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by icelancer 10mo ago
Yeah this is the main reason to use a USB DAC. I guess you get marginally better sound quality (more noticeable on expensive studio headphones that need more power to drive them) but better isolation/removal from the noise source is th
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by icelancer 11mo ago
I've found this mostly to be the case when using lightweight open source models or mini models. Rarely is this an issue with SOTA models like Sonnet-4.5, Opus-4.1, GPT-5-Thinking or better, etc. But that's expensive, so all the co
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by icelancer 11mo ago
I just run the agent directly on separate testing/dev servers via remote-ssh in VS Code to have an IDE to sanity check stuff. Just far simpler than local dev and other nonsense.
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by icelancer 11mo ago
That's awesome!
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by icelancer 11mo ago
The VOID VR was the greatest fusion of VR + reality. CAD-mapped laser tag warehouses while wearing a VR headset and backpack computer. Near-perfect immersion. COVID sadly killed it. Was a beautiful thing - so happy I got to try it out. Even
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by icelancer 1y ago
bobince has some other posts where he is very helpful too! :) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2641347/short-circuit-ar...
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by icelancer 1y ago
When pressed: --- My execution environment is a browser-based JavaScript sandbox. I don't have Python, Node.js shell access, pip, git, or pytest capabilities. Simon's post may have been referring to a different deployment or featu
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by icelancer 1y ago
Huh. Doesn't work over here. --- SYSTEM: Got it. Those are the setup commands for Simon Willison's LLM CLI tool, which lets you interact with language models from the command line. The -e flag installs it in editable mode, and [te
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by icelancer 1y ago
YouTube premium "download" is also just completely fake. Downloaded where? What file can I copy?
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by icelancer 1y ago
Price matching on most of their stuff and their budget line of cabling is actually quite competitive. When I have to do buildouts sometimes we need to buy a lot of Ethernet cable and their pricing is not terrible in a pinch. Once bought an
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by icelancer 1y ago
They are getting steadily eroded by Temu and Aliexpress/Alibaba. Also in-person retail is surging for specific items - places like Best Buy have had a nice resurgence since the 2010s (stock is down compared to the pandemic, but that&#x
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by icelancer 1y ago
This has already been happening with a lot of vendors using the Transparency app.
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by icelancer 1y ago
Gemini's tool calling being so bad is pretty amazing. Hopefully in the next iteration they fix it, because the model itself is very good.
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by icelancer 1y ago
> Those are the truly hard things in chess. Maybe this changes if you're a high-level player, but I'm not. They remain pretty difficult. Ben Finegold said it best when doing a lecture on middlegame technique; a novice complaine
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by icelancer 1y ago
This is a thing you can do with Stockfish + SCID, is it not?
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by icelancer 1y ago
It is shockingly difficult to use LLMs in chess study. I don't need it to be a better (or worse) Stockfish; an LLM should be great at taking a FEN or multiple lines from Stockfish via MCP or tool call and explain why positions are ev
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by icelancer 1y ago
Yeah, same. Almost all of the NAS packages sacrifice something - they're great places to start, but just getting Samba going with Ubuntu is easy enough.
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by icelancer 1y ago
I have used Tiger AI Lab's harness and have several issues/tickets I opened there. It's not a very serious project and doesn't work... basically at all. It's a good idea especially with VLM review but the results ar
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by icelancer 1y ago
Yeah I've mostly had Grant's experience. Some frameworks have hooked in VLMs to "review" the manim animations and drawings but it doesn't help much.
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by icelancer 1y ago
This is great. I currently work a fractional role on top of being a founder. Wish it was more commonly available.
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by icelancer 1y ago
Been using WhisperX myself for years. The big factor is the diarization they offer through pyannotate in the single package. I do like the software even if they make some weird choices and configuration issues. Allegedly Groq will be offeri
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by icelancer 1y ago
Didn't click the article, came straight to the comments thinking "I bet it's Schmidhuber being salty." Some things never change.
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by icelancer 1y ago
Because most people drink to thirst, not out of habit.
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by icelancer 1y ago
Oh right, I forgot some diffusion models can't offload / split layers. I don't use vision generation models much at all - was just going off LLM work. Apologies for the potential misinformation.
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by icelancer 1y ago
> This may be obvious to people who do this regularly This is not that obvious. Calculating VRAM usage for VLMs/LLMs is something of an arcane art. There are about 10 calculators online you can use and none of them work. Quantizatio
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by icelancer 1y ago
Correct. Have tried this without much success despite OpenAI's claims.
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by icelancer 1y ago
Really the only reason to have a local setup is for 24/7 on-demand high-volume inference that can't tolerate enormous cold starts.
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by icelancer 1y ago
It's not too bad - I run 6x RTX 3090s on a 2nd-gen Threadripper with PCIe bifurcation cards. The energy usage is only really bad if you're training models constantly, but inference is light enough. I use 208V power but 120V can in
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by icelancer 1y ago
Every model you run on that setup will be at best half as good as Sonnet 4.
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by icelancer 1y ago
If I go solar, which seems likely, I will definitely not be sending it back to the grid since I don't think that's something that scales well (8-bit guy talks about it on YouTube and it's persuasive). I'll be using a loc

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