unperson [he/him]

Memory bandwidth is what you need. An EPYC 9xx4 / 9xx5 with all 12 DDR5 DIMMs, or a newish dual socket Xeon with 16 modules.

With fast memory the GPU is unnecessary until you want to do training which needs a lot of FLOPS.

Ah, I understand.

I has to be modified to make completions in the middle of words, and split joined words.

It doesn’t sound so difficult to do…

In Linux there’s the “typing booster” IME that works almost exactly like this. As a side effect it handles diacritics and emoji.

As an aside, I don’t like it. Without it, some uncommon words take more dexterity to type fast without assistance, but pinyin input has the same issue. And without it I get to do all the micro-choices on what my text looks like; it has a (not distinct but) deliberate style.

All these ‘predict the next word’ technologies have a deep but insidious averaging impact on style, and the lack of practice produces dependence (de-skilling). The same thing has already happened to the 汉字 languages, though earlier because they’ve been using predictive technology from the beginning of computing: regional variants of characters are disappearing, and most people can’t write intelligibly by hand anymore.

I liked migadu.com as an email server, although it’s very small and doesn’t always get through the Google spam filter. It’s in switzerland which is a very good jurisdiction about privacy laws.

Every decay will result in at least one crystal defect. Alpha particles don’t travel very far, so it probably cause another crystal defect nearby, and maybe a short chain reaction. I’m sure they can work around it but I don’t think it will be easier to deal with than the defects due to ion migration they already have to deal with in Silicon.

A half life of 2×10^19 years still means 100 events per gram per year, 100 new defects in the chip every year.

Same, and I was too nerdy to learn in school.

What the fuck is a trick-taking game

Truco and its infinite variants.

Stocks
Bonds
Money market

Ordered from most to least volatile.

At this moment it’s bad to be in stocks: it’s a bad deal to sell the stock to buy something else, because they are relatively cheap. The flip side is that it’s a good deal to accumulate stock because it’s relatively cheap.

So the employer contribution should go to the index fund. Keep several months of expenses in cash or money market in case you end up unemployed during a crash.

12,000 consoles … for an estimated value of more than 47.5 million euros.

Each console costs 40 grand?

One thing I’d really like to do is learn what the default install of Mint+Cinnamon is doing, how to go over the different components, how to pick and choose what i want this thing doing. I didn’t find the official documentation overly helpful, troubleshooting the install aside, so i wanted to ask here

It sounds like, as soon as you get half-comfortable, you should install Arch.

This is not a meme, your question is exactly what archlinux exists for.

Don’t use the installer, follow the good old https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

Good luck, don’t take Arch too seriously.

Fidel and Che meeting in Mexico, colorised.

I bought a second-hand xperia 5 III last week. Edit: Flashed lineageos and a magisk module to use the stock camera.

The naming scheme is confusing, the first number is the price range, where 1 is the most expensive, 5 the sweet spot, 10 the “budget” model, then the second number is the generation, I < II < III < IV < V < VI.

Recently I found out about sony xperias.

• Decent price second hand
• decent specs, snapdragon CPU
• Unlockable bootloader
• Very good camera, not bricked by unlocking the bootloader
• LineageOS support on some models
• Headphone jack
• Double SIM + eSIM
• micro SD card
• Large battery
• Easy to repair

For smartphones I think a significant driver of their ever-increasing sizes is that battery technology is lagging behind power demand. The worst thing of having a small phone these days is that the battery lasts less than a day. Big screens used to be too power hungry to be practical but LEDs are extremely efficient these days.

My prediction is that we’ll return to the miniaturization craze of the 1990s whenever the next breakthrough in battery technology happens.

I like it because it’s designed. It think it’s the only DE with actual designers continuously working on it. It has few options and doesn’t feel hacked together.

Of course you had to have something to drive the VGA outputs. Usually this meant a VIA, SiS, or Unichrome chip in the motherboard. Those chips often had no 3D acceleration at all, and a max resolution of 1280x1024. You were lucky to have shaders instead of fixed-function pipelines in 2008-era integrated graphics, and hardware accelerated video decoding was unheard of. The best integrated GPUs were collaborations with nVidia that basically bundled a GPU with the mainboard, but those mainboards were expensive.

Windows Vista did not run well at all on these integrated chips, but nobody liked Windows Vista so it didn’t matter. After Windows 7 was released, Intel started bundling their “HD Graphics” on CPUs and the on-die integrated GPU trend got started. The card in the picture belongs to the interim time where the software demanded pixel shaders and high-resolution video but hardware couldn’t deliver.

They left a lot of work for the CPU to do: if you try to browse hexbear on them you can see the repainting going from top bottom as you scroll. You can’t play 720p video and do anything else with the computer at the same time, because the CPU is pegged. But if you put the 9500 GT on them then suddenly you can use the computer as a HTPC. It was not an expensive card, it was 60-80 USD, and it was a logical upgrade to a tower PC you already have to make it more responsive and enable it to play HD video.

Yes, it was the cheapest graphics card that could decode 1080p H.264 video in real time (and the acceleration worked in the Flash player). The 8500 GT could also do it but it was never popular. It made a huge difference when youtube became a thing.

The card in the picture is of a kind that no longer exists: the basic, office computer GPU.

It got entirely displaced by integrated graphics.

So in a way they did get smaller, so small that they share a piece of silicon with the CPU. The only cards that remain are those that are so power hungry they can’t share power and cooling with the CPU.

Last time I checked, you could only unlock Huawei phones through exploits. And while you can re-lock Xiaomi phones, they will always show the screen telling you the system is corrupted on boot. They were having supply chain problems with resellers flashing malware to their phones.