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It had a tough time updating today. Or this evening. It just wouldn't update. It actually just freaking disappeared from my MacBook. It took some googling and downloading and multiple tries to get it back and working. Because they also combine on a MacBook Codex with ChatGPT app. I guess codex became ChatGPT app or some silliness like that.

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Fable was refusing to patch vllm for me when trying to get mtp to work on r9700 gpus. Kept on bumping down to opus. Tried to really sanitize my prompts and everything but it seemed intrinsically prohibited from doing this sort of work. I guess it’s useful for making inane one shot games and websites, lol.

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Had it happen to my PBS backups running on ZFS without ECC just the other day. Turned out to be heat related, memory was fine but during long backups heat was causing bit flips.

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That's what I did after my 15 year old Synology DS1010+ built in USB DOM failed. Put a network booted debian on it via netboot.xyz with zfs and now i get to reuse those 15 year old 2TB still chugging along disks. Fully open source, pretty nice way to keep old hardware going. It's my tertiary backup that wakes up once a week pulls in some open weights LLM models that I hoard just in case and goes back to sleep.

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https://github.com/SeraphimSerapis/tool-eval-bench Trying to run this stuff really triggers it. Freaking frustrating. I have it set up some local inference and then I'm struggling to get the MTP working and it just refuses to work on evaluations.

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Making hay was not an easy task. A lot of work and stress as well.

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The stickers are because somebody got hurt. That's the only reason why they're there. And hopefully it helps somebody. It doesn't hurt anything to have the sticker, lol.

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Scene is in Boston Public Garden

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Which country do you live in that you have such a positive outlook about redistribution of wealth?

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better prompt processing like 1.5x+ and more kv but tg most likely lower like 0.8x or so but I am just going by memory for Qwen3.5 without mtp.

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Because it's a tax I think on second properties.

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You forgot to include the actual living costs if you invest. You're not gonna be able to contribute $2,500 a month. You would be able to contribute not that much , around here rents are $2,500 a month.

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Exactly. Here I am sitting talking to my freaking computer, arguing with it, whatnot. And people just dismiss it as if it's not a science fiction. We were not there two, three years ago. Now we are. It's amazing and scary, scary mostly because the society that we operate in. I bet it's less scary in Norway or elsewhere where govt is more biased towards people not corps.

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Not all workers will fare equally. As an illustration, Reuters cited a union source estimating that someone in the memory chip unit earning an 80-million-won base salary could take home roughly 626 million won in total bonuses this year. By comparison, workers at SK Hynix stand to collect upward of 700 million won should their employer post annual profit of 250 trillion won, Reuters calculated. Unlike at Samsung, SK Hynix employees are not limited to stock payouts and may instead opt for cash, Reuters reported.

Almost 6x the base, not bad.

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Exactly, the whole point of having a laptop is that you can close it at some point. Once you move to these newfangled workflows it is all gone. That is why I have been slow on uptake with all these new apps they are releasing like Codex GUI and Claude GUI and all that stuff. I like that work continues when I close my laptop, but also I like that it continues on my hardware, not somewhere in the cloud being a supply chain attacked by who knows what.

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But I did.

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Instead of discussing Kierkegaard or universality of human condition we are discussing em-dashes. Peak HN.

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Yeah, this all sounds good in theory, but there's a lot of edge cases. For example, for me switching between Mac and Linux what often happens is that Linux just for some reason the it turns off the monitor port and it's black until I reboot and there was no easy way to get it back. This is while using fancy Dell monitors built-in KVM. Ultimately, I have settled on remote desktops as a more viable and quicker option.

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It flakes out in less than 24 hrs. I tried leaving a session open on remote control mode in a VM but it inevitably stopped with some token auth error.

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Why would you prefer less coherent article? If article has a utility, I will read it, no matter what the source is.