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smallerize··on In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
There are probably lots of stories from various people, but here is one: http://blog.wilshipley.com/2010/03/ted-2010.html#:~:text=%E2...

(If the location link doesn't work, scroll down about halfway to the story next to his photo.)

smallerize··on DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
Experts aren't trained on separate tasks. More recent routers are designed to spread out requests even more evenly, and they were already pretty even.
smallerize··on As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
Is the quote in the title a reference to something?
smallerize··on LLMs reward expertise
That's not what "deterministic" means.
smallerize··on Microdrama is no more a China thing
What does your title mean?
smallerize··on When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)
It reminds me of the logos on https://www.pouet.net/ Each time you reload, there will be a different logo at the top.
smallerize··on AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest
That stood out to me too. This could have been a lot better with just a little actual work.
smallerize··on EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation
We must do something.

This is something.

Therefore, we must do this.

smallerize··on Google kills Earth AI generator after one day
Can you show me an example of someone calling for government regulation or a ban?
smallerize··on Google kills Earth AI generator after one day
I don't know what you're complaining about but I don't think it's this. There is no "ban" on generating AI images. The backlash is not about new tech because there is no new tech here, it's just Nano Banana 2. And I haven't seen any privacy implications.

The button makes it socially acceptable to generate misinformation. That's it. You can do the misinformation if you want, but we should discourage it. The button should go.

smallerize··on Attention Decode on AMD MI450 GPUs: A Gluon Kernel Optimization Guide
Do you mean people will run multiple GPUs, or that streaming a small % of experts from disk won't completely kill performance?
smallerize··on Google kills Earth AI generator after one day
That's correct. The end of the article also covers defeating the AI watermark.
smallerize··on Google kills Earth AI generator after one day
Instead of having to go out of your way, there's an inviting "create a fiction" button. https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plan... In February this year, someone manually forged a photo like this. "The Tehran Times posted it as a before-and-after of a US radar site in Qatar... AFP and BBC Verify both ran the “after” through Google’s watermark detector and got a hit, though not before it passed 950,000 views. Building it had taken six steps — screenshot Earth, open Gemini, upload, prompt, download, crop... Tonight Manama can be changed in seconds."
smallerize··on Google kills Earth AI generator after one day
Some examples in the Ars Technica article include "refugees near the Mexican border", "a giant golden statue of President Donald Trump looming over the White House", and "a hospital with a bomb crater in Gaza". https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/google-earth-releases-swi...
smallerize··on RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
Then post whatever notes were fed into the AI instead. The verbosity and self-congratulating add negative value.
smallerize··on WordPress and Drupal score almost identically, but fail in opposite directions
Ok but do you have any thoughts about it? Why did you ask this question in the first place?
smallerize··on The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol)
The experimental HTML view is messed up, but the actual PDF is fine.
smallerize··on Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents
What is your Obsidian backed by?
smallerize··on Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn
The note on pressure is near the top of the page. "at one atmosphere (101.325 kPa) ". How would we even move the pressure axis for the ocean? I have no idea what you're complaining about.
smallerize··on Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max
That's not what he said. He said with 2x the hardware it will be faster.
smallerize··on How to survive boiling water
Wait is that individual doses? Like one prescription would commonly be for 20-30 doses.
smallerize··on Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API
Very cool. What are your throughput and latency like?
smallerize··on Reth ExEx spawn_critical_task terminates node on any plugin panic
404.
smallerize··on Sally the Robot Was Coming to a New York School. Then the Plug Was Pulled
The companies are already in the process of splitting up, and is expected to be done before September.
smallerize··on ANSI escape injection in MCP servers: Hidden from humans, visible to AI
It took a little poking around, but yes https://docs.brightsec.com/docs/introducing-to-bright
smallerize··on Does creatine make you smarter?
Multivitamins don't contain a lot of potassium because of the risk over overdosing in that form. Eat a banana instead (or 3).
smallerize··on OSS-SEC: 432 Linux kernel CVEs (in less than 32 hours)
There are pro/enterprise features that can upgrade the linux kernel without downtime, like livepatch or kpatch. (The non-proprietary klp-build is still missing tooling for most distros I think.)
smallerize··on Oracle could face $7B collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre
Ars Technica is doing a series on this. They have published 2/3 parts so far. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/how-hard-is-it-to-buil...
smallerize··on The case for eating more organ meat
People won't get obese because of too much "iron, copper, selenium, and zinc, as well as vitamin A, B vitamins, and choline".
smallerize··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
> > everything is driven with sticks instead of carrots

> this is not the case

> [describes all sticks and no carrots]

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