eric__cartman

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by eric__cartman 1mo ago
Also a great way to block the access to people that do not have a payment system available. Whether it is because they are not in a country that's well integrated into an international payment system, or because they are under 18. I br
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by eric__cartman 2mo ago
It would be a nice collectable trinket, but OpenAI is quite down on the list of companies I'd gift money to
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by eric__cartman 2mo ago
To be fair I care way more about the long term sustainability of my body than all the software I write regardless of how business critical or interesting it is. Or hardware for that matter, the "temporarily" zip tied CPU cooler fa
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by eric__cartman 3mo ago
It's more niche but also underestimating the impact of using SIMD in places where it makes sense. Especially in higher level, interpreted programming languages where the overhead for each iteration is much larger than the few assembly
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by eric__cartman 4mo ago
How would destroying the GPUs prevent the model weights from leaking? By the time you get your hands on them the memory is powered off for a long enough time that a cold-boot style attack is impossible.
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by eric__cartman 4mo ago
If I transported you to the 1960s and gave you a wizard that could punch cards for you with a chance of making a mistake, would you still bother to learn how to operate a punch card? What would you do if the wizard gets stuck? Coarse the wi
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by eric__cartman 1y ago
Those operating systems already exist. You can run NetBSD on pretty much anything (it currently supports machines with a Motorola 68k CPU for example). Granted many of those machines still have an MMU iirc but everything is still simple eno
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by eric__cartman 1y ago
How many of those legacy applications where the source is not available actually need to run natively on a modern kernel? The only thing I can think of is games, and the Windows binary most likely works better under Wine anyways. There are
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by eric__cartman 1y ago
You can't seriously expect a new GPU manufacturer to create a perfectly useable ecosystem on day one. The drivers will surely get better over time and support for integrating the compute stack that they use will come if the incentive i
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by eric__cartman 1y ago
My phone is a piece of junk from 8 years ago and I haven't noticed any degradation in browsing experience. A website takes like two extra seconds to load, not a big deal.
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by eric__cartman 2y ago
Android studio became great after I upgraded from 16 to 48 gigabytes of ram. Thanks for that, Gradle!
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by eric__cartman 2y ago
Honestly I don't see much of a problem if this is applied to imports of single items by an end user. I used to be that I had trouble importing some device partly because the power supply was not certified by the local regulatory entiti
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by eric__cartman 2y ago
> Performance varied between a 4.3 percent slowdown to a 2.3 percent speedup depending on the way it was bent. I have practically zero knowledge on the physics behind semiconductors to try to think why this could occur but I find it fasc
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by eric__cartman 2y ago
An iPhone 8 still has a lot of processing power for headless home server tasks. I use a much weaker ARM dev board as an ssh gateway and Wireguard VPN into my home network and it works just fine. The only thing I'd worry about is leavin
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by eric__cartman 2y ago
I had to slightly rewrite the title to get it to fit within the 90 character limit.
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Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking(english.hani.co.kr)
215 points by eric__cartman 2y ago|197 comments
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by eric__cartman 2y ago
I've always had a feeling that mixing caffeine and alcohol was a really bad thing, even when binge drinking as a teenager. Not that limiting myself to only alcohol was a healthy alternative or anything... I wonder how much damage (if a
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by eric__cartman 2y ago
If you're unlucky enough to experience memory errors in one of the intermediate buffers files go through while being copied from one computer to another an incorrect copy of the file might get written to disk. When running software RAI
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by eric__cartman 2y ago
I still use an HP 48GX for all my university courses that require a calculator (not many nowadays, the best math courses are the ones without numbers in them). I bought it used in 2020 and it's been one of my favorite sub $25 purchases
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by eric__cartman 2y ago
I wish I had this all those times I had to guess what buffer exploded just by looking at the Valgrind output signaling invalid reads/writes.
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
Yeah the camera is the only feature that would really make me want to switch phones. In my case it's more about being a broke CS student without a job lol. But the low-end device thing still stands. At least here in Argentina where I l
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
I have noticed with two 7 year old Snapdragon 835 devices that RAM and running a recent Android version makes a huge difference. I daily drive a OnePlus 5 running Android 14 through LineageOS and the user experience for non-gaming tasks is
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
That's a very low tech solution. What we need is an internet connected mug that senses with a camera if it's about to be set on top of a piece of paper and starts beeping uncontrollably. With a firmware update and an additional ch
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
That wiki was invaluable to me when I took computer organization courses. My recommendation would be to learn x86 assembly and C (also familiarize yourself with gdb!) by writing programs that run on a Linux system and only after target bare
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
They used the hardened PowerPC for the rover, similar to previous mars rovers and the Snapdragon chip for the helicopter.
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
I doubt that'll happen. Android has had the possibility to create alternative app stores since the very beginning and even though there are other stores like F-Droid or whatever Samsung calls their bloatware nowadays almost no one uses
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
I don't know why, but throwing away computers has always felt wrong to me. I have this small device, built on countless years of research and development that would have been unthinkable not too long ago and it's going straight in
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
I wonder if Microsoft will continue to patch Windows 10 even after it's official EOL date like what they did with Windows XP. That thing ended up receiving like 12 years of support.
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
I'd rather be a unicellular microorganism. Only having one cell to worry about sounds pretty chill.
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
Maybe some people won't. But those that were able to navigate pirate sites in the early 2000s will be easily able to catch up on what somewhat trustworthy sites are used today. I'd wager that it's even a nicer experience now

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