Posts by dr2chase@ohai.social
(DIR) Post #AhLkJep29rXnmV09PU by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-04-28T14:30:50Z
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@futurebird @baldur that device, meh. But in datacenters etc, the special AI hardware (chips, even) provide a bunch of operations on lower-than-usual precision floating-point numbers. Used to be those were mostly 32 and 64 bits, sometimes 80, and maybe sometimes 128. The machine learning hardware works with floats that are only 16 or even 8 bits long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_UnitThat's new, not currently useful for non-ML stuff, and makes them faster and more efficient. /
(DIR) Post #AhPeRb2tmnWGm2wf4K by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-04-30T11:43:08Z
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@futurebird @baldur I'm pretty sure the pocket device is just talking to servers.
(DIR) Post #AhTrMxS63285CNZlsO by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-05-02T12:27:34Z
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@futurebird Isn't it (technically) an "interface", not a "class"? Not helping with the annoying, but the reason it feels underspecified is that it wants to allow very simple things to be sets, and so the requirements are as loose as possible.
(DIR) Post #AhTshPqeHXEJ0sNYrw by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-05-02T12:42:32Z
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@futurebird Sort of. It helps if the things in the set form a total order, so you can compare them in binary trees, otherwise you hash them and use radix-based data structures on the hash codes.
(DIR) Post #AimeVN9djJlO6c7etc by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-06-10T11:55:05Z
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@futurebird I, with working legs and lungs, would bike it. 3 urban miles is 15-20 minutes, depending. Apparently the plan for everyone else is "sucks to be you". Clearly what we need is a bunch of "entitled cyclists for Hochul" praising her congestion tax decision.
(DIR) Post #Ais2FwDzUeS0UuHJxo by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-06-13T00:51:37Z
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@danluvsbeer BUT WE DON'T LIKE THAT SOLUTION WE WANT ANOTHER SOLUTION THAT PRESERVES BEZILLIONAIRES AND PROFITS AND CAPTIALISM AND STONK PRICEZ AND MOSNTER TRUCKS
(DIR) Post #Aj5hb0lRMML6C2iZoO by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-06-19T13:19:35Z
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@VoxDei @cstross is there no option to replace FPTP with a more sensible way to elect people?
(DIR) Post #Aj5hb2XKlmFBgs8L6O by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-06-19T16:27:09Z
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@cstross @VoxDei there was that time when I wondered "when did Condorcet do all his work on voting, too bad Franklin didn't know about it when they wrote the US Constitution" and then looked at Wikipedia and discovered that not only were they contemporaries, they fucking worked together.At which point I just wanted to throw things.
(DIR) Post #AjAVbXzOqjW29ARwWm by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-06-22T00:00:47Z
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@ascentale I'm a fan of double kickstands on "normal" bikes, and real center stands for cargo bikes. I have a pair of Rolling Jackass stands on my two large cargo bikes, sometimes I stand on the deck.For the old xtracycle center stands, one hack was to clamp some MTB-bar end-grips on the ends, done carefully that gets you a slightly wider stance, and also a wider "foot" for soft surfaces.A8 #BikeNite
(DIR) Post #AjBqqMuob418LCApzU by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-06-22T14:28:22Z
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@CelloMomOnCars it's batshit that Florida passed those laws. On the Gulf Coast (where I grew up) nowadays the wet bulb temperature is as high as 26-27C (the dew point is predicted 75-76F for the whole week). You sweat a whole darn lot in that sort of heat, besides dehydration, you can whack your electrolyte (sodium, potassium), too.
(DIR) Post #AjGCMG54Q01251rF8C by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-06-24T16:35:41Z
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@mattlaroche Never mind that a sharrow actually means "we certified that this street is not wide enough for a bike lane or safe passes".
(DIR) Post #AjO3VNlEd5KAeAv9Ie by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-06-28T12:59:30Z
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@futurebird @w7voa Thomas "Friedman Unit" Friedman? Fuck that guy. He sucks.
(DIR) Post #AjWMleqkJVamfreVAe by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-07-02T13:13:00Z
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@futurebird @tshirtman I think I was somewhere in my 30s when I developed my generalized theory of ad/porn, "designed to make you change your standards of what you need/need-to-be". PBS's "This Old House" qualified, in my opinion, never mind all the airbrushed women and truck ads and beer ads etc.
(DIR) Post #Alnxya5XQ3b3tRC3U0 by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-09-08T20:34:49Z
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From week before last, my contribution to #CarryShitOlympics. I did in fact move a child into a Boston apartment on the worst moving day of the year (September 1), by staging 4 loads earlier in the week into empty space at work, then all four the last 1.8 miles on moving day. Here's two of those loads, and bike+trailer parking that worked much better than I had expected.
(DIR) Post #Am3n3lqP9FdcpokIcq by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-09-16T11:57:21Z
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@futurebird has he said anything about your ability to figure it out long before he did? Usual story is that the Dirty Fucking Hippies and Capitalism Hating Ragamuffins see the problem early, but afterwards Conventional Wisdom invents reasons to keep on ignoring them ("right, but for the wrong reasons, we prefer to be wrong for the right reasons.").
(DIR) Post #AmVSbtgfpvVuOUVI5Q by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-09-29T20:20:11Z
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@futurebird nope, I remember the whole damn thing. Was snorkeling, from a sailboat with family, off Crystal River, saw a 6-foot-ish shark a little too close and interested, yelled "Shark" (through a snorkel) and swoosh-boom, levitated right up the side of the boat and in, followed a second or two later by my father, who grabbed my little brother who was kicking feet in the water.
(DIR) Post #Amfvn2LfPI40QMCwM4 by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-10-04T21:33:59Z
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@futurebird @wendigo that child has a promising future in QA and red-teaming.
(DIR) Post #B0yUgvLE30ALbQzhfE by dr2chase@ohai.social
2025-12-06T14:39:32Z
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@tomjennings @cbarbermd briefly close to a single person is just one person and not for long. Sitting in a room full of people is more people (higher risk that one is contagious) and prolonged exposure (more time for air to mix). The quantified difference in risk is new, and might motivate more people to do something about air quality.
(DIR) Post #B2Vgm2prw7Uj1ALl0i by dr2chase@ohai.social
2026-01-21T12:52:28Z
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@futurebird @craiglambie42 part of the problem is that US banking is primitive, which creates a local market opportunity for anyone smoothing those bumps. It's not clear to me that the rest-of-the-world needs such a thing. One useful function that banks provide, and that costs money to implement, is some amount of fraud detection/correction; sooner or later someone will use a payment system for fraud and/or crime.
(DIR) Post #B2VhVA4Rso5MULgOYa by dr2chase@ohai.social
2026-01-21T13:00:37Z
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@futurebird @craiglambie42 transfer of funds outside the US is much smoother, whereas here in the US wire transfers between people are a BFD that seems to require paperwork. Checks are not a thing in Europe, for example. I.e., the missing services, are speed, and flexibility. US banks are better at profits, however.