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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
Groan. This is performative outrage and it's just boorish. The other person noted that ChatGPT uses bait-type continuations (Gemini and Claude do not), and sure that is a problem, but your reply is just noise. Beg? Christ. There is utt
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
This seems overly cynical. Firstly, tl;dr; is a very real thing. If the user asks a question and the LLM both answers the question but then writes an essay about every probable subsequent question, that would be negatively overwhelming to m
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
Gemini does the same thing. For every question it looks to extend the conversation into natural follow-up questions, always ending a response with "Would you like to know more about {some important aspect of the answer}?" And...I
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
Apple's hardware does not support FP8 (neither the ANE NPU, or the new "neural accelerator" tensor cores), though the most recent variant supports INT8.
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
The DGX Spark (and the white box variants of it) run on the Grace Blackwell GB10 "superchip".
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
It is insanity that any country would give an iota of data, much less any sort of control, to an org like Palantir. Any government representative for countries outside of the US or Israel that recommends such a vile trojan horse needs to be
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
Remember that Hegseth recently celebrated that CNN is being taken over by a friend of the administration who will eagerly parrot their propaganda in the service of keeping the idiocracy controlled. FCC commissioner Carr threatened media lic
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
That's precisely what I do, with subscriptions to all of them. Gemini almost seems unlimited...like I never hit limits with it. Don't even know how to check my usage for the subscription plans on that. But increasingly I'm us
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
The psychology is to hook you on the usage. A lot of people see a little movement in the usage meter and get cold feet about heavy usage. The prior $70 credit deal and now this offering are to try to get people to dive in, and hopefully ret
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
XML is fantastic. XML with XSD and XSL(T) was godly for data flow systems. I mean, just having a well defined, verifiable date type was magical and something seemingly unfathomable for so many other formats. What hurt XML was the ecosyste
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" - Sagan
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
This is fun and neat, and looks fantastic, but the generated maps are basically nonsensical, aren't they? Landmasses and waterways and roads and buildings and forests and so on that don't make any logical sense for their placement
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
Data centres are actually prohibited from using consumer level GPUs via license restrictions. The GPUs they use are largely SXM (server connector) and if you did somehow get one of the PCIe variants (with enormous power and cooling needs) m
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
>there's some adaptation layer that handles mapping Linux calls to Windows calls This was how WSL1 functioned. It used a shim layer, and honestly it was pretty neat for a lot of the basic stuff. It fell apart if you were doing more
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
I've done a lot of in-depth WSL2 work, so I'm just aware of its particulars, but to cite some documentation- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about "WSL 2 uses virtualization techn
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
Okay, are you guys using wrong terminology? Are you talking about a filesystem image as a "VM", because that would not be correct. A "Virtual HD" (VHD) is not a VM. Do you think a WSL2 distro instance is a "VM"
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
"Running $N containers as separate WSL instances runs $N VMs and $N linux kernels." But it doesn't, and this is what I'm disagreeing with. If you instantiate WSL2, it launches a Linux VM. A single Linux VM. If you then r
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
Neat project. Merging the layers of a docker image and setting that as a WSL filesystem is a nice convenience. I recently realized that 100% of what I use Windows for was as a WSL2 foundation: It had been reduced to being an extremely overb
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
You said - "A bit more overhead since they now run as a VM instead of a container" To which osigurdson seemed to be noting that WSL2 itself is a VM (meaning if you launch 1 or 100 WSL2 instances, a single Linux VM will be spun up)
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
Here in Canada we constantly get lambasted because we're "poorer than Alabama!", at least if measured in GDP per capita in USD. Yeah, I've been to Alabama. The absolute poorest areas of Canada are better than basically 1
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
>He could have thought the military build up was a bluff. Everyone knew the US was attacking. Iran clearly knew as well. >He could have trusted in Iran's defenses to allow him time to find safety Everyone knows what Tomahawks are
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
Apologies for going in the weeds on a general concept that is 100% valid, but it expends a couple of paragraphs on this so I must- "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was not, it’s safe to assume, a devoted Polymarket user." We have to assume
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
"Even though Canada has the highest percentage of workers with higher education in the G7, the nation's productivity ranks lower than every other nation's in this group except Japan. ... By August 2024, Canada's youth un
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US gov't preps export controls for Nvidia, AMD AI hardware(tomshardware.com)
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
The job of every software developer is, in essence, to make people unemployed. This is a particularly silly bit of morality to hang on.
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
>Onshoring manufacturing is something that has to be incentivized and that has positive externalities outside of dollars and cents. That's what the CHIPS act did. Indeed, everyone talking about TSMC, Intel, etc -- that's all be
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
>You're ranting. Sadly I'm not. I'm objectively stating facts. This criminal cabal of spectacularly incompetent clowns is absolutely ransacking the final days of an empire. It is astonishing how Americans are unaware of th
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
>the Luddites were right The Luddites were right in the sense that the social order had changed in a negative way. In a careless way. In the same way that we look at America now that has effectively put a plutocracy in absolute control o
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by llm_nerd 7mo ago
Your second paragraph does not follow, at all, from the first. These are completely orthogonal demands. The gaming industry is absolutely overwhelmed with outrageously inefficient, garbage, crash-prone code. It has become the norm, and it h
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by llm_nerd 8mo ago
Executable code is literally just data that you mark as executable. It did the JIT code, and the idea that it can't then share it between processes is incomprehensible. I was actually confused by this submission as it puts so much of a

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