The incentives aren't there (in my opinion) because the average person doesn't actually want to see that level of info. They're reading (or more likely, skimming) these sorts of reviews to have someone tell them what…
Not the end of the world to deal with, you just have to be very careful. No harder than mobile phone repair if that’s something you’ve ever done
Part of the problem is that any given cooler doesn’t have a single W/K value. It depends on the temperature gradient across the heatsink which depends on airflow over the heatsink (and both the heat and heat density of…
> why would they make it hard to find the thing I just downloaded? In… the downloads folder? How much more obvious does the location need to be?
You can’t change secure boot settings from the OS, even with root. You need the signing keys or to be in BIOS (if it’s configured correctly), which shouldn’t be on the device. Now if the right kernel exploit and a…
If you roll your own keys (preferably in a local HSM and use PKCS#11 for signing, with some kind of local auth) then it’s actually quite a good security feature. Obviously not for Windows, but trivial on Linux. It’s…
>1password If the solution to smooth passkey use is “spend money” why the hell is anyone going to use passkeys over just using passwords for free?
It wouldn't surprise me if there's pressure from Dolby or the media companies to not do so, since Profile 7 is only used on BluRay (and the primary use case for playing back BluRays on Apple TVs I'm pretty sure is not…
Today, just don't connect your smart TV to a network, and you should be fine. (Assuming there's no open/passwordless WiFi networks nearby.) If/when devices start shipping with cellular modems and eSIMs... honestly not…
Settings -> Spotlight -> Turn off everything you don't want. The first few times you open it it even tells you this. Admittedly I haven't confirmed that this results in no API calls in the latest few macOS releases but…
Ignoring the cost of a tape drive, tapes are cheaper per TB, yes. I wouldn’t write off used hard drives though - buying only the cheapest per TB used enterprise drives, I’ve only had a ~5% failure rate across roughly…
EBay has a bunch of LTO-3 tape drives for sale for <$300. LTO-3 is 22 years old and can read LTO-1, originally released 26 years ago. I expect them to still be for sale 20 years from now, albeit fewer in number. I see…
If there are, say, ten thousand license plates of interest at any given time (which seems high), that’s what, 10KB? Not really that hard to update that every 15 minutes (or hell, every minute). I don’t really see any…
Have you ever been to India? In particular Delhi and Gurugram, and the surrounding manufacturing/industrial areas.
Probably the same way they have for the last 30 years: poorly, in a dozen different ways, depending on what that particular hiring manager thinks has correlated with successful hiring in the past
I’m a big proponent of writing simple, understandable code, so I’m playing devil’s advocate here a bit, but: who cares? A significant (majority?) portion of developers have been shipping JavaScript/node applications for…
By the time my plan’s done I’m usually between 200 and 350k context. Even if keeping that around gives a performance bump for the implementation (which I haven’t noticed to be the case) it balloons the cost. I would…
Back of the napkin math says a bare minimum of ~2000kg of solid fuel in three stages to “get to” GEO using a 3-stage rocket, to deliver 1kg of “something.” You’d need a gravity assist highly elliptical orbit which is a…
Well, the alternatives are: > It would be really cool if someone built an extension to show GitHub status live "These already exist, why wouldn't you search before posting?" > There exist quite a few extensions to show…
My uneducated guess says, not much. For running massive models you still need a ton of high-bandwidth interconnects between many individual chips/GPUs/etc since you need to do math across a few TB worth of weights.…
I'm not who you responded to and I don't have any info on Google. Nor can I explain in detail due to NDAs. But multiple major players are working on something along the lines of what the parent is alluding to. The…
How is “all RAM sold in consumer PCs must be registered ECC” equivalent to age verification laws? I’m not saying I agree with the premise but that is a bit of a leap
> ECC DIMMs are available only for the memory speeds guaranteed to work by the manufacturers of CPUs, like Intel and AMD, e.g. for up to DDR5-5600 in UDIMMs or DDR5-6400 in RDIMMs. This is not true[1]. These DIMMs are…
There are absolutely fast DDR5 ECC DIMMs[1]. Just break out your wallet (and piggy bank, and rainy day fund, and..) The main reason there aren’t more options here is that a) high-frequency memory usually isn’t…
I’ve been running a Supermicro X10SLH-LN6TF as my router, and it’s very well suited for the job. Power use is very high for a home router, but reasonable for a 1U router - especially considering the era it’s from and…
The incentives aren't there (in my opinion) because the average person doesn't actually want to see that level of info. They're reading (or more likely, skimming) these sorts of reviews to have someone tell them what…
Not the end of the world to deal with, you just have to be very careful. No harder than mobile phone repair if that’s something you’ve ever done
Part of the problem is that any given cooler doesn’t have a single W/K value. It depends on the temperature gradient across the heatsink which depends on airflow over the heatsink (and both the heat and heat density of…
> why would they make it hard to find the thing I just downloaded? In… the downloads folder? How much more obvious does the location need to be?
You can’t change secure boot settings from the OS, even with root. You need the signing keys or to be in BIOS (if it’s configured correctly), which shouldn’t be on the device. Now if the right kernel exploit and a…
If you roll your own keys (preferably in a local HSM and use PKCS#11 for signing, with some kind of local auth) then it’s actually quite a good security feature. Obviously not for Windows, but trivial on Linux. It’s…
>1password If the solution to smooth passkey use is “spend money” why the hell is anyone going to use passkeys over just using passwords for free?
It wouldn't surprise me if there's pressure from Dolby or the media companies to not do so, since Profile 7 is only used on BluRay (and the primary use case for playing back BluRays on Apple TVs I'm pretty sure is not…
Today, just don't connect your smart TV to a network, and you should be fine. (Assuming there's no open/passwordless WiFi networks nearby.) If/when devices start shipping with cellular modems and eSIMs... honestly not…
Settings -> Spotlight -> Turn off everything you don't want. The first few times you open it it even tells you this. Admittedly I haven't confirmed that this results in no API calls in the latest few macOS releases but…
Ignoring the cost of a tape drive, tapes are cheaper per TB, yes. I wouldn’t write off used hard drives though - buying only the cheapest per TB used enterprise drives, I’ve only had a ~5% failure rate across roughly…
EBay has a bunch of LTO-3 tape drives for sale for <$300. LTO-3 is 22 years old and can read LTO-1, originally released 26 years ago. I expect them to still be for sale 20 years from now, albeit fewer in number. I see…
If there are, say, ten thousand license plates of interest at any given time (which seems high), that’s what, 10KB? Not really that hard to update that every 15 minutes (or hell, every minute). I don’t really see any…
Have you ever been to India? In particular Delhi and Gurugram, and the surrounding manufacturing/industrial areas.
Probably the same way they have for the last 30 years: poorly, in a dozen different ways, depending on what that particular hiring manager thinks has correlated with successful hiring in the past
I’m a big proponent of writing simple, understandable code, so I’m playing devil’s advocate here a bit, but: who cares? A significant (majority?) portion of developers have been shipping JavaScript/node applications for…
By the time my plan’s done I’m usually between 200 and 350k context. Even if keeping that around gives a performance bump for the implementation (which I haven’t noticed to be the case) it balloons the cost. I would…
Back of the napkin math says a bare minimum of ~2000kg of solid fuel in three stages to “get to” GEO using a 3-stage rocket, to deliver 1kg of “something.” You’d need a gravity assist highly elliptical orbit which is a…
Well, the alternatives are: > It would be really cool if someone built an extension to show GitHub status live "These already exist, why wouldn't you search before posting?" > There exist quite a few extensions to show…
My uneducated guess says, not much. For running massive models you still need a ton of high-bandwidth interconnects between many individual chips/GPUs/etc since you need to do math across a few TB worth of weights.…
I'm not who you responded to and I don't have any info on Google. Nor can I explain in detail due to NDAs. But multiple major players are working on something along the lines of what the parent is alluding to. The…
How is “all RAM sold in consumer PCs must be registered ECC” equivalent to age verification laws? I’m not saying I agree with the premise but that is a bit of a leap
> ECC DIMMs are available only for the memory speeds guaranteed to work by the manufacturers of CPUs, like Intel and AMD, e.g. for up to DDR5-5600 in UDIMMs or DDR5-6400 in RDIMMs. This is not true[1]. These DIMMs are…
There are absolutely fast DDR5 ECC DIMMs[1]. Just break out your wallet (and piggy bank, and rainy day fund, and..) The main reason there aren’t more options here is that a) high-frequency memory usually isn’t…
I’ve been running a Supermicro X10SLH-LN6TF as my router, and it’s very well suited for the job. Power use is very high for a home router, but reasonable for a 1U router - especially considering the era it’s from and…