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by speed_spread 2mo ago
Considering the article was about usage for development by LLM, the learning difficulty should be a minor factor.
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
You think the Trump influence magically stops at the border? There are _plenty_ of Canadians who think Trump has all the answers and can't be wrong.
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
The unified memory architecture is interesting for toying with medium size models but will never offer as much bandwidth as a dedicated GDDR memory bank. Conversely, GDDR can't be used for general CPU purposes because access latency is
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
> I didn't want to do it in C, and I didn't want to learn Rust. Sounds like you made a decision right there. The rest is just retro-justification, not a logical argument or comparative between options. It works for you, good.
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
If a model is good enough today, it's still gonna be good enough in a year. Except you'll be able to serve it 1/100 of the price. Or 100x the speed.
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
VLIW works for DSP applications, it's not an instant dead end. It's a good fit in cases where code path and memory accesses are predictable, like shader code.
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
Ahem, the best version of Windows was 2000 / 2003 x64 server. It had all the improvements from real world experience gained by NT 3.5 and 4.0 and none of the consumer crap pushed in XP by the abandonment of the Win95 line.
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
AI will be required to maintain the piles of tech crap we've built and that society now stands on. New generations are no longer as tech savvy, pushed toward being simple users and consumers. The rare individuals that develop curiosity
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
Is this better than the previous polyglot extension?
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
That will not happen for backward compatibility reasons but a new build tool with a modern CLI would be nice. One that's declarative like Maven (without the XML) and doesn't require an upgrade for every new JDK version like Gradle
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
With the right kind of credentials, it's not about need, it's about want. Flip the roles and let yourself become an object of desire, an aspirational hire.
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
I'm using Hermes but these should apply to any agent that has both TUI and GUI versions. The GUI version will have: - drag and drop - show document type, icon and filename - inline images - variable fonts, esp. monospace for code block
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
Would it be possible to fork the previous (good) version?
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
I wish Darktable and Immich could be integrated into a single system.
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
In this case, they wouldn't touch your data but their AI safety system would also prevent you from accessing it! What do you think their security model will be trained on? That's right, other people's data.
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
Even RTX 3060 12GB to 24GB would be interesting. Can't wait for someone to realize there's a market for low-power/mid-spec 32GB GPU/TPU. Local, tuned open weights is going to quickly become a thing.
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
You are right, 'A' stands for Architecture. _Instruction Set_ Architecture that is. Not CPU architecture. I should have been more clear: > RV32I doesn't define the hardware architecture FTFM - satisfied?
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
RV32I doesn't define any architecture, it's just an ISA i.e. a software contract that happens to be implementable in hardware. The CPU could run on outer space goop and still be RV32I.
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
Alpha was great but that wasn't enough against the convenience of just running an x86 box. It didn't find a niche quickly enough. ARM survived because they were low power. POWER survived because IBM is one big niche. MIPS died and
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
I used a Docker image. Good enough as is for LAN usage. I assume it could be exposed online with a Cloudflare tunnel but I wouldnt trust it to not be hacked. Docker may also make it harder to customize (install mods).
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
Piracy encouraged buying music. You'd learn of this cool band through a friend and would buy their next album when it came out. People still had the same budget for music but weren't so much at the whim of what music executives wa
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
Yet a few years before that Sony had no qualms selling walkmans, blank tape cassettes and dual-tape portable sound systems, often with double speed copy function. We would gather for afternoons and make actual copy parties. Recording qualit
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
Hahem, Wernher von Braun... What is it with nazis and rockets anyway?
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
Except that ARM is pretty much theirs, or at least they have complete control over it, which they never did for any previous arch. They also handle chip production directly. Nothing in RISC-V could be worth more than what they can already w
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by speed_spread 2mo ago
Uh thanks but I'm gonna stick with Scattergories for now.
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by speed_spread 3mo ago
We knew she'd be right in the real world though.
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by speed_spread 3mo ago
It's still regular CPU memory, based on DDR. It's 256 bits wide but it's not GDDR. Unified just means that the CPU and GPU use the same physical memory bank. It does not make memory magically faster.
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by speed_spread 3mo ago
What vendor? OpenJDK is free and libre. If you mean Oracle, then that's a choice your employer made and yeah, you're SoL, especially for working in such a place.
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by speed_spread 3mo ago
I was rather thinking of bees developing the ability to shoot tiny lasers to cook the mites off like popcorn. Or maybe a static discharge from their wings rubbing together, like a natural taser.
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by speed_spread 3mo ago
Car starts quacking at you

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