joseph_grobbles

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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
This is a really terribly written article. Sorry for the negativity, but it was tough to try to dig through. For those confused by the title, Intel released a Xeon that includes 64GB of high speed RAM on the chip itself, configurable as eit
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
It's a variation of Parkinson's Law -- we just keep expanding what we are doing to fit the hardware available to us, then claiming that nothing has changed. CI is a fairly new thing. The idea of constantly doing all that compute w
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
Google's first TPU was developed a year after Tensorflow. And for that matter, Tensorflow works fine with CUDA, was originally entirely built for CUDA, and it's super weird the way it's being referenced in here. Tensorflow
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
My Brother multifunction has been without CYM inks for literally years, which was fine as I printed in only B&W. A recent system update has suddenly made it refuse to print anything, including B&W, because one or more color inks are
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
It's some tiny Twitter (blue) user posting some nebulous list. Seems pretty BS to me, and it's surprising HN falls for this. Okay, it actually isn't surprising. It's actually funny how a confirmation bias works: In other
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
Such considerations must incorporate public safety/crime considerations as well. Smartphones are often the most expensive thing we have on our person and became a huge target for thieves. Locking/bricking went a long way towards r
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
>There's nothing in the article suggesting they've changed their strategy with TPUs in any way Google owns and designs their own TPUs. They offer these TPUs in the cloud. I've seen many comments in here about how next-leve
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
Horribly cynical, and I can't imagine having that viewpoint. It's actually fascinating how the author first justifies that sort of malaise, and then does the "but of course not me " thing. Even if someone were that self
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
I once was brought into a team that fervently bought into the "hotspot" argument, blustering ahead under the notion that performance was tomorrow's problem where someone would spend a day with a profiler and it would all be f
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
>This doesn't really solve a problem anyone had that fixed location Starlink and Rogers' LTE network didn't solve already This is for locations with no connectivity, where SpaceX satellites become very low-bandwidth Rogers
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
Would you rather they just disappear and die? When people's dogs become older and inconvenient it is common for people to rationalize putting them "down" under the notion that it's some great benevolent act, instead of a
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
I'm successfully running it on a 12GB GPU (while it downloads some 12.1GB of model data on first run, the highest GPU memory usage was ~6.5GB, settling back down to around 5GB), however the results are nothing like the samples given on
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
27 of 33 engines fired. Performance was sub-nominal. When it was time for separation the vehicle did multiple clearly unplanned flips (during all of this the broadcast was talking about how great of a success this was, though the employees
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
Freedom applies to both parties. Your freedom to swing your fist ends where another's nose begins. Similarly, your freedom to baselessly disparage and slander has similar restrictions, because the other person has the freedom against s
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
FWIW, with a bluetooth keyboard it is pretty shocking how complete the keyboard support in iOS. I have a K480 at the office for those random times I need to respond to something on my iPhone and don't want to deal with the crippling re
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
Here's a better approach - never, ever include a link unless it is important and cogent to the topic. Humorous or casual linking is just noise, and it can shroud actually useful links. We all can find information, so it isn't valu
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
Sundar is a caretaker who got credited for simple inertia: The momentum in place before he took the reigns were predestined to grow earnings for years, but suddenly Pichai gets to pretend it's all him.
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
Do you really believe that this public discourse occurred on a public train after a theft? Do you think they had a lively debate in the commons about how to solve crime? I'm a bit surprised people are seriously believing this. This is
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
"you can only join NATO if your membership is not a threat to your border countries" This is, of course, complete nonsense. It is as much a fact as the oft-cited claim that NATO promised not to expand (another lie that is true onl
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
They made it up. Similarly you frequently see claims on here that nuclear came to a standstill because of all the ignorant beatnicks, when in actual reality raw capitalism is why nuclear stalled: Endless disastrously expensive projects tain
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
Completely anecdotal, but very infrequent checks of my blood pressure over the years would always flag high and it would always be written off as a temporary stress spike at getting it taken. Otherwise I was completely healthy and had no co
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by joseph_grobbles 3y ago
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than "free trial" subscription-based apps on the App Store. It is, overwhelmingly, a tool used for scams. The pattern- -hide promised functionality behind subscription.
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by joseph_grobbles 4y ago
The refresh rate escalation is a complete jerkoff bit of tech spec nonsense. "Far better cameras" is an exaggeration, as most are marginally better. iPhones have been incredibly fast since the XR, almost five years ago. There was
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by joseph_grobbles 4y ago
Nuclear is catastrophically expensive. Nuclear stagnated not because of those "dumb protests", but because economically it turned out that they made very little sense. Projects always went massively over budget, and then had a lif
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by joseph_grobbles 4y ago
Bizarre to see this submission flagged. Not only is it directly related to technology, it is a fascinating discourse on what "work" is, at least in Elon Musk's incompetent vision. That this is flagged is completely unsurpri
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by joseph_grobbles 4y ago
(My posts are dead by default, but for the good showdead people if someone knows and can answer in a sibling reply) Are models like this copyrightable? It seems like this falls under the realm of "fact", which can't be copyri
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by joseph_grobbles 4y ago
It's called a stock swap, and Apple could easily accomplish it if from a financial perspective. They could never achieve it with governments and regulators, however. Like 0.00% chance. Even if the government of Taiwan allowed it, there
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by joseph_grobbles 4y ago
It's an engineering blog targeting other engineers. Some engineers discovered something that had a significant impact so they are communicating it to more engineers.
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
That sounds like "street dealer" propaganda. There are a lot of actors whose income source is threatened who are parroting unsubstantiated claims about legal products. It's a very simple plant to grow ideally. For a large ind
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by joseph_grobbles 6y ago
"Regardless, doesn't anybody at Apple use postgres?" This problem occurs if you use anti-virus that delays file activities, and is 100% API consistent. Anyone saying "well it didn't do it before!" is being idio

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