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Physicists are Atoms way of understanding themselves

Fantastic! Load the Altair Z80. At the CP/M prompt type: 'DIR' to see your files. Try out: 'MBASIC STARTREK' - be patient while it loads and then go save the galaxy! Just like old …

Hey, moving from cassette tape to floppy was also pretty awesome - random access speed demon!

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The LG only has 60Hz refresh - this Dell has 120Hz and so seems to actually take advantage of the extra thunderbolt bandwidth.

The default context window using ollama or lmstudio is small, but you can easily quadruple the default size while running gpt-oss-20b on a 24GB Mac.

As someone who purchased their first M-series Mac this year (M4 pro), I've been thrilled to discover how well it does with local genAI tasks to produce text, code and images. For e…

I just create new orgs to group related repositories together. Works well for a small team.

That's pretty much how all laser particle counters work... except the good ones use a fan and a chamber. Guess we'll have to wait and see how this compares to the reference sensors…

Also wonder how the sensor can stay clean without a fan. I suppose mounting upside down would help. Other fanless designs require periodic cleaning.

A website in the US doesn't deliver anything to the UK, it hands off some packets to a router in the US. Why is the website responsible for what all the interconnecting routers do?…

It does remove any incentive for a thief to steal a Macbook. They can't strip it for parts and sell those parts if they won't work.

Even non-physical numbers are problematic to signal 'invalid'. I had a customer use -999 as a placeholder for 'invalid' data. Years later somebody made a higher level data product …

Yes, push to toggle microphone is another great use for these! I was using the Kinesis Programmable Foot Switch 26 years ago with ps/2 connectors (later they switched to USB). You …

I did experiment with using a trackball taped to the floor. It's hard to get precise positioning moving your foot. I think using the tongue along the roof of your mouth would be mo…

I can imagine this helping anyone that has struggled with computer-related overuse injuries. I had a bad case of tendinitis that made using a mouse or trackpad very painful. I woul…

It was magical when apple released the LaserWriter printer in 1985 that took postscript files. No need for custom drivers. You would think these days all printers would be driverle…

Apple M1 does not support hardware assisted nested virtualization. If someone was trying to run WSL from Windows, that would be horribly inefficient on M1 vs M3.

If this pill can stop or slow the damage from the highly toxic protein that is present in snake venoms, then I can see it being useful everywhere, including the US. You are only co…

Yep, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/09/the-c... points out that 70% of the billed cost of antivenin is hospital markup. This isn't even part of expected profit…

If it is lazy loading just what it needs, seems like an efficient use of memory. In any case, this 4GB model will easily fit into the commenter's 16GB machine.

Try llamafile https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile I have Mistral 7B running this way on a 10 year old laptop and it only seems to use a few GB with it's memory mapping approa…

Would love to setup a station but not sure how I would protect the Pi from the elements if installed outside. Did you somehow weatherize your Pi or do you use a remote microphone o…

True, but you ARE getting a google play store app for those that find that comforting.