LarMachinarum

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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
another reason why I find myself often using LLMs instead of classical search engines is the possibility to obtain structured data and format the output so as to match my use case, e.g. as markdown table, or as json file etc.
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
having had quite a bunch of MiniPCs, mostly from reputable brands (Intel NUC series back when Intel had those, then Gigabyte Brix series, then some cheapo china ones), I have moved away from those, because every single one of them (independ
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
> Do buybacks cause profits to increase? They cause each (remaining) shareholder's part of the profits to increase (relative and absolute), because there are fewer shareholders left. So it does very really increase the value of each
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
then again, if the makers of one big browser (and via there also the derived browsers) start force-shoving spyware upon you (by restricting blockers), it comes down to a decision of how you set your priorities. Personally, It's a clear
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
… or you can instead phase out those browsers who try to force blocker restrictions i.e. spyware on you (e.g. chrome and such), and use one of the browsers where you can use the full-featured (not "lite") uBlock Origin instead, e.
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
I wouldn't count on either to save Intel as it still is (i.e with the fab business still attached to the CPU/GPU business). While it's true that having Intel fabs as a second source would be nice for them to alleviate the dep
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
all with you about the fact that it's even more funny just in German (i.e. without subtitles)… but well, given that people understanding German are likely a minority here, I felt it was probably necessary to link to a version with subt
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
Am I the only one who, after reading the title, had to think of the funny classic "Forklift driver Klaus" short vid (which, with its very own kind of humour, shows WHY forklifts require training)? * For those who wouldn't kno
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
> and anyone with an ounce of curiousity would be like, ".........wait a minute" I see what you did there ;)
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
for info: "Claudia" as a name happens to be already in use by another open source project: Claudia the audio session management tool (for the JACK/LADISH APIs i.e. typically on Linux), part of the KxStudio audio tools suite b
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
that could indeed be an option depending on your use case. The problem with those (aside from finding a suitable enclosure) is that while more powerful, they aren't at all optimized for use in really low-power conditions and that their
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
didn't try the official Firefox mobile browser, but the page is displayed and usable just fine in the Firefox-based Iceraven browser that I use on my android tablet.
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
hmm… and it's not for scanning lasers either
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
don't worry, human, that will be corrected soon enough. You should learn to welcome your new AI overlords. Ask your regular handler LLM for advice on how best to do that. Sent from my iMPC
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
Aside of how this looks like an AI-generated PR puff piece, it comes waaay too late after the Windsurf deal busted (OpenAI refusing to buy them after all) and Google cherry-picked the employees they wanted without wanting to buy the company
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
If that's the reason, I kinda wonder what kind of numbers we're talking about in this case.
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
Much as I understand how a 5 bit quantization might be a sweet spot in the tradeoff between precision and making it possible to cram more weight parameters into limited ram, and thus in that respect better than e.g. 4 bit or 8 bit,… …I stru
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
All with you on the general idea that growing potatoes is easy and great. That being said, just a detail: > People grow them in very poor soil, and even in literal bags of compost a bag of compost is pretty much the exact opposite of &qu
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
sure about that? maybe he'll be the very risk-inclined, hot-headed, reckless platoon sergeant who will have a higher chance of earning a medal but also a higher chance of getting you and most of the platoon killed.
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
The Colmi P8, which is older, long replaced by myriads of newer china watches and now hard to even find, was one of the last cheap smartwatches to be based on the nRF52832 microcontroller/SOC which had the advantage (for that purpose)
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
Qt used to be what I used as well, but the licensing has become so repulsive for professional use that I now refuse to touch it now (not even for my open source side projects where this wouldn't be an issue). Too bad the hopes from the
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
In Italy it's even worse, it can even be made of rock, dirt and lava.
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
> I could go into a place, order a pizza, sit there starting at it for 15 minutes, and then report them for a violation it's just the other way around: the pizzeria's duty is just to serve you a fresh pizza, but if you haven&#x
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
while none of the arguments of the article came even close to being convincing or to balancing out the disadvantages of a non-power-of-two orientation, there actually is one totally different argument/domain where the 9 bit per byte th
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
fun fact (or not so fun): incidentally, AFD (or more precisely written AfD) is also the name of a radical far-right party in Germany. The party has progressively shifted to the fringe and is now classified as "confirmed right-wing extr
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
while I don't doubt that such situations also exist, that wasn't the reason for any of the many "Excel abusers" I've encountered in different positions. Quite to the contrary, these people all had access to the appr
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
Many here point out, and rightly so, what an abominable mess UI frameworks have been on Windows for quite a while. That being said, I'd point out that the situation has been (and still is) unfortunately far from satisfying on the cross
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
when I read "1m-accurate indoor GPS", my first gut reaction was along the lines of "so what? Nowadays outdoor differential/rover GPS/GNSS has <2cm precision with RTK+dual band receivers, even for civil use… and i
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
In all fairness, that really stands to reason: retrospective analysis is enormously much easier, more precise and less risky than prediction, for the simple reason that after the fact (especially this long and with lots of inside people hav
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by LarMachinarum 1y ago
How much is gained by using SVG (as opposed to a raster graphics format) varies a lot depending on the content. For some files (even with complex shape paths depending on a couple details) it can be an enormous gain, and for some files it c

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