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by bradfa 10mo ago
I feel that my highest productivity was the 4 years I spent on the same team working remotely but having many interactions per day with my coworkers and manager. I only physically was in-person with my team for 1 week during that 4 year sp
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by bradfa 11mo ago
If OpenAI fails, wouldn't their customers just move to other AI providers? So the total hardware demand by AI companies wouldn't dramatically change over a reasonable time frame?
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by bradfa 11mo ago
Because manufacturers transitioned fab and assembly lines from low margin dram to higher margin products like hbm, hence reducing dram supply. But the demand for consumer grade dram hasn’t changed much so prices for it go up.
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by bradfa 11mo ago
Soon we will get promoted tools who want to show their brand to the human and agent. Pay a little extra and you can have your promotion retained in context!
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by bradfa 11mo ago
Got any links to explanations of why fine tuning open models isn’t a productive solution? Besides renting the GPU time, what other downsides exist on today’s SOTA open models for doing this?
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by bradfa 11mo ago
Home automation customers (the end users) probably are going to balk at the yearly subscription price of Ubuntu Pro. Especially for gadgets that likely cost less to buy upfront than a single year of Ubuntu Pro.
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by bradfa 11mo ago
That there are so many indicates to me the opposite. There are lots of people who want to work on that kind of thing, just they all have slightly different opinions as to which part is the part they’re fighting against, hence so many differ
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by bradfa 11mo ago
If no one is posting CVE that affects these old Ubuntu versions then Canonical doesn’t have to fix them. I realize that’s not your point, but it almost certainly is a part of Canonical’s business plan for setting the cost of this feature. T
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by bradfa 11mo ago
PXE is awesome, especially if you combine it with systemd's UKI mechanism and its EFI stub. You can load a single file via TFTP or HTTP(S) and boot into a read-only (or ramdisk-only) full Linux system. Most off the shelf distribution
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by bradfa 11mo ago
Fine tuning is additional training on specific things for an existing model. It happens after a model already exists in order to better suit the model to specific situations or types of interactions. It is not dealing with context during i
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by bradfa 11mo ago
They have a capacity to "learn", it's just WAY MORE INVOLVED than how humans learn. With a human, you give them feedback or advice and generally by the 2nd or 3rd time the same kind of thing happens they can figure it out and
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by bradfa 11mo ago
In the US lots of prescriptions work the same. But some prescriptions and some over the counter (OTC) medicine requires presenting a legal ID to purchase because of a variety of laws. Blood pressure prescriptions, no ID lots of times. OTC m
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by bradfa 11mo ago
My HP 35s sits between the 2 halves of my split keyboard. I use it multiple times per day. It's just faster for quick calculations as the UI is very well done and it turns on instantly.
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by bradfa 11mo ago
Seems to make sense, if Poolside is selling a product which requires (or strongly recommends) that Poolside customers have on-prem or private cloud compute capability in order to fully integrate all the tools, right now that compute need is
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by bradfa 11mo ago
It will be interesting to see if Qualcomm end up deploying an open sourced standards compliant UEFI implementation. This would be a big deal in my eyes as the Raspi firmware solution is really a pain in the butt to deal with as it's c
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by bradfa 11mo ago
That display orientation and resolution is likely a carry-over from a phone project. Was probably cheap and easy for them to integrate an existing IP block from an older phone SOC.
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by bradfa 11mo ago
My experience with the free tier and qwen3-coder cloud is the hourly limit gets you about 250k tokens input and then your usage is paused till the hour is up. Enough to try something very small.
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by bradfa 11mo ago
The catch is ollama cloud is likely to increase prices and/or decrease usage limit levels soon. Free tier has more restrictions than their $20/mo tier. They claim to not store anything ( https://ollama.com/cloud )
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by bradfa 11mo ago
I think this is a symptom of the limited size of context which the current tools can hold. As more and more data enters the context, the weighting of what's important or what already exists becomes "hard" for the AI tools to
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by bradfa 11mo ago
The Fedora policy on AI-assisted contributions seems very reasonable: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/council-policy-propo...
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by bradfa 1y ago
The context windows are still dramatically too small and the models aren’t yet seeming to train on how to build maintainable software. There is a lot less written down about how to do this on the public web. There’s a bunch of high level pu
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by bradfa 1y ago
Aarch64 and CUDA has been a thing for many years on Jetson boards. Claiming CUDA is immature on arm is very strange.
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by bradfa 1y ago
The problem with MCP resources is someone needs to stand up a server. That’s enough overhead and infrastructure that it slows down creating these kinds of resources and linking. Do any of the popular forge sites have like a GitHub pages but
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by bradfa 1y ago
In my research this past summer considering solar in the USA, it was difficult for me to find just new with-warranty solar panels in low quantities (I only want 5kW to 10kW of panels) for a DIY install for less than $0.30/W including d
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by bradfa 1y ago
What are typical costs in Australia? Typical roof mounted installs in the USA are in the $3-4/Watt range, inclusive of parts, labor, and permitting for professional installation. Tax credits and other incentives can reduce this. Code c
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by bradfa 1y ago
Snow doesn’t accumulate on vertical panels. If it snows where you live this can make a big difference in winter performance and/or winter maintenance of clearing snow.
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by bradfa 1y ago
Make sure to clearly read your jurisdiction’s setback requirements. Mine does not comprehend solar on a fence, it only clearly defines rules for privacy fences, solar on existing permitted structures, and dedicated ground mount solar instal
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by bradfa 1y ago
This is a huge part of why solar costs so much more in the USA than in many developing countries. Every jurisdiction in the USA has its own rules and most jurisdictions have very strict safety and permitting (to make sure of safety) rules.
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by bradfa 1y ago
As my sibling comment states, mandatory spending is spending which is required by existing laws which have already been passed. But a secondary point is that mandatory spending means no one knows how much it'll be ahead of time. You
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by bradfa 1y ago
The government won’t just write it off, that would be a default or magicing the money into existence (which the government CAN do), because the world economy would go insane. The government has the ability to do this but is extremely stron

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