cbo100

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Comment · 1 year ago
I get the right answer on the 8B model too.

It could be the quantized version failing?

Comment · 2 years ago
The Chinese made cars meet the same safety standards as US and EU made cars (at least the ones sold outside of China do).

I thought GP was talking more about the safety standards for workers in the factories - which do cost more to meet.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
It's very geology dependent, but they do this in Coober Pedy, a town in Australia where underground building is common for cooling reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coober_Pedy

I don't think it's something we will transition to in general "for survival" though. Building regulations should just catch up and enforce appropriate insulation levels and building methods for the given environments.

Comment · 3 years ago
> have contender products they can choose to vigorously fund tomorrow.

Then why didn’t they “choose” to fund hashicorp yesterday and avoid this?

As usual in OSS-goes-private events these all just sound like “keep building our critical infrastructure tool for free or we will go elsewhere”.

What is hashicorp or any other company in their position to do?

This is not sustainable.

Comment · 3 years ago
Yep, as a relatively recent (2.5 years ago) convert from HP to Brother because HP was pulling all this crap with with 3rd party toner cartridges.

The Brother has proved to be just as bad, and in some ways even worse.

Once it decides the (genuine) toner must be empty it basically refuses to print without some complex reset procedures. At least the HP would just happily print faded pages all day long.

Comment · 3 years ago
> Looking at Reddit's new API pricing, 100 calls per day per average user would cost $0.72 / month

The problem I think they will run into is that this 100 calls per day average is across all users, even those who don't use it that much.

Once you intersect that with the users who care enough and are willing to pay $2+ per month the average calls per user will blow out.

You pretty much have to be a heavy user in order to justify spending money on it.

And the Relay dev even points that out:

> An example is that a subscription could act as a filter where mostly high-rate users convert.

Comment · 3 years ago
I still use my original rift for sim racing. It's brilliant, and much more convenient than trying to setup 3 or 4 monitors instead.

I have no interest in a metaverse or social vr activities.

On its own, with consistent simple hardware improvements the CV1 would have been a decently profitable business by most other companies' standards and done well enough to keep going.

Facebook/SV trying to turn VR into something it's not ready to be, and that nobody is particularly interested in, in the hope of turning it into a mega multi billion dollar venture worthy of them is what has made it no fun and is just wasted money.

Comment · 3 years ago
2-4mbps is better than 0 even if it is divided by all users in that area.

Especially considering that in a lot of areas this will open up coverage to, you could be the only user relying on it anyway.

Comment · 3 years ago
> Is it really a major burden to accept cash?

It means somebody has to go to the bank each day to drop off the cash and collect change.

So it's inconvenient, and an unnecessary security risk to whichever staff member is required to do that.

Compared to not accepting cash and not having to deal with any of that, then yes it's a major burden.

Comment · 3 years ago
Same in Australia, well except our refund usually takes around a week.

And it gets better every year too. More and more data automatically pre-filled. More and more of the form intelligently hidden unless you need it.

And yet every year I’m blown away by these stories from the US about all the hoops they need to jump through just to submit a simple tax return.

Comment · 3 years ago
I've found the watch to be within a percent or two of both store bought and hospital based "finger tip" meters.

You get the occasional outliers from a bad reading but in general that's how I've experienced, and I've had nurses and doctors say that they are "good enough".

And yeah in my experience, anything less than 90-93% in a hospital and they will have you on high flow oxygen pretty quick. So 85% as a single bad reading is fine, but a sustained 85% on a watch means you probably want to head to a medical facility.

Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah I tried that for ages. Was never seamless enough to get the whole family on board easily.

Especially across multiple users.

Comment · 3 years ago
> but it still feels like a net improvement to my overall online security.

This is what I’m at on it too. Without cloud syncing convenience wins and we end up using simple passwords over and over again.

With cloud syncing I believe we are much more secure than we would otherwise be.

Comment · 3 years ago
Probably not strictly by the letter of law.

But practically, when they take up a good 2/3 of the screen and are not dismissible without making a choice then they do.

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