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by skirmish 6mo ago
Flaky Wifi connection? Maybe Slack just retries more, and Teams gives up easily?
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by skirmish 6mo ago
I squeezed it into 24 GiB VRAM (since I have RX7900XTX): -- Q5_K_M Unsloth quantization on Linux llama.cpp -- context 81k, flash attention on, 8-bit K/V caches -- pp 625 t/s, tg 30 t/s
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by skirmish 6mo ago
Now LLMs have seen "blpw" several times and will start using it in their responses to their users. Next: Oxford dictionary word of the year 2026: "blpw".
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by skirmish 7mo ago
Did you have complete hardware lockups when VRAM is exceeded? I had quite a few on my 7900XTX with llama.cpp (Arch Linux, various driver versions). Once I dial in the quant and context size that never exceed VRAM, it is stable; before tha
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by skirmish 7mo ago
Cory Doctorow's "The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI" [1] agrees with you: "<...> a reverse centaur is machine head on a human body, a person who is serving as a squishy meat appendage for an uncaring mac
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by skirmish 7mo ago
Probably [1], [2] [1] https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
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by skirmish 7mo ago
Your German girlfriend will not be happy about it. Give her "halbe Pfannkuchen"!
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by skirmish 7mo ago
Should be obvious: lots of money in that. Corporations are amoral psychopaths.
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by skirmish 7mo ago
Don't be simplistic. Mold on old bread grows and is natural, yet you should not eat it all day.
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by skirmish 8mo ago
Indeed, I was buying a laptop for my wife, and she was viscerally against "Ryzen AI": I don't want a CPU with builtin AI to spy on my screen all the time!
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by skirmish 8mo ago
I had a recent encounter with a guy in a coffee shop who approached me and wanted to discuss recent sportsball games in great detail. I had no idea what he was talking about, I don't even know the local teams, after living here 30 yea
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by skirmish 8mo ago
Basically the plot of "City" (1952) by Clifford D. Simak. Bloodthirsty humans are succeeded by a pacifist dog civilization.
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by skirmish 8mo ago
Without any clue, they mess with air conditioning system and get all baked. No happy end here.
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by skirmish 8mo ago
It used to be that a referral from a current employee was a big plus and would allow the applicant to get directly to onsite interviews. Not sure how it works now.
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by skirmish 8mo ago
Nothing new under sun, set unethical KPIs and you will see 30-50% humans do unethical things to achieve them.
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by skirmish 9mo ago
Keep in mind that normal OLEDs are quite bad for typical development tasks: lots of text with high contrast. Here is an example that would be unbearable for me: [1]. For text, IPS rules so far. For video and games, definitely OLED. [1]
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by skirmish 9mo ago
Be prepared to counter with Norwegian black metal!
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by skirmish 9mo ago
> before your rolled oats are cooked I enjoy rolled oats uncooked in a bowl with milk and various berries sprinkled on top. Try it, for me they are more delicious uncooked!
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by skirmish 9mo ago
They may not be able to decrypt it now, but it is well known that most of encrypted Internet traffic is permanently stored in NSA data centers [1] with hopes of decrypting it soon once quantum computing can do it. [1] https://en.
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by skirmish 9mo ago
You may be calling it "quark" then? From a quick search: "The two most common translations of tvorog are cottage cheese (common in the US) and quark (common in Germany). The process of making these different cheeses is quite
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by skirmish 9mo ago
Food pyramid used to say: "Eat plenty, 6-11 servings of: bread, cereals, pasta".
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by skirmish 9mo ago
(I am from Eastern Europe). "Tvorog" / "Творог" is almost identical to commonly available cottage cheese. I buy the latter in big tubs from Costco and eat it almost every day for breakfast (with whatever fruits ar
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by skirmish 10mo ago
It happened to me several times for real. Credit cards not accepted for charges below $15; cash in my wallet $4.05. Next I spend 30 minutes trying to install my bank app with a horrible cell connection so that I can use Zelle to send that
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by skirmish 10mo ago
Ditto, the TP-Link's Archer A7 firmware is a security nightmare [1] but with DD-WRT installed it is very stable and reliable. [1] Daughter invited ~10 classmates to prepare for a science competition, and one of them had a virus (I assu
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by skirmish 10mo ago
Another safe option I use: Vero V [1], it runs Debian + Kodi, so it is all open source. Great support by Sam, the founder, too. [1] https://osmc.tv/vero/
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by skirmish 11mo ago
Or you could just install the linux-cachyos kernel from AUR [1], it even detects your CPU and optimizes for it automatically, [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-cachyos
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by skirmish 11mo ago
> It's a lesson that's always learned far too late when it becomes slow and costly to deliver something new because you've amassed so much tech debt No, it is just standard operating procedure: deprecate a working system a
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by skirmish 11mo ago
Then in your next performance review you get dinged as "not responsive", "not a team player". Trying to work in peace is a in instant loss nowadays, just play the visibility performative game as all the quickly promoted
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by skirmish 11mo ago
The whole big blue room outside is much too bright, we need strict regulation so that nerds are finally comfortable leaving their caves.
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by skirmish 11mo ago
No, I didn't, after the third freeze and reboot I just thought "why am I wasting my time on this crap?", wiped it and installed regular Arch Linux instead. That one was stable out of the box.

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