Iridium still has a monopoly on high latitudes, too, AFAIK. Their USP is being the only network that works literally anywhere on the surface of the earth.
A $2500 Mac Studio with M5 Max running Qwen3.8-27b or Gemma4:31b in oMLX gets about the same speeds you quoted... and it comes with a warranty and has enough memory not to choke at longer context lengths.
SSD token caching (like oMLX does) goes a long way for prefill. Typical miss rates are under 5% in long coding sessions, which is mostly the output of a turn's tool use.
iPhones have great cameras. Get a MagSafe mount for on top of the monitor and stick the camera to it. The feature is called "continuity camera", and it works with any Mac app that would use a USB webcam.
The Dell is only 450 nits, and the Kuycon site says the it costs $1050 delivered to the US with a stand ($950 if you BYO VESA stand). Even using the sale prices, an iMac is still cheaper than a Mini with the Kuycon.
And it's almost impossible to find ones that get as bright as Apple monitors for less than Apple charges! My absolute favorite feature of Apple displays is that I don't need to have the brightness cranked to max all the…
That's a common misconception. You can't make the calculation purely on the mass of raw material needed to get a X kg of Y% material. Every enrichment process drops in efficiency as the enrichment increases,…
Because then the distance between earth's pole and equator would no longer be 10,000 km.
Florida has a problem with insurance fraud, which is what drives the rates up. If you can afford to self-insure, the expectation value of doing that is much better than the EV of using a commercial insurer (who has to…
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your suggestion, but shares are already treated as ordinary income when they vest (when the shares are released to you and you first gain the right to sell them). If a company pays you $1M of…
I thought it was obvious that I speaking about marginal use of government services. When a billionaire moves to Wyoming, the marginal tax revenue is far greater than the marginal cost of police services, for example.
A state can justify and sustain higher taxes on the wealthy by offering government services which indirectly benefit the wealthy (the externalities you mention). But it doesn’t follow that an arbitrarily poorly-ran…
The type of people who move from CA to WY for the tax benefits are the type of people who pay more taxes than they use in government services (even with very low tax rates). That means WY can offer more government…
I mean, some customers want the hostel experience, too. The problem is a lot of AirBnB hosts want to offer the hostel experience for hotel prices.
There's a saying "be open-minded, but not so much that your brain falls out". I feel like there needs to be one like that about cynicism.
I'd argue that it is that interesting of a problem because it gives outsiders (us) insight into AirBnB's marketplace dynamics. It has long been obvious that many scammy hosts exist on the platform, and it ought to be…
I want to start by saying I think the AfD is detestable so that you don't get the wrong idea from my question: In other parts of this thread we have people saying that the AfD must be banned because they are a threat to…
I'm not sure whether or not I'd call it a kludge, but the workings are totally unlike the A-3 scrambler. Splitting audio into bands and voiced/unvoiced content is basically how many "modern" low-bandwidth voice coding…
The primary factor (in my view) is that we pay healthcare providers (doctors and nurses) 2x to 3x as much as other developed countries. That creates knock-on effects throughout the healthcare system: * Doctor time is…
Don't forget that the leader of Dawn Project has financial conflicts of interest: His software company, named Green Hills, supplies the RTOS for Mobileye, which formerly supplied driver-assistance hardware and software…
Ok, I'll bite: How would you choose not to install Chrome? You would just... not use the web? Some choice.
Are they? Or are a bunch of Chrome fanboys and web devs complaining on their behalf?
The problem is that a lot of those old ISA drivers were peeking and poking card registers as fast as the bus would allow, which was over 1 MHz (less than 1 microsecond per transaction), not DMAing data to RAM (though…
So… while that’s true of most astronav systems to date (particularly the ones meant to be used during daytime, and especially with reference stars potentially near the horizon), I’m not sure that’s really a hard…
Maybe because literally the entire world is currently using that system, and sending machine-readable clearances to just some airplanes means that the non-equipped planes are denied situational awareness?
Iridium still has a monopoly on high latitudes, too, AFAIK. Their USP is being the only network that works literally anywhere on the surface of the earth.
A $2500 Mac Studio with M5 Max running Qwen3.8-27b or Gemma4:31b in oMLX gets about the same speeds you quoted... and it comes with a warranty and has enough memory not to choke at longer context lengths.
SSD token caching (like oMLX does) goes a long way for prefill. Typical miss rates are under 5% in long coding sessions, which is mostly the output of a turn's tool use.
iPhones have great cameras. Get a MagSafe mount for on top of the monitor and stick the camera to it. The feature is called "continuity camera", and it works with any Mac app that would use a USB webcam.
The Dell is only 450 nits, and the Kuycon site says the it costs $1050 delivered to the US with a stand ($950 if you BYO VESA stand). Even using the sale prices, an iMac is still cheaper than a Mini with the Kuycon.
And it's almost impossible to find ones that get as bright as Apple monitors for less than Apple charges! My absolute favorite feature of Apple displays is that I don't need to have the brightness cranked to max all the…
That's a common misconception. You can't make the calculation purely on the mass of raw material needed to get a X kg of Y% material. Every enrichment process drops in efficiency as the enrichment increases,…
Because then the distance between earth's pole and equator would no longer be 10,000 km.
Florida has a problem with insurance fraud, which is what drives the rates up. If you can afford to self-insure, the expectation value of doing that is much better than the EV of using a commercial insurer (who has to…
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your suggestion, but shares are already treated as ordinary income when they vest (when the shares are released to you and you first gain the right to sell them). If a company pays you $1M of…
I thought it was obvious that I speaking about marginal use of government services. When a billionaire moves to Wyoming, the marginal tax revenue is far greater than the marginal cost of police services, for example.
A state can justify and sustain higher taxes on the wealthy by offering government services which indirectly benefit the wealthy (the externalities you mention). But it doesn’t follow that an arbitrarily poorly-ran…
The type of people who move from CA to WY for the tax benefits are the type of people who pay more taxes than they use in government services (even with very low tax rates). That means WY can offer more government…
I mean, some customers want the hostel experience, too. The problem is a lot of AirBnB hosts want to offer the hostel experience for hotel prices.
There's a saying "be open-minded, but not so much that your brain falls out". I feel like there needs to be one like that about cynicism.
I'd argue that it is that interesting of a problem because it gives outsiders (us) insight into AirBnB's marketplace dynamics. It has long been obvious that many scammy hosts exist on the platform, and it ought to be…
I want to start by saying I think the AfD is detestable so that you don't get the wrong idea from my question: In other parts of this thread we have people saying that the AfD must be banned because they are a threat to…
I'm not sure whether or not I'd call it a kludge, but the workings are totally unlike the A-3 scrambler. Splitting audio into bands and voiced/unvoiced content is basically how many "modern" low-bandwidth voice coding…
The primary factor (in my view) is that we pay healthcare providers (doctors and nurses) 2x to 3x as much as other developed countries. That creates knock-on effects throughout the healthcare system: * Doctor time is…
Don't forget that the leader of Dawn Project has financial conflicts of interest: His software company, named Green Hills, supplies the RTOS for Mobileye, which formerly supplied driver-assistance hardware and software…
Ok, I'll bite: How would you choose not to install Chrome? You would just... not use the web? Some choice.
Are they? Or are a bunch of Chrome fanboys and web devs complaining on their behalf?
The problem is that a lot of those old ISA drivers were peeking and poking card registers as fast as the bus would allow, which was over 1 MHz (less than 1 microsecond per transaction), not DMAing data to RAM (though…
So… while that’s true of most astronav systems to date (particularly the ones meant to be used during daytime, and especially with reference stars potentially near the horizon), I’m not sure that’s really a hard…
Maybe because literally the entire world is currently using that system, and sending machine-readable clearances to just some airplanes means that the non-equipped planes are denied situational awareness?