evgen

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by evgen 26d ago
The EU has no real reliance on US military might. Russia has been shown to be a paper tiger and the EU can use Ukraine as a proxy to cripple Russia while keeping their hands relatively clean.
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by evgen 1mo ago
This is the way if you need speed. It costs a little bit in smarts, but compare the MTPLX option listed above with the oQ4e-mtp quant using oMLX. The good cacheing layer in oMLX will help things feel faster for some classes of tasks in my e
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by evgen 2mo ago
There is also a good Behind the Bastards episode about this case. Truly bizarre obsession on the part of the CEO and a completely off the rails security org doing his bidding.
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by evgen 2mo ago
Bay-area folk may be familiar with Roaring Camp Railroads up in Felton, which has a Shay engine pulling the train along the scenic tour. Fun stuff if you have any kids who like trains.
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by evgen 4mo ago
I can run qwen3.6-27b on a four year-old Macbook Pro that dominates ChatGPT-4o (the frontier model from 2 years ago) and is competetitve against early ChatGPT-5 versions. We are also getting a lot smarter about using and deploying these loc
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by evgen 4mo ago
Sure you did. We can't see the project, of course, because she lives in Canada...
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by evgen 6mo ago
I am amused that you think IT is going to respond to an unmanaged LLM tool that operates outside of the LLM policies all serious enterprises have set up by now and say 'wow, that is cool and maybe we should buy in to this!' What i
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by evgen 6mo ago
Phone jammers are illegal because they are broadcasting into regulated spectrum. There is no such spectrum regulation around audio transmissions. I will not say one way or another if this device actually works as adertised, but particularly
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by evgen 7mo ago
Gelatine melts at a lower temperature and has a much better mouthfeel for most of these traditional recipes. It is creamy and adds body to a stock or sauce. Agar is brittle and requires a higher temperature to set. Agar would be a good choi
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by evgen 8mo ago
Sherman, set the wayback machine.... Definitely a blast from the past. One of the things that made PipeNet very interesting compared to its contemporary peers (e.g. onion routing) was that it used fixed size pipes with constant traffic. An
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by evgen 9mo ago
That 'ugly' required indentation and whitespace also made Python easier to read, especially for newbies and casual coders. A standard visual structure and a syntax that is pretty close to executable pseudo-code lowered the barrier
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by evgen 9mo ago
For simple yes/no questions ("Is over 18?", "Is US resident?") then you should look back to David Chaum's blind signatures and the work that came out of that back in the 90s. The math is super-simple to underst
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by evgen 11mo ago
I loved my Ricochet modems so damn much. Sitting in a coffeeshop in Palo Alto with an Apple Powerbook and a second generation Ricochet modem rocking web browsing and ssh sessions at 56k when wifi was unknown to the general public. I still h
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by evgen 1y ago
This dataset disappeared. Did it move or get pulled for some reason? (glanced at it when you noted this and went back today to check it out and found a 404...)
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by evgen 1y ago
Pretty close, but the musical takes place in the fictional town of River City, Iowa and Henry Hill claims to be an alumnus of the Gary Conservatory (class of '05), which is the hook used to launch the song in question.
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by evgen 1y ago
> Uber and Lyft are sitting pretty for the moment. The two completely replaceable components of this project are 'sitting pretty'? They should be scared to death because this is in fact the death knell for both companies. If th
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by evgen 1y ago
OpenWebUI seems to be the standard. Easy to spin it up in a docker container pointed to 127.0.0.1:1234/v1 and away you go.
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by evgen 1y ago
> I've never understood what people mean when they say public transportation is "dirty". They are forced to share air with obviously poor and non-white people and that is simply intolerable... One of the biggest adjustment
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by evgen 1y ago
The article text explicitly refutes the bullshit title. Governments can get access to metadata, not the contents of comms. They can demands whatever they want from Meta, but it appears that thethe only thing they are getting is the same met
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by evgen 1y ago
There was never any requirement for sharing anything between the two vehicles and they were made by completely different contractors. Grumman made the LEM and North American Aviation made the command module. There was also a significant red
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by evgen 1y ago
> I want them to know it was their lack of care and their negligence, I want them to take personal responsibility for that and for future work they do. But I also would want such a person to know it isn't a personal attack, just a v
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by evgen 1y ago
This is one of those subtle clues that the LLM does not actually 'know' anything. It is providing you the best consensus answer to your prompt using the data upon which the weights rest, is that data was input primarily as english
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by evgen 1y ago
Can you provide an example of this? There are a few inventions-via-serendipity (e.g. Teflon) where someone got lucky, but few that i can think of where the specific person who got lucky mattered. Kary Mullis and PCR maybe?
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by evgen 1y ago
A significant part of the economy perhaps, but 'national security threat' is a somewhat higher bar IMHO. LHR has a role of convenience, but not necessity. If JFK was shut down for a day or two and had limited operations for anothe
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by evgen 1y ago
Few people actually include necessary infrastructure into their threat model and almost no one is willing to pay the cost of building effective redundancy into the system. I could probably shut down any airport in the world with a few late-
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by evgen 1y ago
> it's disconcerting that places like Canada and the UK allow people to own such creatures Just for reference, the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act in the UK imposes strict liability (including criminal liability) for dangerous dogs and main
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by evgen 2y ago
As if engineers actually get to make decisions about software, firmware, or hardware. Ha! That is truly hilarious. I would rather have a bunch of mildly responsive legislators setting the boundaries of what is acceptable than a bunch of mid
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by evgen 2y ago
Did you mean a bum bag?
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by evgen 2y ago
I can confirm it also goes the other way. Posted a remote job where we needed applicant to be only one or two time zones away from UTC and 80% of the 500+ applicants in the first 24 hours were from the US. I guess it makes sense as the cost
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by evgen 2y ago
It has not. Traffic levels are down 15-20% while number of visitors to the inside of the congestion zone has increased. Traffic speed inside the zone has also increased slightly. Overall, London's example shows that congestion pricing

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