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- Comment on Framework Laptop 16, six months later 23 hours ago:
I cannot find the reference to the port being flimsy. I did however find the part where the top hotswap component (touchpad and the place where the plate is) is having problems. The only side port that they mention is the charging port. But the again, as I said, the firmware must be redone to account for said removeable dGPU. Now you may be wondering how big of an effect does it make when adding removeable dGPU. Off the top of my head, the motherboard must have the power supply circuitry remade to account for the additional power draw when needed. That alone will make the firmware for power control need to be redone. It can have wide range of effect for other components too because power firmware is really far reaching and may break assumption in other firmware. Not to mention a part of the cooling system is also removeable now. Framework has gone out of their way trying to invent a new standard for removeable dGPU on a laptop.
Btw, here is the quoted article that mentions the side port.
Twice, the touchpad suddenly stopped scrolling and stopped accepting button presses until I physically removed it from the system and reseated it. I’ve repeatedly gotten a Windows message about how my “USB device might have limited functionality when connected to this port” even if I’m just plugging in the charger.
- Comment on Framework Laptop 16, six months later 1 day ago:
Oh really? I didn’t know that once since I only referenced the article. The article had issues with the modular top side, not the port. So I guess we were talking differently from the beginning.
- Comment on Framework Laptop 16, six months later 1 day ago:
Uhh, does the model 13 have a modular panel? IIRC, they don’t. Also, manufacturing modular panel and modular port are very different and the knowledge transfer cannot be that big. The port for example has a looser tolerance since they aren’t really that visible most of the time. So being snug but not flush is good enough. I can imagine the panel doesn’t have that luxury. Stability issue, that I can agree. But then again, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt since they must handle additional assumptions that cannot be made on other laptops. Namely, modular GPU. Writing a firmware with that new assumption could be a PITA.
- Comment on Framework Laptop 16, six months later 1 day ago:
You do realize the 13 doesn’t have the back part for replaceable dedicated GPU right? That means the chassis itself must be redesigned since the hole will make the previous experience in the 13 different enough.
- Comment on Encrypted P2P Chat 2 days ago:
For NAT, there is apparently a way to traverse NAT. I haven’t tried it tho, but the dude has a lot of research on the topic (NAT traversal), so if that didn’t work, maybe others will
- Comment on Steam announces game recording beta. 2 days ago:
Uhhh, no. I think it is better to implement something akin to federation than breaking up a company just because. If anyone wanted to sue valve, then they can enforce interoperability at the very least. But not dividing their business model. We don’t force apple to split their software and hardware did we? We force apple to have a choice of interoperability. From then, it is all fair since anyone can link their data from valve and any other store that opt to implement the interoperability protocol.
- Comment on Steam announces game recording beta. 2 days ago:
Why can’t anyone develop said features? Should the competitor worsen themselves just because no one is able to develop the same features? As far as I remember, valve doesn’t patent something ridiculous like regional pricing or family sharing, so anyone is welcome to develop it themselves. They even make proton open source but apparently Epic doesn’t like the idea of them on the linux market.
- Comment on Steam announces game recording beta. 2 days ago:
So let me get this straight. Any client that wanted to have steam features, like the forum, hosting, workshop, chat, and all the jazz, should be able to do so without paying steam any fee? Why didn’t they develop it themselves? Or should steam sell that as a service to those who wanted it? Say for example, epic wanted to have family sharing. Steam should sell their family sharing feature to epic as a service?
- Comment on Japanese Publishers Invest in AI Manga Translation Startup 3 days ago:
A word strings together form a sentence which carries meaning yes, that is language. And the order of those words will affect the meaning too, as in any language. LLM then will reflect those statistically significant words together as a feature in higher dimensional space. Now, LLM themselves don’t understand it nor can it reason from those feature. But it can find a distance in those spaces. And if for example a lot of similar kanji and the translation appear enough times, LLM will make the said kanji and translation closer together in the feature space.
The more token size, the more context and more precise the feature will be. You should understand that LLM will not look at a single kanji in isolation, rather it can read from the whole page or book. So a single kanji may be statistically paired with the word “king” or whatever, but with context from the previous token it can become another word. And again, if we know the literary art in advance, we could use the different model for the type of language that is usually used for that. You can have a shonen manga translator for example, or a web novel about isekai models. Both will give the best result for their respective types of art.
I am not saying it will give 100% correct results, but neither does human translation as it will always be a lossy process. But you do need to understand that statistical models aren’t inherently bad at embedding different meanings for the same word. “Ruler” in isolation will be statistically likely to be an object used to measure or a person in charge of a country depending on the model used. But “male ruler” will have a significantly different location in the feature space for the same LLM for the former, or closer for the latter case.
- Comment on Japanese Publishers Invest in AI Manga Translation Startup 3 days ago:
This is actually one of the best use cases of LLM. Indeed there is culture and nuance that may be lost in translation, but so does every other translation. And most of the time, if we know the literary art being translated ahead of time, we can predict a higher use of more nuanced language and adjust accordingly or skim it by a human.
After all, most “AI” is basically feature embedding in higher dimensions. A different language that refers to the same concept should appear close to each other in those dimensions.
- Comment on Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration - Liliputing 3 days ago:
Emulation time it is!
- Comment on Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs 5 days ago:
Good
- Comment on 'One of the wildest Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding 6 days ago:
Can’t have cache latency if there is no cache!
- Comment on Toolboxes 1 week ago:
I never saw the logo in such a high definitions before.
- Comment on "Plus-Sized Elf" Character Elfuda Named Ambassador for the Japan French Fries Association - Collaboration Visual 1 week ago:
Like French?
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 5 weeks ago:
From the pareto principle it can be said that if the cost for adding a feature for the little percentage of users is quite high, it is not worth it.
- Comment on Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ 1 month ago:
Hoho man, that naming scheme made me shiver. Bonus points since old and new exist at the same time
- Comment on Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo 1 month ago:
Yeah, I also realized that after posting the comment
- Comment on Sony Music warns AI companies against “unauthorized use” of its content 1 month ago:
Words can be copyrighted and licensed. Otherwise books and scientific journals protection are also meaningless. What some commenters do is just stating that their content is licensed under a certain term in the addition of whatever else the EULA/ToS for the service imposed on, provided there is no conflict.
- Comment on Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo 1 month ago:
Huh. To be fair, I can see A on adobe logo but also delta on the delta logo. I think the negative space on the adobe logo makes the A more stand out, but the delta logo isn’t using much of the negative space, hence the delta is more prominent. But I don’t know if that is enough to not be trademark infringement.
- Comment on [Troubleshooting] Clog Guy is back, and things have completely ceased making sense. 1 month ago:
Have you tried changing the pi as I suggested before? If the problem still persists, then there could be something wrong with the power supply or your house electricity. Because other than that, the only possibility is its haunted.
- Comment on Google patches its fifth zero-day vulnerability of the year in Chrome 1 month ago:
I think the language is fair here since there are a lot of developers working on chrome. The language enabling mistakes like this is the fault because the sheer size of the project itself makes it unlikely any single person understands the whole codebase in detail. But then again, the C++ version used also matters since modern C++ also has tools to avoid footguns, but chrome predates those tools so shit is already set in stone.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Expert Sex Change?
- Comment on How Open Hardware Empowers Users | iFixit News 1 month ago:
One thing to note about USB-C PD is that the port can be used as regular USB when not used for charging
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 month ago:
Sure, but I specifically ask other launcher. If we are talking no launcher at all then it is a different discussion entirely. If we are talking about not having a launcher, yeah, that is understandable too. But then again, many games have their own launcher
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 month ago:
What other value does the so called other launcher provide? Modding sdk? Community forum? Family sharing? Controller remap?
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 1 month ago:
I assume you are familiar with what CPU architecture is. The famous one is x86 and ARM. This is just another one of those called RISC-V.
The significance is mostly political. US and allies have been trying to sanction China technologically. They even tried to block export of RISC-V, but since it is open source, they can just get fucked. Now, China can only get sub par GPU and limited CPU. Pushing for RISC-V means China is aiming to further develop it to be as capable as the CPU being sanctioned effectively making the sanction useless and even furthering Chinese manufacturing capabilities in the process.
The big advantage is that this is technically more standardized and free. Unlike ARM which require license, RISC-V doesn’t so anyone can make their own CPU and get the software support already in place. Hopefully more CPU manufacturers will be created from the advancement of RISC-V making more fierce competition.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 month ago:
And sony could mandate that the email be a real email, and if you get caught the account gets banned. Congrats, now you invented a game of whack a mole!
- Comment on Is this really the final laptop you will need this guy is claiming? it is completely customizable. 1 month ago:
Alright, other vendor provide an option to have or not to have discrete GPU. Can you change it once a better GPU is available? Can other laptop vendor swap out their display with a touch capable one when needed? (As of now, framework doesn’t have a touchscreen available yet, but IIRC, their board has the capabilities, but then again, their board is so modular that they can offer upgrade for trade-in). Can other vendor have bigger battery when you wanted the bigger battery without affecting other hardware choices? Framework batteries in the 13 series are improved purely by better chemistry. You can replace it with the bigger capacity one.
- Comment on [Troubleshooting] It's the clog guy again - temp readings are bad! 1 month ago:
Yeah, sometimes computer can act normal (boot and everything) but the system has somehow become unstable. Sometimes that means there is improper hardware installation, or in embedded system, something is nearing its end of life due to defect or other myriad of factor.