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Comment Re:Doesn't add up (Score 1) 17

Many of the popular tools and workflows have a bad habit of downloading a model quite frequently, even if they have been downloaded before. This is especially the case when it is being distributed over several GPUs and each only downloads a portion of the model.
This is combined with countless models uploaded to huggingface which are fine-tunes, quantizations, etc, that he probably counts in those totals.
There some ML test workflows download the model each time a new commit is made to their frameworks.
I would buy a billion downloads of all that put together, though nowhere near a billion unique downloaders.

Comment another way around internet blockage (Score 1) 123

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Comment Pay the man, Silent Bob... (Score 1) 94

I'm an actual Starlink user at my farm. It's head-and-shoulders better than any competing service.

I previously has used a cellular uplink... and even with a yagi mounted 30' up on a mast, I barely had 1-2Mb/s of bandwidth. It was truly miserable.

Starlink is a game-changer... give 'em the freakin' money. They've done something truly miraculous for rural internet users, who had previously only terrible/expensive options. As a taxpayer, I'm actually glad to see the money I contribute going to something useful.

Comment Re:No Autonomy (Score 2) 125

You might have missed that Musk made the same claim about 2016, with the 1-camera sensor system. The 2017 claim was with the newer 8-camera system, and the claim was made before Tesla even had software for the new sensors, and the Tesla then lacked adaptive cruise control, adaptive high beam, self parking, summon, and other things that the prior model did have. I'm embarrassed that I actually believed these claims.

Comment Minor annoyance with multiple Teslas (Score 1) 144

There was a bit of an annoyance if you have multiple Teslas. While the app works fine without the internet, the bluetooth key only works for the car you currently have selected. During the outage I was unable to switch my selected car, and thus couldn't use the bluetooth to open feature. I just used the keycard though.

Comment Interview is worth listening to (Score 3, Informative) 15

While the media takeaway isn't the greatest, the actual interview is quite worth listening to. It's a little bit like a Carmack keynote in interview form. Though if you follow Carmack, a reasonable amount of it won't be new to you.

The actual interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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