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Comment · 1 year ago
LLM-s are definitely not intelligent. The market is definitely irrational. The hype is insane.
Comment · 1 year ago
It is not about memory safety or anything like that. It is about simplicity.

If you say "you can't do x with y in C++" you will get an "yes you can, you just use asd::dsadasd::asdadqwreqsdwerig_hfdoigbhiohrf() with weaorgoiawr flag". From what I have seen from Rust, it is similar. I don't want to fill my brain with vim bindings.. cough.. Rust ways of doing something. I just want to code my hobby game engine v7.

That said, I am happy to use software written in it. Even though the evangelists can be really annoying.

Comment · 2 years ago
In my experience the hardware requirements are whatever the file size is + a bit more. Cpu works, gpu is a lot faster but needs VRAM.

Was playing with them some more yesterday. Found that the 4bit ("q4") is much worse then q8 or fp16. Llama3.1 8B is ok, internlm2 7B is more precise. And they all hallucinate a lot.

Also found this page, that has some rankings: https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_...

In my opinion they are not really useful. Good for translations, to summaries some texts, and.. to ask in case you forgot some things about something. But they lie, so for anything serious you have to do your own research. And absolutely no good for precise or obscure topics.

If someone wants to play there's GPT4All, Msty, LM Studio. You can give them some of your documents to process and use as "knowledge stacks". Msty has web search, GPT4All will get it in some time.

Got more opinions, but this is long enough already.

Comment · 5 years ago
When i think of "desktop integration", i think about drag and drop not working between `ark` (a QT program) and `thunar` (a GTK program), and i think of folk writing blog posts about window theming. (there's also notifications, icons, etc, blablabla, that keeps getting worse (freedesktop is, that is))

To be honest, i don't care much about how programs look. But i do know many people do care.

Comment · 5 years ago
I never said it doesn't work. And yes, i do have "anything substantive" against it. The fact that, as i mentioned, it is just a package manager. And a bad one.

> From what I have seen, most of the opposition to Flatpak comes from the same place that the one to systemd: fear of change.

This is what pisses me off. You, nor anyone else, can tell everyone else what >I< think or feel. It's not fear, nor fear of change, nor any other dumb ass reason people who think like you think it is. I hate it because it's just a package manager. I hate it because, when all the reasons against it are brought up, something nebulous like "security" or something quazi-psychological like "fear of change" are brought up in defense of it.

The real problem with flatpacks is that they don't solve the real problem, and they do it poorly.

Want to solve the problem of your program not running on multiple distros, or not running in 5 years ? Then look at why that is. For example; it's not that the zip file format will change, so why must i recompile my program every time libzip changes ? Or X11 to wayland transition; why does my program have to even care about that when all i want is a window and an opengl context ? (bdw the solution to the latter is SDL2)

Let's look back when flatpack started. Why did it start ? Maybe because GTK3 changed it's API ever so often ?

Linux doesn't have a good GUI toolkit. THAT is the biggest problem here.

I just fucking hate the "ohh, you just don't like change" people. That dismisses all further discussion. That is the real "hate" that people like you blame others of.

Comment · 5 years ago
Desktops integrate poorly with desktops.
Comment · 5 years ago
I recommend just shipping everything you need with your app, either manually or using AppImage.

Flatpack is, more or less, just a bad package management.. technology.

Comment · 5 years ago
It says 72% efficiency, so over 400W of heat at full load. Inverter to a normal PSU would be about the same, if not worse. It could be that it raises the voltage then drops it back down to 12V, but i'd sooner think it's just cheaper mosfets.

Anyway, these kinds of converters can usually regulate themselves.

Comment · 5 years ago
That's cool. I truly wish you all the best in your future :).
Comment · 5 years ago
May I ask what you developed in the kernel ?
Comment · 5 years ago
"Hacker" "News"

(It's a somewhat obscure reference)

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Comment · 5 years ago
Good headphones. Even without HRTF they are worth it.
Comment · 5 years ago
Looks janky (the whole thing is shaking a lot every time it moves, especially the sensors). If it's cheap, it's good.
Comment · 5 years ago
This forum.

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