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Yeah, I was a bit baffled by the author complaining about cache prefixes getting destroyed when more than one user hit the model, but then continuing to use llama.cpp instead of sw…

TIL that our corporate network site blocker classifies qwen.ai as a sex site…

That last quote, buried at the end of the article, absolutely killed me. I cannot believe he had the nerve to say that doing what he does everyday

I regularly buy full albums and individual tracks on the Apple Store. AFAIK Amazon also still offers the same, both stores are DRM free

A competent person does not summon every senior leader in his worldwide organization to be physically present for an hour in an auditorium while he blusters and attempts to deliver…

Can you point us to a resource that would layout guidelines for placing laptop stickers in an aesthetically pleasing manner?

I just started going a few years back and I agree, it is really well done. One of my neighbors is the king’s main guard, so we get all sorts of behind the scenes anecdotes at the k…

Maryland?

The difference for purposes of the conversation happening here is skin color absolutely does not affect cognition where age definitely does.

The website has some really good tutorials you can knock out in an afternoon that teach you the basics of using the interface, along with the more important stuff about GIS termino…

We have some friends (husband and wife) that we met because our kids play together and they are the first people I’ve met that are licensed ham operators! They each have their oper…

Not OP, but we use the docling library to extract text and put it in markdown before storing for use with an LLM.

My favorite music podcast, You’ll Hear It, uses “is it better than KOB” as one of their album review metrics!

> the product occupies little space and it's trivial to keep around Haha, I have found this to absolutely NOT be the case! Each individual mini only takes up and inch or so, but th…

No, but only because our work has to be done on-prem, so we use our self-hosted LLM deployments. If that weren’t a limitation we would for sure

Same! I’ve been using Continue in VSCode and found most of the bigger Qwen models plus gpt-oss-120b to be great in agentic mode!

Open Web UI is a great alternative for a chat interface. You can point to an OpenAI API like vLLM or use the native Ollama integration and it has cool features like being able to s…

Our team has been using openwebui as the interface for our stack of open source models we run internally at work and it’s been fantastic! It has a great feature set, good support f…

That will never happen in the US as long as the current iteration of the Republican Party has any power to stop it, which is given to them by people continuing to vote against thei…

I had no idea how enormous moose were until I had to go to Fairbanks a few years ago for a work thing. It was unreal sitting in line waiting to move through the gate at the air bas…

What I took from it was her points toward the end about how the re-entry process needs to be vastly improved.

This may be an ignorant question, but does this also work for operations inside a container’s filesystem?

My take from my time on a major staff is it’s less about pomp and circumstance and more about being included in important discussions.

The key difference is the DDS folks were not uniformed military. That can make all the difference when trying to sell your product or service to a military decision maker.

Edit: apparently this link got posted by itself on HN and someone else linked to the HN post replying to your question. After reading the article I googled for “samurai jack art st…