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by giantrobot 9d ago
> I have no idea why we can't do this now. Power density and all of the problems that are fallout from high power density. A modern LiPoly battery contains a lot of energy. It's stored in a chemical that is highly reactive with
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by giantrobot 11d ago
The Switch is essentially that. Obviously not $60 but it's a several generations old Nvidia Tegra SoC. The AppleTV wasn't far off either before its massive price hikes.
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by giantrobot 15d ago
The Pro, Max, and Ultra chips boil down to different combinations of their "Super", performance, and efficiency cores along with the number of GPU cores. The Max is two Pros bolted together. Thus far they've skipped generatio
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by giantrobot 16d ago
Apple has not in the past three decades really courted the capital E Enterprise market. They'll definitely sell to Enterprise customers and have Enterprise sales teams for big customers. But they're not and never have been Dell or
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by giantrobot 20d ago
> which in most cases favours the US Used to favor the US. Trump's policies and behaviors are ruining the US' reputation as a stable trading partner by demonstrating what damage can be done by an idiot with unchecked power. T
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by giantrobot 22d ago
The M5 GPU added better matmul and dot product support in hardware (IIRC) that really boosted performance of those kernels over previous GPUs. Current transformer models rely heavily on matmuls. Prefill (processing the current context) is m
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by giantrobot 22d ago
That sufficient supply is maybe on the distant horizon. In the meantime everyone is being fleeced because the scalpers have the only supply available. Even if there's a supply glut tomorrow the scalpers have the infrastructure in pla
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by giantrobot 22d ago
Those Windows laptops always have a dealbreaker for me (besides Windows itself). If they have decent screens, sound, and battery life then the trackpad or keyboard will suck. If it's cheap it'll creak and groan like a Tesla interi
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by giantrobot 22d ago
I for one can't wait. Current prices are absolutely insane. However a problem exists with scalper bots. They're going to fight tooth and nail to keep prices artificially high even when supply increases. Same with the hyperscalers
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by giantrobot 25d ago
This has been my bugbear for years. Even in places with good cell service on average there's a hundred individual places that have terrible service. Also a good signal to the handset doesn't necessarily mean good actual service. I
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by giantrobot 26d ago
YaCy[0] is a P2P search engine. There's public instances but you can self-host it as well. It includes a spider to do your own crawling. It's challenging now between CloudFlare and other anti-bot CAPCHAS crawling effectively is re
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by giantrobot 26d ago
Well we're rapidly approaching a world going back to 256GB (or smaller) SSDs because VC money is being used to buy up all semiconductor and HDD output by AI hyperscalers. Everything will end up cloud storage, you'll own nothing an
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by giantrobot 28d ago
Parameter size and total number of parameters so ultimately the total size of the model in memory. This leads to some interesting optimizations. You can quantize all the parameters (or certain layers) of a model and halve or quarter the mem
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
It's pulling the ladder up behind them. OpenAI bought up more co tracts for wafers than they could even use. But now that means everyone else has to fight over what's left. This makes it too expensive to compete with OpenAI. No
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
The TouchBar's problem was both hardware and software. Because of its poor affordance for text labels it typically only allowed Mystery Meat UI[0]. If you labeled a button it ate up surface area and prevented a dense interface. Because
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
They do not deserve the benefit of doubt. If anything their executives or officers say is not truthful it must be interpreted as being knowing and malicious. Flock's systems have been too easily abused to assume anything else. A comp
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
That's not Devil's advocate, that's just foolishness. First of all their job is "protect and serve" not threaten people with summary execution. Second, their instant escalation does nothing to keep them safe. If any
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
It could be happening on my kitchen counter right this very second. But my kitchen counter, despite a recent cleaning, is absolutely lousy with microorganisms. So the new proto-life is immediately starved or more likely eaten by existing li
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
> Can google be trusted ? Or facebook ? No. Neither can be trusted as far as you can throw them. They're both incredibly invasive data brokers. Their customer facing products are just vehicles to show ads and Hoover up more PII and
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
My rooftop solar disagrees. It generates my whole house load in the winter, spring and summer I run a pretty healthy surplus. Thats with all my appliances being electric and superfluous crap running like a 24/7 file server running. Bec
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
Just because the machinery in the building grinds puppies into pulp doesn't mean the building itself is bad. I don't get what the big problem is!
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by giantrobot 1mo ago
> Teenagers who send each other nude photos are creating child exploitation material but you hardly want to put them jail for that. Well rational thinking people wouldn't. A great many using CSAM as a wedge to de-anonymize the Int
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
Yeah as someone else that worked on Snow Leopard I found this article and ones like it a bit silly. They're a lot like the old "debug code" posts on Mac forums back in the day trying to explain why Puma was slow (no, you&#x27
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
But have you considered the absolute existential horror of a user clicking a link and a whole new page loads (modulo cached elements) rather than an entirely client side routing? Such a horrific concept of JavaScript as an enhancement wou
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
Any sort of online service you're logged into is going to have your IP and account correlated with a timestamp. Dropbox, GDrive, and even your e-mail provider. While a device identifier might be more useful it's not like the lac
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
Drink your verification can.
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
My 2011 Mac mini nods sagely. It runs even better today than when it was new because I put an SSD in it a few years ago.
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
I own a Sony Magic Link and you are 100% correct. The UI is the worst sort of point-n-click adventure game memes. Not only do you have to guess what visual elements actually do something you need to figure out what functionality they repres
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
Token generation is nominally bandwidth limited. Prefill/prompt processing is nominally compute limited. For CPU inference on old hardware I don't think q4 offers any benefit over q8 since the AVX unit doesn't support such sm
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
Reads off your SSD don't age it prematurely.

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