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tomtom1337··on Stable Diffusion Public Release
> The final memory usage on release of the model should be 6.9 Gb of VRAM.

Do they actually mean GB or Gb? Can anyone confirm?

tomtom1337··on My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement
Seconded. I don't understand what they meant by two hands/fingers.
tomtom1337··on No-logging of user activity policy
For what it's worth, I get CAPTCHA a lot on expressvpn and nordvpn too. (Switched from the former a few months ago when my subscription ran out).
tomtom1337··on Hacker News was down
From 2018: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041>

> We’re recently running two machines (master and standby) at M5 Hosting. All of HN runs on a single box, nothing exotic: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v4 @ 3.50GHz (3500.07-MHz K8-class CPU) FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 hardware threads Mirrored SSDs for data, mirrored magnetic for logs (UFS) We get around 4M requests a day.

tomtom1337··on Full-office tech jobs pay 1.9x less than full-remote
Alternative phrasing: Full-office pays 52.6% of full-remote. Or "about half".
tomtom1337··on Dark mode isn't as good for your eyes as you believe
I've upvoted you, and you may be right, but your last sentence could really be used as an argument for the opposite case - if the light bleeds into the background, then surely if the background is light, then it would bleed into the dark letters? And the effect would be enhanced since there is much more light on the screen in light mode?
tomtom1337··on Please stop disabling zoom
This is a really creative website! Nice work!
tomtom1337··on Modern Pandas (Part 2): Method Chaining
I'd recommend checking out polars as an alternative to pandas - https://github.com/pola-rs/polars

It has a rather different api, and is significantly faster. Highly recommend it.

tomtom1337··on Arducam Pi Hawk-eye is a 64MP camera for Raspberry Pi 4/CM4
So it would seem! Thanks!
tomtom1337··on Arducam Pi Hawk-eye is a 64MP camera for Raspberry Pi 4/CM4
You would actually have more noise, or at least, not less noise. There is readout noise associated with reading the information out from each pixel. Using one bigger pixel would give you less noise than four smaller ones :)
tomtom1337··on Arducam Pi Hawk-eye is a 64MP camera for Raspberry Pi 4/CM4
The Rayleigh criterion above is exactly what is used to answer the question you're asking :) it tells you what size objects you can resolve with a given wavelength of light, which if you think about it in a different manner also tells you what the smallest useful pixel size you can have is. Two smaller pixels next to one another would be able to distinguish no more information than a combined one.
tomtom1337··on Firefox 100
(Totally agree!)

You mean "disagree" here though - "digress" means that you step away from the topic for a moment.

tomtom1337··on Apple Silicon Guide. Learn All about the M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra Chips
This is super interesting and extremely helpful! But who wrote this?
tomtom1337··on Useful Shell Prompt (2020)
Your imgur link isn't working for me. I'm getting an "oops we can't find the image".
tomtom1337··on Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack
Your suggestion is a really good one. We have channels with several hundred people in it, and there threads are a must. In the smaller team channels I often reply out-of-thread, since it doesn't matter.
tomtom1337··on EnvKey End-to-End Encrypted Environments Is Now Open-Source
Agreed that they could type that explicitly in the readme, but just so you know, github displays this sort of info in the horizontal bar diagram if you scroll a bit down on the repo page. 93.5 % typescript.
tomtom1337··on Show HN: I made a 90s version of my landing page
I love that I can read the whole page without scrolling.
tomtom1337··on An mK = 7.8 star may enter the Einstein ring of alpha Cen A in 2028 (2016)
Thank you! Arcsecond is a 2d measurement! One star is coming within a small distance of the other star when looking at the projected image!
tomtom1337··on Recent Advances in Lensless Imaging
This is super interesting! I'm surprised the articles introduction didn't include a single image demonstrating an imaging system that uses a lens, though. Seems like it would fit nicely to highlight the problem.
tomtom1337··on Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing)
As a suggestion to help you with your quest - try polarised sunglasses. I used them with my M1 mac this summer quite successfully! The macbook screen is polarised so that the screen light goes straight through the sunglasses, while the surrounding sunlight gets dimmed.
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