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Running models locally using GPU inference shouldn't be too bad as the biggest impact in terms of performance is ram/vram bandwidth rather than compute. Some rough power figures fo…

Well, he absolutely should have been using Vim, he instead spent the week learning vi.

If it were just a standalone tool it wouldn't affect the licencing of the project, but it's not a tool, it's a software library, so projects using the library need to follow the te…

Note that the author of the unauthorised derivative work 'B', based on the 'original' work 'A', still retains copyright over their own (unauthorised) work B. Even if a court compel…

>as open source really does only mean source available The definition and history of the term as a licence is unambiguous in that the only restriction on redistribution is that it …

'Free' software has problems with its name too. The ones muddying the waters are people and companies releasing source code with a proprietary licence while trying to latch onto th…

The topic of human vision and perception is complex enough that I very much doubt it's scientists who are making the claim that we can't perceive anything higher than 30-60fps. The…

While I'm sure the publicly available and already moderated Reddit comments OpenAI pays workers to classify are truly disturbing, nobody should be forced to read Reddit after all, …

>UK plug sockets are rated at 13 A, giving a maximum power rating of 2,990 W. Nominally, anyway. When the EU standardised mains voltages they mostly did so on paper by fudging the …

Ideally it's lifecycle carbon footprint averaged over expected power production during that time, but the numbers aren't always directly comparable and the error bars are huge to b…

I don't mean this as a dig, but I am curious to know what your use case is for launching new browser windows from different environments is. Something along the lines of remote deb…

This change is likely only due to anticipation of a proposed EU law that would require 3+2 years of support, the Pixel 5a released in 2021 will only get 3 years of support, includi…

Japanese has a couple of words for 'door' (some of which refer to Japanese style sliding doors): 戸, 扉, 障子, but one of the more frequent ones is ドア which is a loan word from English…

While it's not a direct parallel, I'd recommend people be careful with using your thumbs like this. I've been using a tiling window manager with the windows key as a modifier for y…

>it's going to take a while, and Rust has been here for 17 years. Technically correct, but Rust was changing significantly from version to version prior to the 1.0 release some 8 y…

>it replaces things like PulseAudio More specifically, it's fully compatible with PulseAudio/JACK/ALSA and is capable of completely replacing them while still providing the benefit…

There's definitely smart people on 4chan, but accessibility only exists insofar as there's enough of a culture to punch through the noise floor. Mentally filtering posts only gets …

Both companies are juicing up the default power limits which absolutely matters if you're concerned about total Wh for sustained loads, thermal considerations, PSU rating, noise, e…

Not to detract from the point too much, but RSA was independently discovered in 1973.

Smoking tobacco has clear negative health consequences today, but the association may not have been so strong when the predominant forms of heating households were open wood and co…

The first mechanical clock that could accurately and reliably measure seconds was a pendulum clock with a length of one metre. Seconds and metres go hand in hand with the metric sy…

Hopefully it stays at least a France away.

>Unless someone can point to an American (Japanese/Australian/Canadian/Korean/Mexican/Chinese/Indian etc etc) law passed promising equivalence this continued notion that the EU law…

Hindi and other Indo-Aryan languages are incredibly irregular, but when laid out on a chart it doesn't seem as daunting of a task as the initial prospect of learning 100 numerals f…