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Re:Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:24AM (#50352368)
Oh the memories!
Re:Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:00AM (#50352081)
Oh wow, it only just dawned on me now that Tandys in Australia was radio shack.
Re:Casio Watches of the 1980s on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:57PM (#50318955)
Whilst not one of the 80's watches. The 90s watch with the VCR controls was amazing during highschool. As soon as that TV got wheeled out in class we all knew that thing was going to randomly pause, play, stop etc. Hahaha.
It is for sure actual fascism. Also how is the word racism losing meaning? What?

Your argument is that if a word gets used more it dilutes the word? That's not how language works.

Sparkling fascism?.
Re:Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer on Sunday October 25, 2026 @02:14AM (#50228810)
> so we have no way to tell if $500M is crazy high or crazy low.

Well, lets take just one of those examples, Minecraft.

Cost apparently $150mil to make, and so far, has earned around $960mil. So if we use the usual doubling of the cost to get to the real cost with marketing and everything, it cost ~$300mil, so that is about $660mil profit.

Now of course that gets split, Xbox wouldn't get 100% of that, but still, even if it got 50%, thats still most of the way to the $500mil they turned down, on just ONE film, and only factoring in the theatrical release profit, not including any money it would have made on merch, or streaming, or anything else.

Re:The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:51PM (#50185734)
Yeah how else am I supposed to take a break or an afternoon nap
Re:OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents on Saturday October 17, 2026 @02:06PM (#50133456)
Both him and Dario seem to be in the phase of using this as some form of marketing or corporate capture.

"Oh no our models, so good also scary... If only the government could help us stop the other labs from doing the same.. oh woe"

I'll give my own personal reasons, our interest rates were going down.. Trump decides to start a trade war, then the central banks get a bit worried, then Trump decides to go to war with Iran.. now the central banks are increasing interest rates, as the future is uncertain.

His whole rhetoric is America should make more stuff right... Well, we can certainly stop buying that stuff since the choices he's made have hurt us. I'd prefer to buy closer to home thanks.

Not the only one I'm guessing.

I don't think this is the generational reasons this article is making it out to be.

We would drink our share of Californian wines, but after the trump trade war, war on Iran, and everything he's done to destabilize the global economy... We decided to stop buying anything American.

Wine was an easy switch.

Re:The smart home graveyard is getting crowded on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:56AM (#49877228)
The only device I will connect to my home network, is anything that works with Home Assistant.
Re:Ember-1 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:50PM (#49870688)
This is precisely my point.
Re:Ember-1 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:48PM (#49870673)
Is there a Pareto frontier for the number of times articles mention or don't mention a Pareto frontier.
Re:Ember-1 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:25PM (#49869383)
Yes, absolutely, but only if people keep contributing in the open.
Re:Ember-1 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:24PM (#49869374)
So they trained a model on open weights, and then aren't releasing the weights... am I reading this right?
Re:Jev-Leftpad on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:12AM (#49785315)
Jev is a new type of model that just makes decisions based on given options. It's small and really really fast.

Leftpad is a npm package that chooses if it should or shouldn't pad the left side of a string. It was famous for bringing down everyone's npm installs a few years ago.

This combination is a double joke. Put something stupid in something stupid.

This should be the top comment.

It absolutely is not a great situation at all. This won't make things better.

HBM hasn't been used in a consumer GPU in some years. I think the RX 7900XT

It's all GDDR6X or 7X

Re:LG strongly denies TV spying claims on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:57PM (#49675139)
Opt-in as in don't connect smart TVs to the internet.
Re:Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:03PM (#49601787)
personally? i have 2x gpus.. but i get bursts of ~200tok/s generation, and around 4500-5000tok/s prefil

Yeah the R4D Kernel rules imho.

Re:Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs on Monday September 07, 2026 @11:29AM (#49599510)
Feed the setup and run scripts to your LLM.
Re:Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs on Monday September 07, 2026 @08:20AM (#49597489)
Deadcode is currently working on INT4 right now on his R4D kernel.

The MXFP4 fork is excellent too. Its my daily driver right now. https://codeberg.org/ggz14/radiance-vllm-mxfp4

Also has PARO quant support there too (early stage)

Also speedups in both repos for 4x R9700s

Re:Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs on Monday September 07, 2026 @06:36AM (#49596592)
Whilst this is an excellent post from vLLM, one of the truly baffling things from either their team or AMDs team, is how much the workstation grade AMD r9700 has been ignored.

Stock vLLM runs so slowly on these cards compared with vLLM forks like Radiance. Going from say 20-30t/s gen, to 150-200t/s

Most of AMD/vLLM work seems to be around their data centre cards, or the AMD AI Halo/Ryzen and ignores the R9700 AI Pro.

Really wish this would change.

Re:You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It on Saturday August 29, 2026 @06:17AM (#49488580)
Correct.. the gdpr isn't the anti cookie law. It's the data privacy law.

If it wasn't cookies it would be something else.

Re:You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It on Saturday August 29, 2026 @06:02AM (#49488474)
The cookie banner isn't actually specified in gdpr, it was just how everyone else tried to build the solution to the problem at the last minute.

I remember thinking "ok once this hits an actual web spec, we should see this built into browsers, and sent as headers or something"

Nope

Shaka, when they discovered open models!
It's always interesting watching counties try to lift the birthrate, and doing things that don't actually help improve the conditions that lead to the issue in the first place.

Look here's an idea. If you're under a certain age, and you want to own a home and move to a small village etc.. you are granted 100% protection from the government from your employer and you can work 100% remote. Enshrined into law. Nothing the employer can do about it.

Make it a whole nationalism thing to get the right wing on board.

I know a whole bunch of people who would move to a country town in a heartbeat if they could, heck lots of people did it during the pandemic, the minute that remote work became a possibility.

It's great they're chasing these digital nomads, but I'm not sure that's the solution that's going to work long or even medium term.

I understand that there are a lot of people who tend to believe the events that were given via the presentation, I still have my doubts, as I tend to view OAI as unreliable narrators.

I would love to believe it, sounds really amazing, but it also can be interpreted as a company who needed good marketing for their models security capabilities after their competition's model had it's moment to shine in the security sphere.

It's 100% this for me too. If I hear an AI voice, I hang up and try somewhere else.
Re:Fastmail offers EU data region on Sunday August 09, 2026 @08:24AM (#49230782)
Yeah this I think captures my initial feelings in my post better than I could have put it.

Any business that has strict guidelines won't touch this. As there's no real guarantee, and more importantly they have given themselves an out.

Whilst I like fastmail as a product, personally I would have waited to get everything in the EU before I launched this, as you've now got to relaunch it once you solve that last mile problem. Which is hard and costly.

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