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juitpykyk··on Bringing GPU acceleration to Polars DataFrames in the near future
GPUses
juitpykyk··on A disk so full, it couldn't be restored
Maybe you should use a secondary partition for work
juitpykyk··on Intel discloses $7B operating loss for chip-making unit
Hindsight bias.

The industry believed 15 years ago that ASML would fail to make EUV work.

juitpykyk··on The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023)
Article says 3M exited floppies because it was retail oriented very low margin business.

But how is Scotch Tape not that too?

juitpykyk··on From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
What would be the problem of downloading a few MB more, aren't these source tarballs just used to build the distro binary and then they are deleted?
juitpykyk··on A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing
Never forget the video where Marc was asked what is Web3 and he spent 5 minutes talking gibberish nonsense.
juitpykyk··on From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
GitHub has the feature of downloading the tree as a zip, why is this not used?
juitpykyk··on The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
Depends on the width of the radar beam. They are certainly not thin like a laser. It might not fit in the gap between the blades.
juitpykyk··on Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor
Some tools scan for crypto algorithms, typically by searching for the magic numbers, Ed448 is so new many tools probably don't recognize it.

Malware authors frequently change the crypto magic numbers to prevent detection.

juitpykyk··on Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor
You can do it on a single machine if you use the TPM to create log hashes which can't be rolled back.
juitpykyk··on Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor
You're talking as if securing a backdoor with public cryptography is some unimaginable feat of technology.

It's literally a couple hours work.

juitpykyk··on LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
You're using the wrong CPU.

Consumer AMD 7950X supports AVX-512, it's faster than M2 Ultra at half the cost.

juitpykyk··on XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams
FBI could subpoena GitHub for IP addresses.
juitpykyk··on Documentation for the AMD 7900XTX
I learned that AMD GPUs have layers upon layers of drivers, in user space, kernel space, and drivers running on the device itself.
juitpykyk··on Documentation for the AMD 7900XTX
Isn't HDCP/DRM implemented in ASIC hardware? There is nothing programmable there.
juitpykyk··on Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it
Neurons are not on the germ line, whatever happens to their DNA is not passed down to your children.

There was another article in the recent years about neurons using RNA or DNA for storing information related to their activation patterns.

juitpykyk··on Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it
Isn't that what happens in antibody germinal centers?

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

juitpykyk··on Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it
Neuron's DNA is not passed down, it would be quite logical for evolution to use neuronal DNA for weight storage.
juitpykyk··on BeagleY-AI: a 4 TOPS-capable $70 board from Beagleboard
For scale, Microsoft requires 40 TOPS to certify a (consumer) computer as Copilot capable.

https://www.techpowerup.com/320933/microsoft-copilot-to-run-...

juitpykyk··on Show HN: The 2FA app that notifies you when you get `012345`
I've once got 000000. If you do the math it takes about 1 year to cycle through all million of them, assuming no duplicates.

Which makes me wonder, what's the expected repeated distribution?

juitpykyk··on Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content
They offer services like store fronts. This might require them to sell your stuff and accept credit cards on your behalf.

https://www.vultr.com/marketplace/apps/woocommerce/

juitpykyk··on [dead]
There was an article quoting someone close saying he wants to be President and world first trillionaire.

Control of AGI could certainly give you that.

juitpykyk··on Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content
> for purposes of providing the Services to you

This seems the key part

juitpykyk··on Julian Assange granted permission to appeal against extradition to US
Assange is a russian agent. He's not a journalist.
juitpykyk··on Julian Assange granted permission to appeal against extradition to US
Russia foreign minister (Zaharova) continuously asks for Assange to be released, mentioning "freedom of speech".

Assange has building size graffiti murals in Moscow.

juitpykyk··on Deej: An open-source hardware volume mixer for Windows and Linux
VoiceMeeter and it's macro buttons can do that.
juitpykyk··on As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate
Imagine how much electricity will be needed to replace 1 billion jobs with AI in the next 5 years.
juitpykyk··on Scientists traced a mysterious Covid case back to six toilets
Chlorine destroys viruses. That's why they put it in water.
juitpykyk··on Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
Where does Spotify say "our music is 100% organic human sourced, no algos involved"?
juitpykyk··on Dead Man's Switch
Idea: offer a separate service where you can pay to prevent one particular switch being activated.

Price: $10k

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