whoisburbansky

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by whoisburbansky 9mo ago
The only (tiny) issue I've had with Tailscale on Kobo has been that the tailscale daemon prevents me from using the Kobo in Mass Storage Mode while it's active, so I have to disable/quit KOReader to be able to plug it in agai
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Errors in Palladium's "How GDP Hides Industrial Decline(totalhealthoptimization.com)
8 points by whoisburbansky 1y ago|3 comments
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by whoisburbansky 1y ago
OTOH, koreader on the Scribe post jailbreak is easily the best large format PDF reading experience I've ever had.
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by whoisburbansky 1y ago
Profits from the stake lower taxes that would otherwise be levied on you? Of course that’s moot if the deficit isn’t something being taken seriously.
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by whoisburbansky 2y ago
No, of course, but is the primary focus of the bulk of the staff educational or patient care? Seems disingenuous to pretend it's the former just to make a point.
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by whoisburbansky 2y ago
I mean, if you tack on a hospital to a university, the correct denominator to compare against is "patients served," not "students educated," at least for the portion of the headcount you're sticking in the numerator
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by whoisburbansky 2y ago
https://planetbanatt.net/articles/mla.html this is a great overview of how MLA works.
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by whoisburbansky 2y ago
The key idea of Latent MHA is that "regular" multi-headed attention needs you to keep a bunch of giant key-value (KV) matrices around in memory to do inference. The "Latent" part just means that DeepSeek takes the `n` KV
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by whoisburbansky 2y ago
Foundations don't change much with "the speed of development"
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by whoisburbansky 2y ago
Somebody else pointed out that it's likely just an alert, not a hard limit, which checks out given Firebase documentation ( https://firebase.google.com/docs/projects/billing/avoid-surp... ), which has no m
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by whoisburbansky 2y ago
If the texts were incomprehensible to parents, how were they comprehensible to their intended recipients?
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by whoisburbansky 2y ago
It plays out this way because anything anyone buys with a credit card, reward card or not, ends up costing 2-3% more than it would otherwise have, because of interchange fees. If you have a rewards card, the CC issuer turns around and gives
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by whoisburbansky 3y ago
The linked to Atlantic article literally makes the opposite point; the subtitle there is "Blaming the housing crisis on hedge funds and private equity may be easy, but it’s dead wrong." https://www.theatlantic.com/
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by whoisburbansky 3y ago
It depends on what your goal is; for some tasks it's possible that getting the AI to do it is best, but, e.g. the existence of auto-pilot doesn't mean that hobbyist pilots wouldn't benefit from/enjoy exercising the same
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by whoisburbansky 3y ago
Wait are y'all the folks who moved together cross-country so you could be neighbors with your siblings?
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by whoisburbansky 3y ago
With the regular magnets, you'd have to hold them in places, since otherwise they'd rotate in place and fall back down, attracted to each other.
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Book Review: The Domestic Revolution, by Ruth Goodman(thepsmiths.com)
1 points by whoisburbansky 3y ago|0 comments
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by whoisburbansky 3y ago
Wait, where do the other two units of water go?
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by whoisburbansky 3y ago
Cool call-out there, I hadn't realized praseodymium and neodymium are actually short for praseodidyium and neodidymium ("green" and "new" didymium, respectively). Having all three of those words multiple times writi
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by whoisburbansky 3y ago
This post kind of worked out great for me, since they've been out of stock on their main website every time I've tried to get one, but it looks like they're back now and I was able to make an order. Wouldn't have realize
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by whoisburbansky 3y ago
Huh, I really thought `shufti` was a typo in this context, and one that sounded funny to my Middle Eastern ears, so I was surprised to discover it's a real word, albeit with Middle Eastern origins [1]. 1. https://en.wiktiona
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
How does the floor rate make it a less terrible credit card?
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
How does one power active RF emitters on miles and miles of road surface? The vast majority of surface level roadway doesn’t even have powered illumination in most places, which leads me to think the lowest hanging fruit for this type of th
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Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine(findthatmeme.com)
785 points by whoisburbansky 4y ago|151 comments
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
What language(s) do you do most of your work in?
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
What are you invested in that dividends net you meaningful cashflow?
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
Nutrition isn't the same as calories; you can have a more efficient diet in terms of recommended daily values of macro and micro nutrients without having to rely on "products" higher up the food chain.
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
The article addresses the differences you point out.
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
Do you really think that the intersection of folks who are going to notice that images they've shot are over-processed/sharpened and folks who know how to get ProRAW files into Lightroom isn't a circle?
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by whoisburbansky 4y ago
I credit a huge portion of my current career and general math and reading skills to having a couple CDs of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JumpStart games early in my childhood. It's a pity I can't think of ver

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