walrus01

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by walrus01 4mo ago
"Your extremely efficient multi petabyte internet content suction machine is ripping off my extremely efficient multi petabyte internet content suction machine" Sucking down petabytes of peoples' copyrighted content that they
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by walrus01 4mo ago
Yes, I think the Gates quote was a response to repeated and aggressive complaints originating from Jobs (to anyone who would listen) that he had been ripped off.
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by walrus01 4mo ago
Reminds me a bit of the anecdote of Steve Jobs complaining about people ripping off the Mac GUI, in the mid to late 1980s, when he gave no public acknowledgement to the work done by Xerox on the Alto and Star operating system. "you&#x2
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by walrus01 4mo ago
> What do you do if your manager phones you up and says they're on a business trip and need you to use the company credit card to buy Amazon gift cards" If I've learned anything from the scambait people such as kitboga on
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by walrus01 4mo ago
As I recall, some years later than this (referencing EGA monitors from the 80s), a 14 inch 1024x768 capable 75 Hz capable SVGA monitor with a reasonable dot pitch of 0.28, nothing special, something you might find bundled with a 386DX/
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by walrus01 4mo ago
Out of curiosity would you be willing to share the full system prompt for the agent in question described in this test?
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by walrus01 4mo ago
Give it a day or two and the 'unsloth' people will probably publish a Q6 and Q8 (maybe Q8XL?) quantization in GGUF format for llama-server and other users.
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by walrus01 4mo ago
I don't think I have a core misunderstanding - I've seen the abysmal tps rate that results from being unable to load an entire model in actual system RAM (not swap space) at the same time. No matter how fast your NVME storage sequ
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by walrus01 4mo ago
> Yes. History will record that bin Laden won Or as The Onion has put it: https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-...
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by walrus01 4mo ago
True, but for merchants that ship high fraud risk physical merchandise, it's becoming increasingly common to ask for a copy of a drivers license or other government issued photo ID (from a recognized US state or Canadian province, in t
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by walrus01 4mo ago
I was referring to a 600W load as measured at the wall, such as if you plugged a desktop system with a single power supply, and ordinary IEC C13/C14 to NEMA 5-15 male power cord into a kill-a-watt to measure its instantaneous wattage.
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by walrus01 4mo ago
Yes, I meant that 192GB of RAM even with the worst quantization would result in such a large model going deep into disk swap when it entirely runs out of RAM. At least 100GB worth, if MacOS will even allow that without freezing or crashing
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by walrus01 4mo ago
To be fair, Vancouver is such a magical place in terms of electrical cost, but the cost of living and real estate are otherwise through the roof, with decrepit and nasty (would need $100k in renovations immediately if you're not treati
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by walrus01 4mo ago
> They allow instant deposits with credit card This is my biggest takeaway, and I really wonder what payment processor(s) they're using, because the chargeback and fraud rate in filling 'real money' into an online gambling
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by walrus01 4mo ago
Seems like a good way to shorten the lifespan of an NVME SSD significantly by using up its TB written lifespan, if you let it extensively swap. Also the performance will be absolutely abysmal like 0.1 tok/second.
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by walrus01 4mo ago
That's true, there's a lot of places where power is considerably more expensive than $0.20 USD/kWh. But also the 600W figure assumes that it's fully loaded 24x7x365. Running a system that will be 600W under max CPU usage
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by walrus01 4mo ago
> No disrespect to the project here, of course, but I'm wondering why there's no truly high-quality camera for Pis. Not Pi specific on the camera interface ribbon cable, no, but most any raspberry pi 3b or 4 will work with almo
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by walrus01 4mo ago
The output reminds me a little bit in fuzziness of the earliest 640x480 digital cameras from the mid to late 90s that stored images on a 4MB compactflash card.
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by walrus01 4mo ago
> ...a bit of an odd question: how well do LLMs losslessly compress, as in for cold storage? TBH this is like the near last ranking consideration in cost for being able to download and run this. Even though HDD and SSD prices have gone n
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by walrus01 4mo ago
I get a lot done with something that's also approximately 6 tokens/second, if you're willing to give it a well defined set of prompts and projects to work on, leave it for an hour or two, then come back and check what it&#x27
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by walrus01 4mo ago
Not everyone lives in a place where electricity is $0.20 a kWh. For instance BC Hydro residential rates are $0.11 (CAD) for the first tier and $0.14 for the second tier of consumption in a month. At current exchange rate $0.14 CAD is $0.099
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by walrus01 4mo ago
I really don't think anyone is going to have a good time trying to run it on anything with 256GB of RAM no matter what the post says. 512 is the much more realistic minimum. I'm fortunate enough to have two 512GB RAM dual xeon wor
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by walrus01 4mo ago
The same N150 CPU mini PC with 12GB RAM I bought on Amazon a year ago seems to have considerably increased in price, as a result of the RAM price surge... Even though what's soldered onto its motherboard is probably the cheapest possib
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by walrus01 4mo ago
Right, you can definitely do that on any core2duo or later 2008, 2009 vintage Mac. The first gen 2006 macbook pro intel and other 'core duo' from 2006 are 32-bit only so that really limits the x86 linux OS selection for modern use
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by walrus01 4mo ago
This is probably off topic to the browser itself, but a mac of that age due to its limited capabilities is probably best used as a thin client to a modern desktop environment (like a full screen VNC-over-SSH session to a x session and deskt
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by walrus01 4mo ago
I'm going to guess from the size of the kernel, since for distribution it has to be a fairly 'generic' kernel with just about every driver built into it. If one were to compile a custom 6.14 kernel for a specific hardware tar
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by walrus01 4mo ago
There's only so much that one can write about McDonalds burgers and Diet Coke.
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by walrus01 4mo ago
1. They already did, Fujairah is a major oil port. 2. Fujairah is within drone and missile range of a lot of remaining Iranian strike capability. 3. Fujairah is not really equipped with a large amount of high precision, reliable, expensive,
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by walrus01 4mo ago
> That is part of what makes the alcoholic running the DoD so galling Pretty much what I said in Jan/Feb of this year when the major, bloody nationwide protests of Iranians (est. 15,000 to 40,000 death toll killed by their own &quot
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by walrus01 4mo ago
Iran is also considerably more mountainous than Iraq, if one looks at a topo map of Iraq and examines all the generally 'flat, somewhere generally near the Euphrates' area vs a population density map in people per square km. Yeah

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