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by walrus01 2mo ago
Given Ubiquiti's history of abandoning entire product lines, I cannot ever imagine trusting a ubiquiti closed-source NAS product with my data. No thank you. Not when TrueNAS exists.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
You know how sometimes you're exploring a location in a post-apocalyptic video game and find a message on a 'datapad' or scrawled on the wall in blood or something, as a world building fiction exercise to inform the player ho
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Well this is all pretty fucking horrifying.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I guess this means you can fus ro dah the LLM off a mountain, so there is that.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
the anarchist cookbook actually results in a ton of things that are more likely to explode the user than any intended target. TM 31-210 on the other hand will not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM_31-210_Improvised_Muni
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by walrus01 2mo ago
the fan is likely a 12vdc 40x40mm, relatively shallow one (not very high airflow and not loud) one so you should be able to get a replacement from mouser or digikey. it's basically the same thing as a 80mm case fan from the same era sc
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I recently saw a screenshot from Facebook of a mattress ad presented inline in a page load that had two conventionally attractive normal looking (fully clothed, not immodest at all) women on a mattress. Below it was somebody's grandpa
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by walrus01 2mo ago
reddit.com/r/scams/ has numerous and varied reports of these from the point of view of (usually) a concerned family member. It's a real plague on society. Older people who are inclined to be trusting, lonely, isolated or
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Replying to the first-ever email was really just making the problem worse for the author. Exacerbated by continuing to engage. One of the great things about SMTP and email is that a spammer can really never be sure whether a person opened o
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Indeed I think there is a lot of work remaining to be done to make a 'it just updates itself and everything is fine' workflow for home assistant as a container on top of a linux-based platform that a completely non technical user
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by walrus01 2mo ago
> When you enter home - based on presence, time of day, ambient illuminance, barometric pressure, temperature what do you want to happen? Usually this involves a chain of devices, working together inside a blackbox running on an OS that
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by walrus01 2mo ago
> Yet at least in my social circle, I don't really hear anyone pining for an 'artisan internet'. In network engineering and telecom infrastructure circles, there's already a near universal opinion that big walled gard
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by walrus01 2mo ago
"Through a right-wing Polish TV station, it also partly financed a gathering last year in Poland of the Conservative Political Action Conference, an American organization close to Mr. Trump’s MAGA movement."
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by walrus01 2mo ago
But you can get general homeowners insurance sans flood coverage? Does the lack of flood coverage also not cover events like municipal sewer (reverse flow) floods? I've periodically looked at real estate in some similar "$40k for
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by walrus01 2mo ago
If you're going to try to use a mac laptop for long term inference you'll probably want to buy one of those $30 laptop fan cooling pads (sold for absurd sized 17 inch x86-64 gaming laptops) on Amazon. Otherwise you'll roast t
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by walrus01 2mo ago
There's also been a number of studies done on what constitutes a "food desert" in the United States, where people don't have nearby access to a proper grocery store, just small convenience stores (and things like a strip
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by walrus01 2mo ago
> But I wonder about causality. Adverse childhood experiences are significantly associated with both impulsivity and future earning potential. There's fairly good statistics that a large portion of the people living in a cycle of po
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by walrus01 2mo ago
In that case I would be very interested to see the parent commenter expand on why they have formed the opinion that persons living in poverty in the US (based on their first hand experiences) have poor impulse control but people in other lo
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by walrus01 2mo ago
> Persistent poverty is usually a byproduct of poor impulse control. Go visit a brick factory in Pakistan. The laborers are extremely poor and no amount of "work harder" effort on their individual part (they already work hard a
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Much of this is why I stick to the rule of: a) Don't quantize your KV cache b) Don't run quantizations of the LLM that are worse than the best available Q8 (the largest possible file size unsloth GGUF for a given model like qwen 3
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by walrus01 2mo ago
> Last year I bought a fixer-upper house last year on a bike trail and river in a small town outside of Pittsburgh ($40k - still possible here) On a slightly related question if you don't mind answering, were you able to get homeown
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I'm ordinarily loathe to post a link to reddit, but here is a very recent example of copper scrapping on an entire cargo ship that's been abandoned by its crew (it took a hit from some kind of munition) in the hormuz area: https:
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Looks like these guys have invented 997
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I'm surprised the current US federal government is allowing its employees to publish anything with evidence the universe is >6000 years old.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
You could have taken 20 seconds to do some casual research like googling name of company + founders, but nope, you just jumped to some casual racism. Good job. For the record, they're not.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Every so often I see a news article about an instagram influencer that literally like, rolls off the side of a volcano while trying to capture "content", and I think to myself "well, I'm not surprised". https:&#x2F
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by walrus01 2mo ago
If a person is expected to spend 1.5 to 2.0 days out of a 7 day week in SF and the rest of the time travelling to some random location in the 48 states, you might as well make your legal residence a state with no state income tax (since obv
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by walrus01 2mo ago
But also a good portion of every Sunday is going to be flying coach all the way across the continent to NYC or Miami, because you're expected to be on-site at the customer premises at 8am every Monday! You'd better be sure to get
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Maybe they have some ex US Navy submariners that have introduced the concept of hot bunking.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
200k in SF with CA income taxes and SF cost of living is not that much at all. It's low enough that "No, you can't ever hope to afford to buy a home or get a mortgage in the city of your legal residence" is a flat out fa

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