violet13

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by violet13 2y ago
I don't follow. You can source the chips, in large quantities, right now, and have them delivered to any non-embargoed country in a matter of days. That they're in limited stock at a particular outlet in China means very little, n
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by violet13 2y ago
With a side serving of fake parts, multi-week transit times, and the added benefit of propping up the Chinese regime.
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by violet13 2y ago
I don't understand what you mean. These chips are available in bulk from the manufacturer and from all major distributors worldwide. Why would you want to go through China? These chips aren't even manufactured there. The fab is in
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by violet13 2y ago
UPDI has robust on-chip debugging capabilities.
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by violet13 2y ago
Very few hobby designs that use more capable chips actually need more capable chips, and the added complexity - hardware and software - often bites hard. That said, wifi is a major selling point, and you need a beefy 32-bit computer to run
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by violet13 2y ago
What's interesting to me is why this story leaked. I bet it's just Morgan Stanley (the owner of E-Trade) trying to control they narrative. If they just cut him off, he gets to tell his story, MS can't officially discuss the p
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by violet13 2y ago
Not entirely, but either way, land value is tied to all of that. If the city can't grow due to zoning and conservation rules, and if you can't subdivide existing parcels, you basically have more and more money chasing the same lot
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by violet13 2y ago
New construction is rapidly getting more expensive in many of the markets where it's needed the most. While it'd be cool to point to a single factor, it's a combination of several things. People are expecting more (more squar
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by violet13 2y ago
It is a lossy compressed index. It has an approximate knowledge of law, and that approximation can be pretty good - but it doesn't know when it's outputting plausible but made-up claims. As with GitHub Copilot, it's probabl
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by violet13 2y ago
This, along with several other "meta" objections, is a significant portion of the discussion in the paper. They basically say two things. First, although the measurement is repeatable at face value, there are several factors that
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by violet13 2y ago
YouTube runs ads on all my videos, including the ones with fewer than 200 views. I'm not sure what you're getting at otherwise. The point I was making is that paying for YouTube does absolutely nothing to support the vast majority
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by violet13 2y ago
They by and large don't. Most creators on YouTube aren't even eligible to monetize, especially if they're making niche educational content. Google just pockets all the revenue if you have fewer than 4,000 "public watch h
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by violet13 2y ago
How many times in history have we regretted over-building this kind of infrastructure? We have no shortage of good ways to use electric energy. If AI turns out to be a fad, others will benefit. Pollution is a concern, but I think don't
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by violet13 2y ago
The US was historically built on the idea that free enterprise, for all its warts, is less bad than governments meddling in your life. Much of modern Europe is built on the opposite idea: that governments know better and that private enterp
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by violet13 2y ago
Let me say that I really like that this is a free textbook, and I realize it's a textbook for EE students, not the general public. That said, it bums me out a bit when textbooks are written in this style. It's essentially a big da
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by violet13 2y ago
Nuclear war is not an extinction event, though. Most people would survive, and while they would face hardships, the "radioactive wasteland" thing is a fairly sloppy sci-fi trope.
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by violet13 2y ago
Before you say "another reason to stop using Paypal", keep in mind that credit card companies routinely share purchase data with online advertising companies. This is so that Google and others can tie online impressions to brick-a
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by violet13 2y ago
Homelessness, especially in places such as the SF Bay Area, really doesn't boil down to just affordability. Yes, there are some folks who just faced economic headwinds and are living in a car while trying to find a way out. But there i
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by violet13 2y ago
> Anecdotally, in conversations with other drivers, it seems that far too many people overestimate their driving habits. Or conversely, folks who are making this argument underestimate the flexibility people want out of a car. If all you
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by violet13 2y ago
My point is that when you have it configured the usual way, you can type "2 + 2 =" in the address bar and get the result. Which, you know, is sort of convenient. Or "weather mountain view ca", or whatever. If you change
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by violet13 2y ago
Unfortunately, this throws the baby out with the bathwater - you also lose all the useful non-AI widgets, like calculator, unit conversions, instant weather, maps, etc. There are other tools for that, but I confess that I've gotten use
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by violet13 2y ago
It sounds like an impressive list, but many of these are ghost towns and are of little value to machine learning. Wikiversity is a mess... Wikipedia is the crown jewel and probably the only thing of unique commercial value for ML.