floquant
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- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 6 hours ago:
They suspended access to WARP from London during the outage, so I guess the traffic was originating/hitting that location
- Comment on 1 day ago:
You’re both right imo. LLMs and every subsequent improvement are fundamentally ruined by marketing heads like oh so many things in the history of computing, so even if agentic AI is actually an improvement, it doesn’t matter because everyone is using it to do stupid fucking things.
- Comment on Energy drinks 2 days ago:
Discover all the funny rhythms your heart can make!
- Comment on Orca Slicer sometimes doesn't Z-Hop 3 days ago:
I don’t have a solution for you, but I just wanted to say that z-hopping sometimes causes more defects than without, in my experience. With my extruder at least, it’s more likely to leave behind a blob if lifting, while with a classic retract+wipe the nozzle stays “plugged”. I also used to get mad at the nozzle going through a layer and leaving a mark, but then realised that it really doesn’t matter unless it’s a top layer. You also save a little little bit of time by not z-hopping.
I do hope you find an answer though, everyone should print with whatever parameters they like :)
- Comment on OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military 4 days ago:
Such open, much democratic
- Comment on I will never not be angry they we are made to believe these types of comments are genuine discourse. Why is it defeatism is always the top comment even when your talking about a pedophile president? 5 days ago:
If you (the American people) don’t hold your politicians accountable for what they do, no one else will
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 5 days ago:
I’m running it on my raspi but it seems like the repos have been frozen for a while now?
- Comment on He's on a mission 6 days ago:
I really don’t get it, even the shittiest $2 lights make a huge difference. I’ve seriously considered buying a bunch to keep in my bag and just hand them out.
And the worst are electric scooters that have nice, built-in lights and people still don’t turn them on.
- Comment on turing completeness 1 week ago:
The laws are not profitable, so why would they implement them? /s
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 week ago:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but as far as I know there haven’t been significant changes in Li-Ion and LiPo batteries aside from extra density - which would only increase the effect. But it seems like solid-state batteries are starting to hit the real world now
- Comment on Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft 1 week ago:
I’d like to see you bring a printed scan of a passport to an airport lmao
- Comment on In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia 1 week ago:
Ah yes, propaganda is only made for profit. Also, there is no money in Russia
- Comment on Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft 1 week ago:
I cannot magically clone physical objects, nor send them over the internet
- Comment on red-... lemmy moment 1 week ago:
There’s no such thing as a Lemmy moment, only instance/community/mod moments. Name and shame for !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft 1 week ago:
Still waiting for the day someone can actually steal something via the internet. Making copies is not theft
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 week ago:
Heh, me too. DBAs are to sysadmins what sysadmins are to devs
- Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored? 2 weeks ago:
Knowledge in general, they just call that “copyright infringement”
- Comment on OpenAI moves to allow “mature apps” on its platforms 2 weeks ago:
“apps” on its “platforms”? What, is he claiming that ChatGPT is an OS now?
- Comment on NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes Data Centers to Space 2 weeks ago:
Even a single bolt is not exactly fun when it hits you at several km/s
- Comment on NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes Data Centers to Space 2 weeks ago:
Boo, the IEEE is shoveling Nvidia too?
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 weeks ago:
Not in a completely analog system, because there’s no conversion between the analog and digital domains. Sure, a big advantage of digital is that it’s much much less sensitive to signal degradation.
What you’re referring to as “analog audio hardware” seems to be just digital audio hardware, which will always have analog components because that’s what sound is. But again, amplifiers, microphones, analog mixers, speakers, etc have no bit depth or sampling rate. They have gains, resistances and power ratings that digital doesn’t have, which of course pose their own challenges
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 weeks ago:
How is it imprecise? It’s the same thing as taking two containers of water and pouring them into a third one. It will contain the sum of the precious two exactly. Or if you use gears to simulate orbits. Rounding errors are a digital thing.
Analog has its own set of issues (e.g. noise, losses, repeatability), but precision is not one of them. Arguably, the main reason digital took over is because it’s programmable and it’s good for general computing. Turing completeness means you can do anything if you throw enough memory and time at it, while analog circuits are purpose-made
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
Eh, windows definitely throws more shit to fix at you. Apple either works or needs to be taken to an apple store
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
They are either database administrators or completely oblivious to modern technology
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need to simulate float addiction. You can sum two voltages by just connecting two wires - and that’s real number addition
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 weeks ago:
Analog audio hardware has no resolution or bit depth. An analog signal (voltage on a wire/trace) is something physical, so its exact value is only limited by the precision of the instrument you’re using to measure it. It’s when you sample it into a digital system that it gains those properties. You have this the wrong way around. Digital audio (sampling of any analog/“real” signal) will always be an approximation of the real thing, by nature, no matter how many bits you throw at it.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a Veritasium video from 3 years ago about an American company making analog chips, explaining why they are so much more efficient in certain tasks. youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg
It is not an incremental improvement because it’s a radically different approach. This is not like making a new CPU architecture or adding more IPC, it’s doing computation in a whole different way, that is closer to a physical model using springs/gravity/gears/whatever to model something like the Antikythera mechanism or those water-based financial models than any digital computer.
Also, uncritically dismissing anything coming from China as a scam is not being resistant to Chinese propaganda, it’s just falling for the US’.
- Comment on Alphabet Workers Union Statement on YouTube Offering Voluntary Exit Packages 2 weeks ago:
It should be illegal to fire employees if you’re a publicly traded company and your stock is going up. Why would you?
- Comment on Bet tankies are starting to regret their aggressive propaganda. 2 weeks ago:
Bro what
- Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router 2 weeks ago:
One of the few companies that I still “fanboy” for. The functionality and value are unbeatable. You can get most of the features of a $10k Cisco router in a 80$ SoHo Mikrotik. POE in and POE out for cheap so your APs don’t have dangling power adapters. It’s also a Latvian company which to me is a plus over both American and Chinese options