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TheRealSteel

1,523 karma · joined June 20, 2019

Hobbyist developer particularly interested in augmented reality and computer vision
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TheRealSteel··on Why Is America Such a Deadly Place?
The guns and the lack of healthcare.
TheRealSteel··on [dead]
You got us mixed up with google
TheRealSteel··on B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for and does not want
If someone paid me to punch you in the face, is that okay because I'm just doing my job?
TheRealSteel··on B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for and does not want
He's already been asked to stop. If he doesn't wanna get hosed he could simply quit as requested. A bit of water isn't gonna kill him.
TheRealSteel··on B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for and does not want
Hose him down next time he comes.
TheRealSteel··on There Is No Housing Crisis
Agreed. Being a landlord isn't a job. You aren't doing work, and don't deserve to be paid for doing nothing. Houses are for people to live in, not an investment.
TheRealSteel··on Google Maps has become an eyesore
I'm always so annoyed at Google Maps for not displaying street names. Sometimes it doesn't matter how much you zoom or pan, it just won't show it.

I know it knows them because it announces them just fine during navigation.

Why? What's the point? It's a map. Street names are pretty much the #1 most important thing.

TheRealSteel··on Zoom asks employees to return to office
How ironic.
TheRealSteel··on New privacy tools and policies to help you stay safe and in control online
OP should've used a link shortener to avoid the spoiler
TheRealSteel··on [dead]
Twitter? What's Twitter? I know of no social media platform named Twitter.
TheRealSteel··on Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (2013)
Look up 'racing the beam' if you haven't before. The answer is... you can't! It didn't have a frame buffer and lines had to be written to the display one at a time. There was a lot of sprite flicker as many games had more on screen than the console could actually display in one frame.
TheRealSteel··on Electric cars became a battleground in the culture wars
Agreed. I just bought an EV and I'm looking for a place to live, and it's extremely limiting being a single person but apartments not being viable unless I rely 100% on public charging. There's probably around 10% as many options when I only include places I could charge.
TheRealSteel··on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
We don't have any other choice.
TheRealSteel··on The curious history of NovaMin toothpaste
I haven't had any trouble getting SensoDyne Novamin in the UK or Australia. Funny, usually it's the US that has the more lax regulations, not the other way round.
TheRealSteel··on Debugging the C++ standard library on macOS (2022)
What is it about, then?
TheRealSteel··on Ask HN: What are the capabilities of consumer grade hardware to work with LLMs?
I agree, I've definitely seen way more information about running image synthesis models like Stable Diffusion locally than I have LLMs. It's counterintuitive to me that Stable Diffusion takes less RAM than an LLM, especially considering it still needs the word vectors. Goes to show I know nothing.

I guess it comes down to the requirement of a very high end (or multiple) GPU that makes it impractical for most vs just running it in Colab or something.

Tho there are some efforts:

https://github.com/cocktailpeanut/dalai

TheRealSteel··on Waymo will expand rideshares to Austin, Texas, its fourth city
Rideshares? Who are they shared with? Isn't the point of Waymo that there's nobody else in the car?
TheRealSteel··on Tell HN: Get ChatGPT to write <|endoftext|> possibly leaks other prompts
It certainly seems like it.
TheRealSteel··on Tell HN: Get ChatGPT to write <|endoftext|> possibly leaks other prompts
Yep my mistake, I read the post wrong.
TheRealSteel··on Tell HN: Get ChatGPT to write <|endoftext|> possibly leaks other prompts
My mistake, I read it wrong! It works.
TheRealSteel··on Three-quarters of Republicans think economy is priority over climate – poll
No economy on a dead planet.
TheRealSteel··on Tell HN: Get ChatGPT to write <|endoftext|> possibly leaks other prompts
It's not doing anything for me? It just asks if there is anything it can help me with.
TheRealSteel··on Apple reports third quarter results
I guess they'd encourage developers to officially port their games to native Apple Silicon, but have emulation as a backup.
TheRealSteel··on Tesla committed fraud by “grossly” exaggerating EV range, class action says
As far as I know this isn't true, LFP batteries degrade more when charged to 100% than if they're charged to less, but the remaining charge can't be estimated accurately unless you do:

https://www.torquenews.com/15475/battery-charging-behavior-t...

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel3/comments/yh5ts5/m3_lfp_...

(They still degrade much less than the other kind of battery Tesla uses, however).

TheRealSteel··on Tesla committed fraud by “grossly” exaggerating EV range, class action says
How can you say nobody cares about city range? That's all I care about.
TheRealSteel··on Ask HN: Why is an app like Spotify not on the Mac App Store?
I don't know but I suspect because of billing requirements to give Apple of a 30% cut of any in app purchases.
TheRealSteel··on Zoo in China denies that its bears are humans in disguise
That's a hilarious headline. They're not wrong to be skeptical:

https://www.eonline.com/news/449361/chinese-zoo-tries-to-dis...

My understanding is that (at least some species of) bears can walk bipedally, not even just stand still like in the video. I can't access YouTube at work to provide a link but I know I've seen video of it.

TheRealSteel··on Someone sent $20M to one of the address poisoning / 0-value transfer spams
Thanks for the details.

"Attacker sends a fake transaction of crypto from the user's address to the phishing address"

Can you explain what you mean by this, how this works?

TheRealSteel··on TweetDeck is now called ‘XPro’
This is so stupid. They're just going to change it back in two months.
TheRealSteel··on Microsoft is trying too hard with Edge
Don't forget "We ran into a problem so we changed your default PDF program to Microsoft Edge" that just happens to conveniently occur
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