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I haven't tried it, but colibri is meant to allow running GLM 5.2 the 744B model in 32GB by using prefetches and streaming from fast SSDs. https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri

Aren't these all solved problems that we've worked out decades ago with certificates? Certificates prove that a website/server (and sometimes the client) are who they say they are.…

You could make that exact same argument for alcohol, cigarettes, prescription medication - The reasons are the same.

My partner 10+ years ago used to be very OCD about Asbestos when we had toddlers, and said that she would see tiny white fibers of it in the bark chips at a bunch of parks that the…

For vacation rentals you can often save 20% by Googling. I usually find the place I'd like to stay on AirBnB and then google the title & description and the property management web…

Microsoft Authenticator is annoying. It doesn't work if you have notifications off or "do not disturb" on, so I can't log on to anything in the evenings.

I've got an LG Gram 17-inch laptop that weighs about the same as a 13-inch macbook air. Having a huge screen on a super-light, super skinny laptop is so handy for portability and a…

You used to walk into a newsagent and see the regular papers and magazines, and then the rack of playboy and porn just sitting off to the side, often not that far from the kids mag…

They did the blood work on premises, the doctor owned the clinic and the on-site pathology.

I was effectively uninsured as a foreigner, and had to pay for it myself hoping that I'd be reimbursed by my company later. I had a nasty ear-infection, could hardly walk, and was …

Australians are more litigious than Americans, with similar insurance costs for doctors, yet our healthcare costs are still half of the USA's. So insurance costs may be a factor, b…

I find that LLMs are almost comically bad at projects that have a hardware component like RaspberryPi or Pico, or Ardunio. I think that its because often the libraries you use are …

Internet is a utility, like water. We can't have true competition with utilities, because we'd need six sets of pipes into every apartment just to have six competing providers, so …

The change is a good one, and there's still abilities that differentiate species, so dwarves still have toughness, and a bunch of other abilities. Previously a Dwarven wizard was j…

Japanese users are migrating rapidly to Bluesky away from X. Mainly for the extra features, apps & integrations that Bluesky offers: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/11/2…

My brother (Australian) spent some time in Canada and was able to see a doctor straight away and really cheaply a bunch of times, and visited the hospital once with a nasty foot in…

No I think that there's more to it than superstition - We often blame things on superstition when we don't understand them ourselves. I've been playing around with sleeping with a …

Even in Australia is the LLM lag to a server noticable? Generally an LLM seems to take about 3s or more to respond, and the network delay to the US is a couple of hundred milliseco…

There's many companies that have reproduced the tictok algorithm. Surely if it was sold, the multibillion dollar company would have no issue with that aspect.

My SurfaceBook has a better build quality that my MacBook Pro model from the same era (2019) - MacBooks have improved a lot in the last few years though with the new chips I guess?…

> The system settings UI on Windows 11 always shows an ad which says that an account should be used to use office and other apps. Macs also do this with their iCloud accounts, with…

Surely if the government wanted to go down this route, it would be a lot fairer and simpler to manage with the government sending a low-income rebate/refund check to low-income hou…

I don't know, I used to catch gypsy cabs in London twenty odd years ago and you were taking your life into your own hands. There were some pretty shady operators. I can see why a g…

At the end of the day, Uber broke the Australian laws as they stood (even if you didn't agree with them). If I had started an illegal gypsy taxi business I would have been fined or…

> If the story or characters or dialog are similar enough, he has to pay Puzo, even if the work he created was quite different and not a literal “copy”. I don't think that you can …