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- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 5 days ago:
A selfish asshole that drives predictably is safer than a generous driver that yields the row.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 week ago:
Agreed.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 week ago:
It’s not a fair comparison then is it? $80/hr is an expensive but outrageously so handyman, plus they have their own tools to purchase and maintain and other business operating overhead (fuel and transportation maintenance) etc.
DIY—if you’re able—is always less expensive.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 week ago:
It’s a for-profit service that people use to rent-out, and rent-in their tools. Not a true library so to speak but seeks to accomplish the same. Except that people charging $20/day to rent their battery-powered Ryobi drill is absurd.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 week ago:
There is a “tool library” sort of service (for profit) operating in my area. The prices are absurd—people are charging like $20/day for a tool that would cost $100 new. My projects often span multiple days, especially if there’s an unforeseen delay—which there always is because I’m a good engineer but a shitty carpenter.
I don’t use the service. I’m all for communal ownership but it still has to make sense.
- Comment on It's a trap! 2 weeks ago:
Green Skittles
- Comment on Morish Morals 2 weeks ago:
Well well well. I’m trained as a biochemical engineer and turned my career into AI engineering, working at a space company. So when Skynet launches the bioweapons of mass fuck against humans, I guess I was the supervillain after all.
- Comment on epidemiology 2 weeks ago:
That thing that gets routinely ignored by every starship captain ever?
- Comment on Mola the Fucktress 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm; definitely wanted to kill myself while studying PChem and Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics.
- Comment on epidemiology 2 weeks ago:
Warp drive will really fuck up a lot of civilizations.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 3 weeks ago:
It’s just a fancy list of fancy lists! :D
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 3 weeks ago:
Ooh, do tensors next!
You should ask your biologist friend and your physicist friend and your compsci friend to debate about what vectors are. Singularities, too.
- Comment on Beansitive 3 weeks ago:
A Negative ION Cats are the opposite. And something about OIL RIG.
Why the fuck are cats living on oil rigs?
This shit is way too basic, yo. Ima go trip some acid and come back and kill the Orgo final. Those reaction mechanisms ain’t got shit on me.
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 5 weeks ago:
Telling people to suck on Chef’s Chocolate Salty Balls was one of my favorites parts of my fucked up childhood.
- Comment on magic beneath the forests 5 weeks ago:
Or dead. Choose wisely.
- Comment on periodic tablets 1 month ago:
Certainty I can’t help you with, but statistical confidence let’s go.
- Comment on Sahara dust cloud smothers Germany, France and Switzerland 1 month ago:
Looks like SoCal fire season. Welcome to the haze.
- Comment on No Man's Sky 4.6 'Orbital' adds starship customization and a space station overhaul 1 month ago:
They could have just taken everyone’s money and ran and told everyone to get bent. Too many indie game studios do exactly this.
I’m not saying the over promise and under deliver model is praiseworthy. Rather, I try to view this more as a product of the software development lifecycle. Develop and deliver the mvp, try to recoup some costs to pay investors and staff and invest more by following the customers’ feedback as to what to build next. Would we all like to have everything right now? Of course but that is also just not really feasible. Software is hard to write and notoriously difficult to maintain specific timelines.
- Comment on No Man's Sky 4.6 'Orbital' adds starship customization and a space station overhaul 1 month ago:
Am a starship collector. I feel: Fucking Finally! Should’ve been this way from day 0.
Just leave my golden vector and utopia speeders alone.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 2 months ago:
It’s part of Vegas’ branding strategy.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
- Comment on Playing GameCube classics, but in 4K on a Mac with PlayStation controllers, just like Nintendo intended. 2 months ago:
Most emulators have video rendering filters for this kind of concern; they have for a long time. SNES9X from more than a decade ago already implemented.
- Comment on Giving proper credit... 2 months ago:
Let’s amend the publishing standards to include a {} trailing every sentence, indicating which author’s contribution it was.{Targz} If that sentence is referenced, then the curly brace will indicate who decided to read and quote the paper; the original author of that paper should still be cited appropriately to the publishing standard (IEEE, etc.){Targz} While this may seem cumbersome, it sufficiently addresses the notion that “Authorship order makes for fraught debates in academia.”[1]{Targz}{Targz}
Anything less would be uncivilized.[2]{Targz}
- Demaine, Erik & Demaine, Martin. (2023). Every Author as First Author.
- Barkley, Charles. (1994). Right Guard. m.youtube.com/watch?v=eXce26k-leU
- Comment on Choose your ultimate lineup! 2 months ago:
SOAD twice.
- Comment on Indian Government to block ProtonMail after bomb threats were sent using a ProtonMail account 2 months ago:
Wonder if they’d block Gmail, too.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 2 months ago:
ONNX Runtime is actually decently well optimized to run on CPUs; even with large models. However, the simple truth is that there’s really no escaping that Billion+parameter models need to be quantized and even pruned heavily to fit in memory and not saturate the CPU cache so inferences/generations don’t take forever. That’s a reduction in accuracy, so the quality of the generations aren’t great.
There is a lot of really interesting research and development being done right now on smart quantization and pruning. Model serving technologies are improving rapidly too—paged attention is a really cool technique for effectively leveraging tensor core hardware—I don’t think that’s supported on CPU yet but it’s probably not that far off.
It’s a really active field and there’s just as much interest in running huge models on huge hardware as there is big models on small hardware.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck May Have A Rust Problem 2 months ago:
Nah, that’s without Rekts.
- Comment on Google Bard is dead, long live Google Gemini 3 months ago:
ChatGPT is 4 syllables.
- Comment on I had some that looked exactly like this 3 months ago:
Nothing more permanent than a temporary government installation.
- Comment on Games with characters you miss most after completion. 3 months ago:
Witcher3 upon finishing Blood&Wine - there was such a void in my life after the closing scenes. Like I’d just watched my best friends move away across the world, knowing that I would probably never see them again.
- Comment on Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives 4 months ago:
As your ANAL Attorney, I advise you to take less Psyllium Fiber Optic Husk to prevent further Ethernet runs.