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by jchw 3d ago
To me, it is a feature to have a password required at boot to unlock the drive. Relying on TPM for keymatter is convenient but comes with caveats I don't like. I don't personally trust that the boot chain and OS on a modern system
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by jchw 4d ago
Some websites like PC Gamer have some shitty middleware (that seems to be very careful to hide its identity, only appear once per session, and not immediately register on page load, probably to try to delay browsers banning the ever loving
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by jchw 4d ago
Though that is not the type of abandonment that IKEA is worried about in this case. In fact it isn't really clear what form of trademark abandonment IKEA would have to be concerned about for this action to be justified. IANAL but IKE
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by jchw 4d ago
Yeah, but that doesn't sound like AI at all. Not even close.
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by jchw 4d ago
Oh that's simple. Both Tesla and John Deere are bad guys. And yes. I am happy to expand that list to literally every other manufacturer you have in mind. They are all bad guys too. If manufacturers were altruistic good guys, they would
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by jchw 4d ago
Trademark is about preventing someone's brand for being confused for another. Unless someone was confusing this for being an official IKEA product I'm not sure why it would be in the ballpark of trademark. There is also trade dres
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by jchw 5d ago
There really isn't any moral argument against distillation, which is itself pretty goddamn benign. It's pretty simple. Someone pays for Claude access. Claude outputs tokens that are not copyrighted. Then you train on those tokens,
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by jchw 9d ago
I've actually been thinking a lot about this. I do absolutely 100% lament that we are possibly going to see the loss of the art of programming. Not entirely, sure; some people will do it by hand the way some people do anything by hand.
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by jchw 13d ago
I hate to invoke Poe's law but, I've now flip-flopped like six times over whether this could be serious. I think it is serious. In which case, I gotta say, it really seems like you didn't spend much time thinking about this.
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by jchw 15d ago
It absolutely isn't. It is only ludicrous if you hold Apple to some weird standard of ethics that they absolutely do not deserve. If you think this practice isn't common, that's purely a matter of ignorance on your part.
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by jchw 15d ago
Why do you care so much that this is a totally realistic argument? You don't personally have to like it, it's not about how it makes you feel as a fan of Apple.
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by jchw 15d ago
Or an agency on their behalf, but either way, there's really no way for us to really know, due to the stealthy nature of this sort of advertising.
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by jchw 16d ago
To be fair, the very reasonable take is that if there was guerilla marketing campaigns, they are most likely being handled by external agencies and not Apple directly. And, this isn't making them look particularly dumb. It is making
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by jchw 16d ago
You're suggesting there is no chance that Apple is engaging in guerilla marketing, which you discredit by referring to as a "psyop" when it is in fact a well-documented and pretty mundane practice, because they sell a lot of
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by jchw 17d ago
I think its mere existence and influence is already good enough. A fair number of modern open source projects either come with Nix flakes or are designed to work well in an immutable environment whether it is NixOS, SteamOS, or inside of a
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by jchw 17d ago
I'm not entirely sure if it's a good idea per se, but hell, what's the point in making everything properly lazy if you couldn't. I mean me personally, I routinely use 20-30 flake inputs for large system configurations an
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by jchw 18d ago
When people pointed out the consequences this would have for open source, that did not mean what they wanted was an open source exemption. It was just meant to demonstrate just how poorly conceived the law is that nobody at any point even t
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by jchw 19d ago
Ah, I see - so MoE offloading is no savior. A shame but no surprise either.
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by jchw 19d ago
One thing I'd like to try is MoE offloading: I have 2x32 GiB of VRAM and 128 GiB of DDR5 running at 4800 MT/s (only 2 channels though). I've seen people post difficult to believe MoE offloading results albeit a decently long
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by jchw 19d ago
Honestly I suspect neither of them will be performing terribly well but with DDR4 3200 RAM I wonder if you'll be counting tokens per second or seconds per token. I mean, you do at least get a lot of memory channels at least, compared t
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by jchw 22d ago
See the note at the bottom here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by jchw 22d ago
Well, you know what they say. The first one's free.
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by jchw 24d ago
Almost 10 models are passing the benchmark >95% - isn't that... substantially overly saturated? I'm also really skeptical of benchmarks that place any Haiku model very high. I've been thoroughly unimpressed with Haik
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by jchw 24d ago
Cool. I was thinking of running Qwen3.8 through Codex, but maybe it's time I take a look at Pi.
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by jchw 24d ago
Seems this person is well known for saying silly things based on the comments but I read it carefully and tried to give it a fair shake. > Accusations of mental instability are a favorite of fascist regimes, so if you see that you know i
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by jchw 24d ago
You are misunderstanding what they said, they are saying you can use uncensored variants of models like Qwen when running locally. There are quite a lot of people working to "uncensor" open weights releases. It seems to work altho
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by jchw 24d ago
I'd personally like to know more about what tools it used/wanted and the harness setup, because this sounds pretty cool. I have a dual Arc Pro B70 setup and currently get around 22 t/s which isn't great but isn't
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by jchw 25d ago
Despite all of this though, GPT 5.6 Sol to me has significantly less trouble with this. It still suffers from LLMisms to some extent (I hold that this is probably due to human feedback in training just doing a bad job for prose) but I defin
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by jchw 29d ago
You are confusing personification, which is purely a rhetorical device, with anthropomorphization. I am not anthropomorphizing GPUs. There is nothing particularly weird about personifying model weights, as we do with computer programs, cars
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by jchw 29d ago
This seems to always be explained in a confusing and sometimes wrong manner, so I may as well also try to explain it in a confusing and sometimes wrong manner too. Both Windows and Linux allow applications to map memory in an uncommitted st

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