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On what hardware do you run the model locally, if so?

The last bit of the last bit of what you said is what Warren Buffett has been saying for decades.

I still wish we had more phones that have eink screens in them. I love the folding ones, but if only I had a folding eink screen, that would be glorious ! Or at least, something cl…

I loved technical books from Mir publishers. Russian authors have a special place in my heart for explaining complex technical topics in concise yet engaging way. Books like Proble…

I have done everything from desktop apps to web apps and a bunch in between. Regular debugging is good enough for me. Never had the need to go down into call stack level. Even with…

I am, for 20 years now. I do embedded stuff too. Still.

I see posts like this, this deep dive into the call stacks and am always humbled and reminded of the limits of my knowledge about computers and programs.

I love these articles. Like. Of the million possible ways this could go, squiggles were the one, and it was from decisions of one man, on a whim. Yet, they completely change the wo…

Been using Angular v21 for a very complex app. Have had a wonderful experience, in terms of the cognitive load to make and work with components, state and data flow. Signals and si…

When all the prompts are by AI, and all the commits by AI, and all the use by AI,only then will corporations realize that..something ..

I just want to know what exactly is wrong with it? I get the history with Ferrari cars and their aesthetic and all. But it looks like what one would expect from the man who designe…

Would these maintain their signature under repeated use? Or regular wear and tear?

> there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure I remember a time when Apple was chided for integrating functionalities of popular…

LaTeX has a huge learning curve, and a mess of online information. I tried to use it to generate automated reports, and was frustrated at every turn. My usage scenario was a comple…

I think after the initial euphoria dies down, and the models reach a capability plateau, the use cases will start to come to fore. I am an experienced developer, and, if I know wha…

So, Amazon wants to own the tubes too? I guess the stack should be completed with this. AWS servers, satellite communications, boxes to view content on TVs, apps on mobiles, conten…

Presently we are seeing a rally around the flag in vogue in Iran. They are a civilization going back centuries. No matter their internal fights, they will come together against a c…

The money thing is true. But China and Russia will extend support. Iran is collecting about 2 million USD from each vessel through the strait. And they are about 50 passing through…

> when they sent Vance It was Iran's demand that they will not speak to Witkoff or Kushner, who were the original morons in this fiasco. They wanted only Vance on the table, most l…

What leverage does US actually have here? Even Israel for that matter? The only options left for US are large scale bombing, like in Vietnam or Cambodia OR putting soldiers on the …

How does the fast charging affect the life and long term performance of the battery?

Market manipulation. Although, it seems like the markets have started to get a sense of this as well and are not so swaying.

I think the nature of war has changed. A slow moving swarm of drones, will keep large Aircraft carriers well outside the range of their fighter jets. A nation can swarm an aircraft…

Contrast it with the JCPOA by Obama https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/joint-comprehensive-p... Key Aspects of the JCPOA: Enrichment Limits: Iran capped uranium enrichment at 3…

Because all the variables that go into performance / efficiency measurement of a model (processing power, algorithm efficiency, parallelization, etc) boil down to cost per token in…