thefroh

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by thefroh 2mo ago
I had my lenovo laptop's last USB-C port bugger up. of course, lenovo themselves will repair this by replacing the mainboard (~1.5k+?). so I did a search for anyone doing microsolder repairs nearby, picked the closest, and found someon
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by thefroh 3mo ago
it's like AI-generated images, though those tend to be more obvious than AI-generated text due to the "average" effect being visually obvious. Yes, these are normal patterns in English, but it is not normal to use them with t
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by thefroh 3mo ago
I'm a little surprised that preserve_thinking would matter here for cache purposes. for actual capabilities/intelligence, yes, I'd imagine it helps to have past reasoning traces in multi-turn setups. but for caching, all you
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by thefroh 10mo ago
possibly https://xkcd.com/353/
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by thefroh 11mo ago
presumably it's the reverse engineered server that has most of the work put into it, and one would hope that's what is going to be released if the developer decides to
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by thefroh 11mo ago
which is important to bear in mind if people are introducing a "drop earliest messages" sliding window for context management in a "chat-like" experience. once you're at that context limit and start dropping the ear
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by thefroh 11mo ago
not if call #1 is the file + the question, call #2 is the file + a different question, no. if call #1 is the file, call #2 is the file + the question, call #3 is the file + a different question, then yes. and consider that "the file&qu
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by thefroh 11mo ago
because you can have multiple breakpoints with Anthropic's approach, whereas with OpenAI, you only have breakpoints for what was sent. for example if a user sends a large number of tokens, like a file, and a question, and then they cha
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by thefroh 1y ago
here's the associated issue, I believe. https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/10005
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by thefroh 1y ago
does this allow running applications which need FUSE? I know for termux that's only possible with root.
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by thefroh 1y ago
it's also the effect that lets you kinda know if you're near a wall (for example when you're fumbling around in the dark)
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by thefroh 2y ago
i've heard good things about using the 1 euro filter for user input related tasks, where you're trying to effectively remove noise, but also keep latency down. see https://gery.casiez.net/1euro/ with plenty o
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by thefroh 2y ago
while I'm a fan of TypeScript and using type hints in Python from an autocomplete and linting perspective, I am curious... ... has either language leveraged these to better tell the CPU what to do? presumably for perf.
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by thefroh 2y ago
for me, my desktop and laptop are the main go-to. the mobile is an extra device with different, more specific use cases and so I've been a little disappointed with how these devices keep getting bigger and bigger. I was pretty happy wi
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SIMD Matters(box2d.org)
17 points by thefroh 2y ago|2 comments
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by thefroh 2y ago
is anyone aware of any GUI-driven tools that leverage SAM2 yet? Especially with video.
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by thefroh 2y ago
they're ambiguous terms, and the ruling will be "I'll know it if I see it!" it's more useful to consider what people suggest for a track. - "you're going to need a diff lock" - "you're going
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by thefroh 3y ago
I think it is more that no server side setup is needed beyond git to support this. That's to say regardless of the hosted git provider you may be using, they do not need special support for git-appraise. As an aside, if I remember corr