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I was a little confused by this part: "This is what's happening to the parameters of models when they're quantized down to sizes that are possible to run on your laptop. Instead of…

And every couple of days we see a post or a tweet about "Google/Apple/Microsoft just nuked my account with no notice and no recourse" so trusting them to sync passkeys rightfully m…

The 'it's rude to show your ai(llm) output' is a reference to this: https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-...

It's frustrating that there's no pricing information. The tech looks cool and all, but without knowing how much it's going to cost there's no way to really evaluate it.

The National Science Foundation has been doing this for decades, starting with the supercomputing centers in the 80s. Long before anyone talked about cloud credits, NSF has had a b…

About two weeks I came across this tweet, from a PhD candidate just finishing up: https://x.com/CharityWoodrum/status/1808313627864440930 "For Woody and Jayson Thomas. From the loc…

Are there APIs to get the iCloud sync into my own app? I'm all for iCloud syncing to my devices I just want a way to also get a backup in a file so if Apple decides to delete my ac…

The fun thing about BlenderBIM is that it's IFC-native. (IFC is the 'Industrial Foundation Classes' - a data model/structure for modeling buildings and the components, systems, and…

Oh, awesome. I'm glad to discover I was wrong about that!

I'd even be willing to pay the $99 a year, I just want the signature to last longer than a week, ideally forever. For years when I don't feel like updating the app, I won't pay the…

It's not so much that OPML is the interesting part here, it's that it's a file. A few weeks back Andrej Karpathy had a twitter thread[1] about blogging software and shared this lin…

This sentence is doing a lot of work: "Hypothetical S2 does a bit more to simplify the layers above – it makes leadership above the log convenient with leases and fenced writes." I…

One of the long-standing challenges in the federated identity space has been that most of the solutions are built around domain names, which are a pain for most users to create on …

I wish there was a good nonprofit 'infrastructure cooperative' that could provide some of these core services but have a corporate governance that could be trusted. The place I mos…

Bluesky is a different protocol than Mastodon, but conceptually I think it's fair to say they're similar. I think Bluesky would clean up if it could also interop with Mastodon - pe…

This is a dumb question but how hard is it to train the mamba models that are on huggingface? It looks like the largest one is 2.8b - how many GPUs for how long do you need to trai…

I know this isn't an actual v3 of the SSH protocol, but if there ever is a version 3 of SSH, it really needs some kind of (encrypted) SNI or at least a standardized metadata block …

Live data would be great, but I'd be interested even in historic data. Not like 1880s but a timeseries of 15-minute granularity of train positions for last year. It'd be interestin…

The article is about what UI toolkits are used to build content apps for TVs and TV devices like FireTV/Apple TV, but I wish for a world where using those apps weren't my only opti…

An important part of this is to eliminate the idea that as a society we all need to have the same 2 weekend days off. (Which we don't anyway because a huge percentage of the popula…

During spring of 2020 at the very beginning of COVID my (100K+ person) company furloughed all of us for about 12 days, but most of us had to take it as 2 days of unpaid time off pe…

What's the ratio of humans back at headquarters ready to take over vs the number of cars active on the road? That's a really interesting number that I don't think I've ever seen re…

I just wish that merchants could pass the interchange fees on explicitly to customers, and so the folks who are paying with cards that have high-interchange fees pay more. I'm sick…

It is kinda bonkers that after 30 years Linux still doesn't some kind of inescapable and recursive process group mechanism. How many tens of thousands of hours of programming time …