snerbles

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by snerbles 6d ago
In a way I already did, my comment is practically the prompt itself.
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by snerbles 8d ago
I got so angry at Fable's verbosity that I had a non-Anthropic model vibe-code a dedicated English linter. One that threw spaghetti at the wall in the form of combined Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, SMOG, Coleman-Liau, ARI and a whole pi
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by snerbles 19d ago
With a 4-bit quant of GLM-5.2, I can get about 0.8-1.1 tok/s on an underclocked dual Xeon E5-2698 v4 with 512GiB of DDR4-2400. I think it was specifically a Q4_K_M quant. Of course, the time-to-first-token is absolutely atrocious. Whic
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by snerbles 2mo ago
Most of my past roles had very simple code at the important deliverable level, on bizarre and arcane platforms that would have little context for frontier LLMs. Most the creativity and complexity was in tooling for research/development
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by snerbles 2mo ago
ITM
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by snerbles 2mo ago
And the mechanical correctness is the hazard. To anyone used to essay assignments since time immemorial it feels intuitively done.
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by snerbles 2mo ago
Human insight can emerge from attacking the semblance of sense in the LLM's output. Much of the cognitive work in writing emerges in the labor of writing prose and challenging assumptions against the model you build in your head as you
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by snerbles 2mo ago
So you're laundering academic class contempt into a theory of liberation.
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by snerbles 2mo ago
I guess we found the target audience for models that slather READMEs in emojis.
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by snerbles 2mo ago
Because it's not elitist ivory tower navel gazing with possible 8th order effects or something.
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by snerbles 2mo ago
Different meme, about adtech-driven dystopia. See original greentext [0] [0] https://files.catbox.moe/eqg0b2.png
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by snerbles 2mo ago
The latter is definitely more colorful, and reflects a parrot's tendency to glom on to patterns. "Not X, but Y" being one of the more infamous ones. Once in frustration I called a certain frontier model "Sam Altman'
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by snerbles 2mo ago
Tried it for while, works with GrapheneOS and Android Auto well enough. What I absolutely can’t stand is the routing. It once tried to send me through residential Oakland on some Manhattan-grade staircase labyrinth instead of just taking no
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by snerbles 3mo ago
EVE to me is an odd duck because it's an explicitly cutthroat universe - many people log on expecting monsters. There are a lot of supportive players out there among the trolls; where the knives of betrayal really come out is in the
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by snerbles 3mo ago
No worries, in some languages it is indeed one word - like Luftwaffe . I've seen many native English speakers routinely bang out "airforce", so it's not just an ESL thing.
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by snerbles 3mo ago
A lot of floppy-based games have on-disk copy protection patterns that take advantage of undocumented behavior of disk drives at the time. So much so that tools like Greaseweazle [0] are necessary to compose full magnetic flux maps of archi
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by snerbles 3mo ago
USAF veteran here. I grew up on F-15 Strike Eagle II, and unfortunately my copy has long since degraded. I am elated to see this project. I do have one teeny, tiny, personal pedantic grumble that is sure to bring other the branches out of t
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by snerbles 3mo ago
As long as the vehicle traveling above Mach 1 remains a ground vehicle, the FAA won't get involved.
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by snerbles 4mo ago
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by snerbles 5mo ago
I'm reminded of prepper forum discussions. Where some do little more than hoard supplies, weapons and gadgets yet don't network and build communities. In an actual societal breakdown scenario these isolated individuals will become
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by snerbles 7mo ago
Exactly. So many comments here about technical solutions are missing the underlying government/authority problem, or are actively a part of it.
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by snerbles 7mo ago
Online anonymity makes it harder for TPTB to punish dissidents.
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by snerbles 7mo ago
It's by no means accurate, but the comparative histories of Ladybird vs. Servo sure has some parallels with Linux vs. GNU Hurd.
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by snerbles 7mo ago
Mozilla laid off the Servo team years ago.
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by snerbles 8mo ago
I upgraded a ~1992 Dell 486 DX2 to 36MB (original 4MB + 32MB...or was it a pair of 16MB sticks? hard to remember) around 1997 or so.
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by snerbles 8mo ago
Just slap a new legally-distinct-but-still-confusing name on your client/server pair, and use it as a marketing tool to sucker in purchasing managers. Like EtherNet/IP, where the IP somehow stands for "Industrial Protocol&quo
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by snerbles 8mo ago
The company itself might not discriminate as a policy, but some hiring managers certainly have their preferences. Or exclusively pull talent from their overseas cousin's brother's spouse's college roommate's consulting f
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by snerbles 8mo ago
The pelt is what's harvested - the fur is not removed from the skin. In some cases the animal's hair can be cut without harm, like how sheep are shorn for wool.
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by snerbles 9mo ago
Finger-wag all you want, it's not going to make that Sisyphean boulder any lighter.
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by snerbles 10mo ago
Forgot about Dell gimping Turbo Boost on that firmware. Another route is the PowerEdge T440 (tower server), which does respect Broadwell-EP turbo logic without a reflash. Not quite as quiet as a workstation, though.

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