linuxhansl

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by linuxhansl 3d ago
Off-topic and somewhat of a rant, but I'd far prefer us all focusing on open standards like HIP, SYCL, OpenCL, etc. It's unbearable that most LLM inference happens on closed H/W, closed drivers, and closed SDKs.
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by linuxhansl 6d ago
Will all these data centers really be needed in 5 or 10 years from now? The technology, compression, etc, for models are getting better and better requiring less and less H/W and power to run the same inference power. Perhaps our hunge
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by linuxhansl 10d ago
Never heard of A/I and I have no idea what they are about, but rather than a government communication this statement reads like an angry rant with lots of unhelpful name-calling. I would expect a government to be professional and just
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by linuxhansl 14d ago
> The United States Postal Service has spent months developing a U.S. Federal Ballot Mail Portal to provide election officials with a simple, secure, and efficient way to share lists of individuals receiving ballots by mail in their resp
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by linuxhansl 15d ago
> when Firefox does things to push away users like Mozilla buying up an ad-tech company What would you have them do? Somehow they have to make some money somehow. Alternatively they have to live purely from donations, which means that pe
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by linuxhansl 15d ago
I am hanging on! At home I only use Firefox. At work, unfortunately, I need Chrome for a few things that do not work well with Firefox (most Google products), but for everything else I use Firefox. IMHO, that Firefox can only really stay fr
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by linuxhansl 18d ago
After 35 years in the industry in various capacities (from architect, engineer, VP, and different products, small and large companies, ...) I can heartily confirm this. A company with a good culture is like a good football or soccer team. T
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by linuxhansl 22d ago
I feel so left behind with Linux machine on x86. It's rather interesting that Apple (and Arm) are blazing the trail while Intel is seemingly left in the dust. Maybe not entirely on raw performance, but definitely on performance per wat
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by linuxhansl 23d ago
We knew about this all since the 1980's. Carl Sagan testified before congress in 1985 [1]. That's over 40 years ago. Yet, we continue to burn more and fossil fuels; solar, wind, EVs, etc, non-withstanding. And right now some gover
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by linuxhansl 23d ago
I think it's more a mix of anxiety, frustration, and exploration. Exploration: Hey there's some cool new tech, let's see what it can do for me, for us. Anxiety: What will happen to my craft? Will my skills still be important?
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by linuxhansl 23d ago
Yep. In my experience human design -> agent code -> agent review -> release -> agent observer, does not (at all!) work. One absolutely has to be understand what is going on, how the system works, how the H/W works, etc, to
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by linuxhansl 25d ago
While there are things less than ideal in the US, this is absolutely not the case. The "Rule of Law" applies to everybody, including the President (recent decisions of the supreme court not withstanding - though they are very unfo
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by linuxhansl 1mo ago
You are still missing my point. It does not matter - at all - whether an idea has "value as an invention". All that matter is whether it cost a lot of money to come to that invention and whether that cost is worth is worth protect
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by linuxhansl 1mo ago
As a physics layman I find it fascinating how quantum mechanics are tied to information theory. For example, take quantum decoherence (which, IMHO, is the most logical explanation for the collapse of the wave-function - by saying it does no
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by linuxhansl 1mo ago
Darn, originally from northern Europe, I have always enjoyed sardines. I was wondering why they are suddenly harder to get. I can't believe a weight-loss fad is going to take "my" sardines from the shelves. Also, why only sar
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by linuxhansl 1mo ago
Alas, that only ensures that you cannot be sued for the disclosed invention. You cannot use it to counter-sue and reach a settlement. I do not like it one bit, but that does seem to be state of the software world right now.
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by linuxhansl 1mo ago
Yes. And that was exactly my point. If an idea is just an idea that anyone can have under the shower, there is no value to society in granting a monopoly to that idea. There was no cost to said idea. In that case is better for society to gr
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by linuxhansl 1mo ago
It feels more like an arms-race to me. Where I work we patent stuff for defensive purposes only, so we have something when we get sued (and we have been). Maybe that's just another boogieman, but it seems unless everybody stops nobody
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by linuxhansl 1mo ago
Having my name on a bunch of software patents - and, yes, I tried to get my name off them, but was not allowed - I can fairly confidently say: There is not A single worthy software patent out there. You know, one that is "not obvious t
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by linuxhansl 1mo ago
Disclaimer: I use AI at work and for some projects at home and find it really useful (as long as you know when and how to use it) With that said... It's funny how we went from "vibe coding" to review burden, sloppy contributi
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by linuxhansl 1mo ago
I'm honestly surprised he held on for so long. Can't tell if it made a difference, though, as I haven't used Twitter for about decade. I'm having a somewhat hard time understanding the world's "infatuation&quot
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by linuxhansl 1mo ago
While I agree on some level, this not a great comparison. A compiler/linker/etc is an algorithmic, precise, verifiable, repeatable, debuggable, etc, etc, process. Using an LLM is an inherently stochastic process. It can is very, v
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by linuxhansl 1mo ago
I almost feel that we have a new generation of the "script-kiddie". People without much (or any?) knowledge of software engineering using outside tooling to do "stuff" they wouldn't be able to do themselves. Maybe i
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by linuxhansl 2mo ago
Yes... And, perhaps the political comments here are a reasonable reaction to the misguided political influence that shaped grok. How can we trust grok after this? At least it will take a while. I need a model that can answer questions in an
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by linuxhansl 3mo ago
Not much one can do I fear... Install f-droid and all kinds of 3rd part apps now. Install GrapheneOS. (I'm guilty of not having that done that,yet :( ) Sign the petition ( https://keepandroidopen.org/ ).
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by linuxhansl 3mo ago
What Google is doing is shameful. One of the promises of Android was being more open than the restrictive Apple ecosystem. Now that they reached penetration they do the switch - under the guise of security. Just let me do with my hardware
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by linuxhansl 3mo ago
How qwen3.6:27b compare to qwen3.6:35b-a3b (MoE) in your experience (if you tried). I find the dense models are way too slow on my H/W.
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by linuxhansl 3mo ago
I soooo wish that to be true. Alas, in my experience it is not... Yet. What is true is that it gets easier and faster to run local models. With QAT (quantization aware training), turboquant (or similar) K/V compression; what used to be
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by linuxhansl 3mo ago
This is really awesome. I tried my test-task (generate a Python wrapper for a fairly complex C-interface) with gemma4:26b-a4b-it-qat. And for the first time it would just do it, without prodding and without errors. (Of course Claude just di
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by linuxhansl 3mo ago
Thank god some sanity prevails. Adding these to the index immediately would force passive index funds (multiple trillions of $) to buy this stock, and thus not allow the market to make performance based decisions. It's truly a shame th

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