spijdar

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by spijdar 3d ago
At the moment, no. Beyond just fixing problems I've found, for the last year I've been doing a lot of haphazard development inside of Sprite itself, so "fixes to bugs in released Sprite" are intermingled with "featu
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by spijdar 3d ago
You really don't want to run Sprite on a single host, unfortunately -- the local filesystem path is buggy, and there are some major bugs in the system as preserved on the CD-ROM, e.g. vfork() is totally borked, at least for software
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by spijdar 3d ago
Not really relevant to keyboard symbols, and not PC symbols, and it's not really lost to time, but does anyone know where the Ethernet symbol used on Apple products (and ... Android???) comes from? You know, the <...> symbol. It&
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by spijdar 5d ago
Both! The Sprite kernel released by UCB doesn't run on any qemu target, but I've made ports to the PC and to sun4m, which qemu can run. I've gotten the sun3 (m68k) and sun4 (sparc) ports to run in phabric's fork/con
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by spijdar 5d ago
Why use swap files when we could have swap directories? ;-) Sprite had (IMO) a really interesting solution to swap. Each host had a directory, referenced by its host ID under the `/swap` directory, and inside that directory, individual
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by spijdar 5d ago
This strikes a chord with me, though I came to a somewhat different endpoint, at least for now. My perspective (so far) is that it was probably never a good thing for me to tie up my identity/sense of self in my ability to write modera
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by spijdar 7d ago
Yeah, I dunno. For me it does "talk normally" for the most part when used in an actual coding harness. One thing though, the actual prompt I used was pretty long (844 words), and ... generated by GPT-5.6 Sol (lol), with the intent
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by spijdar 7d ago
This is Unsloth's UD-Q4_K_S quantization (edit -- on llama.cpp, via the Vulkan backend, on an RX 7900 XT, with Unsloth's recommended sampler config), for "as replicable as LLMs can be" disclosure, done through llama.cpp&
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by spijdar 7d ago
It's interesting that someone else noticed this. A week or two ago, GPT-5.6 Sol starting leaking reasoning into a tool call in Pi. I don't really know what happened, but it was ... interesting: Attach. Use hub debugger. Ensure
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by spijdar 8d ago
There's a fuzzy gray line here. Whether formalized or not, the way I see it, pilots will de facto be penalized for making decisions that cost an airline a ton of money, especially if it turns out to not have been an actual emergency.
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by spijdar 15d ago
Sure, one shot generation doesn't work, you have to split into sections and generate each section independently, then usually do a "seam" pass to check continuity between two bits. Though, I'd also agree that if you&#x27
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by spijdar 16d ago
It's that, yeah, but coming from multiple orders of abstraction. In this case, part of the experiment was to see what "oh-my-pi", a "fat and feature rich" LLM harness, could do when coupled with modern GPT, given a
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by spijdar 16d ago
Claude is the one model family I've not really used. Which yeah, feels like a backwards thing to say in a world where seemingly everyone using LLMs is using Claude Code. I've used some Opus 4.5/4.6 via Antigravity and Sonnet
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by spijdar 16d ago
Yeah, this tracks with my experiments. About every 6 months or so for the past year-and-a-half I've tried using the "frontier" LLMs to as-near-as-possible autonomously write novel length stories, because I find it fascinating
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by spijdar 20d ago
The problem isn't that people consider it boring, it's that the use of LLMs is considered essentially sacrilegious, and whatever end-result that's created is considered tainted, often regardless of the extent of LLM usage. Wh
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by spijdar 20d ago
> If not, why did you even study that? I like to make computers do the things I want. Since I was a kid, the satisfaction from programming or any sort of "computer engineering" (using the word engineering VERY loosely here) is
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by spijdar 21d ago
I can't speak for GLM as I haven't tested it much, but my experience with running DeepSeek V4 locally is the first time I prompted it with "Explain your capabilities to me", it responded that it was Gemini, a multi-modal
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by spijdar 29d ago
As a zillenial who grew up playing DikuMUD derivatives, LPMUDs, and MU s, I feel uniquely qualified to bridge the gap here. What GP is referring to and complaining is that when people say MUD, they're probably referring to either: - A
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by spijdar 1mo ago
I wonder how this practically compares with Muse Glimmer, especially quantized. I've got an RX 7900 XT (20GB of VRAM) and I can run glimmer with a full 128k context window with the draft model at 65-80 tok/s. This model, on the ot
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by spijdar 1mo ago
I'm not the most LLM-savvy person around, and I'm not gonna say I've put a ton of effort into practically compared these open models. But, a month or two ago I did do some "practical evaluates" testing GLM 5.2 versu
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by spijdar 1mo ago
I think my p10p's 100x zoom is neat, but I'd strongly caution against using it for ID in any sense, or necessarily even treating it as a photograph. It will "straight up hallucinate" objects into existence, more of a cre
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by spijdar 1mo ago
I don't know. As others have said, the Taalas chip wasn't small, or particularly low power, so it's hard to "imagine" what that tech in an cell phone chip might look like. But if the basic premise of "good enou
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by spijdar 1mo ago
Here's my thoughts as a 29 year old: of all the things I've ever made in my personal life, the vast majority have ended up abandoned in barely worked on states, and those I have put varying degrees of significant effort in have go
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by spijdar 1mo ago
I think you're right overall that Itanium is used too often as the reason why all the RISC platforms died/were cancelled, as if they would have had healthy futures had Itanium simply not existed, but I do wonder about Alpha. I was
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by spijdar 2mo ago
It's almost certainly due to supporting platforms like VAX and other, more exotic ISAs. GCC can have weird regressions [0] in "less tested" architectures, so I presume they use a single, known good release across all platfo
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by spijdar 2mo ago
Yeah, signing would prevent the paper's attack, but seeing the "raw reasoning" is helpful in figuring out what triggers refusals or (especially) what in the system prompt is guiding a specific refusal. Gemini (the web UI) use
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by spijdar 3mo ago
Yep, it's a loooot faster. But then, when you decide to boot NetBSD on these boxes, you're not really doing it for practical reasons anyway, so part of the experience is waiting a few hours for /etc/rc.d/sshd to do
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by spijdar 3mo ago
I think GP is confused why the ftp command also handles http(s) :) I hate to imagine what a 780 running NetBSD would be like, too. I tried netbooting NetBSD on my MicroVAX 3400, which is about 2.5x the performance of the 780. It did, litera
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by spijdar 3mo ago
Given the MTP drafter is basically a separate model, keeping it separate makes more sense IMO. It's out of my wheelhouse but it seems like you could adjust the MTP drafter model separately from the main model, too. Ultimately though th
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by spijdar 3mo ago
Probably because there often isn't a straight answer to that. I've no idea about the progeny of this browser, but I've seen several Firefox forks "interbreed", borrowing patches and feature backports from each other

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