13rac1

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Comment · 3 months ago

I interpret @syntaxing as meaning they are looking forward to running Qwen3.8-27B, but are frustrated by prefill times with other models, such as Qwen3.6-27B.

Comment · 3 months ago

FWIW Darling runs in userspace too.

What do you mean by "proprietary components"?

Comment · 3 months ago

Interesting project! A long term vision for MacOS applications is feasible given the success of WINE/Proton with Windows applications.

Are you familiar with the Darling project? https://github.com/darlinghq/darling There's an open PR for ARM64 support https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/pull/1753 Could you combine efforts or do your goals differ too much?

Comment · 5 months ago

> Generated in 0.008s • 14,293 tok/s

Chat Jimmy runs ~300X faster than the ~50 tok/s you are used to. What could you do differently when you are able to generate code 3,000 - 30,000X as fast as you could code it yourself? What if it was all good quality code? What would you do differently if it were 100,000X faster? mtok/s? gtok/s?

Comment · 8 months ago

Your suspicions are correct, any extra machine works: 4GB Pi, virtual machine, or old laptop.

Comment · 9 months ago

Warning: Claude may support the theory, because Claude is a sycophant.

Comment · 1 year ago

Firefox for Android also supports extensions, including uBlock Origin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

Comment · 2 years ago

You may not recognize the difference, but our brains haven't evolved (nature) much in the last couple decades or probably centuries. There's little to no chance we have truly adapted (nurture) to this 24/7 noise, even plants have problems with it: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/plants-are-... -> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S143917912...

> Plants in the traffic noise treatment group were exposed to 16 h of road traffic noise each day for a total of 15 days, while the control group was kept under complete silence. Traffic noise exposure led to significant decrease in growth indices of both plant species.

Comment · 3 years ago

Paid accounts can use the Perplexity LLM, GPT-4, or Claude 2.

Comment · 5 years ago

I suspect the only long term way to avoid touchscreens and cellular is a DIY EV. EVWest, for example, now has complete kits for 14 cars: https://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=40

Comment · 5 years ago

Mazda stopped using touchscreens: https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-pur...

> “Doing our research, when a driver would reach towards a touch-screen interface in any vehicle, they would unintentionally apply torque to the steering wheel, and the vehicle would drift out of its lane position,” said Matthew Valbuena, Mazda North America’s lead engineer for HMI and infotainment.

> “And of course with a touchscreen you have to be looking at the screen while you’re touching...so for that reason we were comfortable removing the touch-screen functionality,” he added.

Comment · 5 years ago

> For literal-minded folks like us, the idea that key properties of what we consider cold hard objective reality is in fact just squishy agreement can be unsettling. Hell, half of us got into computers specifically to avoid hand-wavey subjectivism.

Objective reality begins to falter even before leaving computing. For example: values for binary ones and zeros are hand-wavey down in the hardware voltage level. People believe it is as simple as: 5V is one and 0V is zero. In reality, (5V TTL logic levels) voltages above 2.7V are high/one and below 0.8V are low/zero. Details: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/logic-levels/all

Comment · 5 years ago

This method works well. I made a template repo to standardize the process: https://github.com/13rac1/rjsmake

Comment · 5 years ago

I was confused too without a screenshot in the readme, but realized I could just run it: https://app.standardnotes.org/

Comment · 5 years ago

> I don't mean to be snarky, but what's the purpose of apps like this?

1. Note organization via tags with a searchable database 2. Secure off-site backup 3. Device-to-device syncing

I'm sure there are more. I wish it wasn't written in Electron, but it wouldn't exist otherwise.

As a web application: https://app.standardnotes.org/

> Meanwhile, if this program's servers go down tomorrow, tough luck.

It is open source, you can run the server yourself: https://github.com/standardnotes/syncing-server