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by skirmish 8d ago
--no-mmproj-offload See the documentation: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/multi...
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by skirmish 17d ago
So you are saying: backstab your manager and get them fired so you can take their place?
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by skirmish 18d ago
The supposed "security team" is busy fighting Google engineers connecting to internal systems to do their work. E.g. somebody figured how to control the coding AI agent from their phone -- red alert, ban all access from phones to
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by skirmish 18d ago
They do know, I experienced it myself. I had a testing phone and my regular phone, I kept swapping the same Verizon SIM between them. It worked for maybe 3 swaps, then Verizon blocked my account and sent me an email: suspicious activity de
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by skirmish 20d ago
> Whether AI is conscious or not is independent of the social acceptance of the idea, unless you believe in thoroughly discredited and quite radical forms of social constructionism. Yet all science is social, until you convince other peo
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by skirmish 22d ago
Why would that happen? In a different coordinate system (Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates) nothing special happens at the event horizon at all.
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by skirmish 1mo ago
A pair of adjustable dumbbells in the corner of the living room is still very doable. Lots of bodyweight exercises too you could look into.
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by skirmish 1mo ago
Do you read (and enjoy reading) novels? I think it is just a modern addiction to soundbites. I know I do it myself, if the text is long and unstructured, I just skim through a few sentences, done!
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by skirmish 1mo ago
Google recently to SWEs: replacing a mouse requires director's approval. Also Google: why cannot we ship anything fast and why does Gemini suck so badly. Because good people leave when you treat them like that, stupid Google!
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by skirmish 2mo ago
You will find them in the Existential Comics, e.g. [1], [2], [3] etc. [1] At the Existentialist Cafe, https://existentialcomics.com/comic/660 [2] The Asteroid and the Meaning of Life, https://existentialcomi
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by skirmish 2mo ago
Just found another mouse shape comparison site that may help: https://www.rtings.com/mouse/tools/3d-model-shape-compare/
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by skirmish 2mo ago
Mousereview reddit always recommends looking at Chinese gaming mice, they have reasonable prices, often clone popular mouse shapes from large brands (see [1]) and have the latest sensors. [1] EloShapes find similar: https://www.e
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by skirmish 2mo ago
Quite right, there is nothing to discuss since qualia don't exist. See Daniel Dennett.
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by skirmish 2mo ago
Marxist-Leninist Philosophy was a required course for all undergrads in my time studying in USSR. Strangely enough, the professors made it into an overview course on history of philosophy, which was quite enjoyable, with just some mention
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by skirmish 3mo ago
Ditto, I never could get into Factorio, it was just too depressing for me to be a tiny human running around in an all-brown landscape (that was years ago, no Space Age), then getting attacked for pollution. Tried Dyson Sphere, and immediat
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by skirmish 3mo ago
But then it's not a problem of speculative decoding, fix your dam main model. BTW, in case there is confusion, we are not talking about CPU speculative execution affecting model inference at all, just about this specific technique: pre
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by skirmish 3mo ago
Coprolites.
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by skirmish 3mo ago
Don't think so because all tokens predicted speculatively are still validated against the main model (which is faster than predicting them from scratch) and only accepted if they match exactly.
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by skirmish 3mo ago
See "Schild's Ladder" by Greg Egan: a science experiment creates a bubble of new physics expanding at 0.5 c, and humanity is forced to flee the expansion while some stay right next to the expanding boundary to investigate the
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by skirmish 3mo ago
Ask AI to test and deploy them. /s
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by skirmish 3mo ago
Have to make sure all coworker's coffee cups are full.
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by skirmish 3mo ago
What works well for me is a taskbar icon with mouse scrolling (Waybar pulseaudio module on Sway). You see 50% and a speaker icon, hover and scroll up or down to instantly change.
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by skirmish 3mo ago
BTW, a very common name in Poland, a diminutive form of Jadwiga. If you ever read any Polish history, it almost seems like most of noblewomen were named Jadwiga.
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by skirmish 3mo ago
Is it this: GitLab Duo Agent Platform with Claude accelerates development [1]? Well, Gitlab itself promotes hooking them up! [1] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-duo-agent-platform-with...
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by skirmish 3mo ago
In other words, engineers are becoming (bad) middle management: happy to take credit on wins and quick to blame underlings (LLMs in this case) for any mishaps. As long as managers are allowed to play politics in workplace, of course engine
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by skirmish 4mo ago
> a real estate agent just walked into my home without any notice Just open the door stark naked, you are in your private home.
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by skirmish 4mo ago
Contractor costs are insane, our recent experience. Gas heater wouldn't start: -- diagnosis: $180 flat fee -- quote for replacing a failed igniter: plus $300, one week waiting for parts -- I found the part on eBay and replaced it myse
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by skirmish 4mo ago
OTOH, there are people who just don't retain information from hearing it. In college, it was useless for me to attend lectures without taking notes, I would immediately forget most of them. Now taking detailed notes and reviewing the
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by skirmish 4mo ago
> just to check how things are going If you work remotely, a certain fraction of managers always carry a suspicion: he is probably slacking off right now, maybe napping; let me call and check.
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by skirmish 4mo ago
If the company does not want you to work, just coast and enjoy. I feel zero guilt when I slack in an overcrowded noisy open plan office too.

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