zargon

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by zargon 2mo ago
If you don't have ECC, you don't even know that your CPU is executing the correct code. There goes the "detectable" part.
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by zargon 2mo ago
AMD, Intel, and motherboard manufacturers do qualify the CPUs and motherboards for "overclocked" (above JEDEC) memory speeds. The systems are designed to work at the overclocked transmission speeds. They need to be paired with mem
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by zargon 2mo ago
In practice it is no longer actually possible to create a new search index with anywhere near the breadth of Google, regardless of the amount of resources you have available. Google (and to a lesser extant the couple of other historic engin
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by zargon 2mo ago
You should be able to get the stick replaced under warranty. Every memory manufacturer I have ever seen has a lifetime warranty. As long as you RMA it before replacements become unavailable.
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by zargon 2mo ago
This is the attitude that needs to change. If RAM is 25% of the system cost (say for a home server in your example), then the cost for ECC is 3% of the system cost. There is no world where accepting data corruption in order to save 3% cost
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by zargon 2mo ago
There's not much worth playing coming from this group anyway.
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by zargon 3mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6lDZpvHAoo&t=527s The question (7:35) is "Where would you like to see people investing more time?" And Sam seems to be saying AI safety, I guess? This is 2015, and he refers to
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by zargon 3mo ago
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is worse than 27B because it's an MoE and 27B is dense. 35B only passes each token through 3B of its total parameters, whereas 27B sends each token through all 27B parameters.
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by zargon 3mo ago
It's mostly professional software that is the issue. CAD, CAM, BIM, GIS, DAW, PLC, accounting, graphic arts, etc. etc.
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by zargon 3mo ago
I came across a method of printing that attempts to make the extrusion of two adjacent layers overlap each other by 50%, with the goal of creating stronger layer adhesion. They called it HexWAM and it seemed more likely to work than this on
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by zargon 3mo ago
Nvidia, I think? That's what people say but has never been my experience.
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by zargon 4mo ago
Consumer oriented parts businesses are going to go out of business from this. Motherboards, cases, coolers, power supplies, fans, etc. At this point it's a matter of how many. Selection and competition will be permanently reduced, as I
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by zargon 4mo ago
I thought I read that Samsung SATA SSDs were discontinued, but apparently that was a rumor and Sansung has denied it. I wonder why they exceed NVMe prices. They're the only SATA drives left with DRAM. I guess they could just be milking
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by zargon 4mo ago
And what? If someone said "some Muslims haven't even stopped slavery today," my statement would apply equally there.
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by zargon 4mo ago
I make a thorough and well cited post, and get this zero-effort trolling in response? The Mormon central corporation has a dedicated legal hotline specifically for advising clergy how to prevent child sexual abuse from being reported to th
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by zargon 4mo ago
The problem of child sex abuse in Mormonism is magnified by several factors. The community is very tight-knit and insular. Mormons believe that God directly guides their leaders. This leads to mental compartmentalization and slowness to rec
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by zargon 4mo ago
There was a livestream last night where the Bricks and Minifigs COO said that the franchise agreement has a clause saying that the operations manual overrules the franchise agreement and they can update the operations manual at any time. BA
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by zargon 4mo ago
> Some of the mormons haven't even stopped polygamy today. Using the term 'Mormon' to refer to the the entire family tree including splinter sects is just a recipe for confusion. Adherents to splinter sects, excluding RLDS
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by zargon 4mo ago
Yeah, that's why I tried to include both categories. Even for programs that are small enough to be printed, we just don't do it any more. I could have worded that part better myself.
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by zargon 4mo ago
The idea that it never existed digitally is obviously untrue. Likely poor wording in the author's part. They probably meant something like, so old that a printout is all that survived (which sounds vaguely like not being digital to som
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by zargon 4mo ago
We wouldn't be switching to Chinese manufactured memory if Korean & US memory wasn't exorbitantly priced. They're forcing the switch.
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by zargon 4mo ago
There are only 3 memory manufacturers. They just quietly follow the same strategy. They learned not to talk about it from the last time they were fined for antitrust price fixing in the 2000s.
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by zargon 4mo ago
That is just an example of why AI arbitration will happen though. Lower cost.
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by zargon 4mo ago
llama.cpp (and consequently LM Studio) don't support DeepSeek V4. If you want to run V4, this is your only option right now unless you have hardware that can run vLLM.
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by zargon 5mo ago
s/old/young
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by zargon 5mo ago
Groq.
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by zargon 5mo ago
They're using the term speculative decoding but doing MTP. It's the same thing as Nemotron, but Google removed the MTP heads from the original safetensora release. (They were not removed from the LiteRM format.)
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by zargon 5mo ago
> I have much greater confidence on eBay that I'm not going to get something counterfeit or unsafe. On eBay, sellers control their inventory, listings, customer service, and resulting reputation end-to-end. On Amazon, the incentives
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by zargon 5mo ago
LLM slop.
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by zargon 5mo ago
I want to try Zed, but it's just too much of a supply chain attack waiting to happen. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 I did install it in a VM with virtio-gpu, but it was absurdly slow

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