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by cptskippy 4mo ago
Why do you assume Broadcom has a ton of IP for AI SoCs but hasn't done any of the other work around data center scale deployments?
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by cptskippy 4mo ago
Where are all of the emissions coming from? I keep hearing that automobiles account for a small % and that trucking and shipping account for the majority, but you're saying shipping is only 1%.
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by cptskippy 4mo ago
Our energy aggregator is a non-profit Community Choice Aggregator with over 250,000 members that ensures 50% of the energy they purchase comes from renewables and 75% of all energy purchased is carbon free. And for an extra $0.00750 p&#x2F
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by cptskippy 4mo ago
I haven't done any in-depth synthetic benchmarks but I had my Hermes agent run some and I ran a couple directly on the LLM Gateway that showed similar results. Hermes reported 18.45 tok/s consuming the llama-swap endpoint across t
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by cptskippy 4mo ago
It's an interesting idea. Tools like Grammarly exist to help with business communication. I wonder if there's a space for a Social Media or online writing assistant to help people. I for one could probably benefit from a tone s
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by cptskippy 4mo ago
Exactly this. Creating conversation titles and parsing HTML/JSON don't benefit from 27B models. The B70 can run both models comfortably side-by-side so it makes better use of time and resources.
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by cptskippy 4mo ago
I'm using an Intel Arc Pro B70 which has 32 GB of VRAM. It's estimated to get ~35-45 t/s at $21-27 $/t/s. An RTX 5090 is ~61 t/s at ~$33 $/t/s. So in terms of raw power Nvidia is effortlessly still
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by cptskippy 4mo ago
I've been running qwen3-5-9b-q4-k-m and qwen3-6-27b-q6-k simultaneously on an Intel Arc Pro B70 with a lot of success. https://github.com/cptskippy/battlemage-llm-gateway Opencode has been a huge productivity acce
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by cptskippy 5mo ago
I think the op was suggesting the contribute to FOSS rather than shaming people who have contributed greatly for not contributing more.
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by cptskippy 5mo ago
Eh... not exactly. MinWin was the response to Longhorn. When most of the major goals of Longhorn failed to ship and those that did resulted in Vista, Microsoft did a reset. The MinWin project was a massive cleanup effort that promoted cle
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by cptskippy 5mo ago
Is there a reason to advertise Tikz like this?
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by cptskippy 5mo ago
I think I'm agreeing with you but its also not something easily dismissed. The DRAM Cartel has been found to be distorting the market on numerous occasions by various regulatory bodies. There is a boom-bust cycle that occurs with DRA
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by cptskippy 6mo ago
He said complicated code bases. LLMs are great at producing small snippets of code to address very targeted problems.
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by cptskippy 6mo ago
I'm sure that photo was chosen rather deliberately to garner support from a wide cross selection of grey beards.
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by cptskippy 6mo ago
What if you're waging a war in the name of defense?
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by cptskippy 6mo ago
This is what they should have been doing all along. My Pixel tells me that charging above 80% is bad for battery longevity and I should set a charge limit. Well then maybe 80% should be the new 100% and the advertised capacity should be t
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by cptskippy 6mo ago
> The trend of buying SBCs for general purpose compute is declining, Were people actually doing that?
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by cptskippy 6mo ago
> Is the 1 percenters getting dumber or acting like it? I feel like their messages are designed to derail people's train of thought. People start to realize that technology isn't fulfilling and they need to re-access their live
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by cptskippy 6mo ago
The rub is that people don't want transmission networks to go away. They just don't want to pay for the maintenance. In many US municipalities the cost of infrastructure is rolled into the per unit fee meaning high consumers pay
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by cptskippy 7mo ago
They certainly look viable as replacements for my Tesla P40 for virtual workloads.
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by cptskippy 7mo ago
Support for Single Root IO Virtualization (SR-IOV) to enable compute and Graphics workloads in virtualized environments.
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by cptskippy 7mo ago
> The government does most things poorly and with little regard to budget or quality. That's a common line by conservatives who are actively sabotaging government with policies and laws which they then point to as evidence of such i
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by cptskippy 7mo ago
You have to remember that the AMD and Intel of today are very different companies than they were 20-25 years ago. AMD split off it's fab capabilities, acquired ATI, adopted TSMC as a fab, and developed a custom silicon business. At th
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by cptskippy 7mo ago
> It is interesting that IBM dominated this generation of consoles, and was vanquished in the next. IBM's Power was the only logical option at the time. These consoles were being designed around 2000. Intel and AMD weren't par
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by cptskippy 7mo ago
> actually the hardest part of a locally hosted voice assistant isn't the llm. it's making the tts tolerable to actually talk to every day. I would argue that the hardest part is correctly recognizing that it's being addre
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by cptskippy 7mo ago
> ...your scenario just does not happen. It happens to us all of the time. My partner is on a conference call, I hop in the car to go run an errand. Suddenly I'm on a conference call. My partner is in the kitchen listening to a pod
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by cptskippy 7mo ago
Core evolved from the Banis (Centrino) CPU core which was based on P3, not P4. Banias used the front-side bus from P4 but not the cores. Banias was hyper optimized for power, the mantra was to get done quickly and go to sleep to save power
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by cptskippy 7mo ago
Does everyone pay for bully insurance or is it a tax on the bullied?
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by cptskippy 7mo ago
Renting camera equipment is fairly common and their are rental services that do overnight and next day.
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by cptskippy 7mo ago
Who pays for the laptop when the school bully pours water on a kid's backpack? Or a kid has their bag in a seat and someone sits on it accidentally? What happens when a kid's laptop is broken, regardless of the reason, and the fa

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