trist.am
Recovering from BigTech. Procgen and 3D rendering enthusiast. Future farmer. Lead engineer @surgicaldsc.bsky.social
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Ah, gotcha. I do that with email providers and what not, but not Apple Id for some reason. It’s mostly only connected to app purchases for me 🤷♀️
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Does your work actually provision their own Apple IDs? I’ve always just had my personal Apple ID on work MacBooks
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Especially as solar power continues to ramp up. Peak AC draw tends to line up nicely with peak solar generation
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I should absolutely be able to climb into my own bag of holding
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This is like one of those interview questions where you have to do everything by reversing doubly-linked lists 😅
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Not many Kickstarter campaigns very clearly explain that to their audience either. This one doesn’t really seem to have disclosed ahead of time that the Kickstarter funding was only meant to fund the demo to take to publishers
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Also a lesson about incentive design. A number of delivery companies base their bonuses on percentage of packages marked as delivered on the first attempt…
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What frontier models were available publicly last summer? (given that the paper was submitted in October)
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It really needs to be funding for a maintainer. Having your engineers airdrop a PR still incurs a bunch of overhead (code review, release management, etc)
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Afternoons are a real crapshoot though. If you look at your phone mid-afternoon, that might just be it for the day
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Hah. You are not alone in that! On the other hand, free super-sampling? 😂
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It's a very interesting change in terms of endgame balance. Knights and bishops being significantly harder to checkmate with, you've effectively cut the number of useful promotions in half (and they fall in between the useful ones)
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That’s just a side effect of IEEE floats using a sign bit. If you are working with twos complement integers, then you don’t have a negative zero, no problem.
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If you look at the back buffer dimensions it should be 2940x1912. So it’s the actual pixel ratio between the scaled and full resolution buffers.
They just neglect to tell you about the final step where they downscale 2940x1912 back to 2560x1664
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Apple does some funky math with scaled resolutions. Because 1280 would feel cramped, the scaled resolutions are based on a resolution higher than the actual display - I believe 2940x1912 in this case
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Obviously both keys and doors should have an RGB colour applied, and you just match them up that way
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There are a bunch of gaming-oriented NUC-style boxes these days, but they also mostly cost about as much as gaming laptops 🤷♀️
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I feel like this is not an entirely unreasonable result?
If we run with the naive implementation of `sign (x) --> x > 0 ? 1 : (x < 0 ? -1 : x)` it works even for floating point (i.e. handles NaN correctly), and `sign(-0) == -0` is just a side effect one lives with
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It was pretty wide-spread a while back at Amazon/Meta, think maybe we picked it up from of one of the agile books?
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A billion queries a day, courtesy of OpenAI's own tweet this past December, multiplied by the water usage per query in the original screenshot 🤷♀️
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Not informative in the sense that they are intentionally trying to whitewash this by providing the totals. If that article said "inference consumes a million gallons a day", we'd be starting this conversation from a somewhat different place.
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The last usage stats I saw placed OpenAI at over a billion inferences a day - taking Sam's number above, that's would nearly be nearly a million gallons a day
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I don't think those numbers are very informative without the matching usage stats - when we're talking about bigtech firms who already use upwards of 100 million tonnes of water per year to cool their datacenters, even a marginal increase can place significant pressure on their environment
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Indeed, but the general principle holds - we exist as part of a complex ecosystem, and nothing is entirely "free". Pulling water from a zone like the olympic peninsula with above-average rainfall may be ok, or it may cause cascading effects on persistent issues like drought, salmon, etc
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Ah yes, the PNW, a region where one often enjoys the drifting clouds of ash and smoke from the raging forest fires
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I feel like the big incestuous circle of owning the ad network, the surface the ad is displayed on, and the metrics that tell you if your ad is working... has something to do with it
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Right, turns out that the vast majority of folks praising AI coding is building very standard react/node CRUD apps
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Though they do have an unfortunate tendency to shill AI every time one logs in 🫠
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Would an explicit cast to int also suppress the warning?
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Eh, keep in mind that Silicon Valley founder types are all VC funded and madly chasing that exit. If you haven’t someone to acquire you in 4 years, you are most likely on the verge of bankruptcy
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Is it materially different than when we excommunicated the crypto / web3 / NFT grifters a few years back?
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I long for the days when we just sailed into the harbour and presented our passports…
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Just be careful which hardware you buy too. Subscriptions on hardware are all too common these days 🫠
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Is "Eutopia" the European Union's final form?
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PowerToys in general feels like an end-run around internal politics. Basically every utility in there could just be part of the OS - but that would require buy-in from a whole bunch more execs...
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I had a mystery parcel that was unable to be released from customs for the same reason (no way to tell them what was inside). After 6 weeks they returned it to sender 🤷♀️
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I wonder what the odds are of them being viewed more kindly in 20 years? The general feeling about the prequels seems distinctly more rosy now than shortly after release
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There has to be one of those YouTubers who has built an entire house using only a hammer
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This is kind of the same root problem, though. You have fast internet access, a fast DB engine, and then there is a giant node js backend service in the middle that somehow adds 300ms to every request…
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Sorry to hear about the health issues. That is an extremely metal computing setup!
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as one of my better managers used to say, "its your mental health, nobody else can tell you whether or not you need to take a day"
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IIRC, it's split into vertical "levels" that you move between with up/down on the d-pad, orbit with the analog stick, and zoom in/out with the shoulder buttons
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On reflection, I'll give a shout out to Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor in this context. They have some very complicated level geometry, and the map does a really good job of making it readable
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… can you fit it in 4 kilobytes?
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You mean you didn’t run out to buy an NVidia card in the mid 2000’s, just to see all the awnings flap in the breeze???
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Are there any examples of games that did the 3d dungeon map thing really well? I feel like we’ve returned to 2D dungeons en masse because the overlapping paths always make the map display cranky
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We also have ‘docena’, which is a more literal translation of dozen
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It's mostly just carbs that are harder to break down. We can't *directly* digest fibre, but our gut bacteria do break it down for food, and we get to absorb the outputs of that reaction
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CEOs demonstrating that we don’t need CEOs, repeatedly