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New comment by whichquestion in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

whichquestion — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:59:56 +0000

How much electricity does running your local models take?

New comment by whichquestion in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

whichquestion — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:46:38 +0000

I worked with networked attached storage systems at pib scale several years ago and we referred to things in gib/tib because it was significant when referring to the size of systems and we needed to be precise.

That being said, I think the difference between mib and mb is niche for most people

New comment by whichquestion in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

whichquestion — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:44:29 +0000

If you have history turned off and you’re not signed in, the number of videos they show on the home screen is already zero

New comment by whichquestion in "Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles"

whichquestion — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:57:22 +0000

LLMs have definitely helped me reduce my social anxiety when writing, especially in a technical work setting. I don’t use it like the respondent in the article though, I would feel really embarassed to not edit an llm’s output to be in my own voice. But I feel it helps provide me with some structure in whatever I’m trying to write when I don’t have the mental energy or wherewithal to provide it myself.

New comment by whichquestion in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

whichquestion — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:20:53 +0000

I was able to get a new install of Rocket League working recently using Heroic Launcher! https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

New comment by whichquestion in "Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death"

whichquestion — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:28:58 +0000

Something to consider is that BTI kills many species of Diptera, not just mosquitoes.

New comment by whichquestion in "New studies gauge impact and cause of beech leaf disease"

whichquestion — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 02:53:52 +0000

There is at least Laricobius nigrinus for HWA, which has been identified as a method of biocontrol.

New comment by whichquestion in "“Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers"

whichquestion — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:03:24 +0000

Would it be better to make patents have shorter lifespans before entering the public domain from companies of a certain size? Maybe that would level out the playing field and allow small players to be more competitive against behemoth corporations and patent trolls.

New comment by whichquestion in "Stripe’s real pricing: a primer"

whichquestion — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 14:43:58 +0000

Are there any companies arbitraging this % difference by collating lots of different businesses transactions into larger sums to then move into a particular currency for business owners who transact in non local currencies?

New comment by whichquestion in "TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month"

whichquestion — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:31:57 +0000

The "3nm process" has no bearing on the actual size of the gate's or anything like that and is purely a marketing term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_nm_process gives a reasonable summary in its introduction.

My remembrance of the specific quantum effects that you're thinking of are from quantum tunneling[1] of electrons. The problem occurs when the gate size gets small enough that electrons can pass through without the transistor being switched on, which starts to happen around 3nm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling

New comment by whichquestion in "More energy on less land: The drive to shrink solar’s footprint"

whichquestion — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:34:52 +0000

I wonder if it would be a possibility to relay electricity across the US with large battery stations from big solar farms, or if the loss in transit + the expense of the batteries would make something like that intractable.

New comment by whichquestion in "Stable Diffusion launch announcement"

whichquestion — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 18:03:51 +0000

Looking at the repo[1], it uses pytorch so you may be able to. Pytorch released GPU acceleration for Apple M1 earlier this year in v1.12. Looking again at the environments.yaml file they require pytorch v1.11 so you might not be able to upgrade without issue.

[1]https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion

New comment by whichquestion in "Use `Python -m Pip`"

whichquestion — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:42:10 +0000

Pyenv[1] solves the multiple versions of python problem in my experience. You can install the version of python you want and then can set that version globally, per directory, and then use that versions pip or take it further and use a virtualenv/poetry shell.

1: https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

New comment by whichquestion in "Ask HN: How worried are you about the upcoming recession?"

whichquestion — Thu, 26 May 2022 04:34:31 +0000

The news and social media can cause tons of anxiety and stress when they consistently report on the many terrible things happening all of the time.

It doesn’t mean they’re not important, it’s just that it’s ok to take a break.

Sometimes people need that break from the eternal flow of news and social media so that their mental health isn’t impacted and so there is time to process what’s going on.

New comment by whichquestion in "The semiconductor bust – still coming?"

whichquestion — Thu, 05 May 2022 04:49:53 +0000

The US Government did precisely that with the CHIPS Act (2021). It allocated something like $40B for US manufacturing of semiconductors and $10B for R&D [1]. Intel is planning a megafab in Ohio that is estimated will cost $100B when it’s completed. The State of Ohio is giving $2B for the first two plants that are estimated to cost $20B [2].

Chip companies are making new fabs in the US and the US gov is helping to sponsor them.

[1] https://www.nist.gov/semiconductors/chips-act

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/business/2022/04/14/intel-neg...

New comment by whichquestion in "I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government"

whichquestion — Sun, 01 May 2022 20:41:19 +0000

calendar year, see: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_ibonds_gl...

New comment by whichquestion in "Can no longer view websites on smart display"

whichquestion — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:25:23 +0000

If you have a smart phone it’s too late.

New comment by whichquestion in "Where have all the insects gone?"

whichquestion — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:06:29 +0000

One way to lower your risk of ticks is to manage the parts of your yard you use most. Mowing paths into your yard instead of mowing the entire yard can help and allow the other parts of your yard to grow, planting patches of yard with native plants and allowing plants to grow instead of turf.

If you can find a way to attract Opossum they are net tick destroyers. Keeping out deer will only help so well, as small mammals(chipmunks, mice, etc) are primarily the sustainers of tick populations.

New comment by whichquestion in "Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro"

whichquestion — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:42:52 +0000

5 years of security updates, 3 years of feature updates.

On the page it says on the 12th footnote, "Feature drops for at least 3 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US. Your Pixel will receive feature drops during the applicable Android update and support periods for the phone. See g.co/pixel/updates for details."

On https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705 it says, "Guaranteed Android version updates until at least: October 2024" and "Guaranteed security updates until at least: October 2026" for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

So they hypothetically could extend it to more than 3 years of feature updates and 5 years of security updates with the nebulous "at least" wording.

New comment by whichquestion in "Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]"

whichquestion — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:21:31 +0000

In the fine print (footnote #28) it says 3 years of feature updates.

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB

[EDIT] On https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705 it says, "Guaranteed Android version updates until at least: October 2024" and "Guaranteed security updates until at least: October 2026" for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro