AdrianTheFrog
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- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
Archinstall is super easy, relatively. Just copy a few commands from the wiki to join a wifi network and then it will take everything from there.
- Comment on Square! 1 month ago:
quick test, with that prompt and flux schnell gguf 4 bit again:
- pentagon: 1
- hexagon: 9
- heptagon: 2
- octagon: 7
- decagon: 1
it seems a lot stupider than pro lol
- Comment on Square! 1 month ago:
I thought this couldn’t be true, so using one of the newer models (4bit flux) I told it to make a 5 sided star, and then put lines around the outside
lol this is very weird, did they forbid it from looking at pentagons in the training data or something? it can’t do The Pentagon either, it gives it 8-12 sides instead
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
I actually had a problem where on Chrome, I would be signed out of my google account every time I restart my computer, while on Firefox, everything works normally. I use Firefox now lol.
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
- Comment on Breakthrough barium titanate solar panels are 1000x more powerful than existing panels 2 months ago:
Most solar panels are ~20% efficient. So (100-20)/1000=0.08%, 100-0.08=99.92% efficient (1000x less energy loss) (you could do it the other way, but that would make less sense)
- Comment on A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force 2 months ago:
me when I don’t have proper fallback fonts installed:
- Comment on A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force 2 months ago:
lol boeing gest like half of their money from the government. perhaps we should start doing some actual regulation
- Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip 2 months ago:
Check how large your photos library is on your computer. Now wouldn’t it be nice if it was 40% smaller?
- Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip 2 months ago:
jpeg xl lossless is around 50% smaller than pngs on average, which is a huge difference
- Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip 2 months ago:
JPEG XL in lossless mode actually gives around 50% smaller file sizes than PNG
- Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip 2 months ago:
its royalty free and has an open source implementation, what more could you want?
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 3 months ago:
next up: microsoft announces development of Bethesda’s next game will be largely outsourced
- Comment on Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back 3 months ago:
Wow, I’m glad I have auto-renew enabled.
- Comment on I liked Fusion 360, I like Onshape - but I'd rather like something that I won't lose over the whims of one company. So, what? 4 months ago:
I haven’t used ondsel myself but can’t you configure modernui to look similar?
- Comment on I liked Fusion 360, I like Onshape - but I'd rather like something that I won't lose over the whims of one company. So, what? 4 months ago:
I think if you install enough plugins you can get that similar experience from freecad
- Comment on Choose your Fighter 4 months ago:
Birds are dinosaurs in the way tomatoes are fruits
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 5 months ago:
Yeah, I think games just take longer to develop nowadays than anyone is prepared for, especially the managers. Both companies and gamers have yet to realize that there is only so much you can accomplish in a certain span of time.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 6 months ago:
Double-ended extension cords belongs in the top left right corner. Sounds bad and is bad.
Remember, you’re probably more technical than the average person. Double ended extension chords sound fine if you haven’t heard of them before until you think about it for five seconds.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 months ago:
Qualcomm is listed as having $10 billion in yearly profits (Intel has ~20B, Nvidia has ~80B), the news articles I can find about Rabbit say its raised around $20 million in funding ($0.02 billion). It takes a lot of money to make decent custom chips.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 months ago:
They’re not a chip manufacturer though, and modern phone processors are already fast enough to do near real time text generation and fast image generation (20 tokens/second llama 2, ~1 second for a distilled SD 1.5, on Snapdragon 8 Gen 3)
Unfortunately, the cheapest phones with that processor seem about $650, and the Rabbit R1 costs $200 and uses a MediaTek Helio P35 from late 2018.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 6 months ago:
A requirement for them to receive $7.5 billion in government funding for charger construction was for them to allow other cars to charge on their network, which required opening the standard.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 6 months ago:
It hasn’t been proprietary for a little while, its an official standard now. They had to open it in order to receive government funding for charger construction.
The North American Charging Standard (NACS), being standardized as SAE J3400, is an electric vehicle (EV) charging connector system developed by Tesla, Inc. It has been used by all North American market Tesla vehicles since 2021 and was opened for use by other manufacturers in November 2022. It is backwards compatible with the proprietary Tesla connectors made before 2021. (link)
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 6 months ago:
I stopped being a Musk supporter when I found out he had a twitter.
I still think all of his companies are doing (to various extents) genuinely cool and useful things, but Musk in recent years at least has shown himself to be a terrible manager (not to mention a terrible person)
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 6 months ago:
Because that’s expensive and can be done with a camera.
Expensive, as in probably less than $600? Compared to the $35000 cost of a tesla?
(comparing the cost of the iPhone 12 (without lidar) and iPhone 12 pro (with lidar), we can guess that the sensor probably costs less than $200, so 3 of them (for left, right, and front) would cost probably less than $600)
lidar can actually be very cheap and small. Unfortunately, Apple bought the only company that seems to make sensors like that (besides some other super high end models)
There have been a lot of promising research papers on the technology lately though, so I expect more, higher resolution and cheaper lidar sensors to be available relatively soon (next couple years probably).
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 6 months ago:
Having anything that can save lives over an alternative is an improvement. In general. Yes, we should be pushing for safer self driving, and regulating that. But if we can start saving lives now, then sooner is better than later.
- Comment on Why do cameras call it "Macro Lens" if it zooms in and is used to capture tiny objects? Shouldn't it be "Micro Lens"? 6 months ago:
Depends, I think. In the same order of magnitude definitely.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 6 months ago:
I got a ThinkCentre M700 with an i7-6700, 16gb of ram and a 256gb SSD for $70 total. It’s really hard to get a phone with anywhere near that value for money.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 6 months ago:
It’s basically just greenwashing. They pretend to be into renewables and recycling only when it doesn’t disincentivize people from buying the newest product. Ex: iPhone trade in for recycling - Yes, they do recover some raw material but you can only do it if you’re buying a new iPhone with that credit, and its probably also an attempt to keep cheap used iPhones off of the market.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 6 months ago:
Their CPUs are actually really good now, when the apps are actually optimized for them. Especially in single core, they are very competitive with top Intel or AMD chips while being way more power efficient.
ex: in Geekbench 5.1 single core the M2 max gets 1967 points (85%) compared to 2311 points from the 7950X3D and 2369 from the 14900k. The M2 max (12 cores (8 p + 4 e), 12 threads) can draw a maximum of 36 watts while the 7950X3D (16 cores, 32 threads) can draw around 250 watts, and the 14900k (16 cores (8 p + 16 e), 32 threads) can draw around 350 watts.
Apple’s GPUs are definitely lacking though, in terms of performance.
