gruturo

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by gruturo 6d ago
> You seem to be a little confused about how oxygen toxicity works Thanks for the condescending tone. Am I? At 1.4 bar of O2 partial pressure (therefore, with a 21% breathing gas mixture, at around 66m depth), oxygen toxicity causes conv
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by gruturo 6d ago
The raise is even worse if you look further back than 2021. Netflix was 7.99 for ages, while the "floor" in 2021 is 13.99. Against the original baseline, the new 19.99 price is not a +43% but a +150%. Most importantly 13.99 alread
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by gruturo 7d ago
A weekend? How about a full week at the absolute bare minimum, if not more. 3 days is a complete joke. Competitors have battery lives measured in weeks rather than days (a famous, and still 100% appropriate, quote by Garmin. Now 5 years o
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by gruturo 7d ago
You go significantly deeper? You're aware that shortly past 50mt the partial pressure of oxygen causes neurotoxicity, leading to convulsions and death? Anything happening past those depths involves extremely expensive hardware, custom
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by gruturo 10d ago
> Or licensing costs. Which don't exist. BMW famously tried to blame Apple for trying to charge buyers an annual fee for Carplay and Apple _publicly_ called their shit out. They confirmed they don't charge anything - neither on
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by gruturo 18d ago
Shaka, when the walls fell. I hate the banners and the ugliness too but they are designed precisely to do that, and adtech maneuvers to ensure the hate is directed at the wrong source - the lawmakers instead of the people doing all the spyi
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by gruturo 21d ago
This is a fantastic idea and I'd like to add my voice to the choir asking you for more information :) Don't let us rebuild everything from scratch if we don't have to
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by gruturo 25d ago
> What's next? Killer robots which can't be outrun and which can give chase through urban landscapes > What a time to be alive Indeed.
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by gruturo 28d ago
Yes, and if you have the PCIe lanes (say, an x16 lane - actually delivering 16 lanes! - to each GPU) it's also quite performant - it's called a tensor split in llama-server. If your motherboard/cpu doesn't actually have
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by gruturo 28d ago
The reason for running those insanely low quants is to fit in extremely limited memory budgets. The first thing you sacrifice is speed, then context and accuracy (up to you in which order). IQ2_XXS and below is desperate/proof of conce
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by gruturo 1mo ago
Let's try a thought experiment. It's not subsidized. It's not "worth" the tens of times it costs if accessed through API. Let's drop the subsidy word, they're selling you a product, and they're trying
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by gruturo 1mo ago
> 200usd/mo for Claude gives me tens of thousands of dollars of value. That may well be true, but the same tens of thousands of dollars of value can be purchased for a fraction of the 200usd Anthropic asks.... therefore why not? And
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by gruturo 1mo ago
You mean ebikes in general? I use one to commute to work in good weather. It's 8km and I'd be quite sweaty and impresentable for my work day without electric assist. In the evening I'm happy to ride back home with minimal or
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by gruturo 1mo ago
Much of what you suggest is a drop in the ocean and requires people's habits to change in ways people are not happy to listen to - and - again - it's a drop in the ocean. Go vegetarian, it helps the environment - but don't ex
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by gruturo 1mo ago
They do slow down the metabolism, yes. They seem to also act on some reward mechanism - making some stuff (not just food. Alcohol, gambling, porn, smoking, other drugs have anecdotally been reported to feel less attractive / addictive)
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by gruturo 1mo ago
I'm guessing a 1km long catapult - if not 2km - would be really really tricky. Maybe a long winch with a super super super safe way to detach it as soon as the nose is pointing up? But, regardless, it's actually shorter than I tho
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by gruturo 1mo ago
Pretty sure passengers will object to being catapulted. Kids may love it though. But realistically you're either imparting 2G and hurting 10% of the passengers, or you may as well not bother with one. The "JATO-like" solution
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by gruturo 1mo ago
Yes experienced investors will profit from it and leave the general public holding the bag, that's the plan I'm afraid.
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by gruturo 1mo ago
This. People WANT to work on this stuff. And having skilled workers is a precious advantage.
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by gruturo 1mo ago
No time like the present to pull out and reduce your exposure. I brought this up in my employer's forums 4 months ago and honestly it's been clear even before then. In particular, the upcoming IPOs of both oAI and Anthropic will l
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by gruturo 1mo ago
Absolutely valid point! I am equally horrified by the Mac app being also this level of bloated. Apple does not get a free pass for this shit, especially as they market an 8GB laptop in 2026 insisting this is enough - least they could do i
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by gruturo 1mo ago
Assuming the app even works - since we're talking weather, allow me to offer an XKCD https://xkcd.com/937/
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by gruturo 1mo ago
You're off by 2 orders of magnitude if you think that a not completely incompetently coded weather app genuinely needs that kind of resources - even allowing for aesthetic choices and modern UX patterns.
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by gruturo 1mo ago
That doesn't take away at all from the complete absurdity of this level of bloat. How is it not 450kB? Fine, a few high res icons and multi language support, let's make it 4MB, because to do it in 1 would take skilled coders.
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by gruturo 1mo ago
In the era of coding with frontier LLMs, it should take Microsoft 20 junior engineers, a couple seniors, a token budget and a month or two to fix most of this shit by building lean, native apps. Given that they can obviously spare this kind
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by gruturo 1mo ago
> Maybe other tablets are like that too, to be honest I'm too poor to swing the 700-1000$ for what I can cover with an paper note pad (with the bonus of being able to comfortably sit my coffee cup on it, use any pen or pencil, rip p
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by gruturo 1mo ago
Would a technology famous for hallucinating data often enough, and in many context unable to guarantee it won't assume and hallucinate when it feels "confident enough" despite a robust system prompt, be really considered for
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by gruturo 1mo ago
So they are using AI to run the company, and AI allocated all the money to AI?
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by gruturo 1mo ago
For sleep aids this is often not the case. I'm in my early 50s and tried Doxylamine Succinate 2 years ago for the first time - an innocent Costco "Sleep Aid". I was beyond groggy - quite nonfunctional - until the following af
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by gruturo 2mo ago
Curious, my cardiologist will see me within a week, the specialized exams he prescribed were also a matter of days - ended up picking the day most convenient to me since they offered a wide range.

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