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trailbits
·last month·discuss
Only if you live near a store with it in stock. They aren't shipping that item.
trailbits
·2 months ago·discuss
Physicists are Atoms way of understanding themselves
trailbits
·2 months ago·discuss
Fantastic! Load the Altair Z80. At the CP/M prompt type: 'DIR' to see your files. Try out: 'MBASIC STARTREK' - be patient while it loads and then go save the galaxy! Just like old times :)
trailbits
·4 months ago·discuss
Hey, moving from cassette tape to floppy was also pretty awesome - random access speed demon!
trailbits
·5 months ago·discuss
WA state it is an extra $56 every time you renew for Real ID
trailbits
·6 months ago·discuss
The LG only has 60Hz refresh - this Dell has 120Hz and so seems to actually take advantage of the extra thunderbolt bandwidth.
trailbits
·9 months ago·discuss
The default context window using ollama or lmstudio is small, but you can easily quadruple the default size while running gpt-oss-20b on a 24GB Mac.
trailbits
·9 months ago·discuss
As someone who purchased their first M-series Mac this year (M4 pro), I've been thrilled to discover how well it does with local genAI tasks to produce text, code and images. For example openai/gpt-oss-20b runs locally quite well with 24GB memory. If I knew beforehand how performant the Mac would be for these kinds of tasks, I probably would have purchased more RAM in order to load larger models. Performance for genAI is a function of GPU, # of GPU cores, and memory bandwidth. I think your biggest gains are going from a base chip to a pro/max/ultra version with the greater gpu cores and greater bandwidth.
trailbits
·9 months ago·discuss
I just create new orgs to group related repositories together. Works well for a small team.
trailbits
·12 months ago·discuss
That's pretty much how all laser particle counters work... except the good ones use a fan and a chamber. Guess we'll have to wait and see how this compares to the reference sensors.
trailbits
·12 months ago·discuss
Also wonder how the sensor can stay clean without a fan. I suppose mounting upside down would help. Other fanless designs require periodic cleaning.
trailbits
·12 months ago·discuss
A website in the US doesn't deliver anything to the UK, it hands off some packets to a router in the US. Why is the website responsible for what all the interconnecting routers do? If a person from the UK were to visit an adult bookstore in the US, the bookstore owner isn't at fault if the customer decides to move certain material across national boundaries.
trailbits
·last year·discuss
It does remove any incentive for a thief to steal a Macbook. They can't strip it for parts and sell those parts if they won't work.
trailbits
·2 years ago·discuss
Even non-physical numbers are problematic to signal 'invalid'. I had a customer use -999 as a placeholder for 'invalid' data. Years later somebody made a higher level data product that averaged and combined that data with other products, without knowing to first remove those 'invalid' values. The resulting values were all now within physical limits, but very very wrong. The best solution is to use IEEE NaN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN so that your code blows up if you don't explicitly check for it.