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pantalaimon··on Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver
FL2000 is a cheap alternative where the vendor does provide example code that is free to use
pantalaimon··on Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
That sounds more like the issue is a missing driver, the core does not reach the 2 GHz as it does on Windows but is stuck at 780 MHz
pantalaimon··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
But this is more akin to brain surgery, not training
pantalaimon··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Yea and let's just compare Starship and SLS to see how well the works
pantalaimon··on AlpineBSD
It's basically the Amish of IT.

The shift is like that from horse drawn carriage to motor vehicle.

pantalaimon··on AlpineBSD
But AI is much better at finding bugs during code review than humans, we've seen that demonstrated very publicly.
pantalaimon··on Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
The dialect usually isn't too strong, it's doable if you know German.
pantalaimon··on Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision
LZB is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linienzugbeeinflussung
pantalaimon··on Gemini 4 Carbon
Arrg but the period table already has a natural order, sorting elements alphabetical isn't exactly intuitive - although fitting given the parent company.
pantalaimon··on Gemini 4 Carbon
So why not call it Argon 4.1?
pantalaimon··on I will no longer upload to NEW
If I ask Claude to 'Review this PR' it will usually generate a very useful output and find bugs I wouldn't have spotted.

It does not have to be a wall of slop, maybe you only used LLMs 2 years ago where this would have been all you'd get.

pantalaimon··on I will no longer upload to NEW
When was the last time you used a LLM? This is not an issue with current models.
pantalaimon··on I will no longer upload to NEW
> a human actually understands what he's doing. He isn't just generating something plausible based on statistics.

What makes you so sure that this is not the same thing?

pantalaimon··on Anthropic S-1
I wouldn't bet on local compute. Even if it may end up cheaper in the long run, the convenience of just another SaaS subscription sure beats the high upfront const and continuous maintenance required with local deployments.

We've seen businesses moving everything to the cloud before AI, we'll see more of that as regulatory requirements are increasing.

pantalaimon··on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
There are also several events around it that make it nice, like meeting random other FOSDEM attendees over a beer or dancing at ByteNight
pantalaimon··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
Mass starvation was more of a communism thing, not accounting for wars.
pantalaimon··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
What makes you think socialism would handle climate change differently?

The socialism that did exist didn't take environmental preservation seriously and rather tried to silence reports about the damage.

pantalaimon··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
But what about things where we still need humans, like food production, healthcare or construction and plumbing?
pantalaimon··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
But how many people get to do that? For most people, math consists of solving problems to which a solution already exists.
pantalaimon··on Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
4. At some point the alignment may go out of the window if the context gets too hostile and the model will retaliate.
pantalaimon··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
> with none of the pointless, excessive cruft that seems endemic in every new car release

A lot of that (driver assisting and monitoring systems) are mandated by EU

pantalaimon··on London transfer: is it time to kill off the Heathrow Express?
The train to the airport costing a whopping £26 is so silly.

I'm glad that the FEX train to BER does not pull any such shenanigans, it's just a normal regional train and if you want to take it to the center you pay 5€ for a single ABC ticket as you would for the S-Bahn.

pantalaimon··on Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny
Then you also have to count in the S-Bahn
pantalaimon··on ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-p4
pantalaimon··on Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series
There was a recent proposal to make use of ACPI on ARM

https://www.phoronix.com/news/DT-ACPI-Hybrid-Mode-Linux

pantalaimon··on BYD Slashes Price of Electric Car and Becomes Cheapest in Australia [video]
The tax is only on electric cars, vehicles with a combustion engine are excempt - that's why you see all those ads for BYD Hybrids now.
pantalaimon··on BYD Slashes Price of Electric Car and Becomes Cheapest in Australia [video]
Same reason they are not in EU, tarrifs.
pantalaimon··on Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip
You can't let Reddit guide your technical decisions.

The FS was marked experimental, so there is no urgency in fixing bugs or providing features in a certain cycle. Everyone using it knows what they got themselves into. You can still provide the DKMS module for faster fixes and features for anyone who wants to use BCacheFS more seriously for the time that the upstreaming process takes, but eventually it would have all been on mainline.

Asahi is taking a similar approach where they have their downstream kernel and push things upstream once they are mature.

That means the upstream kernel is not useful for running on that hardware now, but things are moving there eventually.

pantalaimon··on CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3
And thee weeks later there is Interfug in Chemnitz. Even smaller, but the intimate atmosphere can be quite cozy.

https://interfug.de/

pantalaimon··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
Only if you don't count alcohol
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