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Comment · 2 years ago
What LLM system does it use to run models? Does it support ollama?
Comment · 3 years ago
The Ulefone 18t just lanched with the same flir sensor, but android 12, 12gb ram, 256gb flash. 9000mha battery and endoscope accessory attachment, same durability specs, marginaly cheaper.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
There are rumours that the mstcpip stack had large parts of the bsd stack in it. I cut my teeth in windows networking using Windows for workgroups, with a novell tcpip stack and a 64kb daemon Internet Internet connection over isdn. Having that network connection meant I could (1993) get some linux/freebsd setups, but I would have to leave the ftp connection running all night. I then diverted off full time into freebsd when I joined Yahoo.
Comment · 4 years ago
I have authored 3 tech books and quite honestly I would not do it again, the shift to ebooks has allowed the publishers to cut the royalties paid on electronic deliveries, even though thier costs have been cut. I found that the majority of sales were ebooks, plus you often find your books sold onto platforms like O'Reily where you receive no royalty. It also appears that translations cut the author off from royalties, one ofmy books was translated to Korean and I stop getting any royalties on that set of sales.
Comment · 4 years ago
what's the point of having a bunch of ram sitting around doing nothing, I would rather have a system that had zero free ram but managed its address space well, so that changing ram usage was painless. why pay good money to have hardware sitting idle?.
Comment · 4 years ago
In both Canada and the UK there is also private systems available that you can decide to avail yourself off, which like the US system will charge you into bankruptcy but will give you the immediacy you desire, then you get to have a choice, wait or debt.
Comment · 4 years ago
That should possibly be something that is added directly to the licenses, you can take my product free of charge, but if you want changes you have to pay me at this rate. Put contact details and an expiry date on the deal so people can't get jacked up with very old prices on very old versions. That would also encourage people to keep thier 3rd party inclusions up to date. I don't think that would pass muster as an OSS license but maybe a built in support contract should be a feature of the licenses, one that earns people proper money that makes OSS a model that supports maintainers.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
is there not an opportunity to implement the posix filesystems interface on top of something other than a block device system. That would be fun.
Comment · 5 years ago
But its a fun thing to do, and that's a good enough reason to do it. After all is that not exactly how Linux came into being anyway.
Comment · 5 years ago
Absolutely, plus I have seen a bunch of people going mental about not being able to reach friends or family because WhatsApp is down, when WhatsApp uses the person's phone number as a means of addressing messages, just dial them and talk to them or send them a text... People can be a little dim sometimes and forget that the primary function of a phone IS communications, and not just a platform for running apps.
Comment · 5 years ago
I use kind with podman running rootless, it only works on systems with cgroup2 enabled. But it's very cool. Conventional k8s with docker has a number of security gotchas that stem from it effectivly running the containers as root. With rootless podman k8s, it is easy to provide all your devs with local k8s setups without handing them root/sudo access to run it. This is something that has only recently started working right as more container components and runtimes started to support cgroup2.
Comment · 5 years ago
I would advise getting your blood sugar levels checked, high blood sugar has a negative effect on eyesight, and given that during pandemic many people have cut exercise and may have started snacking more. There is a strong correlation between type 2 diabetes and vision problems.
Comment · 5 years ago
Interestingly it's exactly what the PHP memory model does, each request is a shared nothing VM space, nothing survives the end of the request, even if allocated memory objects don't get free'd.

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