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    Comment #49225500

    A few hundred bad bits/transistors in a trillion+ parameter model would compromise its abilities not one iota...the models are inherently lossy and resistant to "brain damage"...

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    Comment #49210821

    A full wafer like Cerebras is about 60x that, and N2P has about 3x the transistor density. So right now it's technically feasible to etch a 1.4 trillion parameter model. So roughly…

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    Comment #49209047

    Because Trump hates wind power for "ruining the view". That's it. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uyLiON_f5c0 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetl...

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    Comment #49199391

    Are they conjoined triangles?

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    Comment #49056737

    Pratt & Whitney PW2040 turbofan engine, same as the Boeing 757 and the C-17. They say that the plane itself is so efficient they don't need a cutting edge efficient engine.

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    Comment #48971933

    Codex context limit is 400k total, including 128,000 reserved output tokens.

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    Comment #48798249

    Global Foundries has lots of fabs with 10 year old+ processes....

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    Comment #48663380

    M3 Ultra has a 1024 bit memory bus (819 GB/s) and starts at $3,999 (96GB of RAM). It can be done....

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    Comment #48484104

    How does it compare to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436863 ?

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    Comment #48304402

    Ticket quotas.

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    Comment #48289114

    Use EMV 3DS 2.x authentication with liability shift protection?

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    Comment #48278417

    "... this flying wing will burn 50% less fuel than today's jets..."[1] [1] https://time.com/7292452/jetzero-low-carbon-air-travel/

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    Comment #48186392

    It would depend on exactly how the records were obtained. If hypothetically she paid a nurse $100 for it (and had done so many times in the past), that could be criminally liable. …

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    Comment #48185826

    If you induce someone to violate HIPAA who is covered by it (like say a nurse at a hospital), you can be criminally liable. There is no carve-out for journalists. BOTH the person w…

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    Comment #48185280

    A. That's how I read it too. B. You can be criminally liable for HIPAA violations, if you induce someone covered by them to violate them. See for example https://www.justice.gov/us…

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    Comment #48099199

    https://www.codereviewbench.com/ https://codereview.withmartian.com/

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    Comment #48094813

    When it's ICE it's both :-(

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    Comment #47941773

    That's coming out in https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-crescent-island by around the end of the year.

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    Comment #47918411

    Microsoft has https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/01/26/maia-200-the-ai-... already.

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    Comment #47860618

    > Acetylcysteine That's NAC (N-acetylcysteine, C5H9NO3S), mentioned in the article many times.

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    Comment #47822325

    4 DIMMS =/= 4 channels

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    Comment #47812392

    Because Cerebras handles large models poorly due to latency/bandwidth issues to main memory. See https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/ where its performance is …

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    Comment #47741439

    Pat has been on record many times that he was against dividends but the board declared them anyway.

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    Comment #47570226

    Isn't that just 2x supersampling? If you want "perfect" antialiasing that's the minimum you need, no?