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Qwen 3.8 on 1x32GB Radeon wrote Minecraft clone in 24 hours (Rust, WebGPU, WASM)(qwencraft.home.chrisdell.info)
3 points by cjdell 20d ago|1 comments
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by cjdell 20d ago
An experiment to see what can be achieved using a single Radeon AI Pro R9700 32GB with Qwen 3.8 27B Q5_X_M on llama.cpp (Vulkan) with 256K context size. Total agentic crunching time about 24 hours with ~10 prompts along the way. Source: ht
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by cjdell 9mo ago
I'm glad Hackspace culture is still very much alive in the UK. It feels like people are starting to become interested in such things again. I'm hoping the growing right-to-repair/modify movement will steer more people in this
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by cjdell 9mo ago
Joining a hackspace/makerspace suddenly introduced me to a high quality real-life social network. It's an excuse to engage with your hobbies but also hangout with like minds and pick up new skills. This won't be an option for
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My Journey to a NixOS Router(chrisdell.info)
3 points by cjdell 9mo ago|0 comments
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by cjdell 9mo ago
This is really bluring the line between implementation and specification. You may think you're writing the implementation but it is really a proxy for the specification. In other words, the compiler creating an illusion of an imperat
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by cjdell 2y ago
Bellard strikes again... Are we almost converting music to MIDI at this point? As I understand it the model is learning the landscape of sound combinations that are interesting to humans and as such there will be no combination of raw bytes
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by cjdell 2y ago
I wonder if you might have a microbiome problem, i.e. you lack the microorganisms necessary to break down certain foods such as fibres. There are now treatments which have been demonstrated to have success in restoring the missing microorga
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by cjdell 2y ago
You may benefit from speaking to a nutritional therapist. You might have a biofilm problem at specific points along your digestive tract but I would let them make that determination and come up with a personalised treatment plan. Nutritio
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by cjdell 2y ago
I have also read that our gut doesn't like being in constant operation. Our ancestors didn't have access to food 24/7 and it makes sense our bodies adapted to take advantage of this by entering a self-cleaning state during lo
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by cjdell 2y ago
Thank you for taking the time to reply and not just downvoting me. That is enlightening and I'm glad your relative is in better health now. I'm certainly not suggesting there is a single treatment plan that'll work for everyo
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by cjdell 2y ago
I initially wrote this as a reply to a comment by "NotGMan" mentioning fasting/paleo that got flagged. They could have approached the subject more delicately but I believe they have a point. About 3 years ago I had gut issues
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by cjdell 2y ago
The "buildroot" project is perfect for your embedded system. Build a custom minimal Linux system with tiny image sizes that are read-only by default. Pick exactly which services you need and no more. Less moving parts the better.
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by cjdell 2y ago
I'm going to be "that guy"... I used to distro hop and discovered that every distro has its strengths and weaknesses. Then 2 months ago someone told me about NixOS. I was skeptical at first, as it seemed a bit culty. Now I&#x
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by cjdell 3y ago
It's an interesting metaphor. Electron shells are sometimes described as a cloud of probabilistic density, as in the shade is an indication of the probability of finding an electron at that point if one were to freeze time. Obviously i
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by cjdell 3y ago
I thought the industry was already experimenting with the idea that you have another LLM observing the output of the primary LLM which is trained more towards safety than creativity. On top of that it would be good if the safety LLM could g
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by cjdell 3y ago
I have an original Pi 2012 running buildroot. It's a perfect fit. Need just enough to run a Linux kernel and ser2net for doing RS485 stuff with solar inverters. I think the image size was around 100MB and no volatile filesystem whatsoe
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by cjdell 3y ago
Is this similar to "transformer action"?
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by cjdell 3y ago
Thanks for taking the time to answer these. The thing you say about the display is interesting. I guess that means subpixel rendering (ClearType) will be suboptimal when in "laptop" mode but not a big deal. Missed having a true po
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by cjdell 3y ago
Seriously want. Few questions if I may: - Have tried a Linux distro on it? - What is battery life like (especially under Linux)? - How is the keyboard generally? (Not expecting miracles but is it usable)
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by cjdell 3y ago
The Godot IDE itself is a "game" as in it is entirely built using Godot APIs. Makes me wonder if it would actually be a good environment to build portable business apps, sort of like a modern Visual Basic.
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by cjdell 3y ago
Would that not just be something like a Raspberry Pi Compute Module running an emulator full screen and a custom IO breakout host board?
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by cjdell 3y ago
Voting with your wallet is a thing. It's the only feedback that matters to these people.
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by cjdell 3y ago
I'm very impressed with my N100 mini PC (fits in your palm) that I bought from AliExpress. Takes between 2-8W and uses just a plain old 12V plug-style power supply with a DC barrel. Perfect for Home Assistant and light virtualisation.
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by cjdell 3y ago
For me, Phillips Hue has been the only bulb to have NOT done this, despite being the oldest. But the cheaper bulbs I've bought on Amazon have all started flickering or just out right failed completely. This has really enforced the &quo
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by cjdell 3y ago
I didn't know DuckDuckGo could find me results about a particular person's preferences. Yes you can Google pretty much anything that you can have a conversation about and never speak to anyone. What is your point?
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by cjdell 3y ago
Any in particular that you're a fan of? (Genuinely curious)
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by cjdell 3y ago
Yes! We're finally challenging the notion that scripting languages must inheritly be dynamically typed. Some say that types are too much of an overhead for small programs but I find it impossible to reason about the design of software
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by cjdell 3y ago
Can get close to $100/kWh if willing to DIY a LiFePO4 pack. Look for EVE cells. About a quarter the cost of a PowerWall.
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by cjdell 3y ago
Don't confuse talent with skill. Incredible work like this definitely requires both.

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