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Re:GPU-Accelerated LLM on a $100 Orange Pi on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @08:45AM (#37133299)
Depending on an LLM for survival is a good way to end up dead.

English Wikipedia will fit on an SD card. It's more valuable and more practical.

Re:The anesthetic effect of air at atmospheric pressure on Monday August 14, 2023 @10:16PM (#37129373)
You can't judge from Bacardi. It's bottom-shelf, young, and pretty rough. I find it unpleasant to drink neat even at 80 proof. A high-quality, aged rum at 130 proof will be fiery, but not as bad as Bacardi 151 diluted to 130 proof.

Of course, the sailors probably didn't drink anything terribly high-end.

Re:Ode to the M1 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @02:15AM (#37107161)
A machine that is 99% idle isn't running at 1% utilization all the time. It's idling 99% of the time and running flat out 1% of the time. The user pushes at least one core to the limit with every action they take, even if only for microseconds.

This is why performance matters even with a machine that is mostly idle. A faster system will respond faster to events. It will have lower latency when communicating over a network. It will handle user inputs faster. Users will complain that a program takes a second to respond even if the load average is 0.01.

(I know CPUs enter lower-performance states when lightly loaded. They can go from idle to their highest performance state in much less time than it takes for the user to notice latency.)