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by pizza234 4mo ago
> Now come back to my first question. An LLM predicts the next word based on all the words before it. That is the whole story. There is no idea sitting underneath. No!! This is misinformation. An LLM predicts the next words (tokens) base
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by pizza234 4mo ago
> Having a machine that can run some modest local LLMs, like the Gemma 4 12B, is really worth it. Cloud models are (much) faster, they don't consume so much power/generate heat, they have much bigger (LLM) context, they're
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by pizza234 4mo ago
NTlite has also been around for more than a decade, although it has a freemium model.
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by pizza234 4mo ago
> Quake III Arena was pretty entertaining. Doesn't seem like it came from a company that had been ruined for years. It's not that the company was ruined, but that it had lost some of its creative direction after Romero left (wh
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by pizza234 4mo ago
LOL, sure this works if one has a time machine or a LOT of money to burn. 32 CPU Epyc (Epyc is required for faster memory access) + 32 GB VRAM + 512 GB RAM is stupid expensive nowadays, and in best case, it will just downgrade to "very
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by pizza234 4mo ago
> Another CEO with AI psychosis [1]. LLMs are not true AI, they lack common sense (or whatever it's properly called). If you read the article, you'll find that the it indeed relies on this claim: > Within a couple of years,
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by pizza234 4mo ago
Flashback came considerably later (1992) than PoP (1989); a single year back then was a lot more significant than it is today. A classic game in between was Another World (1991). Just out curiosity, PoP ran on 8088/8086, while Flashbac
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by pizza234 5mo ago
OpenAI and Anthropic are certainly strong drivers, but there's a large demand from many other players: cloud provider, accelerator vendors, and so on. I think there's no end in sight.
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by pizza234 5mo ago
Slight?? It has 3g of salt per liter, which is very high - not least because 1g of that is sodium. Having said that, I like it very much.
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by pizza234 5mo ago
8.8" is a bit too small for my use case, but... oh my, their Win Max 2 is a very impressive machine (10.1") - I'm really shocked at the size. I'm confused by the price, though - 6500$??
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by pizza234 5mo ago
Confirmed. Minibooks are amazing in cramped locations (for example, airplane seats), or just to always keep in the bag for support. There's nothing in the market like them, which is a shame - I think a slightly better quality Minibook
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by pizza234 5mo ago
It isn't realistic to expect a design to be "proper in first place" because requirements change; my opinion is indeed the opposite - I find it natural for programming languages to have a (sort of) lifespan, and for new ones t
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by pizza234 5mo ago
> Not everyone needs that fast RAM access but for those who do it could be nice to have an option. The writing is on the wall for years now. There is an option already, at least from AMD, in the HEDT segment - Threadripper/Pro has 4
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by pizza234 5mo ago
EDIT: the leads are, in practice, managing a small team, although their exact technical background is unclear ("experienced practitioners who know how to design and deliver digital products", not clear if they're professional
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by pizza234 5mo ago
> I think the use of AI is really missing the point here. The point is that small in-house teams can deliver a lot more quickly and to a higher quality and at a lower cost than large outsourced teams from the big consultancy companies. T
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by pizza234 5mo ago
The article argues that although this is an asynchronous process: > Long running work: an agent doing a 10 minute task isn’t a ‘request’, it’s a long-running async process. it should not be stateful at the database/storage level: &g
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by pizza234 5mo ago
Because the speed increase is - on modern, properly tuned filesystems - surprisingly small, due to how RDBMS's manage their pool; by working on large container files, they avoid most of the filesystem overhead.
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by pizza234 6mo ago
Vibe coding on consumer hardware is still very limited; this is especially true on GPUs, whose RAM limit is around 16 - maybe 24 - GB for the vast majority (although Macs change the equation). These are two realworld experiments, whose re
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by pizza234 6mo ago
Mentioned in another comment, but the problem was that the sysadmins believed that the permissions wouldn't allow so, and that the AI displayed considerable autonomy in finding and exploiting the access control weakness - this was not
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by pizza234 6mo ago
There’s nuance to the infamous PocketOS incident. The key point is not what is emphasized in the linked article: > "Why did you delete it when you were told never to perform this action?" Then he tried to parse the answer to ei
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by pizza234 6mo ago
Happened to me once. I was emptying one of my child’s thermoses in the bathroom when it suddenly "exploded" and sprayed the contents all over the bathroom walls. Quite a remarkable day :) I didn't consider it a defect, though
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by pizza234 6mo ago
There situation is more intricate: the allegations are that Snapchat infringes patents through its use of the AV1 and HEVC codecs. Dolby states that it did not participate in AV1’s development and made no FRAND commitment with respect to AV
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by pizza234 6mo ago
> I came to the conslusion that the DE should get out of your way and allow you to focus on your work. This is the exact problem of GNOME; they routinely drop a lot of useful functionality, often irreversibly. So [for power users] GNOME
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by pizza234 6mo ago
There's much more to the story. GNOME is a sort of authoritarian organization known for their antisocial behavior: https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotti... (and there's much,
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by pizza234 6mo ago
> Is anyone finding value in these things other than VCs and thought leaders looking for clicks and “picks and shovels” folks? Mostly (but of course, not exclusively), porn for the techies. Receiving a phone notification every time a PR
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by pizza234 6mo ago
> It has always been that way. The fact that supply chains have always existed is not meaningful. The issue is that the occurrence is considerably increasing. It's factually riskier to administer systems. > You should be reading
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by pizza234 6mo ago
This view misses the difference between the transitional and structural effects of job loss. Even if a job is "bad", losing it creates short-term shocks; especially low-income workers can’t instantly move to better jobs. No doubt
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by pizza234 6mo ago
In my experience, no - I think the ability to build more complete features with less/little/no effort, rather than isolated functions, is (more) appealing to (more) developers.
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by pizza234 6mo ago
I agree in principle, although I personally consider mental atrophy to be far more serious than physical atrophy (and I value physical fitness very high already!).
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by pizza234 6mo ago
> Nobody is objecting to the loss of bad jobs. The jobs themselves are not the problem. Very strong disagree; a lot of people is objecting. A job on an assembly line may be "bad" for somebody, but for somebody else can be a lif

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