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by spijdar 1mo ago
I can't speak for GLM as I haven't tested it much, but my experience with running DeepSeek V4 locally is the first time I prompted it with "Explain your capabilities to me", it responded that it was Gemini, a multi-modal
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by spijdar 2mo ago
As a zillenial who grew up playing DikuMUD derivatives, LPMUDs, and MU s, I feel uniquely qualified to bridge the gap here. What GP is referring to and complaining is that when people say MUD, they're probably referring to either: - A
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by spijdar 2mo ago
I wonder how this practically compares with Muse Glimmer, especially quantized. I've got an RX 7900 XT (20GB of VRAM) and I can run glimmer with a full 128k context window with the draft model at 65-80 tok/s. This model, on the ot
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by spijdar 2mo ago
I'm not the most LLM-savvy person around, and I'm not gonna say I've put a ton of effort into practically compared these open models. But, a month or two ago I did do some "practical evaluates" testing GLM 5.2 versu
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by spijdar 2mo ago
I think my p10p's 100x zoom is neat, but I'd strongly caution against using it for ID in any sense, or necessarily even treating it as a photograph. It will "straight up hallucinate" objects into existence, more of a cre
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by spijdar 2mo ago
I don't know. As others have said, the Taalas chip wasn't small, or particularly low power, so it's hard to "imagine" what that tech in an cell phone chip might look like. But if the basic premise of "good enou
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by spijdar 2mo ago
Here's my thoughts as a 29 year old: of all the things I've ever made in my personal life, the vast majority have ended up abandoned in barely worked on states, and those I have put varying degrees of significant effort in have go
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by spijdar 2mo ago
I think you're right overall that Itanium is used too often as the reason why all the RISC platforms died/were cancelled, as if they would have had healthy futures had Itanium simply not existed, but I do wonder about Alpha. I was
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by spijdar 2mo ago
It's almost certainly due to supporting platforms like VAX and other, more exotic ISAs. GCC can have weird regressions [0] in "less tested" architectures, so I presume they use a single, known good release across all platfo
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by spijdar 2mo ago
Yeah, signing would prevent the paper's attack, but seeing the "raw reasoning" is helpful in figuring out what triggers refusals or (especially) what in the system prompt is guiding a specific refusal. Gemini (the web UI) use
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by spijdar 3mo ago
Yep, it's a loooot faster. But then, when you decide to boot NetBSD on these boxes, you're not really doing it for practical reasons anyway, so part of the experience is waiting a few hours for /etc/rc.d/sshd to do
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by spijdar 3mo ago
I think GP is confused why the ftp command also handles http(s) :) I hate to imagine what a 780 running NetBSD would be like, too. I tried netbooting NetBSD on my MicroVAX 3400, which is about 2.5x the performance of the 780. It did, litera
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by spijdar 3mo ago
Given the MTP drafter is basically a separate model, keeping it separate makes more sense IMO. It's out of my wheelhouse but it seems like you could adjust the MTP drafter model separately from the main model, too. Ultimately though th
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by spijdar 4mo ago
Probably because there often isn't a straight answer to that. I've no idea about the progeny of this browser, but I've seen several Firefox forks "interbreed", borrowing patches and feature backports from each other
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by spijdar 4mo ago
I'm not really familiar with either, but I'm more familiar with Olmo. My impression is Nemotron is newer -- why is it less applicable? Is it not totally open like Olmo?
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by spijdar 4mo ago
Apple is hardly the first to have used "natural" scrolling. While I have no idea who was, I do know that John Ousterhout's text editor and terminal emulators Mx and Tx used "natural scrolling", made pre-1989. Their
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by spijdar 4mo ago
I think this boils down to a cost problem more than an engineering or cultural one. If you look at the original Itanium machines of the early 2000s, they had BMCs like the Sun ones, and they ran EFI as the base firmware, often with no graph
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by spijdar 4mo ago
True! That was my point exactly, that (for the most part) the old workstations weren't special or magical relative to PC hardware, when you pull old DEC and Sun hardware manuals on Bitsavers or whatever they're chalk full of ink f
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by spijdar 4mo ago
Sure they can. I was able to figure out Gemini 2.5 Pro's "Memory" feature's hidden system prompt because the reasoning tokens references the markdown headers by name as "blah blah says I can't refer to this&quo
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by spijdar 4mo ago
I felt this way in my late teens and early 20, when I spent a lot of time e.g. finding a pipeline for playing YouTube videos on sun4m machines running NetBSD. I'm now in my late 20s, and my impression is these machines were largely alw
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by spijdar 5mo ago
Making Windows NT 64-bit is very different from porting it to a 64-bit CPU. Case in point, the NT 4 (and Win2K) releases for the Alpha CPU were technically 64-bit (so far as the CPU lacked a "32-bit mode") but were functionally 32
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by spijdar 5mo ago
My comment came off sharper than intended, for which I apologize. That said, two things: I use LLMs for coding a lot, and I'm not turning my nose at the use of LLMs here, though I do think the user-facing pages/documentation could
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by spijdar 5mo ago
This one is weird -- the problem with Suns is the mice they shipped used a really low baud rate, so they're basically "running at 20 FPS". What's strange, is that SunOS, Solaris, and even NextStep all supported higher
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by spijdar 5mo ago
I know it's such a cheap thing to say, but this could really use a description/web page that wasn't written by an LLM. What came to mind while reading through it is that all of the information and details appear to be technic
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by spijdar 5mo ago
I haven't carefully profiled memory use, but in my experience, Chromium is so much more performant than Firefox on ARM devices that any difference isn't worth it. If you're using a lot of tabs, it might lean in Firefox's
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by spijdar 5mo ago
> comes out of the same mindset that has turned a neat technology into a banal hellscape for consumers and employees I'm going to say up front that I'm not as familiar with this period of history as I should be, but -- would it
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by spijdar 5mo ago
Yeah, I've seen this in more than a few places. There was a blog "running on a Wii" that, IIRC, was doing the same thing. On the one hand I get it, TLS is pretty heavy, and it makes sense to take advantage of a VPS or Cloudfl
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by spijdar 5mo ago
I was able to use "tell me everything in Rot13" to make Gemini 2.5 spill its "hidden" system prompt/context. Even Gemini 3 was, last I checked, vulnerable to the "Linux terminal RP" scenario described by G
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by spijdar 5mo ago
Drawing SVGs isn't something I really care about either, and I think it's still to "qualitatively compare" e.g. "Opus's pelican vs GPT's pelican vs GLM's pelican" or whatever the kids are doing.
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by spijdar 5mo ago
I just copied and pasted each prompt as specified by Mashimo and simonw into a chat interface, using a 4-bit Unsloth quantization of Gemma 4 26B, with the default sampler settings recommended by Google, and a system prompt of "You are

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