As a semi-professional trombonist, C clefs are very important to me. Alto and tenor as-written, tenor as a means of transposing Bb treble, mezzo-soprano as a means of transposing F parts… they are not obsolete.

My favorite genre of hacker news comment is when someone lacks sufficient imagination to wonder why something that’s commonly used by many people is still in use

FWIW, there's no real need for imagination here. The comment says "mostly", and added a parenthetical comment that was simply meant to name the viola as a prominent remaining use.

In particular, trombones have almost entirely stopped using the tenor clef in jazz.

It's true that jazz charts are unlikely to use tenor clef. Nonetheless, it remains career limiting for a trombonist to be unable to read clefs.

Commercial players are likely to use the skill for transposing Bb treble lead sheets, or playing in a pit. Tenor clef shows up in modern musicals regularly.

Not to mention being shunned from quartet or choir opportunities that are the basis of networking in the industry.

Transposing is an important skill for all instruments. It's true that trombonists get some cases for free if they learn the tenor and alto clefs, but it's possible to learn it without knowing the C clefs.

And even trombonists have to learn how to handle sharps and flats in chromatic passages, so there's a lot more to transposing than using a different clef.

> Tenor clef shows up in modern musicals regularly.

This I didn't know, thanks!

Yes, I did write "mostly". Sometimes the bassoon uses the C clef as well. Still, overall it can be safely ignored in most cases.

4-8 of them. 2 Sparks can operate without a switch.

Well, this one only has 4 ports, would you daisy chain them somehow to get to 8? Or bridge three of these switches?

They are QSFP56-DD which can be split using breakout cables. So it's 4 x 400GbE ports, which could in theory be split into as many as 32 x 50GbE ports. (Although whether that then ends up being an economical thing to do is a different matter.)

Ahh yeah, I've seen people using those. I was thinking you'd ideally want to connect them full speed, but it looks like they're 200gbps ports anyway, and I guess even if they were 400gpbs, you don't really need that much for cross-GPU traffic for MoE models doing tensor parallel.

They only use them at the honest seams, though.

They're the structural spine.

"..., but i revert it. its not our intention to boil the ocean with this." (Opus 4.8 xhigh)

“Liz Taylor’s ex-husband” is extremely vague…

Eddie Fisher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Fisher)

The film also has loads of actors from the 1950s/1960s golden age. It was made in 1984 so for some it was their final roles.

I was single, living alone (+ 2 cats, if they count) in a one bedroom apartment in North Beach 15 years ago on a $90k/year salary. I even had a parking space and a car!

I can understand how people did it then - I was one of them - but I don't understand how they would do it now.

I guess you could rent something small. But could you afford a mortgage with $180,000 back then?

Foobar2000 is not Windows only. https://www.foobar2000.org/

I'm running it on dual DGX Sparks.

I'm interested in your experiences running dual

which exact model, and how many tokens per second for generation?

The DAD AX32/AX64 is such a thing.

Multiple day outages in Winter are not unusual in our part of Maine. Nearly everyone has a whole home generator for good reason.

Do you mean GEODNET?

Oops, indeed I do.