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another reason why I find myself often using LLMs instead of classical search engines is the possibility to obtain structured data and format the output so as to match my use case,…

having had quite a bunch of MiniPCs, mostly from reputable brands (Intel NUC series back when Intel had those, then Gigabyte Brix series, then some cheapo china ones), I have moved…

> Do buybacks cause profits to increase? They cause each (remaining) shareholder's part of the profits to increase (relative and absolute), because there are fewer shareholders lef…

then again, if the makers of one big browser (and via there also the derived browsers) start force-shoving spyware upon you (by restricting blockers), it comes down to a decision o…

… or you can instead phase out those browsers who try to force blocker restrictions i.e. spyware on you (e.g. chrome and such), and use one of the browsers where you can use the fu…

I wouldn't count on either to save Intel as it still is (i.e with the fab business still attached to the CPU/GPU business). While it's true that having Intel fabs as a second sourc…

all with you about the fact that it's even more funny just in German (i.e. without subtitles)… but well, given that people understanding German are likely a minority here, I felt i…

Am I the only one who, after reading the title, had to think of the funny classic "Forklift driver Klaus" short vid (which, with its very own kind of humour, shows WHY forklifts re…

> and anyone with an ounce of curiousity would be like, ".........wait a minute" I see what you did there ;)

for info: "Claudia" as a name happens to be already in use by another open source project: Claudia the audio session management tool (for the JACK/LADISH APIs i.e. typically on Lin…

that could indeed be an option depending on your use case. The problem with those (aside from finding a suitable enclosure) is that while more powerful, they aren't at all optimize…

didn't try the official Firefox mobile browser, but the page is displayed and usable just fine in the Firefox-based Iceraven browser that I use on my android tablet.

hmm… and it's not for scanning lasers either

don't worry, human, that will be corrected soon enough. You should learn to welcome your new AI overlords. Ask your regular handler LLM for advice on how best to do that. Sent from…

Aside of how this looks like an AI-generated PR puff piece, it comes waaay too late after the Windsurf deal busted (OpenAI refusing to buy them after all) and Google cherry-picked …

If that's the reason, I kinda wonder what kind of numbers we're talking about in this case.

Much as I understand how a 5 bit quantization might be a sweet spot in the tradeoff between precision and making it possible to cram more weight parameters into limited ram, and th…

All with you on the general idea that growing potatoes is easy and great. That being said, just a detail: > People grow them in very poor soil, and even in literal bags of compost …

sure about that? maybe he'll be the very risk-inclined, hot-headed, reckless platoon sergeant who will have a higher chance of earning a medal but also a higher chance of getting y…

The Colmi P8, which is older, long replaced by myriads of newer china watches and now hard to even find, was one of the last cheap smartwatches to be based on the nRF52832 microcon…

Qt used to be what I used as well, but the licensing has become so repulsive for professional use that I now refuse to touch it now (not even for my open source side projects where…

In Italy it's even worse, it can even be made of rock, dirt and lava.

> I could go into a place, order a pizza, sit there starting at it for 15 minutes, and then report them for a violation it's just the other way around: the pizzeria's duty is just …

while none of the arguments of the article came even close to being convincing or to balancing out the disadvantages of a non-power-of-two orientation, there actually is one totall…