CoolGuySteve

They're not a particularly fast card compared to something like a 5070, they have lots of VRAM.

That's why they were cheap before.

Also "Some stupid game", who woke up and made you king of hobbies.

"give them difficult tasks beyond your own intellect?"

Lol no, I've yet to find a model with those properties. Sounds like a fast track to AI psychosis.

The domain I work in doesn't have enough public documentation for these models to be particularly helpful without a lot of handholding though.

I've owned this GPU for 5 years already, it's fine

I'm using the qwen cli tool with a duckduckgo search skill that I made Claude write. It's like bootstrapping I guess

Once it can search for factual information online the smaller model size becomes less noticeable

I get about 35-40tok/sec on a 3090.

It's actually about the same speed when accounting for how much more responsive my system is to Anthropic's saas infrastructure

I'm finding qwen 27b is comparable to sonnet but my self hosting has about 5 more 9s than whatever Anthropic's vibe coding. I also don't have to worry about the quality of the model I'm being served from day to day.

Probably the most damning fact about LLMs is just how poorly written their parent companies' systems are.

The soundtracks for SimCity 3000, 4, and the 5th one titled just "SimCity" are written specifically to be played while doing some fiddly micromanagement tasks.

Cool now use the reference on another thread.

No because as far as we know 26.04 won't enable zswap or zram whereas Windows and MacOS both have memory compression technology of some sort. So Ubuntu will use significantly more memory for most tasks when facing memory pressure.

Apparently it's still in discussion but it's April now so seems unlikely.

Kind of weird how controversial it is considering DOS had QEMM386 way back in 1987.

I had a memory management problem so I introduced GC/ref counting and now I have a non-deterministic memory management problem.

Sure but what did those guys do all day? 400 people is a lot of people

Even at 100k employees I’m still dumbfounded by that number. What do all these people do all day?

It's really funny that after going through all those fonts it landed on Ubuntu Mono for me which is what I use anyways to code in my terminal.

I wonder if it's Stockholm syndrome or if I really do prefer it. It's a totally fine font, I've never felt the need to change it. All the default open source mono fonts seem completely adequate I suppose.

The Chinese models are open source because they are not state of the art

I think geohot is burying the lead in this text in his post with a lot of speculation.

It's not not that these specific models will become closed it's that the hardware/hosting vendors have an incentive to train models where inference is custom tuned to their chip's dimensions and VRAM.

The Chinese models do a great job of showing what's capable on consumer/prosumer hardware because of export restrictions but anyone entering the hardware space has the same incentives to undercut the frontier labs so they can sell more hardware.

It's also not clear if being at the forefront of inference quality really matters. The open source models appear to be doing a fine enough job of keeping up even if they're a few months behind. So it seems like there's not much of a technology moat for these labs other than the capital costs of training/serving.

Because that's probably how long it took for someone to prioritize it.

Even if it's not fixed by the dupe ticket, the volume of bug reports makes it almost certain another ticket for the same issue will come up. And if it doesn't then it probably wasn't that relevant to anyone.

You don’t hear back because almost always your bug is a duplicate of some other one. They can’t share the original with you because it contains data from another customer or from inside the company.

Almost nobody is the first reporter in an OS with billions of users. The only useful thing about those long dupe lists was being able to scan them for one with easier repro steps.

But sometimes that duplicate marking is wrong or some subtly different issue so they ask you if it still reproduces in whatever version contains the fix before closing it.

Yes I understand that. ~50000 engineers aren't conspiring to close all tickets that way. It's a stupid line of thinking.

More than likely your steps to reproduce are too laborious to receive attention relative to the value fixing the bug would provide. That's why they're asking you to verify it still happens. Seems pretty simple right?

There's also a strong chance your ticket was linked as a duplicate of some other issue that was fixed in the beta and they want you to verify that's the case but they won't expose their internal issue to you for a variety of reasons.

That the ~50000 engineers at Apple are conspiring to close your tickets in the exact same way. It's ridiculous

Back when I worked at Apple I would just try it in whatever I had installed. If it didn't reproduce I'd write "Cannot reproduce in 10.x.x" and close it. Maybe a third were like that, duplicates of some other issue that was resolved long ago.

Anyone that attached a repro file to their issue got attention because it was easy enough to test. Sometimes crash traces got attention, I'd open the code and check out what it was. If it was like a top 15 crash trace then I'd spend a lot longer on it.

If the ticket was long and involved like "make an iMovie and tween it in just such and such a way" then probably I'd fiddle around for 10-15 minutes before downgrading its priority and hope a repro file would come about.

There were a bunch of bug reports for a deprecated codec that I closed and one guy angrily replied that I couldn't just close issues I didn't want to fix!

Guess what buddy, nobody's ever going to fix it.

The oldest bug like that I ever fixed was a QuickDraw bug that was originally written when I was 8 years old but it was just an easy bounds check one liner.

But the mistake OP is making is assuming this one thing that annoyed him somehow applies to the whole Apple org. Most issues were up to engineers and project managers to prioritize, every team had their own process when I was there.

Would be nice if zswap could be configured to have no backing cache so it could completely replace zram. Having two slightly different systems is weird.

There's not really any difference between swap on disk being full and swap in ram being full, either way something needs to get OOM killed.

Simplifying the configuration would probably also make it easier to enable by default in most distros. It's kind of backwards that the most common Linux distros other than ChromeOS are behind Mac and Windows in this regard.

The article says it starts to repeat after a few days but with flash memory prices being what they are couldn’t they have loaded something like a hundred thousand little voice clips on a $15 32GB micro sd card?

Might require AI to generate them all but the device would still be offline

It didn't seem to make the news but at least in NYC the entire Amazon storefront was broken all afternoon on Friday.

Items weren't displaying prices and it was impossible to add anything to your cart. It lasted from about 2pm to 5pm.

It's especially strange because if a computer glitch brought down a large retail competitor like Walmart I probably would have seen something even though their sales volume is lower.

Because it's not a Mac even though the chipset is the same, there's no XCode and whatnot.

My monitor has a powered USB-C port and USB hub built into it. It's one cable to dock a laptop, it's pretty cool.

If I could plug my iPad into that cable to use it as a Mac I would do that all the time and buy a more powerful iPad. It would be an iPad for idle browsing and a Mac for the times I need a real computer.

That’s like like 4 or 5 fields to fill in on a form. Way less intrusive than installing this thing

I honestly think the way they mix their audio is so the stadium noise gets turned down whenever the announcer talks and the American announcers just never shut the fuck up no matter how inane they might be.

Yes but like all non-default settings, a large portion of the player base doesn't have it enabled. Games have to be designed for a large market, not just high end OLED buyers.

Even then, most VA/IPS/LED displays have something more like 20ms of latency in game mode due to slow LCD refresh rates. Controllers are also randomly delayed by 2.4GHz interference.

This 8bitdo Pro 2 on my desk has 18ms latency all the time. It actually kind of sucks and it's one of the faster wireless controllers.

A large part of this is because the latency on modern TVs can be anywhere between 4.7ms and 150ms so games have to allow for a lot of slack in their input.

The NES and SNES had 1-3 frames of latency depending on the game.

It depends on your wiring but I've had pretty good success with AV2000 powerline ethernet. I get about 400Mbps and a reliable 2ms ping which is good enough for gaming and streaming from my media center.

The endpoint in my living room also has a wifi AP so signal is pretty good for laptops and whatnot.

In NYC every channel is congested, I can see like 25 access points at any time and half are poorly configured. Any wired medium is better than the air, I could probably propagate a signal through the drywall that's more reliable than wifi here.

So having something I can just plug into the wall is pretty nice compared to running cables even if it's a fraction of gigE standards.

East should be at the top so you can imagine the sun moving from top to bottom to visualize time zone offsets.

Right now the sun goes from right to left which is the opposite of how we read most languages.