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Comment Re:But they are there for themselves. (Score 3, Interesting) 70

It's just a look into how businesses report things. This sort of unnuanced messaging might be comforting for shareholders because it seems like a simple problem to solve.

Productivity not at the pace you want? It's not the fault of our business model, project planning, etc. -- the worker bees are just lazy and we need to fix their entitled work ethic.

Comment Re:Modified honeycomb, I hope (Score 1) 30

You're kinda describing a variation of the typical multi-level A* pathing system used for ages by games.

A* actually lends itself really well to adding extra weights (like traffic, hills, trucking limitations, etc.) and dimensions (coordinating a fleet), it's very flexible. I have no clue if A* is at all appropriate for mapping on a national level, but I can't think of why not.

TFA is somewhat vague but it appears that cinoared ti a square, the hexagons' more circular shape allow for a better 'fit' over natural geography while also allowing a larger and more diverse set of connections if you imagine them as a graph with each face connecting.

Comment A bit surprising (Score 1) 96

I'd expect an office to just chill at high intensity 6500k because that's "alert" lighting. As a business owner you wouldn't want sunset to roll around at 5pm and all your lights are sitting at 3000k and dim because that means people are winding down at work. I'm down for this kind of home lighting 100% though; have been doing it for years.

Comment Re:Beware of Pooh's Bearing gifts (Score 2) 90

That said, a lot of this article summary is nonsensical hype. For example:

Eh, you're missing the point. The comparison you quote is only nonsensical if you recontextualize it with a strawman like you've done.

People are excited about the Mac solution because we're approaching usable non-cloud AI at home. Running a B200 is simply not even in the running -- price and power consumption make it a non-starter. The article is not suggesting that performance per watt is better, just that total power consumption is actually reasonable while having *enough* performance.

Comment Re:So what are the pros and cons of Jellyfin folks (Score 1) 69

I've been using Jellyfin for a few months. I can't speak for other app platforms, but the Apple TV app needs serious work. It will sometimes just force subtitles on for you, even when you have them deselected. It also has trouble knowing when to get a refreshed media library from the server, and no way to manually trigger one.

Comment Re:PCIe, Nearly Fast Enough for Video Cards (Score 1) 63

DirectStorage promised direct NVME to GPU communication, bypassing the CPU, but to my knowledge the Windows version of it still lacks this feature -- it is mostly just direct-on-GPU texture decompression.

Vulkan also has the on-GPU decompression as an extension, but also no CPU bypass.

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