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by jasode 4d ago
>i didn't know that the ANE (and the data pipeline around it) was designed for CNN rather than transformers. Multiple stories have reported that ANE came from Apple's self-driving car project that got canceled. (Makes sense s
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by jasode 6d ago
>Roads are neutral, social networks are not. The gp's analogy maps better this way: roads = ip packet network routing, DNS, telecommunications cabling racist conventions/meetups = social media platforms like Facebook
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by jasode 7d ago
>the obvious (and rather malicious, I would say) PR play that parent comment points out. The author Lawrence Ulrich references research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Why would it be "obvious" that they are
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by jasode 8d ago
>The board game room looks like somewhere you'd have a conference call. The author literally labeled that room the "Upstairs Office" . The rest of the house (kitchen, family room, etc) that's not dedicated to LAN c
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by jasode 14d ago
>How did that person who uploaded the YouTube video figure it out? They didn't have a video to watch. He spent a month trying different repairs (replacing pump, etc) that didn't work and then finally stumbled onto the electri
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by jasode 14d ago
>, and you can learn anything from words an images. A lot of info on Youtube is not available in alternative forms such as books or blogs with just words and images. E.g. A random person uploads a video on how he repaired my particular
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by jasode 16d ago
>I realize I’m somewhat limited (16GB RTX 9070), but still, it seems really far off from the kind of experience even a basic $20/month subscription gets me. I just ordered a new Mac Studio M5 Max 128GB $5899 ($6400 with tax) to be
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by jasode 21d ago
>What changed, why suddenly they adopt C++ features they explicitly excluded? Project Valhalla, which includes the effort to add value types was announced in 2014. They've been working on it for a while. As for "what changed
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by jasode 22d ago
>but also do not like it when the fans turn on? Sorry for not being clearer. I don't like the MacBook's noise when the fans turn on. The Mac Studio has bigger heat sinks to delay the need for thermal management -- and if i
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by jasode 22d ago
>I do wonder if my next computer should be a Mac Studio instead of a MBP that lives its life docked. Having owned 3 MacBook Pros since 2008, the decision to make my next computer be a Mac Studio came down to (1) MacBook thermal thrott
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by jasode 22d ago
>Only over staffing servers helps make more income. There are several gaps in your assertion about USA restaurants being overstaffed with servers. #1 the mathematical relationship between servers and income is questionable: Servers a
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by jasode 22d ago
>the server "owns" the customer and are the one who will collect the tip from that table. In many USA restaurants, the waitstaff tips are also shared into a pool with the runners, busboys, and kitchen staff. The % may not be
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by jasode 22d ago
>European restaurants typically use a team service model, American chain restaurants also use the team model. The server that writes down the order often isn't the same person bringing out the hot plates of food. Maybe less of
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by jasode 23d ago
>simply using tar instead Be aware that tar doesn't preserve creation/birth times and keeping that original metadata is important to some people if the target file system can record it. Robocopy preserves/transfers crea
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by jasode 24d ago
>The most commonly cited subtext or thrust of it is that "root cause analysis", at least on complex systems, is a fools errand. It's only an issue when people take that phrase very literally. People have common sense to
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by jasode 27d ago
>to avoid people depending on it before it was ready, why had I been hearing about it for so long before this? There's always been a history of various projects in beta/preview pre-1.0 versions that nevertheless don't wa
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by jasode 28d ago
>I don't understand what open source has to do with this. People being able to see your source code doesn't somehow prevent you from changing it however you want. Yes, they can voice their opinion on it, but you can also just
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by jasode 1mo ago
>connect your phone to your laptop, copy your photos off every month or so, and clear the phone storage. I actually can't believe this isn't the normal way people do things. People pay to let Google keep copies of all their ph
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by jasode 1mo ago
>cat $HOME/zsh/* It's still inconvenient because the .bash_history and .zsh_history files I was studying were inside of .tar.xz and .zip backup files. I wouldn't want to crack open those archives just to concate
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by jasode 1mo ago
>why do this "heroic" effort of "cleverly" putting everything in one file from many sessions if we could just write command history of every session into a new separate file in a directory For "normal" use
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by jasode 1mo ago
>its good to have the brain be bored and doing nothing. While you are being curious you aren’t thinking or contemplating or creating or imagining, just consuming that dopamine sink. Those 2 sentences are based on 2 misconceptions/
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by jasode 1mo ago
>multitasking for a long time is not a free lunch The multitasking I was talking about was combining a mindless repetitive task that has low cognitive demands such as walking on a treadmill, yardwork raking leaves, driving on non-desc
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by jasode 1mo ago
>most people today have headphones on all the time. I don't understand it. I'm not sure, but it would seem people hate their own voice? I can't generalize for everyone and maybe some of those people you observe are just
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by jasode 1mo ago
>, but lines-of-business supported by CRUD apps are rarely simple from an engineering perspective. You misread my comment as some dig at CRUD LOB enterprise coders. I used to work on enterprise ERP code with 20000+ tables. Yes, I agr
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by jasode 1mo ago
>This is the theory, but I’ve never worked anywhere (and I’ve worked at a lot of places over 20 years) that actually did it like that in practice. >What tends to happen is that the EMs and PMs look at who’s free and give that person
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by jasode 1mo ago
>GPL was a great idealistic dream that led to less-restrictive open-source licences such as MIT The less restrictive ~1984 MIT early version of the software license was several years before ~1989 GPL v1.
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by jasode 1mo ago
The other half of the one-liner is "Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything." - E.g. an idea is "Everybody should have cheap housing! Or an even better idea, everybody should have free housing." - Ok, how exactly
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by jasode 1mo ago
>as a Mac user it is surreal to click Next Next Next to install a program on Windows. macOS has similar multi-step prompts for some programs such as Microsoft Office, Python, FUSE-T, VeraCrypt, etc: click [Continue] [Continue] [Agree]
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by jasode 1mo ago
>A corporation will shift the capital loss to a tax write off like any other firm. The payment of fines for penalties from breaking civil or criminal laws is not deductible according to IRS tax rules : https://www.irs.gov&#
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by jasode 1mo ago
The article has a link to a previous Gruber article that mentions things falling to the ground because of "gravity" as an analogy for asking about seemingly basic questions about "why things happen". It's an article

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