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kennethallen
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Comment #49107017
Australia support, please! AUD15 limit?
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Comment #48626607
Sorry, this kind of LLMglish is illegible. That rounding has teeth. Here is the answer, and it’s the most useful idea in this whole post. That last clause is the whole game. The co…
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Comment #48595529
Looks like Blue Prince interiors. :D
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Comment #48538650
I read this post and your post introducing zeroserve. One of the main parts of the original pitch was "no separate config file and scripts". Now you're adding a config file separat…
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Comment #48003398
These games all released with Denuvo on Steam and DRM-free on GOG. (Some of them have subsequently removed Denuvo on Steam.) Mad Max Middle-earth: Shadow of War Deus Ex: Mankind Di…
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Comment #47317095
> This isn’t parser-style backtracking How is this different from backtracking? You're doing a depth-first search over possible interpretations. The grammar is just expressed in th…
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Comment #47242095
What does this offer over feeding `-v` output into an LLM?
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Comment #47214266
Extremely. Repo is littered with one-off Python scripts, among many other indicators.
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Comment #47214231
And in every training corpus many times over.
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Comment #46994266
Yeah, instantly switched to reader mode.
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Comment #46728616
The fundamental reason JSON won over XML is that JSON maps exactly to universal data structures (lists and string-keyed maps) and XML does not.
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Comment #46673573
There are many different supersampling patterns you can use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersampling#Supersampling_pa... A grid can have unwanted aliasing effects. It all depen…
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Comment #46460105
mmap is better when: * You want your program to crash on any I/O error because you wouldn't handle them anyway * You value the programming convenience of being able to treat a file…
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Comment #46459934
If you fail to load an mmapped page because of an I/O error, Unix-like OSes interrupt your program with SIGBUS/SIGSEGV. It might be technically possible to write a program that wou…
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Comment #46441246
Two big advantages: You avoid an unnecessary copy. Normal read system call gets the data from disk hardware into the kernel page cache and then copies it into the buffer you provid…
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Comment #46417897
It's 2025 and you're telling people to `pip install` into system packages instead of running via `uvx`.
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Comment #45949536
I don't understand the use case here. Is this supposed to be for enterprise to control access to internal applications via network access policies?
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Comment #45908496
The use case for these boxes is a local NVIDIA development platform before you do your actual training run on your A100 cluster.
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Comment #45882771
Running LLMs will be slow and training them is basically out of the question. You can get a Framework Desktop with similar bandwidth for less than a third of the price of this thin…
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Comment #45841473
Author on Twitter a few years ago: https://x.com/tqbf/status/851466178535055362
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Comment #45562720
Oh, joy
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Comment #44353274
I have a few questions after reading the README. First, if it uses PRNG with a fixed-size state, it isn't accurate to say it never repeats, correct? It will be periodic eventually …
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Comment #43901786
They cannot just relicense the work of all of their public contributors without them agreeing in writing. This is completely illegitimate. (They don't seem to require signing any c…
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Comment #43639692
I walk away from every article on or attempt to use Nix more mystified
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Comment #43608644
Do I get a superuser? Can I install any extensions I want?