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by scw 3mo ago
As a kid, my first machine was a 486 DX2 66. My dad mandated we buy on value, and I scoured the MicroTimes looking for the best possible deal, finally settling on a machine from a small independent shop off of South Bascom Ave in San Jose.
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by scw 3mo ago
The original post [1] now includes an update: UPDATE! Within a day of this blowing up on Hacker News, AMD reached back out to me and said they would be looking into the matter after all. [1] https://mrbruh.com/amd2
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by scw 5mo ago
They're unlikely to find much unless they instead try “dispositive”.
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by scw 6mo ago
TurboQuant has a specific benefit by compressing the KV cache at a negligible cost to quality. That mainly means that the context lengths can go up in models for the same amount of memory, however the KV cache only accounts for something li
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by scw 2y ago
Still active, but many fewer resources than in the past. Many backends like CUDA for Windows have been dropped and others pushed off to partners with varying levels of support. TensorFlow 2.19 is going to release soon without Python 3.13 su
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by scw 2y ago
The Microsoft stake finally allowed him to let loose and buy a keyboard with a working shift key.
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by scw 2y ago
Exciting concept! Note that the LLM corrected version does drop a full paragraph from the output at the bottom of the second page (starting with an asterisk and "My views regarding inflationary possibilities". I'm not sure if
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by scw 3y ago
I recently had occasion to evaluate a database of 1200+ NVIDIA GPUs and can tell you that the only thing consistent about the model numbers is their inconsistency. For example, what is an RTX 4000? It could be the 2018 Quadro RTX 4000, the
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by scw 7y ago
Reminds me of “boko-maru” of the made-up religion [1] in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokononism
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by scw 7y ago
The methodological approach and data sources are detailed in the associated post by JHU professor Lauren Gardner: https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/
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by scw 8y ago
Check out: https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/how-microso...
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by scw 8y ago
If you're revisiting the classics I can't recommend enough Doug Metzger's Literature and History podcast [1]. It covers literature starting with Mesopostamian stories, at about the level of an undergraduate course, but is ent
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by scw 8y ago
Endpoints are the machines (desktops, servers, &c) in organizations which have Carbon Black installed. Their client continuously monitors for process executions, network connections, file changes, registry changes, and samples unique fi
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by scw 8y ago
This helped me: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/976563870322999296.html
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by scw 9y ago
The PCEngines APU2 boards[1] are x84_64, run around 10W, and have a smaller than mini ITX footprint (6"×6"). 1. http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm
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by scw 9y ago
It's in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, written by academics in the field, not by T&F itself, nor funded by them. While there are problems with the peer reviewed system, publisher interference with research results isn't t
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How Python does Unicode(b-list.org)
165 points by scw 9y ago|136 comments
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by scw 9y ago
Anything that depends on both boost and gdal is bound to be pain. I once spent 22 hours getting a build of GDAL on FreeBSD with the drivers I needed.
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by scw 9y ago
For the Vagrant VMWare support, are you using the official (paid) Vagrant provider or something else? I've been interested in hearing about experiences of using it.
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by scw 10y ago
That's a big ask for a site that's essentially 'morally justified' piracy.
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by scw 10y ago
My first summer job was doing IT for a small outfit, who worked out of an old house converted into an office. They had eight machines, all connected to a LaserJet printer via a parallel port switch. The parallel cables ran down into a craw
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by scw 11y ago
Perhaps, but this patent ( https://www.google.com/patents/US8407580 ) and a history of litigation (e.g. ( http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/ ) may be enough of a barrier to prevent its adoption.
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by scw 11y ago
PXE booting OpenBSD is covered in the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE
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by scw 11y ago
The board has been in beta testing for a few months, folks were discussing it on the OpenBSD -tech list.
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by scw 11y ago
The APU is great. The APU2 was recently released: http://pcengines.ch/apu2b4.htm Improvements over the first version: quad core, Intel Gigabit NICS, new CPU supports AES-NI and AVX (AMD-V), ECC memory, and a USB 3.0 bus.
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by scw 11y ago
The X220 takes 16GB, and an onboard gig-e Intel nic. It was released in 2011.
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by scw 11y ago
Not a direct answer, but I use the Windows port of The Silver Searcher (ag) and it works well: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/the-silver-searcher-for-...
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by scw 12y ago
It is more widespread than you might think. This article tells the story of the potential role of milk in the growth of the agrarian way of life: http://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-the-milk-revolution-1...
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by scw 12y ago
Most of the places selling these files don't include disclaimers about how the additional quality is only useful in studio conditions -- they use it as a differentiator in the marketplace for end listeners. The article does mention the
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by scw 12y ago
Came to recommend the same. The great thing is the book isn't built around a 'one neat trick' approach that so much financial literature takes, but instead tries to aid in building up useful mental models -- that just happen

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