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https://xkcd.com/605/

V4 Flash fits entirely in two RTX Pro 6000s without any quantization at all.

> The point of local models is privacy, offline use, and maybe no guard rails. But also, control and consistency. A local model cannot be changed out under your feet like an API mo…

> emerging practice of using Q4 quants and Q8 KV cache for local inference That's not an emerging practice, it's a tested strategy that is these days only used as a last resort by …

I tried to evaluate Jellyfin recently but dropped it pretty quick. Live (OTA) television is barely a thought (seems to be acknowledged that no dev uses it), and you have to figure …

Probably not.

The name is abliterate. It's a specific method of ablation.

If you bought it from one of those ebay outfits that specialize in memory modules, they also often offer a lifetime warranty. Usually those sellers put their own sticker on the mod…

> However, if you buy the CPU yourself, neither Intel nor AMD provides any guarantee that the CPU will work with overclocked memory. There's no guarantee that it works with standar…

If you don't have ECC, you don't even know that your CPU is executing the correct code. There goes the "detectable" part.

AMD, Intel, and motherboard manufacturers do qualify the CPUs and motherboards for "overclocked" (above JEDEC) memory speeds. The systems are designed to work at the overclocked tr…

In practice it is no longer actually possible to create a new search index with anywhere near the breadth of Google, regardless of the amount of resources you have available. Googl…

You should be able to get the stick replaced under warranty. Every memory manufacturer I have ever seen has a lifetime warranty. As long as you RMA it before replacements become un…

This is the attitude that needs to change. If RAM is 25% of the system cost (say for a home server in your example), then the cost for ECC is 3% of the system cost. There is no wor…

There's not much worth playing coming from this group anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6lDZpvHAoo&t=527s The question (7:35) is "Where would you like to see people investing more time?" And Sam seems to be saying AI safety, I guess? T…

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is worse than 27B because it's an MoE and 27B is dense. 35B only passes each token through 3B of its total parameters, whereas 27B sends each token through all 27B …

It's mostly professional software that is the issue. CAD, CAM, BIM, GIS, DAW, PLC, accounting, graphic arts, etc. etc.

I came across a method of printing that attempts to make the extrusion of two adjacent layers overlap each other by 50%, with the goal of creating stronger layer adhesion. They cal…

Nvidia, I think? That's what people say but has never been my experience.

Consumer oriented parts businesses are going to go out of business from this. Motherboards, cases, coolers, power supplies, fans, etc. At this point it's a matter of how many. Sele…

I thought I read that Samsung SATA SSDs were discontinued, but apparently that was a rumor and Sansung has denied it. I wonder why they exceed NVMe prices. They're the only SATA dr…