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by srvmshr 16d ago
Slightly tangential question: Does having a spruced up Mac Studio help learning the ropes of model tuning and/or development as good as having a CUDA device?
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by srvmshr 28d ago
Raymond Chen's articles are true wealth of contemporary tech-lore. My favorite is the one where a user reported error on Flight Simulator map [0] and it escalated all the way up to Bill Gates & the then chief of FS division. [0] h
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by srvmshr 29d ago
I saw a similar page a month back. The design aesthetics are bit different https://hfviewer.com/
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by srvmshr 1mo ago
Pardon my ignorance about formats, but between XML & JSON, what would have made them choose XML? As I understand there is lot more tooling, standards & existing software examples around JSON for project & records management (e.g
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by srvmshr 3mo ago
Calvin & Hobbes have always been such a joy. In childhood, it was a reflection of all the naughtiness you could come up with. As a middle aged adult today, I look at the bigger meanings of those simple adventures. Reading a few stories
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by srvmshr 5mo ago
Generally it is a good practice to keep v.[N] and [N-1] in active deployment. But lately a lot of policies from Anthropic are confusing at best, and at worst plain subscriber-hostile. If costs are drowning them, they should rather be a bit
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by srvmshr 5mo ago
It is perhaps better for Anthropic to do a price hike e.g. $25 or $30 for Pro with a clear/honest messaging e.g. "Running costs are high, price hike is unavoidable" than resorting to these tactics. These shenanigans are earni
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2025 Turing award given for quantum information science(awards.acm.org)
135 points by srvmshr 6mo ago|44 comments
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by srvmshr 6mo ago
* From the announcement [0]: ACM has named Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard as the recipients of the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming s
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by srvmshr 8mo ago
During my bachelors, I was using a Casio FX-991ES+. It was a beautiful calculator compared to the hand-me-down Fx-82 VPAM. And pretty popular with the folks of my age that time. During and after grad school, I was using Mathematica or NumPy
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by srvmshr 8mo ago
I had the same gripe as the author. OhmyZSH seems too bloated for my needs. Added to that, the defaults adds (and oft unnecessary) emojis to prompts & outputs - something I don't find tasteful or appealing. I stripped out most of t
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by srvmshr 10mo ago
True. Applications as these go back a few decades. From the news buzz when it was launched, ASCI White was similarly used in early '00s to understand nuclear explosions and shockwave propagation (instead of relying on live tests) - cla
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by srvmshr 11mo ago
Coincidentally enough, I dug out my 11th grade CS project on generating fractals from 2002 & modernized it using SFML graphics lib just this week. https://github.com/gradientwolf/fractals_SFML Your post gives me so
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by srvmshr 1y ago
I discovered this issue 2-3 years ago. On slightly older machines, there was a palpable startup time. My fix was going through OhMyZSH and stripping away all the parts that I felt unnecessary (I call this my "leanZSH" and its cons
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by srvmshr 1y ago
I'm sorry, yes, two stations with huge pumps. They are like towers, but built from basement level downwards if that impression makes sense.
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by srvmshr 1y ago
I have been to this place. It is limited viewing, requires a reservation & the slots run out practically in seconds. Tough for us residents to get it as well. My wife could snag it in her third try, as a late birthday trip last year. It
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by srvmshr 1y ago
> Some people living in places that have become tourist areas are putting up signs announcing their home toilets are not for public use . I read that on r/Tokyo Reddit as well a while back. Quite shocking. It was some person compla
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by srvmshr 1y ago
You'll be surprised if I tell you several universities in India have not updated their curriculum in a very long time & Turbo C++ (& its non-standard C++ flavor) is the weapon of choice. The school board in the '00s, which
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by srvmshr 1y ago
For me, the greatest bit of nostalgia came from seeing the Netscape Navigator Meteors. (Going further I found this link, which also echoes how rare it is nowadays to see a working version https://erynwells.me/blog/2023&
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by srvmshr 1y ago
Not the OP but in a similar boat. Curious to understand how do you make sure that Claude code cli tool does not break existing code functionality? My hesitation to adopt stems from the events where Claude.ai WebUI ignorantly breaks the code
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by srvmshr 1y ago
I have seen and enjoyed quite a few Val Kilmer movies, but his special appearance in 'Top Gun:Maverick' was heartwarming (the scene where he jovially asks Maverick, "who was the better pilot between the two of us"). Tomb
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by srvmshr 1y ago
In those days of yore, the P-III was our first home computer (Hard to imagine for kids today that a family of 5 could have one PC shared between themselves). I was the experimental, eldest summer child in my home. I used to break things try
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by srvmshr 1y ago
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 I had bummed out my P-III 700Mhz desktop so many times, while tinkering with System32, INI files & experimental software etc., in grade school that this key is seared into some part of my cortex.
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by srvmshr 2y ago
Pardon me asking a question on a different tangent: This old-school typography is very neat to see. I've seen this in many Dover Publication books & even Mir titles from USSR. Is there a reliable way to replicate this style via Lat
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by srvmshr 2y ago
A user like me would be willing to idea of some monthly donation when Mozilla restructures its expenses. If memory serves right, the biggest slice of expenses were in C-level compensations & shortlived pet projects. The organization has
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by srvmshr 2y ago
It seemed only a matter of time, so it isn't very surprising. Capped profit company running expensive resources on Internet scale, and headed by Altman wasn't going to last forever in that state. That, or getting gobbled by Micr
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by srvmshr 2y ago
It still is pretty good. That and the ACM CACM are my only subscriptions. I independently purchase the Spectrum only because I don't want to be associated with IEEE anymore. My reasons of cancellation are less fiduciary and more of a p
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by srvmshr 2y ago
If galactic location details weren't provided, I would have jokingly concluded that we finally spotted the nuclear manhole cover :) https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/the-fastest-man-made-o...
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by srvmshr 2y ago
The article, funnily enough, made a better argument in pointing that Andromeda sailing boat might not have been involved - but rather some other vessel. The whole article felt like reading a 'proof by contradiction in prose' - fr
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by srvmshr 2y ago
I found the "Deep learning interviews" book to be much more engaging and value for time. https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00650 I did a cursory browse through on few sections of this current book (namely the CV mod

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