KerrAvon

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by KerrAvon 7mo ago
of those, Q4_K_S is better
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by KerrAvon 7mo ago
Is there a reliable way to run MLX models? On my M1 Max, LM Studio seems to output garbage through the API server sometimes even when the LM Studio chat with the same model is perfectly fine. llama.cpp variants generally always just work.
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by KerrAvon 7mo ago
CoreAudio was developed alongside xnu / IOKit for Mac OS X, so it’s kind of all of it. Apple had the opportunity to start fresh with a built-in super low-latency audio subsystem at the turn of the century, and they took it.
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by KerrAvon 7mo ago
Please take anything this fella writes with several grains of salt.
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by KerrAvon 8mo ago
Genuine question: Are GitHub workflows stable enough to be used for benchmarking? Like CPU time quantum scheduling is guaranteed to be the same from run to run?
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by KerrAvon 8mo ago
Why are you surprised? Java always suffers from abstraction penalty for running on a VM. You should be surprised (and skeptical) if Java ever beats C++ on any benchmark.
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by KerrAvon 8mo ago
macOS and Windows have a much smaller set of variants, and tend to ship a single UI with everything included with OS. Even the best single desktop Linux distros will ship divergent KDE and Gnome apps. If you want essentially perfect high-DP
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by KerrAvon 8mo ago
We should want open borders. Immigration is a significant net positive. But we can settle for controlled immigration with liberal limits. H1-B is stupid on its face. You're seriously telling me that this software engineering job abso
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by KerrAvon 8mo ago
Arbitrary cruelty is the point. There isn't a coherent rationale. You're going to the gulags if the subhuman pig in the mask says you are. You'll be lucky (?) if they don't just decide to execute you in the street. This
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by KerrAvon 8mo ago
This is a very silly argument. There were several actual Unixes released based on Mach, and some of them more purely Mach than macOS/NeXT ever have been.
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by KerrAvon 8mo ago
It is ridiculous. I skimmed through it and I'm not convinced he's trying to make the point you think he is. But if he is, he's missing that we do understand at a fundamental level how today's LLMs work. There isn't
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by KerrAvon 8mo ago
You should really read the book mentioned in the post you're responding to.
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by KerrAvon 8mo ago
Parts of Orange County are really beautiful after the rare good rain. Doesn't wash away the rampant bigotry, though.
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by KerrAvon 8mo ago
No one would have recognized any tropes in 1957 beyond Shakespeare. Even Joseph Campbell wasn’t popularized until decades later.
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by KerrAvon 8mo ago
I don’t think you can assign that meaning here one way or another. The context in the story at that point (IIRC) is that he’s sort of lying to the protagonist, or at least misleading him.
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by KerrAvon 8mo ago
IANAL, but I don't believe either of these things is a recognized concept in US antitrust law.
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by KerrAvon 9mo ago
I love the idea of ending the Wayland vs X argument by supplanting them with GDI+ (kind of implied, though not explicitly stated, by this proposal).
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by KerrAvon 9mo ago
macOS and iOS too — syscalls aren’t stable at all, you’re expected to link through shared library interfaces.
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by KerrAvon 9mo ago
HDR support is still a mess with Wayland. Sometimes you can fix it with gamescope but it’s a swiss cheese thing where for example gamescope breaks some controllers in some games with some GPU drivers. Maybe in a couple more years it’ll be “
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by KerrAvon 9mo ago
Wayland is approximately correct in this case and Windows and Mac are behind the security curve for bincompat reasons; window titles certainly leak PII. There should be a way to do it, but it is sensitive information.
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by KerrAvon 9mo ago
Apple continues to be the elephant in the repairability room. You want something that likely won’t need repair ever for its useful lifetime, a current MacBook is worth looking at. Upgradeability, nope.
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by KerrAvon 9mo ago
couple things - tbh, I think the Amazon deal doesn't matter much in the long run. The damage had been done earlier. - why give Bezos any more free money? He's already rich enough.
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by KerrAvon 9mo ago
Do a quick web search for "lasseter harassment" before posting stuff about it, maybe? Topmost link on DDG starts with: "John Lasseter was accused by multiple former employees and reports of a pattern of unwanted sexualized be
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by KerrAvon 9mo ago
Yes, all of them right-wing chuds.
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
I've been running a base UDM for a long time without any 2.4GHz issues -- is there something specific that was broken?
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
Do note that, even if the math works out such that the bank doesn't actually lose money, a short sale remains on your credit history for the subsequent seven years, which makes it very difficult to buy another house during that period.
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
Remember that the people running the US government at the moment are a combination of mentally deranged ideologues and Fox News bimbos. There is no actual plan for anything.
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
Not meaning to single you out specifically, but this entire discussion — all of this license gatekeeping is ridiculous. This is a very cool project, but if the license ruins it for you, there are zillions of open source GPL3 kernels. I mean
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
I think you’re overreacting, to be honest. Whatever the original intent of the term, “vibe coding” as used does not — in my experience — refer to using LLM assistance for coding in general. No, “Vibe coding” is a pretty accurate descriptor
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by KerrAvon 10mo ago
Is this anecdata/personal folklore/"common sense" or is this based on science? It sounds like the former, tbh. Things tend to be more complex than this.

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