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xrd

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About xrd

chris@extrastatic.com

https://webiphany.com

Wrote a book for O'Reilly: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-tools-with/9781491933497/

Univ. of Washington Comp Sci & Japanese Language and Literature

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    This smells like it was hallucinated by chatgpt. Perhaps AI truly is sentient now; the desire to be wanted and necessary is very human. Or, perhaps it wasn't hallucinated by chatgp…

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    Comment #49144267

    CNC uses SVG? I am only familiar with 3d printers and assumed SVG would be too primitive and CNC would use STL or something like that?

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    Comment #48949160

    Stop bragging, The Onion already reported on a one man company who is $1B in debt. "CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt" https://www.…

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    Comment #48840356

    This came up in my feed related to this legislative change in how guns can now be purchased online. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/02/new-...

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    Comment #48794947

    I love that Firefox is the best. I don't use kicad. But, this project, as a web-first version of kicad, seems like it offers the best opportunities to create a shared learning comm…

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    Comment #48713230

    Up until now these crazy cases have been rejected by the courts. But this feels like a crack in the dam. A judge actually sentenced someone to 30 years for hiding zines, zines that…

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    Comment #48711492

    I'm not an apple person so this surprised me. I guess I have fallen for the "apple gear is expensive and must be the best" fallacy. What are good options for similar wireless bud h…

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    Comment #48698635

    No disagreement there, good point.

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    Comment #48698102

    Crime surged during COVID. But, what type of crime? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2330443X.2022.2... Hint: homicides and car theft. Burglary and larceny actually wen…

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    Comment #48650978

    Would be very interested to see how this affects post-50 workers. That's a protected class and I would imagine an ambulance chasing lawyer would be excited for a class action lawsu…

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    Comment #48647061

    Oops, yes, correct!

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    Comment #48645653

    Please watch/listen to the Pablo Torre podcast about this one for additional context: https://www.pablo.show/p/inside-james-dolans-deep-state?utm_... If you don't know, Pablo recen…

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    Comment #48640795

    This is a good place to start reading about dual gpus. https://github.com/noonghunna/club-3090/blob/master/docs/DUA...

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    Comment #48637098

    So close! My machine with 192GB RAM + RTX 3090 24GB can almost run this. It says it needs 24GB of VRAM and 256GB of RAM for MoE offloading. https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2#u…

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    Comment #48634906

    I did an inpainting project for a client a few years ago. They were trying to inpaint banner ads for concert promoters, and find a way to make it easy to produce a bunch of differe…

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    Comment #48629970

    How are people running this locally? I just checked llama.cpp and it appears unsloth has a version but it hacks a bunch of things to make it work and isn't optimal. https://github.…

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    Comment #48611762

    Forgejo. A single tiny golang binary, I think about 200mb. It has 75% of the functionality of gitlab with 5% of the resource requirements. I migrated to it and have never missed gi…

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    Comment #48440807

    Has anyone tried to 3d print vinyl?

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    Comment #48418842

    Do they pinky promise not to bail out their investments with taxpayer dollars?

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    Comment #48414744

    Last year's gains of 1.5M jobs created was revised down to just 150k. Can anyone explain to me why that happened and why this isn't the same? https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/market…

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    Comment #48369288

    TL;DR: this is a 23B model, and in this case the B stands for "pinto beans."