jdprgm

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by jdprgm 7d ago
$2,000 for a fucking phone. We really have collectively lost the plot.
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by jdprgm 9d ago
Seriously. This was my first thought too, the audacity to implement a system like this and the deterioration of a society that seems to give any fucks about privacy where this will be a minor news story that gets some buzz then disappears f
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by jdprgm 13d ago
Is anyone else just exhausted by the pace of all this. The models change constantly and relentlessly and so does the pricing, basically weekly at this point between all the labs. It feels nearly impossible to have any rigorous approach when
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by jdprgm 3mo ago
Apple's execution on AI is the worst of anything I can think of they have worked on in the past 20 years. It's embarrassing they announced this with a vague "coming this fall" when they basically have completely lost cre
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by jdprgm 4mo ago
I just checked amazon and I paid $350 in Nov 24' for 96GB (2x48GB) 6800MT DDR5 which at the time felt quite expensive and a bit of a splurge but I figured I had my DDR4 kit for almost a decade so probably similar lifespan for DDR5. Tha
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by jdprgm 4mo ago
The difference is those have largely all been steadily increasing every year for decades. Tech and entertainment (streamers etc) have been one of the few bright spots you could point to as something that would usually improve yearly. At thi
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by jdprgm 5mo ago
I have it more for the fast nas access and being able to treat nas disks as more or less the same performance as if they were directly sata in my machine. Significantly less so about the external network aspect.
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by jdprgm 5mo ago
If you want to buy the cheaper old ones and are concerned about heat just add a usb fan. I have the same mikrotik switch in the post and 2 sfp to rj45 + this fan https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G059G86?th=1 sitting on top
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by jdprgm 5mo ago
It's comically (and extremely variably) priced. A trip from DC to NYC and back would be ~$25 in electric costs with a typical electric car versus Amtrak could easily be $300+ though possibly as cheap as $50 if you are flexible to awful
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by jdprgm 5mo ago
Yeah Youtube search is mediocre, though I feel like search has broadly declined across the entire web on all sorts of apps and services I use. Not to mention all the actual "search engines" feeling less and less powerful every yea
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by jdprgm 6mo ago
What the hell is going on. Why does it seem like largely out of nowhere there is suddenly such a dramatic push on age verification and internet censorship popping up literally all over the world at the same time.
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by jdprgm 6mo ago
Where do you live? I'm in a HCOL area and just checked that same combo for a Friday night premiere and it's more like ~$70. The markup on concessions has always been a thing but it really is just insane to think the unit economics
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by jdprgm 6mo ago
This is a comically short lifespan. Didn't they launch less than like 6 months ago? To just torch it and shut it down is wild and right from the jump referencing downsizing the team... I got the impression this was a fairly small team
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by jdprgm 7mo ago
One thing I haven't seen mentioned in this thread is M5 Pro now supporting 64GB ram . I believe prior gens you had to go Max to get 64. m5 Pro 64GB is $3000 meanwhile to upgrade ram on the max you need the 40 gpu core variant with 64GB
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by jdprgm 7mo ago
Remember when we used to care about sub 100ms page loading time and now we have introduced a best case 5 second blocker all over the place.
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by jdprgm 7mo ago
- The 10% that's genuinely original would thrive, and everything else would die overnight. And you are saying that's a bad thing?
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by jdprgm 8mo ago
I've been thinking recently about the scale at which it seems the vast vast majority of people participate in close to zero public discussion online and what a bummer it is. Basically all discussion platforms are broken for any sort of
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by jdprgm 8mo ago
I like using various browser profiles to group projects or related kinds of browsing. I built a small extension called TabsIO that makes it easy to export/import tabs between different profiles or browsers and I also added statistics t
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Ask HN: Do any significant web communities exist anymore that value free speech?
3 points by jdprgm 9mo ago|2 comments
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by jdprgm 9mo ago
Just writing off AI upscaling completely is bs. It's not some magic bullet to use on every video and there is a learning curve on how to apply but there are absolutely scenarios where you can get shockingly good results. I think a lot
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by jdprgm 9mo ago
I don't understand why it feels like out of the blue there is suddenly a rampant and somehow worldwide effort left and right to increase censorship, age verification, etc on the internet. Also I don't get why it seems like so few
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by jdprgm 9mo ago
The trick here is buying used. Especially for something like the m1 series there is tremendous value to be had on high memory models where the memory hasn't changed significantly over generations compared the cpus and even m1's ar
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by jdprgm 9mo ago
Hundreds of dollars just to push an app update would be devastating for many solo developers.
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by jdprgm 9mo ago
It certainly feels like this should fall somewhere along a spectrum of antitrust behavior. It's astounding the degree to which they are able to operate as if money isn't real. Strange circular deals and infinite VC money really fu
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by jdprgm 9mo ago
Are you actually selling some of the RAM though? I was curious with this spike and while the amazon listing for 2x48GB DDR5 that I bought a year or so ago has indeed almost tripled the ebay resale value for similar packages sold recently is
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by jdprgm 10mo ago
I wonder if it would be in the governments interest to heavily subsidize streaming services. Considering virtually everything seems to be getting hopelessly more expensive and no real progress on economic inequality seems likely outside a s
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by jdprgm 10mo ago
A single machine for personal inference on models of this size isn't going to idle at some point so high that electricity becomes a problem and for personal use it's not like it would be under load often and if for some reason you
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by jdprgm 10mo ago
We've been getting increasingly fucked for years on housing prices, healthcare, food, live entertainment, etc. Consumer electronics were one of the few areas that you could at least argue you were getting more value per dollar each yea
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by jdprgm 10mo ago
It feels like the past 25 years has been a continuous slowly constricting circle just chipping away at privacy and freedom and it almost never goes in the other direction or even just reverts a policy back to baseline. People largely don&#x
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by jdprgm 10mo ago
Promising looking tool. It would be useful to add a performance section to the readme for some ballpark of what to expect even if it is just a reference point of one gpu. I've been considering building something similar but focused on

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