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I love this and feel it would be greatly enhanced with semantic search.
Re:What I Self-Host on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:39PM (#50113279)
I have the opposite experience. Plex, nextcloud, minecraft servers, and ~10 websites are all hosted on a Beelink N100. It stays cool and quiet.
Re:MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:42AM (#49800316)
Interesting - have you done MiMo-v2.6-flash?
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:34PM (#49557412)
Often the smartest thing is to do nothing.
Re:Degraded performance for multiple models on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @01:28PM (#49349212)
API Error: 529 Overlorded
Things like the number of GPU layers, whether to use flash attention or not, enabling MTP, playing with context size.
There are certainly challenges. When setting up a new model, I get AI to walk me through the commands using llama-benchmark that determine the best parameters for my particular configuration and needs. Once you've got that it's pretty easy to port those parameters to llama-server. It takes me about an hour to run through this process. It would be great if there was a registry of hardware, models, configuration parameters, and resulting tokens per second. Maybe one day we'll get there.
And I thought I was killing it just saving some install disk images!
Re:Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:50AM (#47961091)
Nanobanana for scale.
Re:The Classic American Diner on Saturday April 25, 2026 @12:01AM (#47898526)
Re:The Beauty of Bonsai Styles on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @09:08AM (#47848284)
...is the camera you have with you.
I used to invent TLAs on the spot for fun, and when someone asked what it was, would respond, "It's a PUA", eventually revealing that meant "previously unknown acronym". It was even more annoying that it sounds.
Re:Comparison shows audiophiles waste a lot of money on Sunday March 29, 2026 @01:29PM (#47565202)
I think the point is to reproduce the sound of those hundreds of feet of standard run-of-the-mill cabling as faithfully as possible ;)
Voice is everything. Don't relinquish the best part of yourself.
Re:GPT-5.4 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @02:18PM (#47265988)
I think it's time for an https://hotornot.com for AI models.
Re:Setting up phones is a nightmare on Sunday March 01, 2026 @09:06PM (#47213013)
Tell me why they only support Google Pixel phones, v6 through 10.
Re:A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch on Monday January 26, 2026 @03:26PM (#46771011)
Yes, shower thinking with warm water on my neck is absolute peak. In those conditions I'm unafraid of tackling the most challenging of thinking.
And of course you can now run local LLMs on your phone as well.
Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:55PM (#46606880)
Also a musician and I don't think it's that amusing. IMO this isn't an "AI can't be art" discussion. It's about the fact that AI can be used to extract value from other artists' work without consent, and then out-compete them on volume by flooding the marketplace.
Re:NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:03AM (#46588648)
Your description matches my recollection exactly.
Re:So you wanna build a local RAG? on Saturday November 29, 2025 @08:48AM (#46087516)
Do you have a standard prompt you use for this? I have definitely seen agentic tools doing this for me, e.g., when searching the local file system, but I'm not sure if it native behaviour for tool-using LLMs or if it is coerced via prompts.
Re:Agent Design Is Still Hard on Saturday November 22, 2025 @10:27AM (#46015473)
This sounds interesting. What about the agent behavior itself? How it decides how to come at a problem, what to show the user along the way, and how it decides when to stop? Are these things you have attempted to grapple with in your framework?
Yes, came to the same conclusion - it's a pain, but solves the problem permanently.
We all just feed the LLMs now.
Looks like it comes from Scientific American: https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/~spaf/Yucks/V5/msg00004.html
Re:Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @09:24PM (#45122385)
And recording software applications to cassette off the radio!
Re:Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @02:14PM (#45118832)
I cut my teeth on that language, and still keep a Commodore PET around for old times sake.
Re:Adaptive LLM routing under budget constraints on Monday September 01, 2025 @11:14PM (#45098785)
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Re:AOL to discontinue dial-up internet on Monday August 11, 2025 @10:42AM (#44864683)
For younger users of the internet, it's hard to overstate how omnipresent the AOL brand was. The marketing team was on overdrive, all the time. And their marketing CDs probably caused a noticeable increase in CD-ROM adoption.

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