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plasticchris··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Qwen’s 3.6/3.8 27b actually has some algorithmic advantage when it comes to the kv cache size needed, so it actually needs less memory at equivalent context. My experience using both in vllm supports, with considerably more overhead in context size on these models than Gemma 4 31b, and better performance in most tasks I’ve tried on both models.
plasticchris··on Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory
My earliest coding memory is messing with the gorilla code to get an advantage playing this against my brother…
plasticchris··on “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
Shots fired
plasticchris··on The death and rebirth of my home server
Could be some other hardware issue for you, yeah. I recall there are some problems that can happen if the usb power supply is too weak. But this fixed it for me.
plasticchris··on The death and rebirth of my home server
Make the sdcard a read only root fs, problem solved
plasticchris··on How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
Breakthrough! I’ve found it! The load bearing smoking gun is clearly how annoying this is.
plasticchris··on Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering
The clocks aren’t even the biggest source of error in the pseudo ranges.
plasticchris··on GLM 5.2 Is Out
Believe it should be available to all eh? Where’s the hf link then?
plasticchris··on I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
I get much different results than others when using these tools. Turns out there is some skill in wielding them, and knowing the domain in which you do.
plasticchris··on More on Version Control
The cause stops mattering after a while, either you have to go on a full time campaign to educate people… or switch the setting to rebase and squash and be done with it.
plasticchris··on AI may be making us think and write more alike
It’s a recurring theme, see dune’s references to Samuel Butler.
plasticchris··on More on Version Control
The why is that most people when given the merge option don’t clean up their history so you end up with tons of garbage fix up commits.
plasticchris··on A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU)
Maybe if you can get it to zoom out far enough and wire up an array of lights on the surface of Nauvis…
plasticchris··on I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
It probably depends on the measure used to define peak, but the removal of arbitrary limits on honest intellectual inquiry has huge benefits, eg the enlightenment, science, etc.
plasticchris··on I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported
It’s funny because captchas are meant to be hard for bots but easy for people and it might be the opposite now.
plasticchris··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
Radar might still have worked
plasticchris··on iPhone Pocket
Wait it’s not April?
plasticchris··on Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating
Probably it means that now we have evidence that… it is a colloquialism

Edit: yep, The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests.

plasticchris··on Rivian's TM-B electric bike
People talking about efficiency are missing the point - the pedals are only there so it gets classified as an e-bike and not an electric motorcycle (so no license required, registration, taxes, can drive in the bike lane) and doesn’t have the jerky handling of an e-bike with the wheels mechanically linked to the pedals.

They never really intend for you to turn the pedals. It is a regulatory thing.

plasticchris··on Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview
I’ve seen it fail, having tried it for a few years. There’s a type that passes this no problem but isn’t productive.

I switched to a battery of knowledge questions centered on the type of programmer I was looking for, it works much better and is even predictive of coding ability as it helps you learn this stuff.

plasticchris··on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
The trouble is, there would also be no unsolved thought crimes
plasticchris··on Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent
Not enough connections to the bureaucracy…
plasticchris··on Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
At least in the USA it’s legal to record public spaces. So recording the street and things that can be seen from it is legal, but pointing a camera over your neighbors fence is not.
plasticchris··on Aerocart cargo gliders
Traditional gliders also carry ballast for cross country flights, which increases their speed without negatively impacting their glide ratio.
plasticchris··on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
In a way, but this was also on an incoming call, and the text came from yet another number, there were a lot of red flags despite being legitimate.
plasticchris··on Restrictions on house sharing by unrelated roommates
Everyone has a different peeve, and they all conflict. That’s why population density correlates with regulation.
plasticchris··on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
Even better, once I had a financial institution tell me I needed to read them a one time code someone would text me. They were actually surprised I had a problem with it when it’s the scam playbook.
plasticchris··on Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark
We have government subsidized insurance in the USA on coastal properties. The rest of us will pay for it.
plasticchris··on DoubleAgents: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Covert Malicious Tool Calls
Yeah we’re open.

You can look at the binary anytime you like.

plasticchris··on Vibe coding the MIT course catalog
Unless the meaning was CourseEEK
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