cmrdporcupine

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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
The $14 is what ARMA claims in their press relesaes but they haven't broken down where they came at that number. Many analysts seem to think it could be much higher. The net effect along with other regulatory moves the AB gov't h
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
I found some less political sources for you to help contextualize why this is a shitty policy maneuver: https://renewablesassociation.ca/recycling-a-tv-costs-2-75-w... https://globalnews.ca/news/1204812
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
Entrenched interests want to take us all down with them, unfortunately. They will burn the field and salt the earth rather than yield control and lose their parasitical source of wealth.
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
Nobody is opposed to a recycling fee. If you actually read the article you will see it's 2.5x to 100x the recycling fees imposed anywhere else in the world. And accompanied by a disinformation campaign from the government. Notably the
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
Implicit in all the "we'll bring Canada to heel" and "we don't need anything from Canada" talk is an Alberta/Sask exception. They don't mean AB/SK. They mean the rest of Canada, which leans furth
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Alberta (Canada) slaps punitive tax on solar panels(albertapolitics.ca)
64 points by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago|77 comments
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
I let Astra loose working on an app I have that has a GUI. Gave it a mock and said "/goal make it look like this mock". Without asking it wrote itself a custom harness for firing up the app in different modes, taking screensh
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
Not $60, but a bit close. I'd do something based on the RK3588 SoC. It's pretty beefy. GPU isn't stellar but it does have good video codec, a proper PCIe bus including support for e.g. m.2 slot nVME on many boards, and dece
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
We used to reward people for serving humanity by making them feel good about public service and being a citizen and neighbour. That was a thing people around me had growing up and many of my family dedicated their life to public service pro
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
I'm appreciating Astra writes much more humanely somehow than Sol did, and certainly better than the Anthropic models. It's terse, like all GPT models by default, but the sentences feel less obscurantist. It's also more pro-a
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
If you read his ex-wife's account of their history together, and also the drama of what happened at PayPal etc... he was always kinda .. off.. and full of shit. Then again, I often think that about myself. But I'm not a trillionai
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
You'd be amazed at how ingenious they are. It's a constant war at my parent's place to stop them from blocking the culverts. It drives beavers absolutely mad to hear the sound of free flowing water from an area they've
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
My dad shoots one or two every couple years to keep the population down. But leaves them dumped because actually there's lots of scavengers that appreciate the meal. No free food lasts long out in the woods.
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
Agree 100%. And I also work a lot on lower level / systems stuff (including RTL here and there, too). Opus is sloppy, and leaves negative cases all over. The GPT models in Codex have a more pedantic and detail oriented "personalit
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
They have models for that. That's what the Nemotron series is. Not just open weights but open training data too and full tutorials on how to use them to fine tune or train your own models. They exist to keep people using and advancin
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
floods roads, buildings, neighbour's properties. they are very persistent buggers and breed like... rodents
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
Beavers can be incredibly difficult to live alongside of. My parents have 100+ acres of bush in central Alberta. When they bought the property it was logged out and mostly in a bad abused state and mostly dry. Over a few years, beavers move
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
A PC with a small GPU coordinating and then llama.cpp using the llama RPC stuff (over RDMA to reduce latency) talking to the two nodes. I dunno, maybe he'll do a write-up someday.
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OpenAI hails 'new era of AGI' with Astra release(theguardian.com)
3 points by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago|0 comments
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
I have one of these I haven't gotten around to futzing with, but have two friends who bought two (each) and have been playing with them for local inference. Notably we did some research and my one friend has had some luck using the M.2
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
Astra incoming. Downtime likely related to ensuing chaos? My sympathies to the operations teams at OpenAI
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
Ads market is terrifyingly complicated. Or was when I worked in it fifteen years ago. I stopped following it out of disgust
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
This isn't for the whole of Google's ad business. Just its ad exchange and I think parts of DFP; basically just mechanisms for auctioning off excess display ad inventory.
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
I haven't been in ads there in, like, over a decade and some but I believe what was under threat here was specifically Google's ad exchange network. Basically third party bidding for space in Google's display ad network. Basi
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
Rust development was already in the air a bit at the time that Go made its debut. And in a shape at the time that was arguably more Go-shaped than what it became (did not have borrow checker yet, and had a managed runtime and GC option as w
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
I mean, I don't think there's nothing intrinsic to the JVM design on paper that requires this memory model. Just to the specific extant JVM implementations out there. I haven't kept in touch with what has been happening in
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
Java and the JVM does show its age specifically in one era, and that is its OO-dogmatism which it inherited from the 1990s OO wave (i-was-there-gandalf.gif). Even the opcode set in the VM reflects this everything-an-object mentality. While
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
I mean, all engineering disciplines seemingly build in for margin of error / tolerances. e.g. Bridge, etc. are often overbuilt in case of faults in materials or expected circumstances. I do agree our profession grapples with complexity
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
FWIW that is exactly what happened, to some degree. And I'm not opposed to language change, I just didn't see why they needed to create a new language instead of adopting something the industry was already working on. They could h
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by cmrdporcupine 2mo ago
C++ at Google is highly restricted to fit to a very normative style guide. And there was strong leadership while I was there to help define what sane defaults might look like (Titus Winters FTW). And then there was a lot of efforts into bui

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