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williamDafoe commented on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux   heise.de/en/news/Valve-HD... · Posted by u/OsrsNeedsf2P
ethin · 9 days ago
We really need to just force all standards organizations to release their standards for free. No making you pay $300 or whatever for a standard. (The PCI SIG makes you pay like $5000 for access to the PCIe standard...)
williamDafoe · 9 days ago
Then you wouldn't have 3G cellular. Or 4G. Or 5G cellular. It costs tens of millions of dollars to drive around san diego in those vans taking traces of a new cellular system design and discovering improvements so that the standard works everywhere else on earth (San Diego is a worst case that's comparable to Hong Kong.). We wouldn't have CDMA cellular. Or LTE cellular. Recall that CDMA cellular was 3x more efficient in bits/second/Hz than 2G/GSM, so that cell phone providers could literally give you a free phone or PAY YOU to throw away your phone and they would still come out ahead, financially.
williamDafoe commented on The past was not that cute   juliawise.net/the-past-wa... · Posted by u/mhb
williamDafoe · 13 days ago
My wife is obsessed with a woman in Scandinavia who makes videos glorifying cottage life in the wilderness in Scandinavia ... I guess this is similar ...
williamDafoe commented on Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months   pcpartpicker.com/trends/p... · Posted by u/zekrioca
bigbuppo · 15 days ago
When OpenAI fails, all the AI projects everywhere else will also be killed. Such is the nature of bubbles. With any luck the farm land where the datacenters were built will be sold back to the farmers for half off and they get a free barn out of the deal.
williamDafoe · 15 days ago
An air conditioned barn with space for 100,000 cattle!
williamDafoe commented on Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?    · Posted by u/ferguess_k
AnnaPali · 18 days ago
Top of the line laptops from e.g. 2019 are very cheap and still competitive with current hardware for realistic use. You can find one with an i9 and 64gb of ram for $5-600, you'll just need to plug it in after a few hours!
williamDafoe · 18 days ago
Don't go ANYWHERE near a macbook pro 2019. Piece of garbage. I had to set mine to 100% fans and it went from 100% to 0% battery in 70 mins when I was streaming a meeting PLUGGED IN WITH A 90W CHARGER! The next time I buy Intel is NEVER.
williamDafoe commented on Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?    · Posted by u/ferguess_k
williamDafoe · 18 days ago
I'm had 15 months of daily usage (8+ hours per day) of an Asus S16 and it's been pretty great. I haven't been lugging it around very much - mostly just using the 10 cores at my desk to run minikube and WSL and Windows and also gaming on it and I upgraded the SSD to 2GB. I was a longtime thinkpad bigot (T41, T42, T60, T430, T460s) but their near-complete shunning of AMD CPUs has been a FAIL. This laptop had some MediaTek WiFi issues and STILL doesn't always come out of sleep, but the 16" oled is fantastic, it's thinner and lighter and FASTER than a macbook air, I love the build quality and ceraluminum ceramic coating, and it plays just about any 3D game you can think about ... The 31 watt power limit clips all the performance off the hx370 / 890m GPU (32GB RAM) so I went with the hx365 / 880m GPU (24GB RAM). The low amount of RAM is my only complaint.
williamDafoe commented on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple   apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/robbiet480
williamDafoe · 18 days ago
If it's not a new color, or a new switch between stainless, aluminum, or titanium, Apple seems unable to manage their tech stack.
williamDafoe commented on Microsoft makes Zork open-source   opensource.microsoft.com/... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
williamDafoe · a month ago
I have an original line printer printout of 1970s "Adventure" (translated from Fortran into C for UIUC's CAC PDP-11/70 running UNIX v7.) Adventure is the father of Zork. Zork is a clone of Adventure.
williamDafoe commented on Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'   nasdaq.com/articles/metas... · Posted by u/MindBreaker2605
aatd86 · a month ago
Used to be a Google X. Not sure at what scale it was. But if any state/central bank was clever they would subsidize this. That's a better trickle down strategy. Until we get to agi and all new discoveries are autonomously led by AI that is :p
williamDafoe · a month ago
Google X is a complete failure. Maybe they had fei-fei on staff for a short while but most of her work was done elsewhere.
williamDafoe commented on Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'   nasdaq.com/articles/metas... · Posted by u/MindBreaker2605
mrbonner · a month ago
I can’t help but wonder: if we had poured the same amount of money into fusion energy research and development, how far might we have come in just three short years?
williamDafoe · a month ago
The minimum cost of capital just to run fusion experiments is probably $100m. And the power bills are probably almost as high as the ones from OpenAI, which is to say, they are the highest power bills in the history of mankind ...
williamDafoe commented on Eight Million Copies of Moby-Dick (2014)   thevoltablog.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/awalias
williamDafoe · 2 months ago
I have a feeling the author compressed 8 million copies of Moby Dick with LZW compression using a huge token cache, then printed the binary results in a 1000-page book. Each successive copy would become smaller and smaller.

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