bitmasher9

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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
512GB unified memory is targeting local inference of large models, or local training of non-frontier models.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
This is the most uncharitable outlook on the increase of PRs. It may be true for some contributors, but any company reviewing their GitHub will see that the code is largely spam. I think most AI generated code is people that want to help t
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
I was a bit confused by the term “disk” until I realized you’re talking about NVMe. A relic from “Hard Disk Drive”, which was about two persistent storage technologies ago.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
It’s always fantastic to read a success story of migrating to Linux gaming from Windows. As Windows gets worse and worse there will be more people joining us. Even without buying you can send Linux gaming signals by playing on Linux and par
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
Net neutrality was about processing network traffic differently based on who was sending the packets. It’s not entirely dissimilar.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
Here’s a recent gallup poll. You’re right that the AI opinions are largely colored by the business practices around it. https://news.gallup.com/poll/694835/image-capitalism-slips.a...
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
Do you really think the truth has anything to do with the power of a narrative?
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
The empirical data doesn’t support this view. Capitalism approval rates in the US is much more favorable than 16%.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
For workstation inference a unified memory architecture would be a good cost/performance balance, while keeping COGs reasonable. 512GB unified memory macs are available, with the ram upgrade costing a few grand.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
The reason why some Capital Interests want to blacklist DeepSeek in the US is so that you are forced to buy Claude/GPT/Gemini, which will feed revenue into an industry that requires revenue (or it’s a big problem). The reason why
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
Nvidia will sell you an entire server rack ready for inference. Or maybe you can roll out your own Blackwell based system. We’re approaching a world where running a primer frontier model is possible on a workstation, probably will have som
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
It’s a big number. I wonder what steps we will see to raise revenue leading up to an IPO, and specifically if they’ll cut off the OpenAI subscription that is powering my Open claw install. They have been quite friendly with using the oaut
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
Why wouldn’t you use curl for the quick test?
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
What an interesting take. I was imagining how precious one last conversation with a loved one would be.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
I think it’s funny to describe a drug as “street-quality” while using a slang term “heroic dose” in the same sentence.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
I don’t like this publication, I think the actual scientific study is good information. The information should be considered by regulators and scientists. They should read the scientific journals directly. I want to be able to trust in in
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
It’s not actionable information though.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
The language it uses to describe the story is clearly designed to make parents feel like the environment is unsafe. Cherry picking scientific articles to cover that will cause fear is not just-the-facts reporting.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
Doom-and-gloom, fear and anger are the predominant emotions in the entire journalism industry. Very few places are doing any just-the-facts reporting.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
I’ve seen automation scripts for this process of updating packages. Makes sense that the most popular AUR packages will be candidates for the main repo.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
By “external code” do you mean code that is not written by yourself or the organization you are working in? The Linux Kernel has 40 million lines of code, I don’t have the time to read that so I guess I better not use it.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
I think most ecosystems have more batteries included than node.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
Having trusted community members vet packages is a good system, but how much does it really scale? 1. The whole point of the AUR is that the demand for packages outstrips the volunteer effort to provide secure packages. 2. There are about a
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
That’s not so much an example of who is using best practices, as it is an example of who is using worst practices.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
We’re using an internal package repository that acts as a gateway to the public package repositories, except it can have custom rules such as “min release age 30 days”, and can also give logs about which projects have actually downloaded a
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
I’m not on Arch Linux, but I am on NodeJS a lot, which frequently suffers from similar types of attacks. Who is doing package management right these days? Who is doing it securely?
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
I think the existence of the AUR puts less pressure on the official repository to have all popular software.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
Isn’t this likely to lead to inaccurate data? I wouldn’t know enough about the domain to fact-check Claude.
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
Reader here, about 50 books a year. There use to be very popular touchstone series that a large portion of school age children read. It was Harry Potter for me, but there are similar books both before and after. I think we might just need
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by bitmasher9 4mo ago
Donating tokens to a software project is a bit like donating food to a hungry person. I think it might be beneficial to use blockchain, so that the donor can audit which prompts the token-pool they donated too performed. Perhaps donating t

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