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Mindless2112

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    Comment #49150556

    Unless the LLM has an SVG renderer in its toolbox, it's like asking a human to draw while blindfolded. It's amazing if they can do it well, but it's practically meaningless.

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    Comment #49138963

    Also there is https://www.doesitplay.org/

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    Comment #48391404

    > In this Gemini-reconstructed scene, ... I'm generally pretty pro-AI, but I find this icky. Of course, I wouldn't have noticed except the whiteboard drawing seemed not quite right…

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    Comment #48059190

    A fair point... I thought the bug was a missing check for the COW flag, but looking at it again it seems it was missing both setting and checking the flag.

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    Comment #48058983

    In CHERI, for example, pointers have permissions. The pointer to the COW memory would not have the "write" permission. I could be misunderstanding the bug, of course.

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    Comment #48058625

    How much pain must there be until people realize we actually do need memory safety?

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    Comment #47944849

    The parameters in the original gpt-oss-20B model are "post-trained with MXFP4 quantization", so there just isn't much to gain by quantizing to Q8. If you look inside the Q8 model, …

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    Comment #47943681

    Current lowest price for a new card on Newegg: $949.99 vs $3,699.99.

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    Comment #47942040

    As of b8966, it is still not great. | model | size | params | backend | ngl | test | t/s | | --------------------- | --------: | ------: | ------- | --: | -----: | -------------: |…

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    Comment #47941654

    Compared to a B70, a 5090 is 1x the memory with 3x the bandwidth at 4x the price. Yeah, the 5090 is better, but you're paying for it.

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    Comment #47837294

    Never buy another ebook from Amazon, sure. Never buy another Kindle? I keep mine in airplane mode all the time and sideload all the books/papers I want to read. It works practicall…

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    Comment #47730239

    The demonym for France is "French," so it's not wrong (even if it doesn't sound right.)

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    Comment #47604070

    Funny they didn't include any CJK languages on their list.

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    Comment #47518554

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-171_bq7d.pdf

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    Comment #46260479

    Also, there are: * https://github.com/tomsoftware/Lemmings.ts * https://lldb.camanis.net/level/play/473/1/Just-dig

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    Comment #46081639

    It supports linking two Android devices.

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    Comment #45582089

    There was a time when we could say "our greenhouse gas emissions are nothing compared to regular biological processes," and yet here we are.

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    Comment #45574698

    > “The outbound and cross-bound DDoS attacks can be just as disruptive as the inbound stuff,” Dobbin said. “We’re now in a situation where ISPs are routinely seeing terabit-per-sec…

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    Comment #45456691

    I, too, am jealous of China's high speed railroads. However, on the whole, China has overbuilt their infrastructure, and that may not look so smart in 40-50 years when the maintena…

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    Comment #45393316

    The Freestyle Pro is almost a good keyboard. The Esc and function keys are all offset to the left by one key compared to a standard layout, which drove me nuts. I have a Freestyle …