Man, they're having a hell of a time up in Boulder.
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qmarchi commented on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux heise.de/en/news/Valve-HD... · Posted by u/OsrsNeedsf2P
This sounds too easy to be true.
Does the "brand" include the physical shape of the connector?
Could I make hardware with a "NotHDMI" port that "happens" to be mechanically compatible with HDMI plugs, has the exact same pinout, etc etc?
Even then: In the OP case the hardware is already there, it's only about the driver. So wouldn't a driver for hardware that very clearly identifies the port as "HDMI" run into the same problem, even if the driver itself never mentions the term?
I mean, have you seen "TF Card" slots?
qmarchi commented on I just trained a physics-based earthquake forecasting model on a $1000 GPU · Posted by u/ArchitectAI
Given the swath of sensors that Japan has, and the long history of a lot of them. I do wonder what the result of training off their datasets would be.
qmarchi commented on For rural Californians, unreliable power has become the norm hcn.org/issues/57-11/for-... · Posted by u/dangle1
Wow $3M a mile to bury lines is insane. It sounds like that’s the only solution though?
Welcome to the world of NIMBYism.
It's not impossible to do things, but people (in the US) are extremely resistant to any kind of perceived change or self sacrifice.
It's a common story for any kind of infrastructure project in the US.
qmarchi commented on Remove Sora2 watermarks in 5 secs – no quality loss removesorawatermark.onlin... · Posted by u/watree
Wouldn't removing the watermark be a ToS violation? Not only that, it's explicit goal of "social posts without the AI generated label" is kinda the reason why the watermark is there, to allow users to understand that the content _isn't_ real.
Disc: Foreigner in Japan
I'm personally not a fan of her policies. Tax cuts won't solve the fact that Japan still has one of the highest debt to GDP in the world, and will only make the Yen weaker in the global economy.
Sometimes, you have to rip off the band-aid (Low taxes) in order to get better (stronger Yen).
qmarchi commented on Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others aljazeera.com/news/2025/9... · Posted by u/saikatsg
It does, but mostly in an indirect way.
See, companies that deal with a lot of traffic on static data have geographically distributed caches.
Let's say Steam has a major game release, and gets slammed with the DL traffic of 5 million gamers all around the world trying to get their hands at that new game all at once. However, Steam has an instruction manual that allows any ISP to set up their own cache servers. So an ISP that has a cache set up can convert a lot of that global traffic to local traffic, saving them money, and offering users a better experience.
(One small ISP I knew had it set up so that all traffic to their local Steam cache was fully exempt from client rate limiting, reportedly because the ISP's admins were avid gamers.)
Other services like major CDNs, YouTube or Netflix may have deals with ISPs to locate their caching hardware on ISP premises, or may buy their own caching servers in specific datacenters. Same idea applies - it's cheaper for both ISPs and web services when the users hit local caches than when they "cache miss" and generate global traffic.
VPN use is a "forced cache miss", so it's a loss-loss for both ISPs and web services.
Not really an L for web services, since the caches would just end up near the VPN locations (and sometimes inside the same DC).
Disclaimer: Former YT Engineer.
qmarchi commented on Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor dev.37signals.com/running... · Posted by u/airblade
Would be interested to see a cost breakdown for the ECR vs S3 and compute cost.