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by bityard 16d ago
If we are picking nits, almost every panel in the US and Canada is _both_ 120v and 240v. But even electricians here commonly say "two-twenty" instead of "two-forty."
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by bityard 17d ago
I'm sorry if this is a naive question, but why can't you just edit the commit message however you like? Or, for preference, write the whole commit message yourself? It confuses me a great deal to see projects where someone put in
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by bityard 17d ago
This links to some ad-filled AI generated slop. Kima looks interesting, here's the actual link to it: https://github.com/Chevron7Locked/kima-hub
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by bityard 18d ago
I wasn't arguing for or against anything, just trying to help answer the person's question.
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by bityard 20d ago
A small model, yes! But not necessarily a good model. With the additional caveat that I don't know whether that specific card is supported by modern drivers. You'd be looking at one in the 6B or 7B parameters range at FP8. Or smal
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by bityard 21d ago
Thanks for the nice article. If you're looking for feedback, I'd suggest adding a short demo at the end. It would be nice to see you send it a prompt that says, "hey, remember this" and then tell it to recall that memory
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by bityard 21d ago
I don't have any pie charts in front of me, but yes, I would estimate it's a decently big slice of the world market.
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by bityard 21d ago
Most US companies that have anything to do with government, finance, medical, etc. already have contractual or regulatory obligations which prevent them from using Chinese hardware or services, even before the AI boom. That's a huge ma
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by bityard 21d ago
> A GPU in your basement is a depreciating asset All decades prior and up to about a year ago, I would have agreed with you. My Framework Desktop, however has appreciated in value by 75% since I bought it. Will it stay there for a long t
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by bityard 22d ago
JPEG has had progressive loading on browsers since the almost the very beginning. But everybody stopped using it because it added slightly to the file size and "looked ugly." According to most web designers, anyway, who would actu
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by bityard 22d ago
I remember when Vultr was new and had a single rack with a handful of boxes. Their site has no graphics apart from an ASCII logo. They had low prices but you often had to wait for them to build a new box before you could sign up. Their whol
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by bityard 22d ago
These cheap resellers are also magnets for spammers, scammers, and hax0rs, so good luck running anything you don't want caught up in a subnet ban.
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by bityard 24d ago
Do you give the model access to the ASD-STE100 spec for reference/review or are you just assuming that enough of it is baked into the model for it to mostly adhere to it?
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by bityard 24d ago
An earlier version of Gemini used to do this a lot to me back when I used it for some light tinkering around on my projects. "Oh by the way, I fixed a misspelling in a comment file completely unrelated to the feature you asked for, so
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by bityard 26d ago
How fast is it on consumer-level hardware?
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by bityard 26d ago
I saw the My Little Pony shell prompt and knew immediately that this was to be taken very seriously.
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by bityard 28d ago
If anyone has an old Silhouette vinyl cutter sitting around gathering dust, there's an actively maintained open source Inkscape plugin that lets you "print" your design straight to the cutter: https://github.com&#x
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by bityard 29d ago
The non-zero chance of a BIOS update bricking my computer is why I NEVER do them to a machine that's out of warranty, unless I'm experiencing some problem that a BIOS update is _well documented_ to actually fix.
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by bityard 29d ago
A couple years ago, my personal laptop died and that was all the excuse I needed to finally get one of these Framework laptops that everyone was raving about. I was all set to part with roughly $1700. Pulled my credit card out of my wallet
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by bityard 29d ago
You didn't mention what the problem was, but Dell laptops are so ubiquitous that buying replacement parts on eBay is both very easy and highly affordable. This is one of the reasons I'm partial to Dell, even in the face of all the
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by bityard 29d ago
TFA is mostly just a bunch of twitter screenshots. From people on social media who forgot that the rest of the web still exists. (Original site: https://www.cookingforengineers.com ) Also, clickbait headline: There is no dissent
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by bityard 1mo ago
I did exactly this thing when I was a broke teenager. The files in my ID1 directory that I shuffle around from computer to computer to this day came from that disc 30 years ago. (I still have the disc, but not the case.) I did, however, pur
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by bityard 1mo ago
The medical establishment that I have familiarity with (in the US) pretty much only ever treats symptoms, not causes. Don't believe me? Next time you go to see your primary care physician, ask them what you should be doing to lower you
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by bityard 1mo ago
It's less about malicious intent and more about predictability. When I install software on my computer with apt, I trust that all the files will go to the right place and install scripts are going to do sane things relative to the rest
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by bityard 1mo ago
> movie rental shops Libraries have stepped in to full this gap. Most have very decent selections of blu-ray and DVDs as long as you aren't looking for a very recent release. Although it's hard to say how much longer physical d
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by bityard 1mo ago
https://reader.inkfeed.xyz/ seems to be returning "Error loading feed: Fetch failed: 0" for every feed
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by bityard 1mo ago
To be somewhat fair, Iron Mountain is just a storage facility. OSS were likely the consultants who worked out how to get the archival data from the station's tapes into Iron Mountain and then get the data back out when needed. So they
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by bityard 1mo ago
I can pretty clearly remember hearing about the "3-2-1 backup rule" by name 10 or 15 years ago on the Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson. So it is _at least_ that old, but probably even older. The concept of having multiple ba
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by bityard 1mo ago
Same, but it looks legit enough to me. Here is the git repo for the site with a link back to llama.app: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.pages (I still deeply distrust curlpipes in general though.)
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by bityard 1mo ago
In recent years, I've written two! I wrote my own wiki to use as a personal knowledge base to replace Dokuwiki because I wanted a simpler Markdown-based solution written in Python. I started it during the pandemic times and all of the

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