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by anyfoo 4d ago
Adding 32GB of RAM is vastly better than adding 32GB of swap, it’s not even close. However, it’s also vastly more expensive. That has always been the case, not just in the current insane situation. We use swap because we have plenty of disk
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by anyfoo 4d ago
I’m not sure I understand. In your equations, why is swap taking away from RAM? It’s purely additive. Say you have 64GB of RAM, of which 4GB are dirty pages that are never, or at least very rarely, accessed. With 64GB RAM + 4GB swap, you fi
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by anyfoo 5d ago
Fair enough, you looked and did the math. On my laptop (totally different use case), there is currently plenty of memory in the compressor.
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by anyfoo 5d ago
Yes, only dirty (i.e. modified) pages profit from getting paged out to swap. But while I don't have any hard data, I imagine that depending on the workload, there can be a punch of pages that are read during initialization, or a one-of
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by anyfoo 5d ago
You never saw any issues, but your systems might have been faster with swap. Even if you're nowhere any threshing threshold, RAM used for caches is better than RAM used for unused pages, which could have been paged out to swapspace. No
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by anyfoo 5d ago
It highly depends on your specific workload, but freeing up RAM by paging out rarely or downright unused pages to swap can definitely give a performance advantage. In consequence, I always give swap. Even on the off-chance it ends up unus
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by anyfoo 5d ago
This comes up every time swap is mentioned. Even if you have plenty of ram, having swap can help with performance. Why? Because the OS can page rarely used or seemingly downright unused dirty pages to swap, freeing up precious RAM for cache
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by anyfoo 6d ago
> The SLED system does not feature numeric types. Yet natural numbers (non-negative integers) can be emulated using lists: > '(nil nil nil) ; three Pfsh, how pedestrian and unnecessarily high level. What you of course want to us
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by anyfoo 6d ago
I don’t know, so is your brain? And in the end it’s all elementary particles and four fundamental physical forces that even unify to one at high energy. That sort of reductionism is kind of useless. “It’s cloudy outside, it makes me sad.” -
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by anyfoo 7d ago
Are they open ear?
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by anyfoo 7d ago
But it is? At least for AirPods. The AirPods Pro are not open-ear form factor. I do not know about other open-ear airbuds.
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by anyfoo 7d ago
You're probably partly right (though I use the same context size for all models, so there still is a difference in the model/quantization itself), but I definitely see it "thinking itself into an extremely expensive and error
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by anyfoo 8d ago
I observed this as well. I have problems that get solved very quickly using non-thinking mode, but in thinking mode it digs itself into giant holes, that it sometimes doesn't manage to escape from. Like wanting to implement an entire e
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by anyfoo 8d ago
> As you may see, the scores are around the random guessing level, with the smallest model being below that threshold. Err… can someone explain to me what is meant here? Surely the model wouldn’t consistently “guess wrong” compared to ra
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by anyfoo 8d ago
Depends on the actual audience, I guess. My stated “wisdom” comes in part from /r/LocalLLaMa, and my impression is that the tasks that users there give their models to try them out lean towards rather simplistic, on the reasoning
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by anyfoo 8d ago
Not for me. As stated elsewhere, even Q5 (!) seems to be enough to kill the model’s ability to solve a particular problem in reasonable time. But that might just be right at the edge of what the model can do in the first place. I have anoth
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by anyfoo 8d ago
I have a very interesting self-made coding benchmark, very intricate and technical, but 100% a real world problem I had to solve. I’m not going to further elaborate, since I don’t want future models to train on the solution. To my own surpr
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by anyfoo 9d ago
Nowadays, it's considered bad form to map anything at 0... you now know one of the reasons why! In the case that I know that has a 1:1 identity mapping of the address space, the physical address space doesn't actually have anythin
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by anyfoo 16d ago
In the current betas, there's actually more entitlements that allow this, not just private ones.
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by anyfoo 24d ago
I tried everything for my IBM 6x86 PR166+. Everything . Pretty much every BIOS setup option, fans, reapplying thermal paste… still, the machine would often not survive a Linux kernel build without SIGSEGV, or just randomly hang. Much late
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by anyfoo 1mo ago
ELI actually 5: You have 10 food jars in your house. Your parents only allow you to grab food from, say, the jar on the far left, and the one next to it. Sadly, those jars only contain broccoli (ordinary OS memory) and lettuce (more ordinar
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by anyfoo 2mo ago
> Her last day at the company was the day she promised she would book phone screens And the emails you sent didn't bounce after that?
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by anyfoo 2mo ago
I work in "lowest level" kernel development, and we're certainly operating at that layer. As for those kind of hacky solutions, we do try to avoid them, because they are, well, hacky, and therefore often hard to understand, e
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by anyfoo 2mo ago
Try Haskell.
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by anyfoo 2mo ago
Sweet. What changes to Hercules have you been considering? I have had a long running (and maintained!) MVS instance in Hercules for quite a few years now, just for fun.
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by anyfoo 2mo ago
It's a simple word that does the job. No need to overthink it.
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by anyfoo 3mo ago
He's basically a rock star here. (And well deservedly so.)
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by anyfoo 3mo ago
There’s a bunch of free character roms as well.
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by anyfoo 3mo ago
Great project! Kudos for figuring out all that stuff on your own. Assuming you are actually reading these comments, a few suggestions: * C compilers that can target 16 bit x86 usually have support for "far pointers", which are 32
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by anyfoo 3mo ago
I did not mean it’s a trick users applied, I meant that the developers of the 1541 DOS implemented this very trick. You load a textual representation of the directory into memory as a BAISC program, that’s pretty funky. And it was precisely

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