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Re:Awareness at Death on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:58PM (#37851921)
It renders, it just takes time for me.
Re:Awareness at Death on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:27PM (#37851687)
Define reality.
Re:Why Are There So Many Colourful Houses in Bristol? on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:12PM (#37851579)
Ah now that you mention it, that does sound right! I forgot that part of the story.
Re:Why Are There So Many Colourful Houses in Bristol? on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:12PM (#37851574)
Hahaha! :D
Re:M2 Ultra can run 128 streams of Llama 2 7B in parallel on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:00PM (#37851466)
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1#Memory

> The M1 uses a 128-bit LPDDR4X SDRAM in a unified memory configuration shared by all the components of the processor.

I assume that includes the NPU, media engine, etc.

Re:Julia leads Rust,Zig,Go and Java in data processing benchmark on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @06:15PM (#37851006)
Ah interesting. I see it now. Thanks for the reply.
Re:Why Are There So Many Colourful Houses in Bristol? on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @06:14PM (#37850990)
In St. John's NFLD, many houses around the downtown are painted like that as well. I love the look.

Apparently, they would use boat paint because: A) they had a lot of it and B) it holds up well to the elements.

Re:SEC Filing – Microsoft Corporation on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @06:01PM (#37850844)
Only if "penalties and interest" is less than ~2% annually.
Re:Julia leads Rust,Zig,Go and Java in data processing benchmark on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:49PM (#37850697)
How?
Re:Why is there a "Tech, Media, Telecom" sector? on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:37PM (#37850573)
When the term FAANG was coined, those 5 companies were paying engineers around double what they could ask for anywhere else. I believe that's when software engineers started grouping them together. It became a goal for many young engineers to join because of the fantastic salaries/benefits.

Things have changed since then but the point remains, FAANG generally means "large company that pays above market for software developers."

Re:Canada Plans to Regulate Search and Social Media Use of AI on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:03AM (#37828974)
Meh I learned a thing or two.
FPGAs seem like the future.
Re:Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps on Thursday October 05, 2023 @08:32PM (#37785952)
What was apple/mozilla’s feedback?
If you don't like the idea, you don't have to do it. I mean you're making games. There's not much money in that to begin with.
Someone should. I've noticed this phenomenon as well.
I know how you might make money. You build a game. Maybe its fun and ripe for mods like minecraft. Open source it under GPL. Build a community of hackers/gamers who want to learn and collaborate. Have an awesome collection of mods for your game. Once you build a name for yourself, take donations or release a new game or talk at conferences.
Re:I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite (2022) on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:30PM (#37614940)
Yeah it seems to make a lot of sense in ecomm. Product search and filtering on tables in the 1000s rather than the millions.
Re:I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser on Friday September 22, 2023 @09:45AM (#37611990)
People interested in building browsers should look into WebKit. You can use that for HTML/CSS/JS rendering and save a lot of time/effort.
Re:Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing? on Monday September 18, 2023 @11:24PM (#37565277)
The stock market I’m guessing.
Re:Defcon talk shows cops are trackable, like AirTags on Sunday September 10, 2023 @09:15AM (#37455537)
Right. But let’s make sure there’s a replacement first.
Re:Defcon talk shows cops are trackable, like AirTags on Saturday September 09, 2023 @12:08AM (#37442208)
50 up 85 down is the natural way to drive. It’s a waste of fuel to brake downhill (beyond reason).
Re:Emoji Generator with AI on Friday September 08, 2023 @11:06AM (#37434459)
Does fly do runaway billing?
Re:PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril on Friday September 08, 2023 @11:02AM (#37434418)
If you require 500 instances of your app to scale, how do you get away with just a single DB instance?
Thank you for the script. Very helpful.
Don't you reach a point of diminishing returns even with that?
Travels a good one. Also, it's nice to be able to use personal devices for work stuff. Say you want to read a doc on your iPad or respond to an email on your phone. I totally understand the security perspective though.
Get some sleep. This is utter nonsense.
> some of them even quite severe

I doubt as severe as what Epstein did.

Re:I want to talk about WebGPU on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:29AM (#35802147)
> It really seemed like DirectX (and the "X Box" standalone console it spawned)

Did the name "XBox" come from the fact that in ran DirectX? Sort of short for DirectXBox?

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