niobe

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by niobe 14d ago
Well no one said it yet so I will, "international actors" is at least a possibility. And I don't mean any specific country because pretty much anyone is a potential these days, which makes it a perfect cover for different any
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by niobe 4mo ago
In software we have an enshittification problem. In industrial design we have a generification problem.
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by niobe 4mo ago
ELI5, why not submit patches, why a blog?
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by niobe 4mo ago
Agreed, if anything an electrician was needed, not a professional PC builder. The picture shows two power supplies. Powering what is effectively one appliance from different circuits is a definite no-no, and I can't think of any circum
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by niobe 4mo ago
I think you, the breadwinner, did NOT go to the shops. Your wife did. I don't know when 9-5 started, but it kinds of smacks of the British being that regimented. By contrast, my observation is that MOST of the world's population s
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by niobe 4mo ago
> The faster you fill whatever buffer, the faster you can let another client use the connection. Basically this. They way we usually put it is that we want clients to "get on and off the channel as quickly as possible". That re
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by niobe 4mo ago
But this is the point. What your neighbour's are doing greatly affects the performance of your network. If you have a good connection and are successfully able to transmit packets to your AP at 600Mbps, and your neighbour has a poor c
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by niobe 4mo ago
Yes, and before that MU-MIMO is also an improvement to the problem. Still only 1 transmitter at a time, but multiple receivers.
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by niobe 4mo ago
This is a common misconception.. you and your neighbour can configure the same channel, you cannot successfully transmit at the same time on the same channel within range. Nor can you and your own AP successfully transmit at the same ti
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by niobe 4mo ago
So that table is using distance as a proxy for signal to noise ratio. SNR is what really matters. Each data rate in the standard uses a different encoding technique. "Faster" encoding techniques cram more data into a given transmi
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by niobe 4mo ago
Yes, that helps quiet a lot in practice because in most places there's limited "frequency-domain" capacity (i.e. free channels) but plenty of "time-domain" capacity, (i.e. free air-time). So even if you are sharing
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by niobe 4mo ago
I would agree with that. G to N was perhaps the most critical move in Wi-Fi because it included MIMO. You can think of this as unwanted signal echoes and reflections being switched from a liability to a benefit. Heck, I _still_ run WiFi-4 n
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by niobe 4mo ago
An impressive attempt to summarise Wi-Fi which is a very deep topic. However I think the executive summary already missed the most critical thing about Wi-Fi: only 1 transmitter at a time per channel - across all WLANs, yours and your nei
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by niobe 4mo ago
What if I told you.. this was no different to every US company
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by niobe 4mo ago
So I think the current generation of models are arguably all about the same in terms of capability. However, the requirement for exponential growth I mentioned is all about the economics . AI companies are trying to ride a growth wave wher
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by niobe 4mo ago
this
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by niobe 4mo ago
This is clearly a well-timed loss-leading strategic market share grab! Anthropic have blown a lot of user trust in the last couple of months.. But, overall, the current AI pricing is completely unsustainable, across all AI companies, excep
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by niobe 4mo ago
Pretty interesting... raised more questions than it answered but I guess I have to RTFRFC for that.
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by niobe 5mo ago
thanks, that was super easy. I have been wanting to try CC with different models since Opus went downhill last month.. What limitations or issues have you noticed when using DeepSeek with Claude Code if any?
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by niobe 5mo ago
Don't take it too seriously. It's essentially AI slop. The entire draft mentioned nothing of subnetting under the new addressing schema so I took it is essentially fraudulent on that point alone. This will naturally expire in a fe
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by niobe 5mo ago
I trust both Musk & Altman 100% to be themselves ..
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by niobe 5mo ago
Was it the inane repetition that gave it away?
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by niobe 5mo ago
Not true. _Idiots_ won't care if actors are AI or not. What a way to advertise you make films for idiots.
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by niobe 5mo ago
Read the first few paragraphs, it's completely unhinged. Once I actually grasped what "model welfare" was, I noped out.
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by niobe 5mo ago
Ha that tracks my own usage and timeline almost precisely, although I was using cygwin and WSL2 in parallel for a while. Lot of complaints about cygwin speed here, but NTFS filesystem access is actually a lot faster on cygwin than WSL2!
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by niobe 5mo ago
Having to "unprompt" behaviour I want that Anthropic thinks I don't want is getting out of hand. My system prompts always try to get Claude to clarify _more_.
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by niobe 5mo ago
Initial comments: the Management Fragmentation motivation is weak. Not a single mention of CIDR - seems to almost assume every subnet is a /24. Doesn't seem to understand the elegance of subnetting in general and how efficient thi
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by niobe 5mo ago
That's already true.. Every time a new "benchmark-leading" model is released from anyone, they give it maximum resources for a week or two, then drop the performance. The point is no-one can reliably use these already unreli
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by niobe 5mo ago
What you say is interesting. I never did care much for Dylan now that you mention it.
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by niobe 5mo ago
100%. Claude is, I'm sorry to say, basically nerfed. I downgraded from Max to Pro this month and will cancel my subscription next month. I would suggest others who feel similarly do the same. The only way to signal to to these companie

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