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Meatballs are ubiquitous, every culture has their version. My theory it was invented when we walked out of Africa 60,000 years ago and it went to all the ends of the world. Or maybe we stole it from those who were there before us ...

mrlonglongon Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism

This undue influence of US policies on South American countries is most disturbing as right wing policies increase inequalities.

It has to end. Millions of lives are at sake.

mrlonglongon How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

How did they hit upon this method? Was it an accidental discovery hundreds of years ago or was ot carefully arrived at through thinking how to make this kind of food?

mrlonglongon Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

Thanks, will do.

LLMs up and running but runs very slowly with Nvidia 16GB GPU and 32 cores on my laptop.

mrlonglongon Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

This. So much this.

mrlonglongon Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

I'm testing GLM 4.7 Flash at the moment as that seems to work on my hardware.

mrlonglongon Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

I'll give Qwen 3.8 27B a try. Some older LLMs that works on my hardware aren't much good.

mrlonglongon Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

Are there any free models as good as the commercial ones we can run on our own hardware?

mrlonglongon Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

We could learn a lot from China. They know how to keep their own home grown billionaires on a leash. We in the West can't even do that.

mrlonglongon Unit Tests are not the enemy

Having written literally hundreds of unit tests in C++ and Python, my preference is to write them myself. You're in charge, not the LLMs.

mrlonglongon Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test

That, too.

Mankind needs to learn before it's too late.

mrlonglongon Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test

For goodness sakes don't puncture the crust. We'd be back to the Hadean era.

mrlonglongon eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

Oh dear, never mind.

mrlonglongon Qwen3-Coder writes less secure code when told it's for a US persona

Just what is wrong with green jellies?!

mrlonglongon 'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

But hey, no expensive lawsuits.

mrlonglongon 'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

UK's Health and Safety probably would shudder quite a bit at this and say verboten.

mrlonglongon Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas

Bouldery McBoulderface.

mrlonglongon Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo

Whoosh.

mrlonglongon British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled

Oh good for British Airways. "Nonce Goggles" are incredibly unpopular in the UK. The only good one is one that's smashed into tiny bits.

mrlonglongon Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo

Yup that was the pun I made.

mrlonglongon Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo

Who paid the bill?

mrlonglongon Gold is now the top U.S. export

Western Australia.