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llukas commented on As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise npr.org/2025/12/28/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

p0w3n3d · 2 months ago

> A 16 GiB M4 Mac Mini is $400 right now

Where do you live? In Poland it's 740usd.

However, 16gb is very little for a Mac where the OS itself uses 7GB

llukas · 2 months ago

It is perfectly usable for essential use cases. This thing also has very fast swap and is good at it.

llukas commented on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own hugotunius.se/2025/08/31/... · Posted by u/K0nserv

throwaway31131 · 6 months ago

> The problem isn't that locked-down devices exist - it's that we don't have enough truly open alternatives for those who want them.

Not for lack of trying. See for yourself

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_p...

The list is not short.

Plenty of companies have attempted this over the years but it’s not obvious that a big enough customer base exists to support the tremendous number of engineering hours it takes to make a phone. Making a decent smart phone is really hard. And the operations needed to support production isn’t cheap either.

llukas · 6 months ago

Government maybe rather than legislating big companies stores could not back up smaller open HW/SW vendors? It seems we gave up increasing competition on HW and what is left is app store level...

llukas commented on Learn Makefiles makefiletutorial.com/... · Posted by u/dsego

llukas · 9 months ago

This is excellent modern replacement for part where Makefiles get messy: https://github.com/casey/just

llukas commented on How I think about debt collabfund.com/blog/how-i... · Posted by u/pmzy

francisofascii · 2 years ago

Right, all it takes is for the large local employer to suddenly downsize, causing both the loss of job, and the crash of the local housing market simultaneously.

llukas · 2 years ago

Shouldn't this be priced into the house value in this local market?

llukas commented on Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/wslack

anon291 · 2 years ago

Following tax forms is so braindead simple, I honestly can't see how anyone can be that incapable without being mentally deficient enough to be under conservatorship. It's literally step by step "Add this" or "subtract that". If you have a calculator and a 3rd grade level understanding of English, I can't see how you'd have a problem.

llukas · 2 years ago

We can have a problem with forms being on paper and not doing "add this" or "subtract that" automatically? It was available in other countries 10+ years AGO ;)

llukas commented on 'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines japantimes.co.jp/news/202... · Posted by u/mikhael

pfdietz · 2 years ago

Affected countries are going to start doing global albedo modification, even if other countries object.

llukas · 2 years ago

This is not a negative thing.

Global albedo modification happens today its just not very directed (eg. pitch black tarmac next to concrete sidewalk there is significant difference in temperature on sunny days, AC bills would be probably bit cheaper we didn't have tarmac).

llukas commented on GPU Survival Toolkit for the AI age journal.hexmos.com/gpu-su... · Posted by u/lordwiz

Kamq · 2 years ago

This is fair, and if you've got the time and inclination, I'd love to hear about your experience and the tricks you ended up pulling. There are definitely advanced areas of CUDA, and you can go deeper on nearly anything.

But we are in a comment chain spawned by:

> CUDA is fairly straightforward for many tasks and in many cases there is an easy 100x improvement in processing speed just sitting there to be had with <100 lines of code.

And a follow up comment about how easy it would be to write that "<100 lines of code", so I feel like we're definitely talking about the easy case of naturally parallel calculations, and sticking to that as an intro seems fair to me.

llukas · 2 years ago

There are libraries that help with more tricky stuff on-device like cub or cuFFTDx.

llukas commented on Cruise's Solution to Robotaxis and Emergency Vehicles: Let Them Move the Car thedrive.com/news/cruises... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

pengaru · 2 years ago

Except the moment you get in the driver's seat of a car and especially operate it, you open a whole can of worms surrounding personal liability.

If I were an emergency responder in such a situation I wouldn't go anywhere near the interior of a robotaxi, let alone one in an exceptional circumstance with bystanders/potentially injured living things in vicinity or laying on the ground nearby. Fuck. That.

llukas · 2 years ago

Where is qualified immunity when we need it?

llukas commented on Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution: study news.mit.edu/2023/study-s... · Posted by u/hhs

kelseyfrog · 3 years ago

> Chernobyl was generation 1, Fukushima was generation 2

Just extrapolating the sequence, the next disaster will take place in a generation 3 reactor.

llukas · 3 years ago

If we extrapolate then lets also do it for the impact of the disaster. Gen 3 disaster: nobody dies and nothing leaks outside the reactor containment vessel.

llukas commented on For the first time, renewable energy generation beat out coal in the US popsci.com/environment/re... · Posted by u/doener

jokoon · 3 years ago

It doesn't really matter if renewable generated more energy than coal for 1 day. What matters is annual generation.

Renewables generates 5 times less than coal annually and still peak for a short period of time, so this is not a big progress. Wind turbines can have big energy peaks when it's very windy, but there is no cheap way to store that energy for a long period of time, WHICH IS WHY NUCLEAR IS THE GREENEST BASELOAD ELECTRICITY.

And solar also requires a lot of copper and steel, which makes it carbon cycle much worse than nuclear.

llukas · 3 years ago

Article is about annual production share.

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