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narism··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
It brings up a preview of the email and you have to tap or tell it to send it from there but otherwise it worked for this as well.

Subject: Current Temperature Body: The current temperature is 27°C in <my city>.

narism··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
I’m on the IOS 27 beta and Siri did those two tasks (weather/phone) flawlessly. It’s a lot better than it used to be.
narism··on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
That’s an argument against Microsoft, not Intel. Intel’s main anti-competitive sin was against rival CPU/chipset/graphics manufacturers.
narism··on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
Compared to Apple/DEC/Sun/SGI, the Intel ecosystem was remarkably open.
narism··on Is The Economist Always Wrong?
You’ll find no disagreement from me that January 6th should, at the very least, have resulted in a ban from serving in public office, but we don’t live there. Which corpse would you rather have, one rank with Biden admin inflation/immigration concerns, or perhaps a bit fresher one?
narism··on Is The Economist Always Wrong?
Just because Fox News crowed about it doesn’t mean it’s bad journalism. Arguably toeing the party line is what resulted in Democrats being in that situation (fielding a weaker candidate against Trump) in the first place.
narism··on Apple's MLX adding CUDA support
The MBPs didn’t run too hot, the Nvidia GPUs used an underfill that stopped providing structural support at a relatively normal temperature for GPUs (60-80 degrees C).

GPU failures due to this also happened on Dell/HP/Sony laptops, some desktop models, as well as early models of the PS3.

Some reading: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubleshooting-hardware-devic...

narism··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
The cover art is good too. Some favorites:

https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/527/90/sites/default/fil...

https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1424,quality=8...

narism··on Doom GPU Flame Graphs
Who is the real inventor in your opinion?
narism··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
International shipping from China to the US is subsidized by USPS under the Universal Postal Union rules since China is classified as a developing country. Terminal dues to the US have been increasing over the last 5 years to compensate for this.

https://www.ecomcrew.com/why-china-post-and-usps-are-killing...

narism··on Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 2
Ever seen Mob Psycho 100?
narism··on Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral
Zero export inverters are grid-tied but monitor the meter/CTs for load changes in order to curtail solar production/shift it to battery charging. I think they can technically backfeed a little bit if load is suddenly dumped depending on the inverter response time. Some have a secondary hard disconnect for additional protection.

https://knowledge-center.solaredge.com/sites/kc/files/feed-i...

narism··on Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line
> You're also ignoring that Singapore is only half the size of Texas while having a similar number of people living in it.

Try again, Texas is roughly _1000x_ larger than Singapore with 5x the population.

narism··on Over 40% of foreigner deaths in Korea have unknown causes
A huge proportion of foreign workers in SK are in either the manufacturing, construction, or agriculture sectors, often with poor working/living conditions.

https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2024/06/26/IL43VM...

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-10-30/south-...

https://www.bis.org/publ/bppdf/bispap100_m.pdf

narism··on Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy
This goes into what happens: https://fable.fandom.com/wiki/Winter_Lodge
narism··on Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]
> What kind of job/career experience has he had to come up with all of that, so creatively and accurately?

One of them has been at Amazon for a while.

narism··on Caltrain's new electric trains
> 100% of US freight trains use electric motors

I think you mean diesel-electric. They are talking about electrified miles of track which is almost exclusively limited to passenger lines in the US. Even where freight trains run on electrified track, they still use diesel-electric motors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_tr...

narism··on Japan cracks down on use of rideable electric suitcases amid tourist boom
There was a new carve out created last year that allows driving electric scooters without a license, provided they meet some requirements (speed limiter, a speed indicator light, etc).

https://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/kotsu/jikoboshi/elec...

narism··on America’s Transit Exceptionalism
Rail freight and passengers mostly share the same tracks in Japan with the exception of the Shinkansen network* which is passenger only. The big difference is Japan sends way less freight by rail than the US and freight that does go by rail is scheduled at night when there are no passenger trains running.

*There’s probably an exception to the exception for the Akita / Yamagata branches that partially run on regular train lines.

narism··on Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
Can you steal something that is given away freely? People are buying those services so they must be providing some value.
narism··on Making the Kinopio source code public
AKA the postpositive adjective. I do wish they had gone with Available Source Software for the acronym possibilities.
narism··on Online censorship's institutional power
A couple podcasts on the person they are referring to:

https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-164-the-torture...

https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-165-the-torture...

Oh, and the real Torswats allegedly turned out to be a California teenager: https://www.wired.com/story/torswats-swatting-arrest/

narism··on How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun
There is research that does show precipitation events might influence earthquake activity:

https://news.mit.edu/2024/study-heavy-snowfall-rain-may-cont...

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...

narism··on Why US renters are taking corporate landlords to court
Realpage put many roadblocks in the way of customers using prices not provided by the system. A couple:

Rent overrides required written business justifications, would often trigger follow ups to the agent attempting the override and then their management to dissuade them, and eventually might be refused in the end.

Realpage monitored compliance of customers using their provided prices and those who didn’t meet a certain level would be kicked off the platform.

Pages 17-22 here: https://oag.dc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-11/DC%20OAG%20Re...

narism··on Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
Sounds like the Seagate Kinetic HDD: https://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/hdd-fam/...
narism··on Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement
The most popular console of this generation, the Nintendo Switch, has always been sold at a profit.
narism··on Mixtral of experts
For memory bandwidth at the lower tiers, yeah. M3 Max still has 400GB/s and since the M2 Ultra (800GB/s) is just two M2 Maxes glued together (400GB/s each), the eventual M3 Ultra should be comparable.
narism··on Developing AI models or giant GPU clusters? Uncle Sam would like a word
China is one of the first countries to regulate AI development: https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/07/10/china-s-ai-regulati...
narism··on Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks (2017)
I believe this is because of the widespread use of shield projectors which repel anything moving too fast (faster than a slow knife stroke or hunter seeker). Some other interactions around shields:

Lasers hitting shields basically results in a fusion explosion which would bring down the wrath of the Houses/Imperium.

Shields are not used much on Dune due to shorting out from storms and attracting worms. This results in some use of projectile weapons when the Harkonnens seal the Atreides troops in caves with mortars or the Fremen shoot the noses of off the Emperors spaceships with artillery.

narism··on CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit
From your link:

> By default VictoriaMetrics doesn't limit the number of stored time series.

They have put out some benchmarks showing VictoriaMetrics ingesting 40M time series: https://valyala.medium.com/high-cardinality-tsdb-benchmarks-...

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