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Will the offline mode work on laptops?

I use both: they are extremely fast - faster than Wordpad (on a native windows installation), much faster than libreoffice (on linux with wine).

Read https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/12/06/phi-s... I submitted it, as it gives a better picture of what Microsoft is trying to do: both the hardware, and the soft…

Yes: they are building both the software and the hardware for that: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/12/06/phi-s...

Is anyone here using phi-4 multimodal for image-to-text tasks? The phi models often punch above their weight, and I got curious about the vision models after reading https://unslot…

Sometimes, you can't find the average because it's undefined: it can happen with a Cauchy and a few other statistical distributions: the wikipedia page has a nice plot of how the f…

> it's like systemd trading off non-determinism for boot speed, when it takes 5 minutes to get through the POST That's a bad analogy: if a given deterministic service ordering is n…

In the last discussion about such issues, someone linked https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/the-dark-s... which is worth a read for past abuses: > Military authoriti…

Very interesting link! Submitted!

> run ZFS scrub (or equivalent) every 6 months zfs in mirror mode offers redundancy at the block level but scrub requires plugging the device > All error correction has a limit. If…

For long term storage, prefer hard drives (careful about CMR vs SMR) If you have specific random IO high performance needs, you can either - get a SLC drive like https://news.solid…

> Cosmopolitan is neat hack, but it's not a viable multiplatform executable format, runtime sysytem, or distribution mechanism. It's the best we have to ensure programs will be kep…

I wanted to limit the space needed on the EFI, and keep as much as possible on the Windows partition because there's also the question of where the bitlocker key would go. With som…

The dream has been realized with the release of cosmopolitan. There's no reason we couldn't have a cross-platform minimal set of common utilities.

> Could you stick the Linux kernel and initramfs on the EFI boot partition as a UKI I considered that, even if it would go against the idea of having everything inside the Windows …

You would have to add support for the peripherals in the kernel, and have some kind of init system. You would also need a filesystem supported to boot the computer. I was doing som…

If you find that interesting, read about the African Humid Period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period The present day situation is fascinating: https://en.wikipedia…

> You're going to get a frankenstein NEMA-Schuko-Chinese power outlet They are very practical, as they accept any plug

> That attack requires continuously monitoring a given device or area though, right? The "randomization" seems to be a pseudo-randomization: with the seed and the timestamp, you sh…

> Also — secondhand books are generally outdated, undesirable, and/or damaged — do collectors still find diamonds in the rough? Secondhand stores offer in general "better" products…

The randomization doesn't matter: you can very easily link the addresses if you have a few datapoints, even if it's just the time you observed the addresses: the basic method is di…

And this is why I think gibson1 is wrong: we can argue about which projections or systems of logic should be used, concepts are still "calculations".

The gemini example was a wonderful summary of the comments, but audio is not very practical for something that long. What about putting the text version that's used to make the aud…