makomk

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by makomk 1y ago
In addition to the laws of physics and the engineering required to build TVs working against this, the EU deliberately changed the energy efficiency scale for things like TVs a few years back to specifically make an A hard to get and someth
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by makomk 1y ago
It's certainly not the only evidence of problems at NPR. For example, they managed to basically accuse Trump Jr of lying to Congress in a story that should not have survived basic fact checking: https://www.foxnews.com/
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by makomk 2y ago
The Chilterns, I think, and burying the line in tunnels was more or less necessary anyway. Some of the tunnels could technically probably have been replaced with cuttings, but apparently it would've cost more. The existing line used
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by makomk 2y ago
Homebrew 6DoF tracking is definitely possible. I've had a janky and undocumented setup for a while that uses a standard smartphone as a display, paper and cardboard AprilTag markers with a computer and webcam for outside-in tracking, a
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by makomk 2y ago
I'm not sure it is. The EU has increasingly strict energy efficiency requirements for washing machines that are frankly stupid - they're pretty efficient already, so the way that manufacturers have improved efficiency through ludi
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by makomk 2y ago
That money has already gone out to people though. The reason that people's pay has bought less than before is that a large chunk of the economy was shut down and those goods and services were not produced. This means that there is simp
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by makomk 2y ago
The basic reason this happens is that people's wages are only worth what they can buy, and in order for them to be able to buy those things they need to be produced and shipped. Sure, you could argue that this doesn't actually mat
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by makomk 2y ago
As far as I can tell, this isn't actually true: "the DNA evidence that was not destroyed by the state is exculpatory". The Innocence Project are being very careful with their wording here. Initially, they relied on trace DNA
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by makomk 2y ago
All available evidence suggests there's nothing "classified" or "wartime ready" about these - they were your basic, cheap, totally unencrypted POCSAG/Flex pager. The same as any other pager carried by doctors a
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by makomk 2y ago
In theory you should just be able to set -march to the lowest common denominator kind of CPU you expect your code to run on and it'll avoid relying on SSE if appropriate.
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by makomk 2y ago
Yeah, that is a worry: maybe OpenAI's business model and valuation rest on reasoning abilities becoming outdated and atrophying outside of their algorithmic black box, a trade secret we don't have access too. It struck me as an ob
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by makomk 2y ago
It seems like the Guardian is spreading misinformation for election reasons anyway, judging from the comments - the increase in infant mortality it claims is well within the range of normal year-to-year variation, which is presumably also w
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by makomk 2y ago
All of the stuff that they're saying in that response about how they won't abuse it is stuff that's already in the TOS. If you don't trust them despite that, then you should not be using their products regardless of what
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by makomk 2y ago
The original 20-year-old version of golden rice was unfortunately basically unusable (not enough bioavailable vitamin A even when used as part of a much more balanced diet that was more favorable to vitamin A absorption than that of the peo
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by makomk 2y ago
They're not just philosophically correct but probably correct in practice as well. Golden rice - especially the original version of it - is not just an easy drop-in solution. It requires the development of specific variants suited to t
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by makomk 2y ago
Oh huh, a Guardian article about a protest about unsustainable tourism in Tenerife and the Canary islands and the environmental damage it's creating. Wonder if they're going to mention that an awful lof of those developments on Te
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by makomk 2y ago
Yeah, the key reason this enables so much faster time to first fix is that the precise ephemeris parameters are transmitted much more often than the full almanac, but only from the satellite they apply to whereas each satellite broadcasts t
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by makomk 2y ago
I think even these days, a lot of what the author is doing here is still generally done in hardware for power efficiency reasons - it's just that nowadays, the hardware looks a lot like the software-defined architecture used here with
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by makomk 2y ago
Reduces the attack area through which this could be found, I expect. Without all the obfuscation someone might spot suspicious data in the test data or at some other stage, but this basically forces them to find the single line of suspiciou
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by makomk 2y ago
If I remember rightly, Starbucks' profits two years ago were down fairly substantially compared to their pre-pandemic levels and their long term goal seems to be to try and return the business to that same stable level of profit.
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by makomk 2y ago
Yikes. For context, the 7900XTX and 7900XT are the only consumer GPUs that AMD officially support running AI workloads on, and the XTX is the one they recommend out of the two. Other cards in the same generation and any from previous genera
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by makomk 2y ago
The actual compiler output from the autoconf feature test is one of the things I'd probably look at fairly early on if some feature is disabled when it shouldn't be, but I maybe have a bit more experience running into problems wit
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by makomk 2y ago
> AMD would explain that ROCM is an abbreviation of the ROCm Software platform or something unspeakably stupid. And that your graphics card wasn't supported. If even that. A few years ago they managed to break basic machine learning
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by makomk 3y ago
At least here in the UK (which has the second most offshore wind generation in the world behind China) it's both - onshore wind got stuck in NIMBY planning hell and there's not really enough land in the right places to make it an
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by makomk 3y ago
As far as I can tell the HDC-402 wasn't even the Viking computer that got reused on Voyager anyway - it was something NASA developed in-house from the orbiter side of the Viking mission and that presumably has even less documentation a
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by makomk 3y ago
It's low effort, talking point nonsense. The whole reason this is interesting is that it allows the recovery of non-public information that was never released at all - about the closest analogy I can come up with is if it was somehow p
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by makomk 3y ago
It's not just a question of shareholder value and profits always needing to go up - there are real society-wide opportunity costs to companies like Sony continuing as before. All of the workers they employ and the resources they use ar
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by makomk 3y ago
Pretty much every article lamenting the seeming inevitability of capitalism and the lack of coherent alternatives is going to misdiagnose the problem and have no concrete solutions, because the fundamental problem is that the problems peopl
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by makomk 3y ago
Apparently most stuff that relies on the weights being resonably similar to SDXL don't work - control nets, LORAs, commonly-used inpainting patches, the lot. It seems to go well beyond fine tuning and be substantially retrained to the
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by makomk 3y ago
As I understand it, diffusion-based video generation models simply are not casual in this way. They work by modifying the previous frames in the video to be consistent with future frames just as much as they do later frames to be consistent

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