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gbolcer··on The Universe as a Minified Bundle
This is worth the read.
gbolcer··on In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
All this time I thought they were little tiny X's until I just now looked really closely.
gbolcer··on Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
Yeah in a world where if you post a Ring video of someone taking a crowbar to your mailbox which gets a strike in your neighborhood group and the video down for "hate", yeah, as useful as it is, the mass surveillance stuff is pretty alarming.
gbolcer··on The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit
They used to refer to it as GPGPU (general purpose) but they just shortened it maybe 10 years ago?
gbolcer··on 25L Portable NV-linked Dual 3090 LLM Rig
I was going to say you need an extension cable. My first dual 3090 build I had three issues. First was the pcie extension wouldn't support gen4, so I had to change to gen3 in the bios. Second issue was that depending on which slot, you couldn't get x16/x16 and it would drop to x16/x8 unless you had it configured right. Third, I finally gave up and just had the card resting first inside the case and then outside which if fan kicks up, it'll jiggle around, so I had to make some makeshift holder to keep the card sitting there.
gbolcer··on The Maid Who Restored Charles II
One tiny comment, I think the article meant "steward" not Stuart. LOL
gbolcer··on My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer
That's actually brilliant. Same issue w/ some sports cars too or even cars coasting in slow stop and go traffic when coming up from behind from high speed traffic.
gbolcer··on Librarians Are Dangerous
That was enjoyable. And the artwork doubled it.
gbolcer··on Frosted Glass from Games to the Web: HTML glass UI inspired by AAA game dev
This is really cool and thanks for sharing the details. Now I want to see coke bottle glass effects. :-) https://www.nathanallan.com/product/bottle-base-textured-gla...
gbolcer··on Resolving a mysterious problem with find
I was going to say, do a file -i to find the encoding of frodo.py. I note the file man page has a -0 or --print0 command that adds a ‘\0’ that can be 'cut', but strings works too.
gbolcer··on I fixed a server with a precisely placed piece of tape (2023)
I came into a company once that had built their own server room. It had a couple hundred pizza boxes in it and was always hot as hell even with full blast air conditioning. When I retired almost all of them to use virtual servers, it turns out that 1) a lot of the chipsets internallyl still had plastic film on them (to prevent scratches? Why would you put film on them? There were even some CPUs that didn't have any coolers on them, just film) and 2) A lot of the inpflow and outflow air ports also had plastic shipping film that was never removed. I was completely shocked. So I fixed dozens if not a hundred computers simply by removing a piece of tape.
gbolcer··on All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Jurassic Park Project
If you've ever watched the movie Zero Theorem, their data analysts use data captures in fluid dynamics to manipulate and process the data. I always that that was a really interesting concept.
gbolcer··on World Wide Web (1991)
LMAO. I have about 150 Bitcoins sitting on an old hard drive at the bottom of the local dump. I guess someone would try to dig them up if it ever hits a million, but doubtful they could recover them much less unlock them.
gbolcer··on Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for open source projects
Just curious how you would populate the data?
gbolcer··on Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable
Okay, this is amazingly cool.
gbolcer··on Disney unveils the HoloTile floor
That reminds me of the battlefield3 simulator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8Bh5iI2WY
gbolcer··on Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines
They have LED cpu cooler displays now that you can stick anything you want on it including disk/mem/heat/whatever. They are really amazing.
gbolcer··on Your Board of Directors Is Probably Going to Fire You (2021)
If you haven't been fired by the board of a startup you founded, you aren't doing it right.
gbolcer··on Sam Altman was raising a VC fund when OpenAI fired him
First rule of startups. Never lie to your board. Second rule, never lie to your CEO.
gbolcer··on Like Clippy but for the CLI
since the 80s, I've always kept a ~/.cryptic file that I would add commands for which I could never remember the format. It would be cool to use that as a localized fine-tuning.
gbolcer··on Loneliness is stronger when not alone
I skimmed through the paper and the comments, but my real question is: is online social networking considered a crowd and does it have the same effects?
gbolcer··on Judge tentatively OKs $725M Facebook settlement: How to apply for a payout
This seems like an elaborate scam. I never eliminated my facebook account, but I definitely stopped using them. I think the Cambridge Analytica abuse is the least of their privacy abuses.
gbolcer··on Doom the Way It Was Meant to Be Played – v1.1 Multi-Monitor [video]
They forgot the 5th monitor. We used to use a whole other sun sparcstation running the tiniest, laggiest video with the camera on the other remote user so when you fragged them you could flip them off. Back then, they didn't really have picture in picture or video overlays, so we just used a whole other machine sitting next to us.
gbolcer··on Which GPU(s) to get for deep learning
3060 12GB are the best things you can buy right now. They are cheap, have a ton of memory--which seems to be the issue w/ image generation--and you can fit four of them into the cheapest motherboards.

3060ti 8GB, 3090 24GB, and 4000 series all have performance benefits, but for now this one is off the charts.

gbolcer··on Google removes Drink Champs interview from your Google Drive
rumble.com search on drink champs dozens of uploads.

Though truthfully I haven't watched it & just read all the coverage. I was just fascinated w/ the idea that it was censored and how (& tried to replicate it).

gbolcer··on Google removes Drink Champs interview from your Google Drive
I downloaded it from Rumble, put the unzipped full content into my Gdrive. It didn't filter it. I'm assuming if it's being blocked, it's only from the original URL and not actually content filtering.
gbolcer··on When can liquid democracy unveil the truth? (2021)
Isn't that really just the same thing as Arrow-Debreau's competitive markets? You can't find an equilibrium w/o concave functions?
gbolcer··on The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem
I've been looking at some automated way to scare coyotes out of my yard almost every night at 3am. It drives the dog nuts.
gbolcer··on My Life as a Mentalist
Related subject, if you haven't watched Nightmare Alley, I recommend it.
gbolcer··on Why Compilers Don’t Autocorrect “Obvious” Parse Errors
That is a great point. Eclipse in Java in the past 5+ years has started auto completing beginning of expressions. As someone who started programming in vi, it's really enjoyable. It doesn't do everything, but strings, statement completions, loops and scopes, even variable naming and selection, etc all autocomplete. I realize that's not quite the same as autocorrect, but it works well. Second, with the OpenAI GPT-3 stuff, it does generate syntactically correct code, though I haven't learned to trust it enough to generate semantic instantiations of what I'm thinking.
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