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by phil21 3d ago
> The utilization rates of GPUs for AI workloads in a datacenter run by cloud service providers (CSP) is between 60% and 70%. With such utilization rates, a GPU will typically survive between one and two years, three years at the most, a
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by phil21 4d ago
Only if you use dollar value output as some weird substitute for actually making things.
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by phil21 4d ago
Mostly bug fixes relevant to higher end home theatre setups. Typically bleeding edge stuff where a TV is released before a new HDMI spec is fully baked or whatnot. One of my older OLED panels needed a number of updates to get proper Dolby V
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by phil21 4d ago
It also gates some "features" like the "AI" auto-detection of media type to automatically switch the TV between sports, movie, gaming, etc. modes as well. At least from my memory of a recent LG OLED setup.
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by phil21 4d ago
So they can use Netflix or HBO apps and whanot. The vast majority of consumers are not going to spend another $100-300 on a media player device like an Apple TV, Roku, or nVidia shield. They will use the built in app functionality. And even
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by phil21 5d ago
It was a stupid regulation to begin with. Any investigative agency already could trivially get this data through already existing means. All it did was make your 3 member condo association have to pay a lawyer $500/yr in compliance fee
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by phil21 5d ago
All that stuff is more dirty to the local community than your average datacenter. The vast majority of these these no one knows even exist until told. They are basically warehouses without loading docks not much traffic goes into or out of.
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by phil21 7d ago
Depends on which video codec. If it’s the most efficient one that has dedicated silicone embedded in the chip, it’s going to work great. Web browsing is typically significantly harder on power. Plus these benchmarks usually mean in a perfec
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by phil21 7d ago
Yeah you’re describing normies. They are the norm. It’s in the name. People as described make up the vast majority of the population. Nerds have always been in the extreme minority. Ignoring the influx of cosplaying MBA financing bros and i
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by phil21 11d ago
If OP means Ethernet over HDMI it’s in the spec but as far as I’m aware has not been implemented in any mainstream chipsets anything actually uses. It’s one of those theoretical things that is somewhat surprising didn’t happen. Overall it’s
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by phil21 14d ago
I see it as the first step towards removing entire workflows like this. Once the humans are removed, there is far less motivated reasoning to keep that process alive if it’s just robots burning tokens passing paper back and forth. I will li
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by phil21 14d ago
Wouldn’t be all that surprised if quality went up with the use of AI for this stuff. The word “slop” is tossed around way too much, but these sorts of engagements are a perfect example of replacing low value human slop with computer generat
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by phil21 14d ago
No, just a latent bug that got exposed by a coincidental condition which happened to be synchronized via time. Doesn’t require and patching at all. These things lurk for years or decades before finally meeting the conditions needed to be ex
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by phil21 14d ago
It’s not revealing at all because unemployment numbers are directional and only useful in terms of comparison to prior years. The actual headline number is arbitrary and pretty much any metric you want to track already exists but is less po
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by phil21 16d ago
Could also just be a bunch of IoT devices running on synchronized time source that have what amounts to a defrost cronjob. And a latent bug that due to everything being synced and on the same schedule failed in the same manner (eg crashed t
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by phil21 18d ago
Yeah. There were times in my life I would have put my life on the line (and that of the thief) to defend my vehicle and the tools within it. Those fed myself and my family. I would have had no reasonable means to replace my tools, and barel
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by phil21 20d ago
The world (I guess politics, but more broadly how you envision society to fundamentally function) is far more broad and nuanced than the silly (American) liberal vs conservative buckets. Just adding a “libertarian vs. authoritarian” axis to
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by phil21 21d ago
Hard and very vehement disagree from me. So long as it is safe, a kid even at 1 years old should be tagging along with the adults doing things. Like building, working out in the yard, helping friends with projects, whatever. It is very sett
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by phil21 22d ago
People are incredibly irrational about gas prices and have been since I've been alive. I remember listening to AM talk radio back in the late 90's and a common trope was you'd get someone calling in ranting about gas prices a
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by phil21 22d ago
There is (usually) a logo on the pump. It's a standard that is vetted by an industry standards body[0]. If a gas station brand advertises Top Tier(tm) gasoline at all, every location must supply it. Diesel is location dependent and war
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by phil21 22d ago
Weird. Costco is never the cheapest price for Coke in my area. Or the previous state I lived in. At least if you bought during sales at competing Supermarkets. Where they win my Diet Coke business is that they are consistently a "good
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by phil21 22d ago
For most people, I'd reckon they are never at work. There is a reason we know that remote learning is horrible for most people compared to in-classroom. We proved this decisively during COVID. There is zero reason to believe that most
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by phil21 22d ago
> way ahead This is overselling it. You can come out 2% ahead or so. 4-5% if you are an extremely high spender who enjoys mentally managing 5 or 6 credit cards to max out category bonuses and other benefits and all that. You come out m
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by phil21 23d ago
Doesn’t matter at all for my local Costco. It’s busy open to close with very little variance. The only times I’ve seen it relatively empty were during bad storms. That said, it’s not an hour wait. Around 20 minutes is average, but I rarely
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by phil21 28d ago
> I think if a real human doctor completely fabricated a drug usage history for one of their patients, that would also be news. This happens every single day and is effectively never reported. For far more nefarious reasons than a simple
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by phil21 28d ago
> Everything should be reviewed for correctness. Have you ever actually read your notes on file? This is basically living in a fantasy world. Errors are routine. One of my notes in my current medical file states I injured my shoulder pla
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by phil21 28d ago
> I am a software developer and if I write some piece of medical software with bugs that are so blatant in it, I'd see hell up to potentially being sued into oblivion Based on watching the medical software field as a consumer (patie
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by phil21 28d ago
I've worked remote most of my career. Starting in the late 90's if you squint hard enough. I built my first little company as remote-first before we knew what to call it. I had to be very careful who I would hire, since only a rel
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by phil21 28d ago
We can definitely agree there!
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by phil21 28d ago
For stuff like calendar work, meetings, expense reports, and other busywork? Sure. Hence I have an assistant for that overhead at my job. Not sure what that has to do with the topic at hand. Who wants to interrupt focus time to tab over to

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