valley_guy_12

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by valley_guy_12 6mo ago
Hard to predict. Waymo is trialing in several northeast cities. Search for "waymo trial boston" or "waymo trial nyc". But beyond the technical issues, there are also political issues. Search for "new york bans waym
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by valley_guy_12 7mo ago
Patrick McKenzie, aka patio11, used a LLM to generate and run a DnD campaign for a gaming convention/conference, He discusses the process and results as part of this podcast on the con. https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com&
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by valley_guy_12 2y ago
Not exactly. Apple released 2 press releases today, the article you link to is about the laptops, this discussion is about the CPUs.
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by valley_guy_12 2y ago
Unfortunately, in many organizations, "the library we use doesn't follow this recommendation" is a valid compelling reason. Which means that in practice "SHOULD" effectively means "WOULD BE NICE IF".
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by valley_guy_12 2y ago
Huh, for me the very first non-ad result for googleing RFC English is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments , which is the correct citation.
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by valley_guy_12 2y ago
There's no reason Intel had to give the same price they would have given Apple to another customer. Intel often cuts prices to favored customers to win business, for example they did so for the original Xbox CPU, to prevent an AMD from
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by valley_guy_12 2y ago
Second reason it didn't take off faster was that iPhone was typically a carrier exclusive, and in most markets, the iPhone carrier was typically one of the smaller carriers. So iPhone wasn't available to most mobile phone users in
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by valley_guy_12 2y ago
FWIW the linked article is reporting on a 5 minute YouTube video montage of Jonathan Blow interview snippets. Might be worth it to watch/listen to the video directly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KR5i98aCy0
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by valley_guy_12 2y ago
I remember seeing a Vector Graphics computer at a computer store around 1978, when I was shopping for my first computer. I was excited by the name Vector Graphics, only to be disappointed to learn that it was a meaningless name, and their c
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by valley_guy_12 3y ago
The web could have plausibly existed as early as FTP did. Which would have been 1972. Plenty of documents from that era had URL-like manual links of the form "pub/foo/bar.txt at MIT-AI", and many FTP servers supported an
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by valley_guy_12 3y ago
I don't think that was the original Apple HQ, I think it was just one of many buildings that Apple occupied around Cupertino in the '80s.
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by valley_guy_12 4y ago
Just as a point of interest, AIUI the names "Schumpeter" and "Babbage" are "house names", not the real names of the people who write the columns. Any given column might be written by anyone, and it would still
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by valley_guy_12 4y ago
The article starts, "Nestled in the hills of Mountain View", which is worrisome, because as anyone with even a passing familiarity with Silicon Valley geography knows, Mountain View is mostly flat. And Google's Mountain View
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by valley_guy_12 4y ago
Supposedly Stable Diffusion was trained on 512 x 512 images, so it's not clear that it will work well for larger images even if you had the RAM. To generate larger images, it is standard practice to generate 512 x 512 and then use a se
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by valley_guy_12 4y ago
It's likely that a significant fraction of the perf difference between Apple' GPUs and NVIDIA GPUs is due to NVIDIA's CUDA being high optimized, and Pytorch being tuned to work with CUDA. If Pytorch's metal support impr
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by valley_guy_12 4y ago
Having to use "source" means you have an older version of conda. Python package management is kind of a mess.
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by valley_guy_12 4y ago
That's probably due to swapping due to the 8GB of RAM. People who have run Stable Diffusion on M2 airs with 16 GB of RAM seem to get performance that is in line with their GPU core count.
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by valley_guy_12 4y ago
Some engineer (I forget if it was an Apple engineer or a Handspring engineer) once remarked that Graffiti was a much smarter way to do handwriting recognition than Newton, because: "If the Palm Pilot made a mistake, people blamed thems
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by valley_guy_12 4y ago
I remember that shadow! FWIW it was just one line in smaller Trinitrons, and it was located 1/3rd of the way from the top or bottom edge rather than in the middle. Apple mounted the Trinitron tube upside down compared to other vendors,
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by valley_guy_12 4y ago
As an outsider, I believe Rareware's secret sauce was a combination of a can-do, down-to-the-metal, fast-feedback-loop game development style that came from the pre-PC British bedroom game coders, a management team that understood how
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by valley_guy_12 12y ago
Presumably because the 6+ has a much larger screen.
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by valley_guy_12 13y ago
Most devices that launched with Android 3.x have been upgraded to Android 4.0.
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by valley_guy_12 14y ago
Yes, indeed, those schools don't seem to have a quota. However, this study appears to show a quota in place (starting around 2003) at the Ivy League schools. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-...
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by valley_guy_12 14y ago
Unfortunately, you can't really trust a device, since there is always a chance that it could be rooted. See the long history of rooted game consoles. The best you can do is sort-of trust the device. But that's not much better than not trust
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by valley_guy_12 14y ago
Not exactly. Most Android devices come with a very simple shell named ash, but it's no relation to busybox's ash.
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by valley_guy_12 14y ago
Here's a brief comparison of Live Picture vs. PhotoShop. It says Live Picture is sluggish and only better than PhotoShop on really large images. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:j7viI0y...
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by valley_guy_12 14y ago
Unfortunately, while the Android NDK supports native code on x86, ARM, and MIPS processors, GoogleTV doesn't support the NDK: Does Google TV support NDK? No. There is a pending feature request for NDK support on Google TV ht
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by valley_guy_12 14y ago
Repo seems to work the way it does on purpose: "...the reason we made repo was because we didn't want to deal with commits in the super project, or trying to merge concurrent branches in the super project. Instead we wanted each subproject
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by valley_guy_12 14y ago
Yes, as you guessed, the problem you're seeing is because the app was developed for a very early version of the Android API. Here's how to fix the app (requires a recompile): http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/optimizing-for-...
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by valley_guy_12 15y ago
Apple faces this problem too. There are many ways to make a new device attractive besides making it incompatible with old devices. Support for new radio standards. Larger, brighter, higher resolution screens. More flash storage, a better ca

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