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Chris just has some fun projects. Sandsifter was pretty well known back then due to finding that VIA x86 opcode, the movfuscator is just an amazing piece of mostly useless engineer…

I get that argument, but I don't think it is that bad. Open weights that are out of reach for local use are still within reach for groups of people or small to medium companies. Ev…

Article is missing a note on the existence of MX records for the domains. Sure, you can easily have a send-only domain without an MX record, but the common case is likely to setup …

Those numbers are wrong for most use cases. Likely the LLM did not take SWA (Sliding Window Attention) of G4 into account. Without SWA those numbers could be correct, I can't load …

Ah, ok. I took a look at the 3090 numbers and they list 400 tok/s prefill, so if I normalize my expectations to that base line the numbers you posted do make sense. I haven't dug d…

> The MI100 is roughly double the performance on Qwen 3.5 35B A3B Q5_K_M to the R9700 (462 token/s prefill vs 239 tokens/s, 217 tokens/s vs 118 token/s for inference) Those prefill…

For those who, like me, had to do a double take on that number: https://www.businessinsider.com/openclaw-peter-steinberger-a... Yes, $1.3M in token cost in less than 30 days and so…

Without having firm data, I can see a few factors that are different. After the collapse of the GDR, it was easier for eastern Germans to move to west Germany than for Polish to mo…

And a minority of those kids will get curious about the How and Why. Those are the security nerds of the future securing the networks against both the kids they were themselves and…

In 2019 there was a talk about data mining the DB arrival data [1] (yes, this problem is nothing new). One of the takeaways was that on some connections you can actually buy a "Spa…

Related, there is a stable way to detect whether your .exe is running under Wine and even which version by looking up the address of the export wine_get_version in ntdll [1]. Years…

I still have to go through my watch list, the age old issue of not having my slides done before congress... The 10 year of Dieselgate is interesting just from a "how bad is it real…

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SteamVR works ok, but last I checked it still performs worse than on Windows. If you are feeling adventurous, you can try a FOSS VR stack [1]. It works for Steam games running Prot…

At this point escalating, or threatening to, might be the better option. But I can't help trying to figure out how to solve a people/organizational problem with a technological sol…

As much as I hate where this might lead, I can't help but amuse myself over a scene like this: You walk up to a bearded fellow in a dark alley and quietly whisper "Stallman..." onl…

That part also caused my tin foil hat to heat up. At least they get the credit of including it directly instead of adding it in a later revision that gets even less news coverage. …

I managed to find some statistics on hull losses per million departures [1, p. 13]. Seems like indeed MD-11s have a highish rate of incidents by that metric compared to other types…

At some point it comes down to probabilities. With so many flights going on, one in a million incidents become a certainty. For example UA232 [1] suffered failure in all 3 redundan…

Given that the report only mentioned a single other seemingly related accident in 1979 I am not sure that objectively this is a reason to discontinue flying these planes. The fact …

I haven't seen that one, this video [1] includes a different angle taken from a vehicle on the airport. [1] https://youtu.be/POKJUJk_2xs?t=342

Grounding all MD-11s and DC-10s is a major move. I guess it makes sense as a big factor was the fatigue cracks on the pylon (lugs), despite the pylon not being behind on inspection…

Had to check, but that is actually beyond what DNS allows. Labels (the part between dots) are limited to 63 characters. We could sneakily drop an s somewhere in there and then it w…

Would be great of Valve to just drop a Steam Machine Max++ with an AMD Ryzen AI 395 and 128GB unified memory. I know this is not going to happen, but SteamOS should boot fine on th…

I want to echo a previous comment of mine on this topic: With the rise of mainstream-compatible, as in a standard gamer can get them running and use them with a similar frustration…