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theodorton··on Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
I think you should try. RTX 3090 with 64GB DDR4 worked surprisingly well with lots of headroom (Strata reserves ~28GB system RAM in my case).
theodorton··on The Self-Cancelling Subscription
Kagi does something close to that. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/plan-types.html#monthly-pla...
theodorton··on 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
There are government subsidies for consumers to either have a fixed price or a price cap on electricity in Norway as a political response to the increase. This would be harder to pull off if not most of the profits from export didn’t land in the public sector (either taxes or government owned energy companies).
theodorton··on Using unwrap() in Rust is Okay (2022)
You can add

    [lints.clippy]
    unwrap_used = "deny"
to Cargo.toml if you want to avoid unwrap and then explicitly opt-in with #[allow(clippy::unwrap_used)]
theodorton··on Eye Contact Correction: Redirecting the eyes to look at the camera
It's available in Settings > FaceTime > Eye Contact.
theodorton··on Using my new Raspberry Pi to run an existing GitHub Action
I believe they're referring to this section: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/...
theodorton··on Removal of Heroku free product plans
Haven’t tried them out yet, but railway.app looks promising. Same for fly.io
theodorton··on Turo Requires a Driver's License Number and Credit Card to Show Full Price
I’m not sure about the US, but their European service is very transparent on pricing (they offer two different products between the two markets). Some edge cases are generally hard to cover though, especially for unauthenticated users browsing: young driver fees and increased insurance premiums if you’d like a lower deductible.

Disclaimer: co-founded a P2P car sharing service in Norway that was acquired by Getaround in 2019.

theodorton··on Italy gets its first unicorn as Scalapay raises $497M from Tencent
patio11 wrote a really insightful blog post earlier this year on Buy Now Pay Later business models.

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/buy-now-pay-later/

theodorton··on Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
Domains that have less frequent lookups so the chance of getting a cached response is lower.
theodorton··on Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
Norway has a fiscal deficit every year, in order to cover the deficit we're allowed to spend a couple percent of our holdings in the Oil Fund to. To my understanding, this is done by selling assets on a monthly basis in exchange for Norwegian currency by Norges Bank. [0]

One could argue that the government would not be able to offer subsidies on EVs without that option.

0: https://www.norges-bank.no/en/topics/liquidity-and-markets/F...

theodorton··on Clubhouse uploads all your contacts
I believe the "We need contacts permission" message is key here. The message should include the purpose for what the contact data will be used for when asking for consent.

> Specific – consent must relate to specific actions relating to the data rather than for any purpose the business wants it. For example, if the data is for a newsletter subscription, it must say exactly that.

https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/consent/

theodorton··on M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports
I use Spectacle for window management on a 49" ultrawide and it works great for dividing the screen into 3 segments. Having one window centered helps avoiding too much horizontal movement of my neck as well (which I've been recommended to avoid by a physiotherapist).
theodorton··on Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?
No, it doesn’t. We just built a merchant app for the App Store where merchants of our platform should be able to handle and process orders made on our website from customers.

Apple refused to approve the app unless we added a storefront to our app and used in-app purchases. But that’s not something we consider a core feature of the app.

theodorton··on Please read the paper before you comment
No
theodorton··on OpenDyslexic: A Typeface for Dyslexia
Kindle has support for this as well!
theodorton··on I've been writing TILs for 5 years
I've started collecting these myself and I try to summarize them every month. I encourage everyone to do the same, it's a great way to build a reference of stuff you learn that you can and reviewing them monthly makes it stick.

https://theodorton.github.io/categories/til/

theodorton··on A Low-Fare Loophole for International Travelers
You normally check in bags for your final destination when all legs of the trip are with the same airline
theodorton··on Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
They wouldn't need to pay taxes because the money to purchase the financial instrument (whether it's a stock or a cryptocurrency) should already have been taxed in the country where the buyer resides. And, at least in my country, you can't use a financial trade like that to get a tax deduction.

How would they afford to buy the cryptocurrency from the shell company in the first place?

theodorton··on Apple's Audacity
Apple seems to be somewhat unhappy with nvidia. I think AMD might have ML stuff in their roadmap and Apple is making a bet they will make it before they fix their relationship with nvidia.
theodorton··on Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode
This goes both ways, so we should avoid completely black text. I might be wrong, but scrolling on HN on iPhone X seems to produce some weird effect as well.
theodorton··on I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money
DIVYA And you invented something in high school, right?

MARK An app for an MP3 player that recognizes your taste in music.

DIVYA Anybody try to buy it?

MARK Microsoft.

DIVYA How much?

MARK I didn’t sell it. I uploaded it for free.

DIVYA For free?

MARK Yeah.

DIVYA Why?

theodorton··on Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter
In our Stripe integration, you're unable to process a payment that is less than the transaction fee. The minimum is around 33 cents.
theodorton··on Should you use www or not in your domain? (2017)
This was changed in a recent version of Chrome, I believe.

See this post on Super User: https://superuser.com/questions/1356867/chrome-69-hiding-www...

theodorton··on Apple Supplier List – Top 200 [pdf]
Samsung
theodorton··on Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book
Did you have a look at https://www.windowfunctions.com ? Their exercises were a great introduction for me.

I also discovered the ability to select from multiple tables and do joins using where clauses instead, which to me is a lot more intuitive than explicit/imperative join statements. I didn’t see anything covering queries like those (maybe because there’s only one table in the dataset, idk i’m on mobile).

theodorton··on Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music
Do you have any plans on providing SDKs for game engines like Unity? I would love having music that change dynamically based on the pace of the game.
theodorton··on Show HN: Stadia Maps, reasonably priced map tiles, static maps, and routing
What about having cloudfront or some other cache/proxy in front of it? Would that avoid the privacy problem?
theodorton··on On becoming a better developer (2015)
> you can do anything in any (Turing complete) language.

Exactly. The point of the parent was what to choose between learning a new domain or a new programming language (when you already know python) and what would give most value combined. I agree that knowing python+3d will be more valueable than python+haskell.

theodorton··on Why is Ember fading away?
> Sure, there are now react boilerplates that do this, but there are too many out there to properly evaluate what to use. Why not just make it a part of the framework?

Isn't this what `create-react-app` is supposed to solve?

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