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lordofgibbons
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Comment #48921129
It's similar to the ElectronJS desktop app problem. Sure the desktop apps use a lot more system resources, but it's doubtful those apps would have been created in the first place i…
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Comment #48284758
The difference is that releasing the model for free doesn't have ongoing cost for the company. Providing cheap tokens is very expensive - specially if you don't have access to the …
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Comment #47735184
What's the verifiable oracle in this scenario?
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Comment #47732441
Without showing false-positive rates this analysis is useless. If your model says every line if your code has a bug, it will catch 100% of the bugs, but it's not useful at all. The…
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Comment #47242418
Given that Google has said they'll be delaying source code release for Android to every X months intervals (iirc), how is GrapheneOS planning to handle security updates? Will they …
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Comment #47176495
The controversy isn't about defending one's country, it's about you and the parent comment author assuming what this is all about without reading the article. The core of the issue…
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Comment #47131653
Pardon my ignorance, but doesn't a byte-by-byte output recreation of the C++ code in Rust defeat the whole purpose of using Rust? For one, would it be idiomatic Rust anymore? Also,…
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Comment #47130616
This looks great! I have a couple of questions: 1) Is it possible to start off with plain Postgres and add pgdog without scheduled downtime down the road when scaling via sharding …
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Comment #47081766
I'm currently using Ghostty with Zellij, and there has been a constant tension w.r.t whether I should use a zellij feature or a Ghostty one (i.e, tabs/panes/etc) when they provide …
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Comment #47066383
You can try raising the head part of the bed by 5 - 6 or so inches using wood blocks. The doctor recommended it to me. It's not perfect, but has really helped me!
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Comment #46680690
How interesting it is depends purely on your use-case. For me this is the perfect size for running fine-tuning experiments.
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Comment #46123298
5 years used to be true 15 years ago. IPOs are happening much later now, probably 10+ years, if you're lucky
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Comment #46116903
How are situations like lack of liquidity to pay the taxes handled? i.e, As an employee you get stock options, which you exercise when you leave the startup. Then long before the c…
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Comment #46093595
Ads aren't added to agentic workflows. Agentic usage of gpt-5 is only available if you're a paying user.
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Comment #46017555
How exactly has it distracted the U.S? I don't see the U.S rushing to adopt either renewables or nuclear. We're just increasing our fossil fuel burning (natural gas).
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Comment #45965293
How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
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Comment #45916514
Do I need to use the other services from the Ory stack to have this be complete? I tried reading the Ory docs a couple of times when I needed an auth solution but it was indecipher…
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Comment #45854075
At what quantization? And if it is in fact quantized below fp8, how is the performance impacted on all the various benchmarks?
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Comment #45840510
I can't find a single screenshot of opendesk applications anywhere - including their own website. This is extremely strange.
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Comment #45788265
Building data centers for OpenAI, but it requires a lot of upfront capital.
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Comment #45775374
Not really. It lets me focus on what I want to focus on without losing motivation. Gaming is just an addictive behavior which is why it works against it, but not real work that I a…
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Comment #45769399
Is the solution to this problem Golang style package management where you specify the git repo?
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Comment #45753840
How should we think about how much effective compute is being done with these devices compared to classical (GPU) computing? Obviously FLOPs doesn't make sense, so what does?
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Comment #45753258
I've noticed that when I'm on Zepbound 2.5mg, I don't have the strong urge to play video games and can focus on my projects. Even if I do play video games while on it, I lose inter…
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Comment #45643167
I really wish these laptops were compatible with Linux. I'd buy one today.