alifeinbinary

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   by alifeinbinary 4mo ago

   I agree that turning CS into a casino wasn’t a tasteful choice on Valve’s part but as someone who has played CS at least once a week for decades I can understand that they needed to find a way to cover server costs somehow. I paid $15 dolla
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   by alifeinbinary 6mo ago

   I'm developing software in this area right now, so I try a lot of the new models. They're not even close for coding tasks. It basically comes down to 26b parameters vs 1T parameters / quantisation / smaller context sizs,
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   by alifeinbinary 6mo ago

   I built a steganography app that embeds encrypted messages into images. It lives here: https://stegg.alifeinbinary.com It's as much of an art project as it is a programming project. The images that it generates are visual r
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   by alifeinbinary 6mo ago

   I really like LM Studio when I can use it under Windows but for people like me with Intel Macs + AMD gpu ollama is the only option because it can leverage the gpu using MoltenVK aka Vulkan, unofficially. We're still testing it, hoping
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   by alifeinbinary 6mo ago

   Agreed. I block Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter on my phone and work computers to avoid impulsive doom scrolling with the time vampires. I never would have seen this announcement. Reddit should not be viewed as a channel for corporate
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   by alifeinbinary 6mo ago

   I appreciate your response and I hope you can understand my initial concern. Looking forward to trying this out :)
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   by alifeinbinary 6mo ago

   All those parameters and it still won't answer questions about Tianenman Square in 1989... :(
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   by alifeinbinary 6mo ago

   i’m in the same boat. I bought mine back in 2021 and honestly I don’t regret my decision. It’s my main software development of music production computer plus every Sunday night I get to play counterstrike with the boys by dual booting into
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   Apple Discontinues Mac Pro

   50 points by alifeinbinary 6mo ago|5 comments
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    by alifeinbinary 6mo ago

    Hi, I read throughout your blog post and website but couldn't find a github link, so I gather this project is closed source. Is that likely to change in the future? For something as important as a terminal, considering all the secrets
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    by alifeinbinary 6mo ago

    They just need to create a GUI interface with Visual Basic and see if they can track the IP address.
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    by alifeinbinary 6mo ago

    I use my Mac for film scoring and music production, so I have a long-standing practice of keeping my operating system one major version behind for stability reasons. If you want to do the same and at the same time avoid those annoying Tahoe
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    by alifeinbinary 6mo ago

    While the M5 is impressive, its capacity to compete against enterprise models like Opus, Sonnet etc is off by a couple orders of magnitude. Even the most sophisticated open source models top out at 100-200 billion parameters whereas Claude,
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    by alifeinbinary 1y ago

    I love working in MacOS but I refuse to buy another new Macbook that has the storage soldered to the motherboard. Non-volatile memory has a limited amount of write cycles and let's be honest, NAND can fail long before its forecasted li