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Of course they can. What the heck?!?

Logic 101 changed the clarity of my thinking markedly.

and you're not alone (I run Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B at home too).

But just for the sake of discussion, let me ask: Who is the service provider you're using to run Deepseek V4? Do you have any way of knowing whether that compute is happening in the US or abroad?

Obsidian stands beside the terminal and Firefox as one of the pieces of software I use the most every single day. Thank you for all you're doing.

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I've read the article describing the attack, and my very first thought was utter surprise that the entire attack chain started with someone accepting a shared vault from a stranger via social media (linked in and similar). That seems really, really strange to me.

I've never shared a vault - but if I did, I'd probably do so as a git repo of markdown files.

It would be interesting to see a blog post from Obsidian about "good hygiene for sharing vaults".

From the link above, I also found Leslie Lamport's Home page[1], The original developer of TLA+. Leslie's home page contains an incredible amount of info about TLA. There's a published Book with pdf available. There are video courses and talks.

There are also git repos of examples[2] and tools[3]

Thanks for the link, _doctor_love

[1] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/ [2] https://github.com/tlaplus/Examples [3] https://github.com/tlaplus/tlaplus/

Yeah, I also get that vibe from the article.

To me the article isn’t convincing. There are some interesting points raised. Like “the llm sharing memories between a team of developers”.

I mostly use llms individually, so this is a real blind spot for me. But I might convinced to share a corpus of memories between developers if it ever becomes practical.

But for now aren’t context windows still sometimes smaller than the task at hand… so those “llm memories” take the form of literal documentation???

The closer llm memories get to native format, i.e: stored tokenized content, don’t we lose compatibility between setups anyhow. What if you’re using fp16, and I’m using nvfp4?

I'll take my father's HP 49g to my grave. but if TI wanted to flirt with me, all it would take is a setting to enable Reverse Polish Notation. (I did check the features, and no mention).

According to the wiki, Quarkdown supports cross-references in the same document, but not cross-references across many documents.

>> Does not describe a way to prevent [dendrites], so solid-state batteries don't seem like a realistic product for now.

Every lithium battery in use today is susceptible to dendrites. One of the promises of solid state batteries is more safety, not less.

Thank you for supporting Phoronix. They are the #1 review I keep an eye on for linux laptops.

This article is a horrific bait and switch. The title is "Reading is Magic", but towards the end the tone is literally:

> … all struggles will be powered by outright sexual sadism.

If that’s where we’re heading, how about a different title and at least a little heads up in the introduction?

Personally, I wouldn’t have wasted my time.

I'm sure you know about pandoc for translating markdown into html (and all it's other tricks).

To repurpose an old idiom: Not even a dozen AGI agents could make a baby in 6 months.

But yeah, your point stands.

I hadn’t heard that. Thanks

FYI: muppetman’s profile says “don’t take me seriously”, so I think this is a joke?

Ugh.

The name jai is very taken[1]... names matter.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_(programming_language)

> Not really? It's kind of a big deal.

Why on earth is the parent comment downvoted? the title of the TFA asks a question. This statement directly answers that question. Seems very on-topic.

Salman Rushdie is alive and still writing.

(Author of Midnight’s children)

No Nvidia Spark workstation is another omission.

>I'd love to see a consortium of computer makers come together to refine a Linux distro that's consumer-friendly enough to oust Windows and compete with Mac OS.

System 76 already has Pop!_OS. Lenovo.com/linux will redirect you to a list of linux compatible lenovo laptops that's a mile long.

does anyone have a citation/reference for this?

again, just an oppinion, but it feels really weird to hear you find "exception after exception", when the net result that you've ruled out more real world robotics projects on ARM than likely exist on x86 that you're suggesting should be the "norm".

you've ruled out the entire NXP ecosystem, the entire Nvidia Jetson ecosystem, the entire AMD/FPGA/Zynq ecosystem, even perfectly good options like beagle-board .... who else?

incidentally, you've also ruled out this project - as they are using an M7 microcontroller to meet their hard-real-time timing constraints...

> The only reasons to use ARM SBCs in robots are...

Obviously, anyone can have there own opinion on this. I work in robotics, we are quite happy with our A53 and M4. Though, we use a SOM, not a SBC, if you feel like splitting hairs.

>Now children represent a massive cost to parents, that does not provide any benefit.

Obviously not everyone has to, but many people find their meaning in life through raising their children.

I already have a refrigerator. Thanks. :)

I'm with you. I start every new prompt with: "Good morning", even at midnight. I'll be so embarrassed if that leaks.

okay. But is there a place I can actually look up known jump points that are steep enough to be viable base jumps but are not also in a Park?

I am not a base jumper (I am a rock climber), but it's my observation that many base mountains with faces steep enough for base jumping are also in the parks and therefor restricted to base jumping.

Or are so remote they require some serious skills to summit in the first place. -- Not quite the tram ride you can get to the jump point in Europe.

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I’m convinced this is how Dean Potter died. Jumping at dusk to try to evade capture my Yosemite rangers.

If it had been legal, and had he jumped in broad daylight, I think he’d have survived that day.

There are lots of places to legally BASE jump in Europe. You can even take a gondola to the jump point. But very very few legal options in the USA.

I wish there were more places to legally enjoy BASE jumping on US public lands.