benjaminl
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
For me the old web is when people still had homepages. When those went away, the old web died.
Comment · 3 months ago
It’s still really strange that Linux is several times larger than ChromeOS. I would not have guessed this. And I daily drove Linux for years.
Comment · 4 months ago
The parent is correct. Look up have many antennas are on each Starlink sat. There are multiple dedicated antennas for customers and ground stations. There isn’t just one antenna or beam per satellite.
Also, lookup the number of ISLs in orbit. Starlink has been providing coverage for the middle of the ocean for years now. They have provided coverage to Pacific Islands that have lost their undersea cable connections.
Comment · 5 months ago
Ctrl+V paste works for me on WSL. My secret is that I have given up on WSLg and use a standalone X Windows server. Specifically, the X410 X Server. This removes a whole lot of weird behavior including the ones described by the article.
Comment · 7 months ago
This issue here is that people have different definitions of AGI. From the description. Getting 100% on this benchmark would be more than AGI and would qualify for ASI (Algorithmic Super Intelligence) not just AGI.
Comment · 8 months ago
In just about every way. CPU caches are made from SRAM and live on the CPU itself. Main system RAM is made from DRAM and live on separate chips even if they are soldered into the same physical package (system in package or SiP). The RAM still isn't on the SoC.
Comment · 1 year ago
The spec says that the first row specifies the number of columns.
Comment · 2 years ago
The story is satire. But the satire is illustrating true problems and attitudes.
Comment · 3 years ago
Kinda hard to answer as that depends on your definition of new. But most likely yes, https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/commits/main
Comment · 3 years ago
They should move to using QUIC which is the protocol backing HTTP/3. QUIC incorporates TLS1.3 and has an extension for UDP style unreliable datagrams (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9221/). It would be the perfect way to bring SSL/TSL/HTTPS VPNs onto a modern performant protocol while keeping the simplicity in of the https based VPN. It would still have the advantage of looking like https traffic, while have the performance characteristics of UDP based VPN protocol.
Comment · 3 years ago
GPT-4 gave me a concise correct answer without disclaimers.
This may be due to using many custom instructions like the following in ChatGPT settings:
- No need to provide disclaimers about your knowledge cutoff
- No need to mention you are an AI language model
- Only discuss safety when it is not obvious and very important
- You should act as an expert in the relevant fields
Comment · 3 years ago
I also buy the most expensive Apple phone and not put it in a case. My experience is quite different from your, perhaps unintentional straw man. Let’s take this assertion by assertion.
> I put my (slippery) iPhones in cases because if I don’t they stop working. Your phone might not care that its screen is cracked
I would be hugely bothered by a cracked screen or an otherwise non-operative screen. But Apple’s Pro level phones feature steel cases. This makes the phone very robust. I have yet to crack or otherwise damage my phone.
> have to pay several hundreds to put it back the way it was vs spending 20$ or less on a case and screen protector
Always get AppleCare Plus. It serves as my screen protector. If I ever did crack my screen service fee to fix a broken screen is $29.
> which takes 10 minutes vs having to pay 100x as much and wait a few days to get my phone back to swap displays
As per above the price difference between a case and AppleCare is minimal close to 0x as much.
And it doesn’t take days to have your screen replaced. Apple stores will do it in minutes within the space of a single service appointment.
iPhones are truly works of art and should be enjoyed without cheap plastic cases. Just make sure you have AppleCare Plus.
Comment · 3 years ago
Analog telephones have terrible bandwidth. Just 300–3,300 Hz. This it technically called the voiceband, but it cuts off a good portion of female speech.
Also, all phone lines these days, wether POTS or VOIP are digitally trunked and switched.
In addition, SpaceX isn’t cheating by not including TVCs. They purposely designed their rocket to need a minimum of them and fully take advantage of the space savings the lack of TVCs affords them.
[1] “So, there is no need to exaggerate this by showing a partially assembled engine without controllers, fluid management, or TVC systems, then comparing it to fully assembled engines that do.”
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1821679540973765026?s=20