago
I watched this video by Marques Brownlee on the Oppo Find N6 (foldable).. https://youtu.be/eFUB_jL_XcM It apparantly is a magic creaseless breakthrough... I'm eyeing one, and might put it on the Christmas wishlist...
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by dmayle 19d ago
Nope... What you're talking about is not privacy sensitivity, but trust. For you, you don't trust the provider of the software, so you mean being able to put a barrier around your life, and the delivered software... you think that
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by dmayle 19d ago
A ton of features work only or better on app: - anything privacy sensitive - anything processing intense (using optimized binaries) - widgets - camera and audio based features *can* work, but are more finicky (or outright broken o
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by dmayle 22d ago
It goes a step further... previously, card agreements (between merchants and the networks), required the prices to be the same between cash and credit (with the well known gas carve-out), but Durbin made that tying illegal, so now retailers
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by dmayle 2mo ago
I have seen a few occasional sites that are even worse than this one.. Not only don't you get a reject all, you get two classes of settings, the default "types", and "trusted partners", and for trusted partners, ab
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by dmayle 2mo ago
You're right... I read the title too quickly... I'll have to look at Senko vs Softformer later...
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by dmayle 2mo ago
Fun... This is something I actually care about... I used to keep a version of whisperx around, because I think it's important to have not just transcription, but also timing and speaker identification (e.g. for subtitles)... It depends
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by dmayle 3mo ago
For that price you can put together a PC with 128GB of ram ($2000) and an RTX 5090 ($3600) and get 70-100 tokens per second instead of 45
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by dmayle 3mo ago
For me, the simple shift of moving to eating 0.7g of protein per pound of body weight every day did it... It was not enough on it's own (I also eat more fiber, less fat, less carbs, though less does not mean none), but that alone was a
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by dmayle 3mo ago
The issue isn't food addiction, it's a broken hunger response (broken by Howard Moskowitz intentionally in the name of profits)... You have to change your food regimen completely (higher fiber, more protein, less sugar, less carbs
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by dmayle 3mo ago
I had the same experience, but not with GLP-1 drugs, but by upping my protein intake to about 0.7g per pound of body weight. Night and day, stopped always being hungry... I've tried Noom before (eating highly filling, low calorie foods
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by dmayle 4mo ago
That's because of a fundamental misunderstanding of what an LLM is. The only correct answer to "Why did you do it like this?" is that the specific combination of input text and RNG state caused this particular output. There
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by dmayle 4mo ago
You can swap out your default lenses with multifocal lenses... I use multifocal contact lenses, and my wife and my mother both had the surgery. My wife got the panoptix (no need for glasses at all) and my mother got vivity (just need readi
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by dmayle 6mo ago
I run two 1.5TB Optanes in raid-0 with XFS (I picked them up for $300 each on sale about two years ago). These are limited to PCIE 3.0 x4 (about 4GB/s max each). I also have a 64GB optane drive I use as my boot drive. It's hard
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by dmayle 8mo ago
Fun... This is something I have been thinking about and researching for awhile, because there is so very much confusing language out there. Your quote says over the last century, so I'm going to use roughly 1920 as the baseline. It al
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by dmayle 9mo ago
The sad part of all of this was that the company that does this tried to poach me back in 2013 or 2014, but I was disgusted by the practice, so I refused to even interview. Since then, I've made sure every single TV I own has this turn
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by dmayle 9mo ago
I used to manage a team working on the news feed at Facebook (main page). We did extensive experimentation, and later user studies to find out that there are roughly three classes of people: 1) Those that use interface items with text 2) Th
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by dmayle 10mo ago
I recently learned about the (ancient?) greek concept of amathia. It's a willful ignorance, often cultivated as a preference for identity and ego over learning. It's not about a lack of intelligence, but rather a willful pattern
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by dmayle 10mo ago
The only actual problem with cheating is leaderboards. When you have accurate matchmaking, you will be playing against other players of a similar skill level. If you we're playing in single-player mode, it wouldn't bother you tha
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by dmayle 11mo ago
I've been using an 8k 65" TV as a monitor for four years now. When I bought it, you could buy the Samsung QN700B 55" 8k, but at the time it was 50% more than the 65" I bought (TCL). I wish the 55" 8k TVs still exis
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by dmayle 1y ago
Definitely not useless! I run a ttyd server to get terminal over https, and I have used carbonyl over that to get work done. That's limited to a web browser (to get access to resources not exposed via the public internet), so having f
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by dmayle 1y ago
I am truly shocked by this. I looked it up, and it turns out you're right. Both the iPhone 17 and the iPhone Air use USB2. USB3 was introduced in 2008 (!!!). That is 17 years ago. I already wasn't interested in this tech, to be
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by dmayle 1y ago
Which is literally what Apple announced in this video: "and the 2x telephoto has an updated photonic engine, which now uses machine learning to capture the lifelike details of her hair and the vibrant color of her jacket" "li
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by dmayle 1y ago
I used to work at Meta (back when it was just Facebook), and I pioneered a similar effort back in 2016-2017-ish. Now, I don't know anything about the current version (which seems to offer cloud processing as well), but when I was ther
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by dmayle 1y ago
As to MapReduce, I think you're fundamentally mistaken. You can talk about map and reduce in the lambda calculus sense of the term, but in terms of high performance distributed calculations, MapReduce was definitely invented at Google
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by dmayle 1y ago
This is one of the hot button topics, but I was surprised to see the (false) reference to the FAA having race and gender quotas. This was suggested to me six months ago by someone who was extreme right wing, (going as far as to say that the
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by dmayle 1y ago
Did you finetune it before trying? Docs here: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core/huggingface_text_full_...
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by dmayle 1y ago
I want to take just a second, not to talk about asciinema itself, but to use asciinema to talk about a project I just discovered recently called carbonyl. It's a command line web-browser that uses a headless GUI browser (in this case c
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by dmayle 1y ago
This is a bit of an exaggeration, but otherwise correct... Alice has $100 in burrito debt at 0%, but misses one payment, which automatically reverts to a 30% interest rate, back-tracked to the start of the "loan". She also receive
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by dmayle 1y ago
You could educate yourself, you know, instead of trying to regurgitate something that someone else said that you thought looked clever. What would you call Americans? United Statesians? There are two countries called the United States in N

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