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The niche killer feature is the 800GB/s SSD ...so long as you only need 8TB. You can't match that speed with nvme. Samsung 990 Pro only gets 7.3 GB/s sequential read. edit: I stand…

LLM inference is GPU bound and VRAM bound. Given quantization however, 2x3090 or 4090 (48GB) is enough VRAM to load 65B quantized llama derivatives (30-40GB). With exllama you can …

I'm guessing most people either don't bother with it (I haven't...) or write their own ad-hoc file integrity managers using checksum files and par2. I was about to try something, b…

SEEKING WORK – US/Atlanta – Remote Preferred I'm a senior CS student at Georgia Tech starting out with freelancing. Preferred technologies are go, java, dart, flutter, and linux sh…

One thing that makes Anker stand out to me is that they pay attention to the unboxing experience, which I haven't seen from any other company in a non-premium market like cables an…

Hey, vmm supports linux guests now.

I have an issue with the whole thing. I think they've already lost the trademark to the language. Correct: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software. Incorrec…

So, heptagon of control?

I haven't bought or started this yet, but this book on interpreters is on my todo list: https://interpreterbook.com/

This is pretty good as far as grand theories of the universe go, which in fine because we're talking philosophy, not science. However, I don't agree with life being an oppositional…

The previews are nice, but they do tend to catch the eye and make it difficult to quickly filter out unwanted results. It's hard to skim the result titles. I do like the tiles, how…

Dropping packets.

I was expecting the IT and devops book, The Phoenix Project: http://itrevolution.com/books/phoenix-project-devops-book/

I think the crux of the matter is that the general population don't really need much computation. They just care about meaningful data, especially their own data. As a programmer a…

I've noticed I tend to work in three passes, although not necessarily three tries. First is an over-abstracted mess that may or not work before it eventually collapses. Brainstormi…