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Kind of cool how fable 5.1 just worked around these by reassigning subagents to non-failing models with more supervision and now with a hint to Sol and Flash 3.8.
IMHO from guy working with heavily quantized models and trying to get results. I do think quantization at less than 4-bit requires more advanced mathematics than is usually used. See Google Scholar Babak Hassibi (founder of Prism ML). Generally am amazed about the resiliency of these new data structures to approximation.
Got to my first job out of college and they gave me core dumps and had me debug the kernel for a year. Not my kind of fun, but definitely got me skilled in the art of low level.
I believe I potentially wrote that code in 2006 when working at Apple on HFS. What a remarkable world!
Ex-Apple kernel engineer here, Apple will deal with the memory shortage by making software more efficient in ram usage. Apple will just make every aspect of the system more and more memory efficient. They've done it before over and over and can do it again.
Almost trivial using open source tools, the question is how it performs without calibration/fine tuning.
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nikhizzle on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @08:51AM
from the huggingface.co dept.
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nikhizzle on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @10:13AM
from the huggingface.co dept.
Will think about it, trying to keep it running snappy with minimal cost since no clear path to monetization
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nikhizzle on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:05AM
from the federalreserve.gov dept.
I’ve had luck getting higher rate of interviews for remote jobs by applying first. To that end I built a site which shows job postings as they are posted -
https://tangerinefeed.net
I think the interesting thing here for those of us who use open source frameworks is that we can ask the LLM to look at the source to find the answer (eg. Pytorch or Phoenix in my case). For closed source libraries I do not know.
I may eventually get one of these just to use with Claude code. Been looking for the lightest best machine to use with agents.
Thanks for sharing this.
Needed something meaningful this morning.
Posted by
nikhizzle on Thursday November 20, 2025 @12:43PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.
I mean tether redemptions. Hedge funds liquidating treasuries last year significantly distorted yields for a short while.
Armchair economist here - one implication of this is that a crypto liquidation will cause global interest rates to spike at a time when they will need to be lower to calm the markets.
Selling massive amounts of debt with no additional demand means the required return must be higher.
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nikhizzle on Monday August 25, 2025 @09:16AM
from the datacenterdynamics.com dept.
Thanks for this, this is very useful for a related ai project I’m working on.
Thanks! Will take a look.
A job feed for remote jobs -
https://tangerinefeed.net/This is something I’ve needed myself over the last few years as jobs become shorter and shorter lived. Keep on improving it as some kind of compulsion.
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nikhizzle on Monday June 09, 2025 @07:58AM
from the tangerinefeed.net dept.
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nikhizzle on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @08:59PM
from the show-hn dept.
I moved out of the kernel in 2008 and never went back, so don’t have a wise opinion here which would be current.
Ex-Apple File System engineer here who shared an office with the other ZFS lead at the time. Can confirm they link to the wrong profile for Don Brady.
This is the correct person: https://github.com/don-brady
Also can confirm Don is one of the kindest, nicest principal engineer level people I’ve worked with in my career. Always had time to
mentor and assist.
I have a rough idea of my friend’s schedules, and I call them when I’m driving the kids around, or we text. Staying in constant contact with a few very close friends about my mental health has floated me through my mid-40s.
A tip I got from a friend in his 60s was that even when you lose friends, life is great because you constantly have the opportunity to find new ones. I am in a new close friends renaissance in my 40s, just be vulnerable and don’t take rejection personally.
So which one is it? Code is contract and he should get to keep the money. Or crypto is governed by laws outside of crypto and so he violated the “spirit” of the code and hence is a criminal?
It seems like right now the crypto industry makes the decision to their convenience on a daily basis.
Perhaps Google is scared about losing its cash cow in search, and is needing to cement their position in cloud compute.