Not sure about AI lab (although I also use podman, prefer Llama-swap), but pretty much everything uses llama-cpp under the hood, which usually takes a day or three to setup for a new architecture. Although I seem to recall them being ready for Qwen3.5 day one due to collaboration.

I find giving it a week or so for the dust to settle (even if it ‘works’, best parameters, quantization bugs etc take a while to shake out) unless there’s a huge motivation.

Also benches are more like guidelines than actual rules, best to do your own on your own use cases.

Crank it up to 11 12, there’s profit to be made.

ETA Another likely scenario:

George: Hey, Ron, you know that maintenance we’ve been putting off because line must go up ?

Ron: Yeah…

George: Wouldn’t it be terrible if something happened and the government had to pay for it to be fixed real fast…

Ron: Heh heh heh.

The best punchline would be if the government nationalized it as well due to negligence of critical infrastructure…

Would also send a great message to the power companies about line maintenance. But I’m (probably) dreaming, I’ll send it out into the aether anyway.

Fuck.

RBT for cyclists

Always been the case if you have a license, no?

the ability for them to seize it on mere suspicion of being noncompliant.

This is a significant problem, I’m fine with testing in situ (or speed gun registering 40+ on the flat with video evidence of not pedaling or some such well defined criteria), but that allows arbitrarily taking potentially a person’s primary mode of transport.

It also hands the entire market to manufacturers of e-bikes leaving DIYers who want repairable vehicles fucked. Innocent until proven guilty.

Last time I looked the laws (long time now, but I think I’d have heard) from the Vietman war haven’t been repealed, so lottery by birthdate of male citizens again?

Given how long they’re viable for (obsolete GPUs in 2 years or less, high likelihood of needing significant retooling for the next gen) you can’t mothball them. Given how few exist in any way other than on paper there will be little to bulldoze.

On the plus side counties are scrambling to decouple their economies from the US and hopefully it’s just the trickle before the flood, so when the US economy tanks from the AI bubble pop it’ll have less effect on the rest of the world.

Well, fraud under Don Tzupid. Or just evil.

What about selling weapons?

I find Thursday (for this week) and Thursday next (for next week) adequate and am seldom called on for clarification, seems to follow the pattern of the rule (thanks for that) but is more economical.

Just repeating what I read elsewhere, the reporting has been somewhat muddy.

Thank you kindly.

There was a lovely volume I had that was an English translation where every facing page the left was French and the right was English, lent it out, never to return, sigh. Learnt most of my poor grasp of French from it. If anyone knows I would highly appreciate the details…

Why not both? With insider trading profit each way.

Hmm, haven’t had to fire up Unbound for a while, and Technitium looks interesting (any opinions?) doesn’t effect me yet, but it’s good to have options. The internet finds a way, but ordering VPNs and DNS resolvers is a new thing I think. Wonder how well it will take.

And avoid fans, spin them fast and they’re generators, with a good chance of reverse polarity to the intended. In fact, judicious canned air is probably better than a vacuum, but you use what you’ve got, it’s a thinkpad, it’ll probably be fine.

+1 to Isopropanol, (unused) makeup brushes can also be useful.

China’s coming to eat your lunch triopoly, better make what you can before ~2028 (likely earlier for DDR4). They’re going at it hard, and all the way back up the supply chain.

‘potentially unlawful activity’ like constraining supply or letting Scam Altman corner the wafer market without any way to actually use it. South Korea could just rule that an illegal (anti-competitive) contract and the RAM / SSD crisis would likely be over, or at least significantly mitigated.

Nope, not top, but apparently not awful (seems to be her husband coding). Some interesting things happening currently with memory systems for local AI which seem to truly enhance (make smarter) smaller thinking models, meaning you can use more, and more coherent context.

As with most of this stuff I’m waiting for a bit more maturity before looking deeply at it, but there’s definitely some excitement at the moment, and it has the potential to make models that fit on say a 16GB video card capable of many more use cases than previously.

Unless the Romans and Greeks were capitalists, too.

Nope, just slavers, not wage slavers. The dynamics of power are eternal, merely the forms change. One hopes at some point we evolve.

Pretty much is, they’re spending hundreds of billions on a dream (not having to pay workers) that doesn’t work, until they repurpose those datacentres to remove personal computing.

Fortunately datacentres are by design concentrated in space and therefore rather vulnerable.

Valid use case, still a significant problem.