trailbits

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by trailbits 3mo ago
Only if you live near a store with it in stock. They aren't shipping that item.
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by trailbits 4mo ago
Physicists are Atoms way of understanding themselves
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by trailbits 4mo ago
Fantastic! Load the Altair Z80. At the CP/M prompt type: 'DIR' to see your files. Try out: 'MBASIC STARTREK' - be patient while it loads and then go save the galaxy! Just like old times :)
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by trailbits 6mo ago
Hey, moving from cassette tape to floppy was also pretty awesome - random access speed demon!
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by trailbits 8mo ago
WA state it is an extra $56 every time you renew for Real ID
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by trailbits 8mo ago
The LG only has 60Hz refresh - this Dell has 120Hz and so seems to actually take advantage of the extra thunderbolt bandwidth.
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by trailbits 11mo ago
The default context window using ollama or lmstudio is small, but you can easily quadruple the default size while running gpt-oss-20b on a 24GB Mac.
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by trailbits 11mo ago
As someone who purchased their first M-series Mac this year (M4 pro), I've been thrilled to discover how well it does with local genAI tasks to produce text, code and images. For example openai/gpt-oss-20b runs locally quite well
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by trailbits 11mo ago
I just create new orgs to group related repositories together. Works well for a small team.
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by trailbits 1y ago
That's pretty much how all laser particle counters work... except the good ones use a fan and a chamber. Guess we'll have to wait and see how this compares to the reference sensors.
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by trailbits 1y ago
Also wonder how the sensor can stay clean without a fan. I suppose mounting upside down would help. Other fanless designs require periodic cleaning.
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by trailbits 1y ago
A website in the US doesn't deliver anything to the UK, it hands off some packets to a router in the US. Why is the website responsible for what all the interconnecting routers do? If a person from the UK were to visit an adult booksto
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by trailbits 1y ago
It does remove any incentive for a thief to steal a Macbook. They can't strip it for parts and sell those parts if they won't work.
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by trailbits 2y ago
Even non-physical numbers are problematic to signal 'invalid'. I had a customer use -999 as a placeholder for 'invalid' data. Years later somebody made a higher level data product that averaged and combined that data wit
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by trailbits 2y ago
Yes, push to toggle microphone is another great use for these! I was using the Kinesis Programmable Foot Switch 26 years ago with ps/2 connectors (later they switched to USB). You would get 3 foot switches in each unit and chain them t
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by trailbits 2y ago
I did experiment with using a trackball taped to the floor. It's hard to get precise positioning moving your foot. I think using the tongue along the roof of your mouth would be more precise and less fatiguing. What was more useful was
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by trailbits 2y ago
I can imagine this helping anyone that has struggled with computer-related overuse injuries. I had a bad case of tendinitis that made using a mouse or trackpad very painful. I would have loved to have this kind of device as another option.
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by trailbits 2y ago
It was magical when apple released the LaserWriter printer in 1985 that took postscript files. No need for custom drivers. You would think these days all printers would be driverless.
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by trailbits 3y ago
Apple M1 does not support hardware assisted nested virtualization. If someone was trying to run WSL from Windows, that would be horribly inefficient on M1 vs M3.
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by trailbits 3y ago
If this pill can stop or slow the damage from the highly toxic protein that is present in snake venoms, then I can see it being useful everywhere, including the US. You are only considering fatalities, but approximately 400,000 snakebites e
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by trailbits 3y ago
Yep, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/09/the-c... points out that 70% of the billed cost of antivenin is hospital markup. This isn't even part of expected profit... it&#
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by trailbits 3y ago
If it is lazy loading just what it needs, seems like an efficient use of memory. In any case, this 4GB model will easily fit into the commenter's 16GB machine.
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by trailbits 3y ago
Try llamafile https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile I have Mistral 7B running this way on a 10 year old laptop and it only seems to use a few GB with it's memory mapping approach.
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by trailbits 3y ago
Would love to setup a station but not sure how I would protect the Pi from the elements if installed outside. Did you somehow weatherize your Pi or do you use a remote microphone over a long wire or some kind of wireless mic solution?
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by trailbits 3y ago
True, but you ARE getting a google play store app for those that find that comforting.
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by trailbits 3y ago
You can turn off all the phone radios or you can block all network traffic and the app still works fine. You only need a connection to get an unlock code in certain airspace.
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by trailbits 3y ago
What was the problem with restores?
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by trailbits 3y ago
What about due diligence? If you're about to send and store sensitive information with a service, a service that claims to be 100% secure.... shouldn't you have the right to verify that the security is up to snuff? These researche
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by trailbits 3y ago
My outside sensors sometimes get contaminated from pieces of spider webs. It can be really hard to distinguish this from otherwise dirty air in a single sensor system, but when you have two you know something is wrong with one of them. A qu
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by trailbits 3y ago
Too many public lands in the US are managed like amusement parks instead of nature parks. These places would be less crowded and there would be less need for lotteries and permits if visitors had to make more of an effort to get there and u

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