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I guess responsive stylesheets can't be implemented without side effects...

Love this. I started doing something similar... back in 2000... in Quake 3. I got off to a good start modeling our future home, but I never got 'round to figuring out how to remove…

This is really neat! Question, on that MacBook Pro with presumably more RAM, is it still holding itself back in the RAM department?

I'm making good use of the next button on original replies, but it's true that walking back through the parent button is a long walk sometimes.

I thought that this was just an initial translation to unsafe rust in which they haven't actually gained any of those benefits yet, although presumably they can go there quickly no…

Thank you. Among other important points there: "That said, Japan isn't the only country pursuing lithium recovery. In the US, Redwood Materials – the recycling company founded by f…

Thank you, I missed that.

Strong agree. Very much part of the joke.

https://xkcd.com/538/ (No, no, I take this stuff seriously too, but it had to be said)

Until now we've been using Sonnet 4 to power an editing agent in ApostropheCMS. Sonnet is a good price/quality/speed compromise, but sometimes when giving it a large set of instruc…

That 3090 is going to burn 750W and it will still cap you at a 4 bit quant and ~48K context. Here's someone who worked through it: https://github.com/noonghunna/qwen36-27b-single-3…

We all know what you mean. But doing what is necessary to make the overall automated system more autonomous = training, at this 30,000 foot altitude.

I have always wanted to see one of these

Yeah it is ugly. I'm not convinced binding future leadership with corporate docs is even possible. Unless the shares are controlled by other reputable organizations from the start?…

Everybody who understands the technical problems is proposing a government fix. There is another option, foundations / NGOs could do this. Of course, openai has shown how quickly t…

If weights can't be looked at almost instantly in bulk, it just doesn't work. It's a different problem from distributing file downloads.

They specifically said it's stock hardware, but... yeah, maybe highly specific stock hardware.

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE! I actually nuked my music library off my Mac to mitigate this problem, but it's still a nuisance when the app launches. Thank you for sharing this!

Recently I got a PR that is (1) genuinely correct and useful, and (2) not from someone who uses the software in question at all. A happy outcome, but clearly the economics of open …

I wonder about this too. The other objections miss the point: if it's faster, and otherwise the same, and doesn't require different hardware, then why not just announce that the st…

Isn't that nitpicking? It's a smaller representation of the data, if you have a certain appetite for decompression time. It could conceivably be worth it. I think it would make a g…

In 1994 I was 2 years out of school. I'd written one windows shareware application and a whole lot of unix-y things. People were excited about the internet but most people didn't h…

Do they though? Are physics textbooks putting forward some version of string theory from the 1990s as proven fact?

I believe there was a science fiction story all the way back in the early '80s describing a scenario where physics gets reclassified as a soft science or an art form because it is …