superluserdo

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by superluserdo 3mo ago
>Factor in pipe losses on the return leg and you're back at the data centre with maybe 35°C inlet rather than 45°C Surely having the input fluid being colder is a benefit, not a problem? Just run the fluid more slowly through the sy
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by superluserdo 1y ago
I basically implemented exactly this on top of whisper since I couldn't find any implementation that allowed for live transcription. https://tomwh.uk/git/whisper-chunk.git/ I need to get around to cleaning it
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by superluserdo 1y ago
Seems like we're just currently in the top-right of this comic https://xkcd.com/2044/
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by superluserdo 1y ago
The real answer is it's completely domain-specific. If you're trying to search for something that you'll instantly know when you see it, then something that can instantly give you 5 wrong answers and 1 right answer is a godse
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by superluserdo 2y ago
I wish I could go back to the days of doing almost anything at all without having to tell a server what a motorbike or traffic light is.
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by superluserdo 2y ago
You're mixing up years and days there. It would be about $1 a day, not 400.
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by superluserdo 2y ago
It is and has been for a while, but most of the more flashy and exciting developments in ML and AI don't have very much applicability to LHC event processing. To be able to state any kind of finding about some aspect of physics based o
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by superluserdo 2y ago
I wouldn't write it off as a bubble, since that usually implies little to no underlying worth. Even if no future technical progress is made, it has still taken a permanent and growing chunk of the use case for conventional web search,
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by superluserdo 2y ago
Clicking the link to the comments on that post takes you to this comment section, so I think there's some by-hand deduping/merging going on
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by superluserdo 2y ago
Both situations involve a huge amount of water flowing downstream. That needs to be replenished either through rainfall or through pumping.
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by superluserdo 2y ago
See this >15-year-old video "How to get featured on YouTube" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uzXeP4g_qA , which I remember as being originally uploaded to the official Youtube channel but looks like it's
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by superluserdo 2y ago
Speaking of mathematical missteps relating to bases, I've always been baffled by why we refer to a base system by the number above the highest representable single digit. Every base is "base 10" in that case! Why is binary
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by superluserdo 3y ago
>But day after day, over decades, surely the minuscule amount of heat being generated by activity on the surface has SOME cumulative effect. No it doesn't, because the heat escapes out into space, so the minuscule effect is only an
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by superluserdo 3y ago
This very confident sentiment comes up in every comment section about IPV4/6 - "Updating the standard" is making a new protocol - "forced suppliers to patch updates" - how? - "USB backwards compatability that
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by superluserdo 3y ago
>His stance on compiler optimizations is another example: only add optimization passes if they improve the compiler's self-compilation time. What an elegant metric! Condensing a multivariate optimisation between compiler execution s
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by superluserdo 3y ago
>Most users just want something that gets things done with as little friction as possible. It's funny to read this as someone that always dreads having to get a new phone, or install some proprietary app, or reinstall a Windows VM,
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by superluserdo 3y ago
IMO "Solves iPhone addiction" is more or less a rephrasing of "people will quickly get bored of this". It's just a smartphone, except you can't run third-party software, can't directly interface with it, a
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by superluserdo 3y ago
Because people find the concept of a person talking to themselves in public a bit weird, and talking into a completely unthinking machine is basically that. Maybe perceptions could change when low-latency conversational AI is very widespre
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by superluserdo 3y ago
The "laser ink display" looks a bit like the totally bunk display tech of the Cicret Bracelet "product" that VFX videomaker Captain Disillusion did a comprehensive takedown of a couple of years ago https://www
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by superluserdo 3y ago
NAT is the problem that IPv6 fixes. Think about the parent comment >if you are making more than 4B addresses routable then any existing IPv4 device will not be able to route some addresses, so you will have caused a split in the intern
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by superluserdo 3y ago
>Let it be IPv4 with more bits Then it's not IPv4 and is not compatible with IPv4.
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by superluserdo 3y ago
>Even despite this rats maze of proxies and NAT gateways we're still supporting virtually all the applications that consumers use That's a tautology: "Despite the limitations of IPv4, we're still supporting all the ap
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by superluserdo 3y ago
I'm sure you know this but don't bring lilies into your home, as much as a lick can be fatal to cats.
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by superluserdo 3y ago
See also https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c... >THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD >Previous company names >[NAME AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM COMPANIES HOUSE] htt
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by superluserdo 3y ago
>So in theory you could have a ridiculous computer that runs 1000GW of power through it without heating up. That doesn't make sense. Power has to be consumed by something. All energy ends up as heat, so if the computer isn't he
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by superluserdo 3y ago
>The use of those inputs isn't creating carbon, just transforming it It is though. Or if you like, it's transforming carbon from "in the ground" to "not in the ground", which is fundamentally the only thing
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by superluserdo 3y ago
https://tomwh.uk/blog/index.html I've got a few posts on there (although most are still on my "been meaning to write that post for literal years" list). Some at random: https://tomwh.uk/b
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by superluserdo 3y ago
What's the split like these days between users of Guix the package manager running on some other distribution vs Guix the distribution? Is one noticably more popular than the other?
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by superluserdo 3y ago
I've never heard of a rummage bin, maybe you misheard "rubbish bin"? I prefer not to have to rummage through it!
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by superluserdo 4y ago
If the programs in question implement the XDG base directory spec properly, then putting `export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.program` in your .profile will make them put config files in .program, not .config.

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