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fgfarben

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    Comment #48173591

    evil-olive's comment includes citations for fake information like the "nanometer" feature size of the chips. everyone knows those numbers are meaningless! they have no relation to …

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    Comment #48163388

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    Comment #48163371

    What's the incidence of autism in country towns without functioning septic systems?

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    Comment #48155699

    What even is an industry grade machine? Would you own a computer if the smallest computer you were allowed to buy was a $27,000 Supermicro rack that draws 900 watts all the time?

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    Comment #48155691

    There are also "natural" paracrystalline viruses that turn isopods blue and then kill them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertebrate_iridescent_virus_...

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    Comment #48152451

    The issue author is most likely quite literally a child.

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    Comment #48152126

    > Nvidia didn't ship a 256gb system at sub-500gb/s transfer rate DGX Spark has 128 GB and only 273 GB/s BW. Are we lucky that NVIDIA did ship something even worse than what you spe…

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    Comment #48151922

    Have you heard of time-domain reflectometry? A $20,000 multimeter could have the "impossible" feature you describe all but built in.

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    Comment #48145933

    Please show me on the 2016-era $400 Pascal GPU where you can install the 256 GB of VRAM.

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    Comment #48144515

    It doesn't really read like a Luddite policy. Rust is already well past 1.0. At best an LLM could discover a vulnerability (and the human using it can file a patch) or can help a h…

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    Comment #48143224

    That prefill number isn't right. M4 Max hits 200-300: https://github.com/antirez/ds4/blob/main/speed-bench/m4_max_...

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    Comment #48143200

    At a certain point the level of abstraction / genericization necessary for a big flexible project (like llama.cpp or Linux) blows things up into a huge number of files. Something n…

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    Comment #48111724

    Straight propaganda. Printers have burned down apartments in the last five years. https://www.reddit.com/r/anycubic/comments/1j4kfsr/guys_just...

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    Comment #48070832

    On both the llama.cpp based version and the custom Metal version, the model forgets how to use tools somewhere around the 50,000 token mark.

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    Comment #48057940

    It is still available for the M5 Max Macbook Pro, but yes, the Mac Studio is now only offered with up to 96 GB.

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    Comment #48052835

    The world is not China.

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    Comment #48052827

    Let's be realistic. GM is not interested in burning R&D money to make a good 800V electric crate kit. They only want to burn R&D money to make new profitable trucks. They are doing…

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    Comment #48052214

    You can buy head unit parts on eBay. It sounds like you have rodent harness damage.

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    Comment #48047357

    It includes a 66 kWh battery. This might be a strategy for offloading all the Bolt EV batteries they had to refurbish.

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