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Decabytes commented on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting   theverge.com/news/609207/... · Posted by u/ambigious7777
Ygg2 · 7 months ago
No sane individual is going to buy 5090 for $2000-100000 and hook it up to a $15 Power supply.
Decabytes · 7 months ago
Let's not forget that the 90 series cards in each generation won't be top end forever. Soon they will just be used cards like all other technology. And someone might be building their first computer, got a good deal on eBay on a 5090 which is 5 or 6 generations old, and cobble it together with some other old parts, and maybe a weak PSU, or an older 12vHP cable
Decabytes commented on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting   theverge.com/news/609207/... · Posted by u/ambigious7777
Decabytes · 7 months ago
I really hope this means that we reign back in the power on these high end cards. 600 what is just too much for a connector like this. 450watts seems much safer (though I wish the spec as a whole had better margins). Nvidia really just tried to pass the 5090 as a new generation by pumping more power through it and it shows.
Decabytes commented on JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform   blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin... · Posted by u/konradkissener
Decabytes · 7 months ago
I personally find value in having two editors. A light editor like Emacs for writing Markdown, git, quick scripts, and a JetBrains IDE for longer running projects, and debugging. I don't feel the need to wholly replace one with the other
Decabytes commented on Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=Hi8r_... · Posted by u/esbudylin
Decabytes · 7 months ago
The thing I find most inspiring about Donald Knuth is his decades long commitment and discipline. As a serial project, language, and distro hopper, I have a lot I could learn from him
Decabytes commented on An update on Dart macros and data serialization   medium.com/dartlang/an-up... · Posted by u/oltmang
Decabytes · 7 months ago
> Runtime introspection (e.g., reflection) makes it difficult to perform the tree-shaking optimizations that allow us to generate smaller binaries.

Does anyone have any more information on How Dart actually does Tree Shaking? And what is "Tree Shakeable"? This issue is still open on Github https://github.com/Dart-lang/sdk/issues/33920.

I think this quote accurately sums things up

> In fact the only references I can find anywhere to this feature is on the Dart2JS page:

> Don’t worry about the size of your app’s included libraries. The dart2js tool performs tree shaking to omit unused classes, functions, methods, and so on. Just import the libraries you need, and let dart2js get rid of what you don’t need.

> This has led customers to wild assumptions around what is and what is not tree-shakeable, and without any clear guidance to patterns that allow or disallow tree-shaking. For example internally, many large applications chose to store configurable metadata in a hash-map:

Decabytes commented on Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/lemonberry
Decabytes · 7 months ago
I’m interested to give this a go because I want to practice reading cursive. I do a lot of longhand writing including writing all my notes in cursive. It’s exciting to watch my binding fill up with all sorts of different subjects!

I like to write in cursive for a few reasons

1. I find it makes my hand cramp less 2. It offers some shallow privacy in public 3. I don’t want to lose the skill 4. It’s fun!

Decabytes commented on What do you think about using a game engine for UI?    · Posted by u/stanislavb
Decabytes · 8 months ago
I think the two main issues from this approach are increased battery usage on mobile devices, and accessibility issues with things like screen readers. I’d recommend giving Flutter a try. It is the easiest way I’ve found to make a cross platform app that works everywhere, and fulfills the two criteria I mentioned above
Decabytes commented on Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps   archaeologymag.com/2024/1... · Posted by u/secretmark
Decabytes · 8 months ago
It's super cool to see the digital unraveling of scrolls become more accessible. It's also amazing that we can still read the text of something that is nearly 2000 years old.

One thing I don't understand is the picture of the scroll though. I don't see how they were able to figure out the letters? They don't look like an alphabet to me

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