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Re:Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:21AM (#50179695)
Yup, had this exact scenario across the street last week.
Re:Backups Aren't Simple on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:43AM (#49737651)
I like to use ZFS snapshots of running systems and then create and upload the backup from them via the excellent Borgmatic. (I know you can't depend on snapshots for databases and similar, but it's worked until now™.)
Re:Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class Model that runs on a phone on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @05:59AM (#48918481)
Mixture of Experts is absolutely not what they're describing. MoE has to be one of the most misleadingly named things ever. It's completely confusing as to what it actually is.
Re:The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @10:39AM (#46135734)
Although Stargate SG-1 (1997) was filmed in 16:9 from the outset, earlier seasons were broadcast in 4:3.
Re:Iroh-blobs on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:20AM (#45730713)
I tried to use Iroh but had a few problems.

It uses a third server to facilitate initial p2p connections but I keep loosing/fail to connect to this server. I don't know if it's because of many restarts during development or something else.

Windows Defender nukes this from orbit, making it nearly impossible to ship to clients in a trusting fashion. But I guess any program which punches through the firewall is suspect.

Most Germans would view that as a positive thing. Pushing for nuclear power at this point would be utterly stupid.
Re:Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:21AM (#44808763)
lol
Nobody is building commercial plants any time soon; it's still in the experimental phase, with new discoveries happening almost every month.

I see it similarly to the difference between a car with a combustion engine and an electric one. Combustion engines are fully developed. We're reaching the maximum possible performance and utilisation. It's a dead end. However, with electric cars, for example, new battery development is far from over. E.g sodium batteries.

And just off the top of my head, in fusion, the discovery of better electromagnets, as happened a while back, can quadruple energy output.It's not a dead end, and writing it off would be short-sighted.

Re:Veloren – voxel action-adventure role-playing in Rust on Saturday March 29, 2025 @06:10PM (#43519178)
I hate it so much. Every time I read it, all I can think is "that's a typo."
Re:Moving away from US cloud services on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @05:49AM (#43397418)
Ah yes, let's solely blame the party for the shut down the previous government ordered.
I think CogVLM2 is even better than Intern at OCR (my usecase is extracting information from an invoice)
Re:Llama3 implemented from scratch on Sunday May 19, 2024 @04:43PM (#40409609)
>I personally don't really mind that bit of capitalization that English does. German is much worse.

You misspelled 'better'.

Congratulations, you have just invented large language models.
Re:Llama3 implemented from scratch on Sunday May 19, 2024 @03:44PM (#40409289)
Why can the author only write in all lowercase?
Re:Mistral AI Launches New 8x22B MOE Model on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:28AM (#39987939)
8x7 had 46B or so.
Re:What I think about when I edit on Saturday April 06, 2024 @06:09AM (#39951353)
> “He laughed with a booming abandon that made the whole restaurant turn around and look.”

Don't the people in the restaurant actually turn around in this sentence, whereas they didn't in the original, because it's just describing a kind of loudness with an example?

> “He laughed with the kind of booming abandon that makes the whole restaurant turn around and look.”

I feel like people are sleeping on Kagi FastGPT, its their amazing search combined with their summariser and a llm model that gives me the answers directly without having to search myself.

https://kagi.com/fastgpt

Re:Steam Deck OLED on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:17PM (#38209566)
If you mean gambling in Counter Strike, at least it's not explicitly aimed at children.
Re:Thunderbird 115.4.0 on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:45PM (#38002606)
no
Re:Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month on Thursday September 21, 2023 @05:40PM (#37604785)
>user tracking

You can use Google anonymously but you have to log in and leave your payment data with Kagi.

When the magnet is moved below the flake, the flake stands up, meaning it is being repelled. This is the case for every magnetic material, but what they do in the video is flipping the magnet around so that poles are reversed, a normal magnet would be attracted = flake flat on the surface but instead it is also standing up. This shows that the material is a diamagnet at least = it always creates an inverted magnetic field to the magnet.

So here's why this could be big: Not all diamagnets are SC but all SC materials are diamagnets.

Basically, just push more and more electricity into a coil of superconductive wire. Because the wire has no resistance, the electricity just loops around forever.
Re:Breaking Superconductor News on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:40PM (#36884674)
Much of the power consumed, and heat dissipated, by conventional processors comes from moving information between logic elements rather than the actual logic operations. Because superconductors have zero electrical resistance, little energy is required to move bits within the processor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_computing#Fund...

Re:Breaking Superconductor News on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:27PM (#36884467)
Here's a few from the top of my head:

- A global power net. No solar power during the night? Just produce it on the other side of the planet.

- A superconducting computer. Less resistance when pushing bits around = 500x less power consumption.

- A Superconducting magnetic battery. Store power indefinitely with high efficiency.

Re:GPT-4 Details Leaked on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:47AM (#36677723)
There is a mod for Skyrim where someone piped together multiple AI models. It goes like this: You speak into your microphone and ask a NPC something. This gets transcribed (voice to text) by Whisper AI. This transcript gets send to eg. GPT-4 with a pre-prompt engineered to give background, current information and the "personality" for the NPC you are talking to. The output of this gets piped back to a Text-to-Speech solution like eleven-labs with the original NPC voice.
Re:Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much? on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:22AM (#36337756)
People also seem to forget that the power plants have to be removed after their lifecycle. The safe decommission of a nuclear power plant takes decades and costs billions again.
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