@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at MatX, which was founded by ex-Google engineers, has raised $25M, and hopes to design chips that are 10x faster than Nvidia's GPUs at training LLMs (Ashlee Vance/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…
@jrefior@hachyderm.ioHere's a public policy idea to reduce pollution:
Require luxury private jets to use Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). If you're not familiar with SAF, take a minute to learn more about it.
SAF burns cleaner, and it can, depending on the raw materials used, have a dramatically lower carbon footprint than fossil jet fuel. And it costs 10x as much.
@drahardja@sfba.socialProtip: `rsync -avzE` is almost 10x faster than Finder for copying a large number of small of files in a directory over local network.
And it’s resumable.
Performance on my 2.5 Gbps network:
- rsync: 230 Mbps sustained
- Finder copy: 25 Mbps? Hard to tell because it fluctuates a lot.
Edit: Added the -E option to make sure to copy xattrs.
#macos
@Kencf618033@disabled.socialSuch fun ...
#OpenArtai
@anneroth@systemli.socialPlattformvergleich!
Derselbe Post zum Berliner Wahlergebnis mit Fokus FDP
Mastodon: 76 RT / 162 Likes / 24 Replies
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(Zur Einordnung: Der Threads-Account ist sehr klein, Bluesky etwa 10x so groß, und Mastodon nochmal 2,5 mal größer als Bluesky.)
Bisschen mehr Politik-Interesse nebenan - oder?
@frankel@mastodon.topOn the Importance of #RFCs in #Programming
https://wasp-lang.dev/blog/2023/12/05/writin…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialIn actually good news, I visited my favorite #cannabis dispensary rather than getting a delivery, and discovered that the “points“ I’ve been earning for 3 years and never bothering to use were in fact worth 10x what I had believed.
I have many many bags of gummies banked.
@zachklipp@androiddev.socialTesla has done something truly unique with the cybertruck.
Been doing a lot of car shopping lately. Most of the time I see a picture of a car & don’t love it, looks weirdly disproportionate, but then I see it in person & it looks much better. Cars are generally designed to be seen in person, in 3D, with human focal length and ocular distance.
Cybertruck: As hideous as it looks in pictures, it actually looks 10x worse irl. Like someone made a replica for their kid out of f…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialDelightful - using WebAssembly to speed up Swift macro compilation.
https://forums.swift.org/t/poc-improving-macro-build-times-with-webassembly/70967
@jbaert@mastodon.socialMoved remaining websites I manage (for other people) away from Neostrada, which has gone absolutely down the shitter since they got bought by Versio and increased the price 10x.
Moved to mijn(.)host - flat price, SSH access, fast servers. We'll see how it goes.
Other one that was recommended was Cloud86, but no SSH access on hosted packages, and I've got some scripts to run.
@risottobias@tech.lgbtre: kwh, wealth, old age,
I guess my point is that there's a story behind data points
and that... in asking many different people,
you can uncover a discrepancy
would it make sense for us to feel like trying to be watt smart if the 10x person isn't being thrifty?
is there a story behind why, say, AC bills in Texas are higher than in the UK?
what structural things are different to allow for that change?
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialMan muss schon sehr aktiv weg geschaut haben, um von nichts gewusst zu haben. Nicht nur im Dritten Reich, auch weltweit. Das ZDF hat 10x 45min Dokumentation "Der deutsche Abgrund" über die Zeit 1918-1948. Rundfunkbeitrag bei der Arbeit. Anschauempfehlung: https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRemofirst, which helps remote teams manage payroll, taxes, hiring-related compliance, compensation, and more, raised a $25M Series A led by Octopus Ventures (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/remofirst-hr-tech-series-a/
@MrBerard@pilote.me"Let he who has never TypeError'd cast the first Int"
#Programming #DataTypes #Memes
@jbaert@mastodon.socialMoved remaining websites I manage (for other people) away from Neostrada, which has gone absolutely down the shitter since they got bought by Versio and increased the price 10x.
Moved to mijn(.)host - flat price, SSH access, fast servers. We'll see how it goes.
Other one that was recommended was Cloud86, but no SSH access on hosted packages, and I've got some scripts to run.
@risottobias@tech.lgbtkwh, wealth, old age,
examining something reminds me diverse backgrounds can uncover weird discrepancies in averages of data, or in what you yourself consider "typical".
asked contact list about how much power they use.
one of them made an order of magnitude more kwh than the rest (they're also a c-level executive)
talked about how 3 fridges, a pool, and a hot-tub "stuff comes with age" (but also that they're "trying to be energy efficient")
I mean... not all of the old people on the list have big houses like that. I think that might just be an executive thing?
but it's also like...
I think comparison is a useful tool to realize some parts of our lives go unchallenged.
also, some mistakes in my methodology:
- heating/cooling in different regions vastly changes
- not including power usage from gas heaters vs all electric houses
- not controlling for heating/location
I actually don't think the point would be to get grumpy at them, but to understand that they had zero clue they were 10x energy users
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