walrus01

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by walrus01 2mo ago
There's a reflexive tendency to assume that anyone implementing cruel and bigoted policies must also be stupid, regretfully, this is sometimes not the case. As you have so accurately described, it's a very careful and calculated p
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by walrus01 2mo ago
As I recall 8 inch class HDD (5, 10, 20MB?) were called Winchester in the pre-PC/XT era, named for the earlier IBM product, and then the terminology carried on into the microcomputer/desktop world when the 5.25" full height H
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I know this is software focused, but as much of the work done in DOS 2.0 was to support the introduction of hard disks, it would be worth mentioning what the hardware was in the PC/XT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Part of the problem would be that we have "tech" journalists writing this who have never been on either side of the transaction directly as a colocation customer, or an ISP/datacenter/hosting company, and drafted/re
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I previously commented on this when a different, earlier news article and it wasn't clear at the time if the storage company was a colocation customer, or a dedicated server customer of Iron Mountain: ==================================
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Heck, all of that is like the tip of an iceberg, before anyone even googles like "kushner + saudis"
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Or take a page from IDN homograph attacks in phishing/whatever and replace certain 'a', 'e', 'o' letters with their unicode equivalent that's not English.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I know a number of immigrants from economically struggling developing nations with endemic institutional corruption who very clearly see what's going on when they look at the behaviour of people who are running US federal cabinet level
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by walrus01 2mo ago
They can't seem to decide whether Zohran Mamdani is going to first implement total sharia law, or full red banner style communism. In response I have already seen people printing a few satirical tshirts with a mishmash of soviet era&#x
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I have no idea what your personal background is but it's very interesting that without me saying it or even alluding to it, you jumped directly to what is your presumption of what nation-state ("slavic", presumably you'r
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Could be a core cadre of 5% of clearly compromised or foreign agents recruiting a vast amount of fools and putting them in the positions where they can do the most damage.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
It's easier to understand if you consider they might literally be agents of a foreign government.
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The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding(highereddive.com)
284 points by walrus01 2mo ago|192 comments
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Excessively precise word choice does not result in something that looks like content written by, or palatable to humans. It looks like you gave a high school 12 grade student a science paper and told them to apply a thesaurus to at least on
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by walrus01 2mo ago
> I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point. Try running an llm like qwen 3.8 27B in Q8 locally with an intentionally very low temperature setting, it will write like a caveman crosse
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by walrus01 2mo ago
"Claude, build me a status page, make no mistakes"
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by walrus01 2mo ago
The effect of the current sudden burst of extreme market demand from entities with very deep pockets for (GPU, RAM, SSD storage, etc) seems to be indistinguishable from the point of view of the small end user to market collusion. Standing u
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Large volume of user generated reports https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/
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US Space Force gives Rocket Lab $397M to build threat-tracking 'Flatellites'(space.com)
17 points by walrus01 2mo ago|0 comments
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by walrus01 2mo ago
In most jurisdictions it's only a motorcycle if it can exceed a certain speed or has a motor over a certain power in kilowatts. Or some combination of both. recent news: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89ny
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by walrus01 2mo ago
"Claude, install these 215 npm dependencies from unvetted repositores, make no mistakes"
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by walrus01 2mo ago
That, and the alcoholism
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I see we've reinvented the slashdot effect.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Wow, those are expensive. I've been buying pelican 1510 and similar from eBay and b&h used/refurb. The harbor freight pelican knock off that is their 3800 and 4800 product numbers are also not bad. It's like 85% as good a
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by walrus01 2mo ago
> The market can sort it out for themselves Because nobody will write software for 300 unique hardware variations of a platform that have inconsistent capabilities. Consistency is one of the reasons why x86-64 with extensions like like
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Or to make it even more tricky, since Pelican cases will float when closed, something like "generate an SVG file of a Pelican bird floating in the ocean next to a Pelican case".
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by walrus01 2mo ago
> $ curl -fsSL install.sh | sh # you'd be stupid to run that, slop or not I wish more people would point this out.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I also noticed that if you ask it to write text content to a certain word length (like "please write 250 words about the potato"), it now takes its sweet time "manually" counting each word in its draft output. It puts a
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Is it just me or is 3.6 27B Q8 K XL (Unsloth) holding up better in sustained token/s rate as the context fill increases over time? The token/s rate seems to be much higher for a time period deeper into context than previously seen
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Doubtful? Without knowing anything about how it was trained, if you google image search "pelican bird" they are predominantly white in color. Though the bill is certainly orange, different shades depending on camera and lighting c

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