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SkyMarshal

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    Still, why link some blog post about it instead of the actual source.

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    Comment #49216931

    Also the removal of actually useful things like the Magsafe power connector and SD card slot, in the service of unneeded marginal thinness.

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    Comment #48957342

    Claude is the only one that looks like an asshole. The rest are just circular, or not even that. Does every circle in the world look like an asshole? Car wheels? Pizzas? Camera Len…

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    Comment #47259549

    Nice looking app, downloaded and checking it out. Fyi there's someone else on github keeping track of some LLM benchmarks too: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/416…

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    Comment #47259520

    Or a Beelink GTR9 Pro with same chip and memory, and two 10GbE LAN ports built in for clustering several together.

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    Comment #47259486

    Why would paying dividends not be like throwing money away for Nvidia, considering the alternative is to reinvest it into Nvidia's R&D, hiring & training, etc. Investors are alread…

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    Comment #47131722

    https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/blob/main/INSTALLA... Looks like an amalgam of php, node, mysql, redis and an AWS S3-compatible filesystem.

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    Comment #47131427

    I thought the microwave beeps several times to ensure the radiation has completely dissipated from the chamber before you open it. I always let it beep and then some.

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    Comment #46793007

    To be fair, Woz wasn't just a “friendly selfless genius inventor engineer” , he was also the co-founder of one of the most valuable tech companies in the world. And YC is, in their…

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    Comment #46368583

    I'm not sure it would matter. It doesn't seem that graphics are the limiting factor in games anymore. Plenty of popular games use variations on cartoon-style graphics, for example …

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    Comment #45285585

    Oblig link to Norvig's "Warning Signs in Experimental Design": https://www.norvig.com/experiment-design.html

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    Comment #45282608

    This is an interesting insight into the challenges of porting a TSMC fab from Taiwan to Arizona. There are hundreds of variables that differ, even just based on geography, any one …

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    Comment #44978327

    To be fair it worked for him the first time. And for Apple too multiple times for that matter.

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    Comment #44880672

    From another discussion, Intel's board members: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44842991 Frank Yeary, managing member Darwin capital advisors James Goetz, partner Sequoia Capi…

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    Comment #44870437

    > and they didn't have to spend barely anything on marketing. To be fair, their marketing was all that gaming related BS you listed, plus developing and maintaining CUDA. Winning g…

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    Comment #44869517

    I think part of it was that they were testing a new aerodynamic design that eliminates or minimizes sonic boom, so they can go supersonic over land almost immediately after takeoff…

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    Comment #44869492

    That may be true for domestic coast-to-coast flights, but not for transoceanic ones across the Atlantic, or especially the Pacific, or north-south across hemispheres, that can take…

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    Comment #44841279

    Just put a QR code on the front that transmits a vCard. Or a way to make the LEDs on the back display a QR code. Then you can still show people your digital business card, even let…

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    Comment #44840788

    > But I think we're not even on the path to creating AGI. It seems like the LLM model will be component of an eventual AGI, it's voice per se, but not its mind. The mind still requ…

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    Comment #44840764

    The inflection point is recursive self-improvement. Once an AI achieves that, and I mean really achieves it - where it can start developing and deploying novel solutions to deep pr…

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    Comment #44673984

    > If Intel technically leapfrog TSMC and their 18nm is better than TSMC 20nm this year but; Think you mean 1.8nm, aka 18A. We're way past 18nm and 20nm.

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    Comment #44670485

    We're clearly in an era where the US Govt simply doesn't have enough money to throw at everything it wants to encourage, and needs to develop alternate means of incentivizing (or d…