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Intel Arc Pro B70 Open-Source Linux Performance Against AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700

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5 points·by zargon·قبل 3 أشهر·1 comments

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zargon
·قبل ساعة واحدة·discuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6lDZpvHAoo&t=527s

The question (7:35) is "Where would you like to see people investing more time?" And Sam seems to be saying AI safety, I guess? This is 2015, and he refers to founding OpenAI. Based on his actions since then, yeah, seems like it's not a joke to him. This is Altman we're talking about.
zargon
·قبل 11 يومًا·discuss
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is worse than 27B because it's an MoE and 27B is dense. 35B only passes each token through 3B of its total parameters, whereas 27B sends each token through all 27B parameters.
zargon
·قبل 26 يومًا·discuss
It's mostly professional software that is the issue. CAD, CAM, BIM, GIS, DAW, PLC, accounting, graphic arts, etc. etc.
zargon
·قبل 26 يومًا·discuss
I came across a method of printing that attempts to make the extrusion of two adjacent layers overlap each other by 50%, with the goal of creating stronger layer adhesion. They called it HexWAM and it seemed more likely to work than this one. There were also some test prints available. The website with the full description seems to be down and archive.org unfortunately didn't get the images. Incidentally the person doing this also had an Ender 3, so OP may be able to try out their gcode example directly.

https://www.printables.com/model/438863-supper-strong-layers...

https://www.printables.com/model/437584-qualitative-layer-ad...

https://web.archive.org/web/20251008223152/https://bcarvercr...
zargon
·قبل 26 يومًا·discuss
Nvidia, I think? That's what people say but has never been my experience.
zargon
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Consumer oriented parts businesses are going to go out of business from this. Motherboards, cases, coolers, power supplies, fans, etc. At this point it's a matter of how many. Selection and competition will be permanently reduced, as I don't see these types of companies coming back any time soon.
zargon
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I thought I read that Samsung SATA SSDs were discontinued, but apparently that was a rumor and Sansung has denied it. I wonder why they exceed NVMe prices. They're the only SATA drives left with DRAM. I guess they could just be milking that fact.
zargon
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
And what? If someone said "some Muslims haven't even stopped slavery today," my statement would apply equally there.
zargon
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I make a thorough and well cited post, and get this zero-effort trolling in response? The Mormon central corporation has a dedicated legal hotline specifically for advising clergy how to prevent child sexual abuse from being reported to the police. Since uou can't distinguish this from racism, I'm done here.
zargon
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
The problem of child sex abuse in Mormonism is magnified by several factors. The community is very tight-knit and insular. Mormons believe that God directly guides their leaders. This leads to mental compartmentalization and slowness to recognize abuse to start with. When it is recognized, there is an extremely strong culture of handling grievances internally through the Priesthood hierarchy. Reports will go to the bishop, not secular authorities. The perspective is a bit skewed to begin with because it is normal and expected for Mormon bishops to ask youth (11 yo and up) explicit questions about their sex lives in private one-on-one "worthiness interviews". The "marching orders" that bishops (the equivalent of priests or pastors) follow (the Church Handbook of Instructions) are primarily designed to protect the church and its reputation. In places where the Mormon church has political power, it can even extend to law. For instance, bishops/clergy are exempted from mandatory reporting in Utah. Bishops are specifically instructed to _not_ report abuse to authorities. Instead they are to "call the hotline" (the Kirton McConkie law firm), where are advised on how to protect the abusers so that the church doesn't incur financial risk or negative publicity. The Mormon church is very centralized and hierarchical compared to many other churches, which means the official policy of cover-up is endemic.

The Mormon Stories (John Dehlin) and Radio Free Mormon podcasts have a lot of documentation of this. The first link below is one of the most important and has a lot of written content as well.

Look into Sam Young, whom the church excommunicated because he campaigned for ending the policy of asking teens and preteens sexually explicit questions in personal worthiness interviews.

https://protectldschildren.org/

https://radiofreemormon.org/2026/03/sam-young-protector-of-m...

Example of how the church deals with victims of abuse:

https://www.mormonstories.org/mormon-sa-jared-ashley-jones/

There is extensive documentation that this is the standard operating procedure:

https://radiofreemormon.org/2025/04/child-abuse-in-the-lds-c...

https://radiofreemormon.org/2023/12/rfm-324-how-the-mormon-c...

https://www.mormonstories.org/matt-long-sex-crimes-prosecuto...

https://radiofreemormon.org/2026/02/lds-church-caught-lying-...

The Mormon church was also intimately involved with Boy Scouts, so basically all of the Boy Scout problems overlapped and combined with the issues above.

https://www.mormonstories.org/boy-scout-abuse-tim-kosnoff/

https://www.mormonstories.org/bsa-bankruptcy-update-with-kos...
zargon
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
There was a livestream last night where the Bricks and Minifigs COO said that the franchise agreement has a clause saying that the operations manual overrules the franchise agreement and they can update the operations manual at any time. BAM's court filing instead says that the franchise agreement allows consignment services, but "limited expressly to those approved by BAM".
zargon
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
> Some of the mormons haven't even stopped polygamy today.

Using the term 'Mormon' to refer to the the entire family tree including splinter sects is just a recipe for confusion. Adherents to splinter sects, excluding RLDS, number in the tens of thousands compared to millions of CoJCoLDS. The problems with CoJCoLDS are damning on their own without needing to conflate facts with fringe groups.
zargon
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Yeah, that's why I tried to include both categories. Even for programs that are small enough to be printed, we just don't do it any more. I could have worded that part better myself.
zargon
·قبل شهرين·discuss
The idea that it never existed digitally is obviously untrue. Likely poor wording in the author's part. They probably meant something like, so old that a printout is all that survived (which sounds vaguely like not being digital to someone in an era so far removed from a time when programs were/could realistically be printed.)
zargon
·قبل شهرين·discuss
We wouldn't be switching to Chinese manufactured memory if Korean & US memory wasn't exorbitantly priced. They're forcing the switch.
zargon
·قبل شهرين·discuss
There are only 3 memory manufacturers. They just quietly follow the same strategy. They learned not to talk about it from the last time they were fined for antitrust price fixing in the 2000s.
zargon
·قبل شهرين·discuss
That is just an example of why AI arbitration will happen though. Lower cost.
zargon
·قبل شهرين·discuss
llama.cpp (and consequently LM Studio) don't support DeepSeek V4. If you want to run V4, this is your only option right now unless you have hardware that can run vLLM.
zargon
·قبل شهرين·discuss
s/old/young
zargon
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Groq.