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by walrus01 9d ago
I know that freighter cruises or nontraditional ways of crossing an ocean by ship get costly quick, but looking at the prices, it adds up... You need to obtain and give them a medical clearance certificate issued in the last 30 days, you n
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by walrus01 9d ago
To date, they've achieved a very high level of advancement in making a new airship that looks like a butt. Sir Mixalot would be proud. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=airship+t...
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by walrus01 9d ago
The most recent example, it's somewhat down the page at the gcaptain URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliner_Origin
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by walrus01 9d ago
Yeah, I'm guessing you have a variant that fits in <128GB with 262k context? I have the unsloth Q8 GGUF of it here in a setup that with full context and ton of extra llama-server "--cache-ram" sits around 200GB RAM usage o
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by walrus01 10d ago
> No it doesn't. TODAY you can run with good performance a local LLM entirely on CPU that can do translation, summaries, search assistance, and all the things mentioned here. What specific LLM and how much RAM does it take up to loa
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by walrus01 10d ago
I've found that mimo v2.5 works for very basic things like a python script to do one thing, but it also is very 'dumb' compared to qwen 3.8-flash-next (I think the benchmark scores for terminal and coding specific benches bac
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by walrus01 10d ago
> You want to save Mozilla, burn down Google first. Uhhh... 85% of mozilla's revenue comes from Google via the search deal. In a theoretical scenario where a genie waved a magic wand tomorrow and google went "poof", disapp
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by walrus01 10d ago
I never said that Chrome and Edge don't have a huge distribution advantage due to being installed by default on peoples' devices. That's also certainly a huge factor in the mass adoption of Chrome as what people consider &quo
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by walrus01 10d ago
Remember how in like 1999/2000 Sun was trying to predict that everyone's computer would be some form of thin terminal in the future? Turns out they were very wrong on the part about it running on Sun server back-end infrastructure
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by walrus01 10d ago
I do not fundamentally disagree with you but it's also an extremely well known phenomenon that average non tech users, in the aggregate of millions of people, will click almost any "yes/I agree/continue/Next"
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by walrus01 10d ago
How much RAM does it take up in total? I'll have to give that a try on one of my test systems. Looking at a somewhat randomly chose GGUF quantization of it, looks like just under 5GB on disk in Q4, so RAM usage somewhere around 5-6GB?
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by walrus01 10d ago
I'm of the opinion that local inference should be done to the greatest extent that is realistically possible, at the earlier time that the hardware/average user platform is capable of doing so. I personally spend a fair bit on kWh
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by walrus01 10d ago
I think it didn't help. Constantly adding or changing features makes it less consistent and predictable. For example several family members were confused by what is "pocket".
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by walrus01 10d ago
Mozilla has been in a bit of a recursive feedback loop death spiral for years now of: Browser loses market share -> try some weird thing -> very few people like or use it -> browser loses market share -> management says "oh
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by walrus01 10d ago
Indeed. Realistically a 'capable' small local LLM, even one that's definitely not as good as externally hosted ones will require a single 16GB GPU and access to basically all of the RAM on the GPU. That's not something
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by walrus01 10d ago
I am not trying to defend Mozilla doing this, and I don't support sending data to cloud based services like this in a way that users won't understand. But I also think that the state of the art in small LLM and user device capabil
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by walrus01 10d ago
> Apple Reference Image is not an id system; it's primarily a way to attest that the pixels recorded by the camera sensor have not been altered in any way You think that this won't be used as additional data by the various co
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by walrus01 10d ago
> Paint the inside of the box using Vantablack But you're only allowed to do that if your name if Anish Kapoor
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by walrus01 10d ago
so what happens if you display an extremely high res image of a 100% AI generated fake-something on an 8K display in a photo studio room and take a picture of it with the camera? it gets tagged as authentic.
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by walrus01 10d ago
And never have to intercept certain waypoints when entering different classes of controlled airspace on the correct general heading to line up for a documented runway approach.
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by walrus01 10d ago
I am not sure how this approach would integrate with the common use of navigating between known/mapped IFR navigation waypoints: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=IFR+navig... https://sk
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by walrus01 11d ago
No fighting intended, I think it's interesting to see that there's many ways of doings things, and doing a sort of mental whiteboard exercise on what the benefits and drawbacks of different things are... Like, using cylindrical c
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by walrus01 11d ago
Yep, absolutely agreed. There's even Islamic parallels in the kinda-fundamentalist-Sunni world to weird USA TV Christian evangelists if you know who people like Zakir Naik are.
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by walrus01 11d ago
I worked in two way geostationary satellite for years and learned pretty quickly what sort of groups of people needed to pay money for Internet in truly the most off the grid locations. The other major users not so relevant for PNG which I
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by walrus01 11d ago
The neat thing about 18650s though is that you can put a battery door on it and make them swappable, if a person used a holder that can accommodate button top protected 18650 cells. The same cells can also be shared by a bunch of good quali
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by walrus01 11d ago
Based on the work the person has done, if they wanted to make something with an exceedingly long battery life, and the battery setup there already seems to be basically a 1S li ion, they could graft in a back side battery holder for two hig
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by walrus01 11d ago
I wonder if it might be some totally clean sheet of paper OS design but also capable of running Android applications in an emulation/virtualization layer. I think they know that any mass market handheld smartphone consumer device isn&#
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by walrus01 11d ago
I am the furthest possible thing from a linguist but looking at a hastily searched language map of PNG, my first thought is "wow, that's a lot. And some of those aren't even in the same family of language?" https:&#x2
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by walrus01 11d ago
> we live on a planet that has such a society, along side one that had built nuclear weapons, and was soon to walk on the moon. “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.” ― William Gibson
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by walrus01 11d ago
Does anyone know what they're smoking in that big pipe at about 25:15 into the video? Imagine showing up in a remote village as an anthropologist and after a few hours the first thing the villagers ask you to partake in is the equivale

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