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thawkins

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    Comment #40940889

    What LLM system does it use to run models? Does it support ollama?

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    Comment #33891452

    The Ulefone 18t just lanched with the same flir sensor, but android 12, 12gb ram, 256gb flash. 9000mha battery and endoscope accessory attachment, same durability specs, marginaly …

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    Comment #32454726

    I have always used howtoforge https://www.howtoforge.com/

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    Comment #30967109

    There are rumours that the mstcpip stack had large parts of the bsd stack in it. I cut my teeth in windows networking using Windows for workgroups, with a novell tcpip stack and a …

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    Comment #29899906

    I have authored 3 tech books and quite honestly I would not do it again, the shift to ebooks has allowed the publishers to cut the royalties paid on electronic deliveries, even tho…

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    Comment #29811068

    what's the point of having a bunch of ram sitting around doing nothing, I would rather have a system that had zero free ram but managed its address space well, so that changing ram…

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    Comment #29745219

    In both Canada and the UK there is also private systems available that you can decide to avail yourself off, which like the US system will charge you into bankruptcy but will give …

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    Comment #29674498

    That should possibly be something that is added directly to the licenses, you can take my product free of charge, but if you want changes you have to pay me at this rate. Put conta…

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    Comment #29102783

    https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/CNC_Pro_Shield_V...

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    Comment #28986476

    is there not an opportunity to implement the posix filesystems interface on top of something other than a block device system. That would be fun.

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    Comment #28986465

    But its a fun thing to do, and that's a good enough reason to do it. After all is that not exactly how Linux came into being anyway.

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    Comment #28755480

    Absolutely, plus I have seen a bunch of people going mental about not being able to reach friends or family because WhatsApp is down, when WhatsApp uses the person's phone number a…

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    Comment #28239412

    I use kind with podman running rootless, it only works on systems with cgroup2 enabled. But it's very cool. Conventional k8s with docker has a number of security gotchas that stem …

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    Comment #28003072

    I would advise getting your blood sugar levels checked, high blood sugar has a negative effect on eyesight, and given that during pandemic many people have cut exercise and may hav…

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    Comment #26956409

    Interestingly it's exactly what the PHP memory model does, each request is a shared nothing VM space, nothing survives the end of the request, even if allocated memory objects don'…

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    Comment #26142248

    yep each transputer had 4 serial links, which could be connected in matrixes, and allow data to be moved across the array directly. They used a language called OCCAM, and there was…

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    Comment #25164555

    Becuase macosx containers run inside a Linux VM, not on the native host OS, same with Windows;

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    Comment #24842075

    Have you considered looking at med tech or web systems that support your current career. The best developers are ones that also have domain knowledge.

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    Comment #24717734

    Do you know if docker and minikube work inside wsl2? I loaned my only windows machine to a colleague and won't get it back for a week or two, otherwise I would check it out myself.…

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    Comment #24717705

    Does it have an rc.local equiv that you can script those service starts into. Something like the docker entry-point would also work.

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    Comment #24529344

    I must admit while this cool, what I really want is a standard dirtcheap 8 to 10 inch Android tablet with a hackable OS and a row of gpio pins on it like the raspberry pi. $50 will…

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    Comment #24490896

    Does that not just encourage them?

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    Comment #24330878

    Perhaps the company is growing, and has identified that the lack of code review on commits is creating quality issues.

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    Comment #24330844

    Git branching and merging vastly out classes svn, coupled with its ability to version directory deletes and renames which svn struggled with, it makes much more sense than svn. Mos…

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    Comment #23720345

    As a developer of automotive ecommerce sites, it is very common for sites to list a higher price 0h the catalog, and show the true (generaly lower) price in the cart. This is becua…