Qwen is what I’ve found to work the best for me so far. I haven’t done an exhaustive search or anything, but the mixture of experts 35b models seem to work pretty well.
I’ve got a little more vRAM to play with, 20GB. It still struggles with giving it enough context to be useful for agentic stuff.
Yeah, if I’m not into someone’s videos, and Google keeps recommending them, I just tell it not to recommend me that channel anymore. It’s simple and effective, and I never have to think about them again.
I don’t know if any TVs are actually using it, but Amazon Sidewalk is a form of LoRa, low power, low bandwidth, long distance communication. It’s designed to let non-internet connected devices phone back home. I hear it is very popular with shipping trackers because you can put a small device in a pallet and have it send it’s GPS back for free. I’m not sure it would support the GBs of data TVs are phoning home with each month, but it could certainly send some data home.
Yes, that’s why I expanded on what you said and spelled out hero protagonist.
Nope, the narrator, which I don’t remember well, might have been the inner monologue of the hero protagonist.
Snow Crash is a Sci-Fi book from the early 90s. It coined the term metaverse. It takes place in a post American collapse setting, where corporations have taken over. There’s a lot of interesting points in the book, probably as interesting today as the day it was wrote.
But what stuck with me, and helped form my understanding of society and helped me build my career in tech was his observations on franchises. He posits that franchise are basically a living organism, who’s DNA is written in binders. These binders cover every eventuality. They explain process, procedure, and expected results so that the humans in each franchise can keep the organism alive.
It was kinda a throw away set dressing just setting up the world at the beginning of the book, but it is the part that had real meaning to me.
Youtube has been feeding me Omarchy video lately, it seems like every single one I tried to watch brought up using Grok. I don’t know anything about Omarchy, but it was enough to give me the feeling something wasn’t right.
Other way around. PrusaSlicer came first. It was originally a fork of Slic3r, then Bambu and OrcaSlicer forked it. Prusa certainly has back ported some features from OrcaSlicer, which is the way open source should work. Everybody wins.
I pay a premium for Prusa because I like their philospohy of making as much of it as possible in house, and their general openness, not just in code, but in how their business functions.
My first 3D printer was a Makerbot Thing-O-Matic. I’m very willing to spend if I think it will benefit the entire ecosystem I’m interested in.
Also, with Prusa, I get to feel like I’m DIYing it, but with great and detailed instructions, and an all-in-one parts sourcing. They are also great at supporting their devices after the fact, which is sometimes necessary, because they often come out a little too hot.
I disagree, it will be worse in almost every way for war than quad copter with a gun mounted on it. Once the brains catch up, maybe, but for now it’s going to trip at the first slightly uneven flooring or raised threshold, and completely destroy itself on a power cable laying on the ground.
It’s a dumb promotional thing, they aren’t "Premiere"ing the game, they are are showing gameplay footage. It’s an Ad that Netflix users are paying for the privilege to be advertised to.
It’s pretty clear that robotics hardware has advanced way beyond the software. Do a backflip? No problem, that’s a predefined routine with good secondary control mechanisms to handle the variation between requested movement and actual movement.
Pick up a dish? Well, that’s going to take vision, control, understanding of how the grabber and various materials interact, and then fuse all that data into an expected result and a plan of action, then control of unexpected things like the plate slipping or the floor being slightly wet.
It’s amazing how far we’ve come and how much it has highlighted how far we have to go.
Obviously I don’t know your setup, but Linux is far easier for printing in most cases. The drivers are built in, and just work. No third party driver packages full of spyware and ink ads necessary.
Hardware support, in general, has always been a struggle for Linux, but in the last few years, two things have happened to tip the scale:
Yeah, a layer of plastic film well sealing the windows will go a long way. I know a lot of people like making foam inserts that make a huge difference. Insulating foam is cheap, and it just needs a layer of fabric glued to it to look half decent.
You get an article longer in seconds, not minutes. ChatGPT will make you a longer article — without the headache of writing it. You can even ask it for fewer emdashes — giving you results you will love.
Ok, but can you show me even one time those oil rigs have caused an environmental disaster? OK, but that was only once. OK, those 15 other times you linked. OK, but clearly they can’t be that bad, the hippies cleaned up the the birds and BP said they were sorry.
For years Google downgraded people’s experience on search, maps, and youtube on mobile if they didn’t use Chrome for Android. As a Firefox mobile user, it was very frustrating. I don’t use many Google services anymore, but they, seemingly intentionally, were making other browsers feel worse. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were doing it in different ways on desktop.
Linux has always had that problem. “Linux doesn’t support any games!” or “Linux can’t run Photoshop”. That’s the way it is always phrased and seen (and was much worse before Proton came along). Not “The devs didn’t bother supporting Linux” or “Adobe sucks”.
I, like most people, didn’t read the article. However, a lot of people use tracking tags on their pets collar so they can actually be tracked if they get out. I’m guessing that is what these cameras will be picking up.
Here, if you aren’t doing 75+ in a 70, you are a road hazard. It varies from state to state, but here 10 over is considered completely sane, and the chance of being pulled over for it are slim outside of a school zone or the cop’s own neighborhood. I’ve had cops start tailgating me because I was only going 5 over.