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embedding-shapes@proton.me
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Comment #49243559
> I wouldn't call one proper CUDA and the other one some dumbed down version. Nvidia really seems to be pushing for these DSLs to be first class within the ecosystem. I wouldn't sa…
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Comment #49243456
> Every driver thinks of themselves they are an excellent ones. Statistics has another data :) I think I'm an excellent driver, and I have data that backs that up, like I've never …
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Comment #49241265
> Isn't that what the people crying over their deleted or leaked data were doing too? Probably using not-SOTA models, or on the lower reasoning levels, they tend to be a bit more t…
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Comment #49241138
> Use of float makes it unlikely that you’d run it on the PlayStation, which has no FPU. I think this sentence just made me realize what made the PSX graphics look so "PSX", I'm gu…
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Comment #49241098
> To be fair the entry barrier got a lot lower over the past ~5 years. Now you can write very good CUDA kernels with just a few lines of python DSL code. Zero cpp boilerplate and z…
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Comment #49241045
I'm using a container. The risk isn't exactly "agent leverages 0-day against you to steal all your data" but more "agent mistakenly though $HOME was theirs and deleted it" so as lo…
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Comment #49240911
> I'd just really like to see at least one of these to be accompanied by a statement saying what are the kinds of problems the author can now confidently solve that they couldn't b…
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Comment #49240260
> The broad trend is that cities in both Europe and America are safer, friendlier and more fun than a generation ago. That is something everyone should be able to celebrate. What a…
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Comment #49240237
You want to prevent the agent/others from reaching your home directory and other things. As long as you don't mount/sync directories/files from/to the container, so no mounting lik…
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Comment #49232425
> No extinguisher can stop a lithium battery fire. Maybe eventually everything around it can be so wet/burned out that the battery fire slowly just ends? The room would probably be…
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Comment #49227466
> but it's a lot less annoying to just accept a small risk of a house fire. Agree! But do get one or two of those "small automatic fire extinguisher" or whatever they are, that you…
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Comment #49226687
The sea is hitting record high temperatures, we're overrun by tourists and our country is on fire but at least we get like three eclipses in a row, so that's pretty cool :) Jokes a…
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Comment #49226622
My workstation is 1600W TDP and my office does get a bit cold in the winter, so it would do just fine next to us :)
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Comment #49223643
Guess you depend on how you measure. As "released product to the public" then probably yes. Cumulative training hours spent actually creating and adjusting the weights during train…
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Comment #49223557
> Maybe I'm God's gift to game design but I just suck at art. I feel like unless you've grokked that art (and most importantly art direction) is also important to communicate the g…
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Comment #49223545
> Myst was also bundled with a lot of PCs. I think every single shareware/demo disc I had also had some variation/sequel to Myst in one way or another too, somehow.
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Comment #49223541
> What has happened is the number of people working on games has become ridiculously large. Seems no one has written "The Mythical Man Month" for the game industry yet.
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Comment #49223524
The whole "visual novel" genre would say "Yes, we'd like more". They range from all sorts of gameplay though, from Myst-like to RPGs, and a lot in-between. Definitely a market for …
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Comment #49223420
Depends on who "we" are, what you're talking about is a thing for inference providers doing batched inference and similar stuff. If you run one inference requests locally, you can …
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Comment #49222983
How am I not already saying what I mean? What exactly is unclear here? This was what you initially said: > Poor coders have always existed. You're not the first and won't be the la…
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Comment #49222964
> Isn't that the default? Yes, it is, and for good reasons. That's why I disagreed with the original "An unprivileged userspace application, even if coded poorly, shouldn't crash t…
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Comment #49222909
> We don't yet have US regulations Is it not illegal to "hack others" and "defeat protection/defensive systems" in the US already, including for both individuals and companies? Reg…
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Comment #49222869
Same, on the golden throne is where 98% of my phone time is being spent, the other 2% is having to hold up the phone towards my hear to do that annoying "talk to another human bein…
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Comment #49222848
Heh yeah, as a kid/young adult I also stored all my strategy game manuals in the bathroom, back when they used to contain actual information and helpful stuff.
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