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The only (tiny) issue I've had with Tailscale on Kobo has been that the tailscale daemon prevents me from using the Kobo in Mass Storage Mode while it's active, so I have to disabl…

OTOH, koreader on the Scribe post jailbreak is easily the best large format PDF reading experience I've ever had.

Profits from the stake lower taxes that would otherwise be levied on you? Of course that’s moot if the deficit isn’t something being taken seriously.

No, of course, but is the primary focus of the bulk of the staff educational or patient care? Seems disingenuous to pretend it's the former just to make a point.

I mean, if you tack on a hospital to a university, the correct denominator to compare against is "patients served," not "students educated," at least for the portion of the headcou…

https://planetbanatt.net/articles/mla.html this is a great overview of how MLA works.

The key idea of Latent MHA is that "regular" multi-headed attention needs you to keep a bunch of giant key-value (KV) matrices around in memory to do inference. The "Latent" part j…

Foundations don't change much with "the speed of development"

Somebody else pointed out that it's likely just an alert, not a hard limit, which checks out given Firebase documentation ( https://firebase.google.com/docs/projects/billing/avoid-…

If the texts were incomprehensible to parents, how were they comprehensible to their intended recipients?

It plays out this way because anything anyone buys with a credit card, reward card or not, ends up costing 2-3% more than it would otherwise have, because of interchange fees. If y…

The linked to Atlantic article literally makes the opposite point; the subtitle there is "Blaming the housing crisis on hedge funds and private equity may be easy, but it’s dead wr…

It depends on what your goal is; for some tasks it's possible that getting the AI to do it is best, but, e.g. the existence of auto-pilot doesn't mean that hobbyist pilots wouldn't…

Wait are y'all the folks who moved together cross-country so you could be neighbors with your siblings?

With the regular magnets, you'd have to hold them in places, since otherwise they'd rotate in place and fall back down, attracted to each other.

Wait, where do the other two units of water go?

Cool call-out there, I hadn't realized praseodymium and neodymium are actually short for praseodidyium and neodidymium ("green" and "new" didymium, respectively). Having all three …

This post kind of worked out great for me, since they've been out of stock on their main website every time I've tried to get one, but it looks like they're back now and I was able…

Huh, I really thought `shufti` was a typo in this context, and one that sounded funny to my Middle Eastern ears, so I was surprised to discover it's a real word, albeit with Middle…

How does the floor rate make it a less terrible credit card?

How does one power active RF emitters on miles and miles of road surface? The vast majority of surface level roadway doesn’t even have powered illumination in most places, which le…

What language(s) do you do most of your work in?