dmnmnm

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by dmnmnm 2y ago
>Wait for a model that doesn't have an NPU How many years from now? There isn't any high end CPU in laptops without those useless things now. > buy an older model that doesn't I don't think you've ever shopped
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by dmnmnm 2y ago
> much better GPU and NPU I don't know about the Apple ecosystem, but have you seen ANYTHING using the NPU on PC? I have not. I own an AMD laptop with an NPU (Ryzen 9 8945HS) and the NPU has never seen a single percentage of utiliza
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by dmnmnm 2y ago
> "Fear my importance! I'm changing the name of this product!" Well, the person who wrote the tech blogpost that was linked here is : >Hilary Braun >I'm a Senior Product Manager for Windows 365, focused on provi
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by dmnmnm 2y ago
> The people behind the "Think of the children" type argument for interception expect people to implicitly understand that. You don't even need to go as far as to talk about government lack of accountability for their own.
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by dmnmnm 2y ago
> I still don't know how to switch to the JSON-only view the few times that I need it. Everything can be searched in VSCode, not just the settings page. Just do CTRL+SHIFT+P and type. Like this: https://i.imgur.com/
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by dmnmnm 2y ago
> while Vista was perhaps too extravagant in its UI Vista was a fine OS. The aero glass stuff was a little on the side of bad taste, but the UI usability wasn't bad, there was little difference in UI between Vista (the hated OS) and
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by dmnmnm 2y ago
> But China is on borrowed time due to population collapse. China will run out of young engineers far more quickly than the US will. And the US can attract foreign engineers far better than China ever will. For many, many reasons, whethe
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by dmnmnm 2y ago
Safetensors were created because people were distributing models as python pickles, the basic built-in serialization format of Python. https://checkoway.net/musings/pickle/ If you want in on the fun.
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by dmnmnm 2y ago
> If so, the charitable (and probably correct) interpretation is that this is a general privacy guardrail, not one that's there to protect the powerful/rich Considering that some of the champions behind machine learning, like G
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by dmnmnm 2y ago
> Meanwhile Windows Start Menu is locked to Bing Not in the EU market. They recently decoupled that part (search, but I don't know if they did it for edge too) and made bing in the start menu a store app that can be uninstalled if y
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by dmnmnm 2y ago
> The "pixel" of native CRT displays is always a smoothly blurred point sample. And that's why CRTs were capable of displaying different resolutions in a way that was appealing. When I bought my first LCD monitor for my co
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by dmnmnm 2y ago
The original gameboy had so much ghosting you could do this to achieve effects like transparency of water : https://youtu.be/MytSySMUwv8?t=2892 It looks absolutely godawful on an emulator since without the ghosting what rem
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by dmnmnm 2y ago
> Its a factoid pulled out of nowhere Nope. And your gameboy examples are not counter points to the fact that games were designed around a target screen limitation. They weren't designed around a CRT quirk, but they were designed ar