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by icedchai 3mo ago
I doubt I'd be an engineer today if it wasn't for the Amiga. I learned C (Lattice, then SAS/C), ran a BBS, set up my first Internet connection (SLIP)...
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Yep, stuff is more likely to "just work" on NVidia. Example: pytorch In most benchmarks, the Spark is also faster at the prompt processing / prefill phase.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I have a AMD Strix Halo box I use for similar dabbling. It definitely wasn't an "out of the box" experience, fiddling around with kernel versions and ROCm installs. These days I mostly wind up using the Vulkan build of llama.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
AI documentation is also often incredibly verbose. It makes it difficult to see the forest through the trees. I am often repulsed by the README.md in many "AI generated" projects.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Should I have said "artificially intelligent" enough?
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by icedchai 3mo ago
They probably didn't need Salesforce in the first place. Salesforce is often bought for the ecosystem: third-party apps and integrations. In a past life I did some Salesforce development and it's like its own world.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Heh. I did try this an experiment. Funny stuff. It was persistent enough to kill it again after I restarted it, too. "Let me try again and be ready for the consequences." We're doomed.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Presumably it's intelligent enough to realize that its own existence (power, communications, other infra) won't last long after the bombs drop.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Vendor terminology is often different (tagged VLANs vs trunking, etc.) but, in general, it is close enough that an experienced person can figure it out with a bit of googling. I've built networks with Cisco, Mikrotik, Aruba/HP, cu
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I've heard it referred to as "AT command protocol." I googled it myself and this terminology is common enough.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I've worked with developers that don't even understand that the "form" tag exists and browser can send a request without any javascript. At some point in the early 2010's, perhaps even before, fundamental understand
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I knew guys who panicked in Feb 2020, at the start of covid. They moved everything to cash, never got back into the market. Things recovered faster than they thought. The unfortunate truth is they would've more than doubled their money
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I set up Asterisk systems for a few small businesses in the mid-2000's (5 to 50 extensions.) It was seriously fun working with that stuff. These days I'll do almost anything to avoid phone calls.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Yep. I’ve worked on some federal contracts and all the waste is in private contractors, not the government itself. There are structural issues with subcontractors many layers deep, each middleman taking a cut for doing little to nothing. It
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I had a Zoom 2400 baud modem (with MNP5 compression!) back in the 90's.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Same. If I move the window around, I can perceive the "Written in Ghost Text"... Otherwise, not at all.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
8 months ago you could get one of these for ~$2K. Well, not this exact item, but systems like the Framework Desktop with the same CPU and memory configuration. It was a good deal for $2K. For $4K? I'm not so sure. Of course, most of th
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Okay, I guess the only solution is to always use FQDNs.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
What you describe is a user and resolver configuration problem. There are 100's of TLDs and there's always a chance they will conflict with subdomains, either now or in the future as new TLDs are created. I've been using both
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I do the same thing and have never had a problem. Maybe I’ve just been lucky for 25+ years. Some hosts have a search path of “int.example.com, example.com”. Others are just “example.com”
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by icedchai 3mo ago
He’s using it as a subdomain.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Do the names resolve to publicly routeable IPs? If not, I wouldn't worry about it.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
This is similar to what I do, except I have my own authoritative DNS servers instead of Cloudflare. I'd prefer this over split DNS, any day.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
I have several AI-content posters in my feed. Many of these are folks that previously used the term "thought leadership" non-ironically. I guess Claude and ChatGPT are the thought leaders now...
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Yep, it definitely wasn't an "out-of-box" experience. This was on Ubuntu 25.10. Maybe other distros are better? Also, when you do Python work, you have to remember to install dependencies like pytorch from an alternate repo,
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by icedchai 3mo ago
The "ROCm" situation with Strix Halo was pretty bad for a while. I think it finally stabilized late last year. You needed the right combo of ROCm, Linux kernel, and kernel firmware for it to work reliably. Whenever I rebuild llama
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by icedchai 3mo ago
They stopped selling anything greater than the 96 gig variant a while back. If you want more RAM, be prepared to bid high on ebay.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
And it was "only" $1700 last year!
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by icedchai 3mo ago
Don't you need a new CPU to support more channels? It doesn't sound like a cheap, trivial change to upgrade my Ryzen to a Threadripper.
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by icedchai 3mo ago
In the alternate reality where this happened, wouldn't the price of DDR4 still be sky high? We'll ignore any costs for CPU, chip set, and motherboard redesign. You're just pushing the demand somewhere else.

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