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driverdan

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Tech leadership, startups. Former blackhat / ID thief.

Current: Director of Engineering at Crowdbotics

Former: Director of Engineering, Ownlocal (YC W10); Founder, Spokefly; Freelancer

  Email: dan at driverdan dot com
  Site: http://driverdan.com
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driverdan
·3 दिन पहले·discuss
GPU power density is very high. The B300, for example, is rated at 1400W TDP. You can fit a lot of B300s in the space of a washing machine.
driverdan
·3 दिन पहले·discuss
OP said after 2008. There are many cars made after 2008 that do not have intrusive systems. For example, my 2018 Camaro has none of that. The only proximity sensors it has are side vehicle indicators and all they do is turn on a light.

New cars with intrusive driver monitoring alerts are obviously going to be terrible but you can still buy vehicles made prior to this change.
driverdan
·3 दिन पहले·discuss
The intrusiveness of these systems varies significantly between manufacturers. Don't buy one with an annoying, intrusive system.
driverdan
·5 दिन पहले·discuss
Yup, they wrote the paper.

> "...researchers demonstrate how Vantablack® 310 – an ultra-black coating developed by University of Surrey spinout Surrey NanoSystems, co-authors of the paper..."
driverdan
·11 दिन पहले·discuss
Abolishing ICE and demilitarizing borders is not the same thing as supporting open borders.
driverdan
·12 दिन पहले·discuss
> to see the Marfa Lights. We did see the lights - it's a real thing!

They're car headlights, which are indeed a real thing.
driverdan
·22 दिन पहले·discuss
> True brutalist web design.

Concrete web design? What does that mean?

I guess you mean the site is simple but that's not what brutalism is.
driverdan
·22 दिन पहले·discuss
> They both profited, enormously, off sexual exploitation and human trafficking around the world by (knowingly) serving as a directory for pimps.

From what I read back when this happened you have it backwards. The classifieds on CL and other sites for sex were were largely individuals choosing to do it. They were not being trafficked or pimped. By closing those listings down it would end up pushing sex workers to find other sources of clients, like pimps.
driverdan
·22 दिन पहले·discuss
When I tried this with a self-hosted Qwen model it hallucinated all kind of stuff about me being deeply involved with early Bitcoin development, conferences, and libraries.
driverdan
·23 दिन पहले·discuss
As someone who has never dealt with anything close to this scale, why would it take 18 months to migrate? Is this poor config management, a lack of automation, or something else?
driverdan
·24 दिन पहले·discuss
Maps peaked after Google acquired Waze in 2013 and integrated the data. Since then they've added worthless annoying social features and more advertising.
driverdan
·24 दिन पहले·discuss
> The problem is if someone figures it out and starts sending you spam to {random}@domain.tld.

It's a non-issue. I've been using a catch all domain for at least a decade. I get a small amount of spam to random made up emails but not enough to care about plus it all gets caught and filtered.
driverdan
·24 दिन पहले·discuss
It makes sense that an open source project would focus on one series of phones since their time and resources are limited.

That said, Google's hardware is behind their competitors and they've had a lot of problems in the past few years. The Pixel 8 Pro has hardware WiFi problems, the 9 and 10 are both minor updates with prices that are far too high, the 10 is eSIM only, etc.
driverdan
·25 दिन पहले·discuss
If you pay $2200 for a 3090 you're a sucker. They're not worth anything close to that.
driverdan
·27 दिन पहले·discuss
It's not. It's scientific ignorance combined with lies (Wakefield) and misinformation. There may be some small percentage of people who completely avoid injections but most people who understand vaccines accept the benefits outweigh the short term fear / pain of needles.
driverdan
·27 दिन पहले·discuss
The problem is accessibility. GPUs have gotten expensive and in some cases hard to get. You also need the supporting hardware to use them.

I'd love to have multiple large VRAM GPUs but I can't justify the costs when I have plenty of other more important things to spend that money on.
driverdan
·28 दिन पहले·discuss
> I don’t want extensions (attack vector)

How do you block ads and invasive trackers? DNS only?
driverdan
·29 दिन पहले·discuss
A standard rooftop solar install with micro inverters is already pretty much plug and play. Wiring it up is the easy part.

Even a more complex system with large centralized inverters and battery backup can be about as plug and play as a desktop computer if you use an all-in-one inverter/charger/controller.

The challenge is scale. You can't take 10kW of solar and plug it into an outlet. It requires more hardware and wiring than that.
driverdan
·पिछला माह·discuss
From an economics perspective the solution is to legalize everything. Black markets cause incentives like this.
driverdan
·पिछला माह·discuss
Go to the source, it's linked above that metadata. That will be a better resource for its copyright status.