rnxrx

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by rnxrx 2mo ago
This is great - and another example of how much more efficient CLI tool use ends up being in actual day-to-day use. Claude Code and Hermes took it in and it runs great in my initial tries at it. Thanks for making and sharing it!
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by rnxrx 2mo ago
Another endorsement - I used Kokoro pretty extensively with an app I was developing over the last year and it's been excellent, both on- and off- GPU. Even with Elevenlabs (long time subscriber) the comparative quality of Kokoro keeps
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by rnxrx 2mo ago
It's worth being careful here: a lot of the affordable enterprise-class routers from 10+ years ago aren't as fast as cheap consumer hardware - like the OP or just a decent mini PC. The primary arguments for the enterprise-class g
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by rnxrx 3mo ago
It depends on what's meant by "fully utilized" but fp8 quants of Nemotron 3 Super, the latest Minimax, Cohere A+ and the Mistral small and (especially) medium variants all sit in that 128-256 category, especially with full co
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by rnxrx 3mo ago
There are also nvfp4 quants of Qwen 3.6 27/35 floating around. I've done benchmarks of both and the quality difference vs fp8/bf16 was barely notable. Honestly the nvfp4 capability is the most interesting feature of the Spa
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by rnxrx 3mo ago
There is at least one MCP server in Obsidian's community plugins, plus the REST API access capability which is already addressed in several open source MCP plugins. I use Obsidian as a persistent context store and knowledge graph (..lo
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by rnxrx 3mo ago
It *is* hard to make memory, especially HBM (...which is what the AI market wants, and is what the manufacturers are focusing on) and bringing on new capacity takes years . There's the additional wrinkle that the manufacturers we hav
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by rnxrx 3mo ago
It’s usually open loop - closed loop, so closed loop goes through CRACs or liquid cooled equipment manifolds. That heated water circulates through an heat exchanger on the roof that uses open loop cooling to shed the heat to the surroundin
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by rnxrx 3mo ago
In terms of platform variants the Taurus outsold the Crown Vic by a fair amount. The latter was certainly hugely popular as fleet vehicles, but the Taurus was Ford's best selling sedan for quite a while. The Taurus was never rated fo
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by rnxrx 3mo ago
Genuine curiosity: Is there any speculation as to what these tools are keying on to reject those particular applicants? It seems like it just being the applicant's name is too easy an answer, but I could be overthinking it.
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by rnxrx 3mo ago
The commentary on hand-created signage was especially fascinating. The observations about the use of computers "enshitifying" design sort of eerily echo a lot of the commentary about AI now, including the (not unfounded) fear of
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by rnxrx 3mo ago
I have the $100 plan and had almost never run out of credits until I started using the ultracode / workstreams feature w/Opus 4.8..at which point I managed to blow the full 6 hour allocation in like 20 minutes, or so. In fairness
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by rnxrx 3mo ago
Maybe it’s naive, but there’s something incredibly hopeful that there are folks not only protesting this kind of corruption, but also that there’s a government actually responding to the voice of the people. That the EU’s own legal framewor
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by rnxrx 3mo ago
I don’t think the analogy between rock star developers and LLMs bears out here. Like any other tool, AI abides by the basic reality of garbage in/garbage out. If you don’t make sure the LLM has sufficient context then you get what yo
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
I always knew the "point" was there, but never saw it actually used in my travels (..which finished in '90 or '91). I seem to recall the node lists at some point didn't have decimals, but perhaps my recollection is
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
99:9008/206 / 1:137/206
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
They implied it might have options with < 128G of memory. That could significantly reduce the price of components. There's also the very real possibility that the whole venture is being subsidized by Microsoft - or even NVIDIA its
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
There are still a *lot* of sharp edges with the Spark: compatibility, overstated performance, power consumption/heat generation, etc. It's one thing to have that situation on a box explicitly aimed at developers and quite another
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
For some value of "well supported" - NVIDIA's own internal catalogs (libraries, NIMs, etc) are still spotty on aarch64 coverage.
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
Thus does kind of beg the question: If developers are being laid off because AI is better/faster/cheaper or makes all their people 10x or whatever fig leaf, what happens if the required tooling ends up being more expensive? From
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
The $48K also isn't fully sunk cost - there's a non-trivial residual value for those GPUs at the moment and likely for a few years yet. The server has a depreciation curve that's pretty enviable, actually!
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
Cultures of patronage are fertile ground for mediocrity.. very much a running theme in the history of human organization.
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
It seems like LLMs are actually pretty good at the sorts of things needed to manage a high-volume mailing list (summarizing, looking for dupes, sentiment, flagging things, etc), even if only as augmentation for human eyes. That said, I get
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
Cisco's fiscal year closes at the end of July, which makes this time of year the season for reorgs, LRs (as they're colloquially known) and the usual maneuvering that leads up to establishing budgets, sales quotas and the like. It
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
I'm not sure we'll ever really be free of the GIGO (garbage in / garbage out) principle. Tools will get better and better, but can never be a substitute for a deep understanding of the thing we want to create.
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
Not to be glib, but is there any industry where management consultants have been shown to make a statistically significant difference either way?
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by rnxrx 4mo ago
I wonder if a part of the problem isn't just the misapplication of LLMs in the first place. As has been mentioned elsewhere, perhaps the agent's prompt should be to write code to accomplish as much of the task in as repeatable&#x
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by rnxrx 5mo ago
Wouldn't this immediately put the American companies producing these models at a significant disadvantage? Just use an unmolested model hosted by a provider in Vancouver. If anything, this measure seems like it would create a scenario
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by rnxrx 5mo ago
The general idea is to have the LLM maintain longer-term context/background by storing it in a format/structure that's akin to a standard Wiki. The result is (hopefully) a series of human-readable and editable documents that
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by rnxrx 5mo ago
The arc of the technological universe is short, but it bends toward enshitification.

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