barbacoa

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by barbacoa 11d ago
https://archive.is/20260905202244/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
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by barbacoa 1mo ago
>But that is considered success is it not? Not if you took out a $50k loan for an early gen solar system and it now only saves $30 a month.
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by barbacoa 1mo ago
Berkley is defiantly not representative to most of the USA. They have strange regional politics that restricts most residential construction.
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by barbacoa 1mo ago
>250sqm, 30cm thick brick for load bearing + perimeter walls, 30cm rockwool continuous external insulation, aluminium frame triple pane windows, glazured roof tiles, floor heating + wood stove backup, 15kwp solar panels installation, dee
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by barbacoa 1mo ago
Be careful with these kind of long term sell back agreements. In the USA lots of early adopters of solar did so under net metering agreements where excess electricity is sold back at full price. After a number of years it was costing the u
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The North Star for AGI(arcprize.org)
1 points by barbacoa 2mo ago|0 comments
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by barbacoa 2mo ago
They are saying that AMD's new Epyc Venice CPU has 16 memory channels allowing up to 1.6Tb/s of bandwidth. Which is higher bandwidth than most non-HBM GPUs. So full CPU local AI inference may become viable option in coming years.
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by barbacoa 2mo ago
My new favorite new passtime with frontier LLMs, keep telling them "I just ate a [non-food object]". Eventually it gets stuck in a loop of telling me to call 911, unlock my front door, and lay on the floor in case I lose conscious
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China lands reusable rocket for the first time(theverge.com)
2 points by barbacoa 2mo ago|0 comments
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by barbacoa 3mo ago
I'm running qwen 3.6 27b at 8bit quantization and 262k context. It takes 53gb of vram on my system.
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by barbacoa 3mo ago
The connection does not look standard so probably need to find some kind of OEM interposer card, which would allow you to connect some slimSAS cables that in turn connect to pcie adapter cards. You'd need at least threadripper cpu&#x2F
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by barbacoa 3mo ago
This is from the USA site: https://www.ebay.com/itm/157742745616 It's always a gamble buying used electric but per the description, fully decked out server with 256gb vram. Though at 2U it is going to sound like a
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by barbacoa 3mo ago
4x A100s with the baseboard for $9k (USD). https://www.ebay.com/itm/336632412718 Buy one and let me use it when you're sleeping.
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by barbacoa 3mo ago
>sticker price is 7899. It's not even worth it at that point. You can get a used enterprise grade SXM baseboard with 4-8 V100/A100 GPUs off eBay at a similar price. That will even get you actual HMB ram and NVlink. Along with 1
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Agentic Credit Card MCP(robinhood.com)
2 points by barbacoa 3mo ago|0 comments
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California passes bill criminalizing bypass of 3D printer gun-blocking software(tomshardware.com)
12 points by barbacoa 4mo ago|3 comments
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by barbacoa 4mo ago
Try looking into Ryzen AI Max 395. AMD made a CPU/GPU soc with unified memory specifically for ai inference. Can buy mini PCs with up to 128gb ram.
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by barbacoa 4mo ago
America innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates.
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by barbacoa 4mo ago
I applied for a founding engineer with a startup though a "who's hiring" post. Had 3-4 rounds of interviews, met founders, did a project with them. I had competing offers and ultimately didn't work out. But it was a posi
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by barbacoa 5mo ago
Apple briefly was selling Mac studio with 512 GB of unified ram, meaning all that was available as vram.
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by barbacoa 5mo ago
They are likely including xAI and the massive training costs that entails in order to make it sound like all their ventures are losing money.
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by barbacoa 7mo ago
Since Twitter is now part of SpaceX, does that mean Twitter is classified as a common carrier too? Can Twitter no longer refuse to allow certain individuals use their platform? Honest question here.
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by barbacoa 7mo ago
Apple wants to vertically integrate. Their AI strategy until recently was to develop their own LLM models that were small enough to run on device. But massive scaling is what makes LLMs so powerful, so all their internal models were terribl
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by barbacoa 7mo ago
>I believe in science. I pray to science every day to deliver us from this heretical reign of RFK jr.
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by barbacoa 7mo ago
It's the new pattern you see from this kind of reporting. Innocuous beginning, omit the middle context, then mentioning the end reaction. "Young mathmatics professor buys cabin in Montana, then gets arrested by FBI!" "Au
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by barbacoa 8mo ago
>concrete and cement production are quite bad. Modern concrete construction uses iron rebar liberally. That means every concrete structure built today will crack and crumble in a few hundred years at most, as the iron absorbs oxygen, it
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by barbacoa 8mo ago
The pendulum is in full swing. Soon it will be ban worthy offense to suggest there are more than two genders. Though I am morbidly enjoying the irony of seeing those on the left suddenly discover an interest in free speech, and those on the
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by barbacoa 8mo ago
To actually implement firearm detection your 3d printer would need to have the ability to reverse engineer the 3d solid model from g-code, then compare that solid model to a list of banned objects.
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Germany Considers Broader Legal Authority for Internet Surveillance(reclaimthenet.org)
4 points by barbacoa 8mo ago|0 comments
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by barbacoa 9mo ago
Some argue that THC in cannabis actually works similarly because when herbivores regularly ingest it, they become lethargic and lazy, causing them struggle to survive in the world. Kinda like my roommate.

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