pbmonster

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by pbmonster 7d ago
> At 2% of sales, the opportunity cost is the reason to kill the product. Keep in mind this still needs design, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution resources. All this is true for many other products, specifically cars. Ford makes
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by pbmonster 7d ago
> enough ammonia in the air will suffocate you. It will suffocate you on account of all that blood pulp in your lungs. And eyes, and nasal mucosa... Having a high pressure ammonia leak indoors is a death sentence for anybody in the same
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by pbmonster 7d ago
Technically, you could also just pull refrigerant lines from the heat pump to the bath tub - you probably already run those to the indoor AC units you have in different rooms anyway - or connect the bath tub to the hot water lines you run t
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by pbmonster 7d ago
Total consumer-price inflation has been about 27.7% since 2021. Inflation is multiplicative, so: 1.277 * 1.26 = 1.61 giving us the 61% subscriptions went up.
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by pbmonster 7d ago
Of course, they never even brought it to the US. It has no chance there, there's barely a market for lowslung station wagons, and close to no market for EV wagons. Always was a niche in the US, while it was always the primary family ve
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by pbmonster 7d ago
I don't get that mentality. Millions of units, shares many parts with other models, OK margin. This is no reason to kill a product. For comparison, that's roughly like Ford killing the Bronco Sport, or VW killing the ID.7.
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by pbmonster 8d ago
That's not correct for a SOTA model with trillions of parameters. Those have immense amounts of knowledge trained into their parameters. Try it. It "remembers" the ending of random books, Goosebumps and otherwise. That's
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by pbmonster 8d ago
But this is different, right? The equivalent would be taking a (fully offline) LLM and asking it about the ending of one specific Goosebumps book, and it revealing the twist. And although that specific book was (probably) only once in the t
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by pbmonster 9d ago
> Is that not self evident by the insane revenue from frontier labs? No...? Of course not? Because revenue is only one side of the equation. Did you ever look at total cumulative OPEX and CAPEX, and how long it will take them to even jus
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by pbmonster 14d ago
> You would think that scientists would spend more effort trying to create "super" rhizobacteria that can colonize even more aggressively and also fix many times more nitrogen than ordinary ones I think the problem with that id
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by pbmonster 22d ago
The N-gram parameters can be fetched from SSD, with maybe the hottest ones staying in memory.
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by pbmonster 1mo ago
Compete with Garmin instead of Apple.
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by pbmonster 1mo ago
Good news: nobody does.
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by pbmonster 1mo ago
From the hardware side, extremely precise. Most discussions assume the sweet spot for ISAC is in "Frequency Range 3" (7 - 24 GHz, decent penetration and range, very good resolution), and in that range you can pin down objects with
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by pbmonster 2mo ago
It's a drop in a bucket. Global warming is due to ~5e18 Wh of excess heating. A nuke dumping 5e12 Wh of additional heat into water makes no difference at all.
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The Project of Software Is Complete(freddiedeboer.substack.com)
9 points by pbmonster 2mo ago|5 comments
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by pbmonster 2mo ago
The article poses the question "What do you want your phone/computer to do that it can’t", and suggests that there really is nothing left - software is done, all remaining problems are hardware. I can't think of many thi
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by pbmonster 2mo ago
> the issue is that when a phone is unlocked, they can just plug in a USB device and scrape everything off it That's useless if the backup account and the main account use different keys for the home partition. VeraCrypt (used to?)
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by pbmonster 2mo ago
> Basically, I am never confident I am editing OSM correctly. This is the case for the majority of users. The rules are complex and not always obvious or clearly defined. The world is complex, unfortunately, and so is describing it accur
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by pbmonster 2mo ago
> It sucks that Google is probably using OSM data to check what they are missing and adding it to their maps No way they are doing this deliberately globally. My city has a lot of pedestrian stairs interconnecting roads, and not a single
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by pbmonster 2mo ago
The thing lacking even more is a good search engine. Doesn't matter how complete the database is when search keeps missing text appearing verbatim in a label.
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by pbmonster 2mo ago
You can edit existing trails, but directly adding new ones is not intended. What you can do is create a GPS track, and then upload it with a note describing the problem. I use the app Vesspucci for actual editing, it works well (but larger
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by pbmonster 2mo ago
> it was originally alternate firmware for the Linksys WRT54G router from 25 years ago There's a couple of fun examples like that. xda-developers is named after the O2 xda, a smartphone from 25 years ago that not many people ended u
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by pbmonster 3mo ago
> we'll ditch phones altogether in 10 years when smart glasses will replace them instead. Billions are spend right now to make sure the glasses also run Android or iOS. So far, Google, Samsung, Magic Leap, RealWear and Vuzix are wor
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by pbmonster 3mo ago
There's much to criticize about the dev, but there's really no way to make it significantly easier. Most robovac companies just don't want you to flash the firmware. The dev opposes selling the connector PCBs, but people have
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by pbmonster 3mo ago
Reminds me of a fix I wrote a decade ago. My Laptop would sometimes start emitting a high frequency whine when on battery. I figured out it only happened when the CPU went into performance states lower than P2 for power saving. So I wrote a
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by pbmonster 3mo ago
Not really. Can't really map a touchpad as an analog stick. Can't map a gyro as a joystick. Can't take XBox rumble and map it to the Steam Controllers haptic feedback. Can you hack it together in theory, get something working
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by pbmonster 3mo ago
> Many hardware platforms that have TPM, have it connected via a low-bandwidth LPC bus which would have nowhere near enough bandwidth for demand decryption/encryption of memory pages. Ah, of course. I was more thinking along the lin
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by pbmonster 3mo ago
> You have to store the encryption key in CPU registers and ensure it's not saved to RAM during task switching or power suspend operations. Interesting insight. Any reason why the key can't be kept exclusively in the secure enc
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by pbmonster 3mo ago
This might make sense once SteamBox is a large percentage of Linux Desktop installs. Right now, it would be insanity. Just the situation with running SteamOS on hardware with NVIDIA cards would be a showstopper. And a whole lot of consumer

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