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As a kid, my first machine was a 486 DX2 66. My dad mandated we buy on value, and I scoured the MicroTimes looking for the best possible deal, finally settling on a machine from a …

The original post [1] now includes an update: UPDATE! Within a day of this blowing up on Hacker News, AMD reached back out to me and said they would be looking into the matter afte…

They're unlikely to find much unless they instead try “dispositive”.

TurboQuant has a specific benefit by compressing the KV cache at a negligible cost to quality. That mainly means that the context lengths can go up in models for the same amount of…

Still active, but many fewer resources than in the past. Many backends like CUDA for Windows have been dropped and others pushed off to partners with varying levels of support. Ten…

The Microsoft stake finally allowed him to let loose and buy a keyboard with a working shift key.

Exciting concept! Note that the LLM corrected version does drop a full paragraph from the output at the bottom of the second page (starting with an asterisk and "My views regarding…

I recently had occasion to evaluate a database of 1200+ NVIDIA GPUs and can tell you that the only thing consistent about the model numbers is their inconsistency. For example, wha…

Reminds me of “boko-maru” of the made-up religion [1] in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokononism

The methodological approach and data sources are detailed in the associated post by JHU professor Lauren Gardner: https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/

Check out: https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/how-microso...

If you're revisiting the classics I can't recommend enough Doug Metzger's Literature and History podcast [1]. It covers literature starting with Mesopostamian stories, at about the…

Endpoints are the machines (desktops, servers, &c) in organizations which have Carbon Black installed. Their client continuously monitors for process executions, network connection…

This helped me: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/976563870322999296.html

The PCEngines APU2 boards[1] are x84_64, run around 10W, and have a smaller than mini ITX footprint (6"×6"). 1. http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

It's in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, written by academics in the field, not by T&F itself, nor funded by them. While there are problems with the peer reviewed system, publis…

Anything that depends on both boost and gdal is bound to be pain. I once spent 22 hours getting a build of GDAL on FreeBSD with the drivers I needed.

For the Vagrant VMWare support, are you using the official (paid) Vagrant provider or something else? I've been interested in hearing about experiences of using it.

That's a big ask for a site that's essentially 'morally justified' piracy.

My first summer job was doing IT for a small outfit, who worked out of an old house converted into an office. They had eight machines, all connected to a LaserJet printer via a par…

Perhaps, but this patent ( https://www.google.com/patents/US8407580 ) and a history of litigation (e.g. ( http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/ ) may be enough of a barrier to prevent…

PXE booting OpenBSD is covered in the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE

The board has been in beta testing for a few months, folks were discussing it on the OpenBSD -tech list.

The APU is great. The APU2 was recently released: http://pcengines.ch/apu2b4.htm Improvements over the first version: quad core, Intel Gigabit NICS, new CPU supports AES-NI and AVX…