AdrianTheFrog
@AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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- 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? 2 hours 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? 15 hours ago:
I think if you install enough plugins you can get that similar experience from freecad
- Comment on Choose your Fighter 2 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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"? 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
It sounds a lot more cost effective to get a used mini-pc than a flagship phone for any sort of server stuff.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
There’s like photogrammetry and stuff that happens on phones now!
No, the photogrammetry apps all use cloud processing. The LIDAR ones don’t, but that’s only for Apple phones and the actual mesh quality is pretty bad.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
you could be rendering, simulating, running virtual machines
On a phone? I guess you could, although 4gb is probably enough for any video game that any amount of people use.
- Comment on space 2 months ago:
Time machines don’t exist and (as far as we know) cannot exist. Therefore, we can say they work however we want. If you can travel back in time, surely you can do that while remaining close to an arbitrary point of reference.
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
I haven’t had any completely fail yet, but I’ve seen some come worryingly close. I don’t really have all that much experience, but from what I’ve seen it just doesn’t seem like the most reliable design.
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
The problem is, when working with electronics, you can have a great screwdriver but it won’t help if the screws in the device are very cheap (and probably partially stripped already from someone opening it previously).
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 3 months ago:
I think it’s mostly because the people who use linux are the people who are interested in FOSS software, which lemmy also is.
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 3 months ago:
I can run a small LLM on my 3060, but most of those models were originally trained on a cluster of a100s (maybe as few as 10, so more like one largish server than one datacenter)
Bitnet came out recently and is looking like it will lower these requirements significantly (essentially training a model using ternary numbers instead of floats to reduce requirements, which turns out to not lower the quality that significantly)
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 3 months ago:
I would say that around half of AI development is free and open source.
- Comment on CFCs 3 months ago:
It had no payload on any of its flights. Rockets that have enough time/money put into development to have a reasonable expectation of working on the first try (and don’t have such a unique design) normally launch with a payload on their first flight. Sometimes, even those fail on the first few flights. Having the first few of a new rocket design fail before reliability is achieved is common (ex: Astra) and SpaceX’s other rocket, the Falcon 9, is known as the most reliable rocket, even achieving landings more often than most others do launches.
- Comment on CFCs 3 months ago:
I think everything works in windows but the old windows media player. You can test it by setting the time in a windows VM to 2039.
- Comment on What game fits this? 4 months ago:
- Comment on Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation 6 months ago:
Some of the models I’ve tried have been convinced they are ChatGPT, even if I tell them otherwise.
- Comment on A genre of Country Music... 7 months ago:
He got most of paypal by default early on as his product (the original X) merged with theirs, and then was kicked out (but retained a lot of stock) after doing a bad job at management.