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by qdotme 14d ago
Well, there are two big equivalents here: One, Uber successfully lobbied cities (NYC DeBlasio comes to mind, but there was one in London) - getting to a scale before meaningful enforcement action (which sometimes means investors maintaini
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by qdotme 1mo ago
This is even more interesting (full disclosure - I vibecoded a lib for it lately - lowzag) when you take into consideration working set restrictions. In almost every case, downscaling-while-decoding is going to beat decode-then-scale on per
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by qdotme 1mo ago
I'm actually curious if nowadays some ML-based algorithms are not beating Lanczos 3-lobe to it - at least in perceptual quality of the downscale. The have /long/ surpassed it in upscaling.
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by qdotme 2mo ago
Well, where? I live in MA, lived in NH and visited MSP quite frequently, also spent a winter in Toronto… but even a quick search suggests that in MN it “dips” to negatives Fahrenheit, occasionally, with monthly Jan averages in low single di
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by qdotme 2mo ago
Because gallon of fuel weighs 6lbs! As a scientist and an adult immigrant to the US, I came to appreciate both systems as useful for different objectives. Celsius/Metric is neatly rooted in science - where it truly shines by removing
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by qdotme 2mo ago
ATSC. Technically orginal RTL tuners handled both (in really thin gateware, which is why the chip was so hackable for SDR, you just turned its debug mode and it would stream its IQ values).
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by qdotme 2mo ago
Well, the reality of those types of businesses is that once set they do become a relatively low maintenance (and for some, very low 'urgent' maintenance) passive income. It's really easy to pull $300k/y as an SRE (but th
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by qdotme 2mo ago
Probably was that way before we got married and had a kid. And before our dog started getting older and we needed to watch what she eats. Now the notion of "cook fresh every day" is a thing (rather than reheats), we try to do keep
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by qdotme 2mo ago
1.5lb / day? I'd wager it's quite equally in thirds, would love to see the data. I'd believe 0.5lbs/day/person in my household - cook enough for everyone to have seconds, but most of the time it's tossed (
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by qdotme 2mo ago
It certainly does, I mentioned it in an comment below, good callout. I am however also more interested in how this affects other types of consumer behavior - and whether that is a factor in pullback on the economy (on top of other factors
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by qdotme 2mo ago
Yeah - powerful confounder to all the analyses of customer behavior. Even the article itself calls it out - there probably is a good way to segment it, as GLP1 availability is not uniform, some states regulate it more tightly etc.
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by qdotme 2mo ago
Or.. is it a GLP-1 byproduct? These are powerful appetite suppressants.. in fact I'm curious if the mechanism of action of these peptides affects other impulse behavior, including impulse purchasing? We know that people buy more when t
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by qdotme 2mo ago
Lol. Full circle. RTL-SDR was originally the DVB-T tuner, hacked for SDR, to become.. a DVB-T tuner. Great job!
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by qdotme 2mo ago
Well, if they actually did a semi-decent comparison table, it would be easier. It's a very crowded, relatively low barrier to entry, high barrier to switch space.
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by qdotme 2mo ago
How does it compare to Mattermost?
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by qdotme 2mo ago
Nice! I’ve dabbled with something similar on my own lately (originally wrote/vibed to explain some concepts that came up when discussing D&D) at diceplots.com - different approach, keeping the distributions exactly analytical at ev
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by qdotme 3mo ago
I’ve been in this profession for two decades as well. As both things. My take on this is that we need both, because the market is cyclical. It’s just that it’s hard to perceive any of those cycles if you (a) live them (b) are not experience
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by qdotme 3mo ago
Honestly, stop the KYC regime everywhere else . We're making our law enforcement's job marginally easier, by making the criminals' job infinitely easier by creating millions of juicy PII honeypots. No, you don't need
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Fixing "unfixable" 41TB BTRFS by Claude's one-shot(mloduchowski.com)
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by qdotme 4mo ago
I fear the same thing, but still am unsure why or how :) Google/Microsoft and hosting your own email is a byproduct of how difficult (socially, not technically) hosting your own email has become - mostly because SMTP protocol is inhere
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by qdotme 4mo ago
Yes, but equally so, some intelligent voters (who might've moved out of CA by now, as moving might be the best way to solve that disconnect) might also believe that we should be living in a Republic (and the government should not impos
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by qdotme 4mo ago
Awesome idea! I wish we have agreed on some fp16/fp8 format by now to add to it..
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by qdotme 4mo ago
That explains the over-representation of Oceans in NYC’s supercharging network, and one of the worst side-effects of opening that network to non-Tesla operators. Overall I think it’s a good thing, but it’s the closest to Eternal September I
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by qdotme 5mo ago
Correct. Well, almost correct. Will see how much uptake this service will take (if any), and we can probably place it really close to the edge - for now it's on an Oregon server only. That said, this isn't too far from mechani
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by qdotme 5mo ago
Thanks! It's truly a special concept somewhere between an overload and a pattern match. And unexpectedly performant - most of these are just type coercions, that resolve compile-time.
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by qdotme 5mo ago
Pretty much functions with pattern matching all-across, passing around bitstrings, relatively dynamically typed. Grab a buffer, make sure it's at least as long as BHS, shove into BHS, ok, make sure it's at least as long as what th
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by qdotme 5mo ago
The Pi4 shim actually exposes USB device as well. This works way, way better (and IMHO mostly because wired network is better than wireless for latency, ESP32’s feeble CPU aside)
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by qdotme 5mo ago
Well, sort of. I think a big portion about it for me was figuring out the TaskAttribute and ACA handling. Basically, many of these assumptions are (well?!) communicated to the block layer by the SCSI protocol (not even iSCSI, that is a thi
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by qdotme 5mo ago
That's a tricky one. Sort of - we just didn't have enough reason to implement it (nor IPv6 but this is a low lift, and we can get it done quickly). We do suport VPD 0x83 and advertise consistent NAA/WWID, so linux will suppor
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by qdotme 5mo ago
That was another reason for the RPi4 iSCSI shim ( https://scsipub.com/initiators/PI4-iSCSI-shim/ ) - not over scsipub.com itself if you need performance (latency over WAN) - works "OK" but not great. You

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