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by shrubble 4d ago
Every speaker can be used as a microphone if the circuitry is added to do so.
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by shrubble 6d ago
"The main downside of this is the fact that object storage doesn't have transactions, so you can't make sure that both appending the event and updating the state of the world happen in one atomic unit. We write the state firs
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by shrubble 18d ago
I think Iceland will find that compliance with the EU regulations would be very expensive and not practical, but that’s for them to decide.
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by shrubble 23d ago
They are selling 10000 gallons a day at some locations, so I find it hard to believe. More like they don’t have a need to make a profit and they run the station in a barebones manner on real estate that they get as part of the larger site.
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by shrubble 26d ago
One way is to take a “blank” picture which will then show just the noise; then use that as a reference for what can be removed from the image.
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by shrubble 26d ago
AI companies could certainly release the scans of any book that is no longer covered by copyright in the USA, for free download and get some positive publicity for a change. I do wonder who is running PR at the major AI companies, as they s
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by shrubble 27d ago
Note that Enrico Weigelt is the "XLibre" guy and some of his fixes made it into this release, you can search for his name in the message.
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by shrubble 27d ago
Sun Microsystems had hardware and a version of Unix that was POSIX-compliant. This passed the government openness/interoperability test in existence and anyone with authority and budget could buy Sun, and then buy approved applications
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by shrubble 1mo ago
You liked “Roadside Picnic” by the Strugatsky brothers, I take it…
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by shrubble 1mo ago
I’m surprised that the death of the 98 year old mother, one day after the police raid, hasn’t been questioned; surely having police officers squabble with you is a much higher level of stress than normal?
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by shrubble 1mo ago
This really does seem wonderful - going to evaluate this some more (no pun intended)!
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by shrubble 1mo ago
If you could get 2x 16GB eGPU in external cases for $1398 vs the Intel B70 for $1199 to $1299 (MicroCenter pricing), some would choose the ease of use of getting the Nvidia solution up and running, over the lower price. Personally I'm
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16GB EGPU for AI Inference, $699(amazon.com)
5 points by shrubble 1mo ago|3 comments
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by shrubble 1mo ago
you could have 2 to get 32GB VRAM, which is enough to run a decent AI model locally.
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by shrubble 1mo ago
The wedge-shaped expander bars you mention are a brilliant bit of engineering: they deliver perfectly equal spacing across the entire line without any calculation or measurement needed.
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by shrubble 1mo ago
I was thinking about something similar recently: if you bought a US govt purchased laptop like the ruggedized Dell Latitude I saw, would it be less likely to have Intel's IME enabled?
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by shrubble 1mo ago
They bought back the leases; how much did the lease cost originally, and how much work was done on the project? Those are the only important questions
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by shrubble 2mo ago
Took me a while to remember that Raku is the "Perl 6" followon to the still-supported Perl 5, though it has morphed into a very different language.
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by shrubble 2mo ago
https://man.netbsd.org/ldconfig.8 states that it checks the contents of /etc/ld.so.conf - what is the default configuration of that file when it is installed? Is it empty?
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by shrubble 2mo ago
It likely would have been based on the PowerPC-based ThinkPad like laptop they produced which also ran AIX (IBM's version of Unix). like these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Power_Series
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by shrubble 2mo ago
There are plenty of scanners that do not destroy the book being scanned. Here is one, I am sure there are many others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9LcTZU-HHI
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by shrubble 2mo ago
Desktop use is probably the best option for daily driver, since almost everything on the motherboard has support, most likely.
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by shrubble 2mo ago
To get 10Mbps of Ethernet, they would bond together 7x T1s on the SONET side...
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by shrubble 2mo ago
As mentioned, it is a "large enough company" already; they have full time sysadmins running things. Adding another rack beside the VMWare cluster, managing any storage/networking issues, etc. will be incremental costs; they a
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by shrubble 2mo ago
An experimental/homebuilt of similar but not exactly the same design, the Dyke Delta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyke_Delta of which about 50 have been built, has its pilots reporting a comfortable ride.
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by shrubble 2mo ago
The EUV lithography process and other pieces that comprise what ASML sells was developed with US government funding, and it remains encumbered by that. The US government thus has veto power over the tech, and thus over ASML.
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by shrubble 2mo ago
The placement of the Krone pack in the photo at link, makes me laugh: it would never survive in the USA, given the way truck drivers drive and the bumps and curbs etc. that trucks drive over. It would be ripped off or at least heavily dama
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by shrubble 2mo ago
Management listened to the siren call of "it's easier and cheaper". Now they still have to pay for the same senior sysadmins they were told they wouldn't need anymore, but, with the added bonus of paying 10-1000x for ban
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by shrubble 2mo ago
OpenVMS ran on the Itanium also; wonder how far it could get in booting?
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by shrubble 2mo ago
EPIC is Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing; nothing to do with the AMD trademark word, EPYC.

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