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The performance bottleneck is not really so much the number of cores or processing power in each core, but the memory bus bandwidth to/from the CPU. I have an older dual socket xeon server here w…

As a completely one person, single sample anecdote, the 'heretic' uncensored Q8 GGUF variants several people have published of Qwen 3.5-122, 3.6-27B and 3.6-35B-A3B will very happily discuss…

It will be very interesting to see what kind of 'slow' performance people get from running it on a no GPU, but tons of RAM server (like a dual or quad socket xeon with 1.5 to 3TB of RAM). Fo…

Car alarms go off all the time on ferries from cars that really don't like being locked and moved.

As compared to what more trustworthy, honest news sources? Please name a few, I'm curious.

> What is the distinction between government and state? In a parliamentary democracy the "government" is the prime minister, president (whatever the titles are), cabinet ministers and the…

France24 does a lot of very solid work related to one of my particular areas of interest in the Iran/Afghanistan/Pakistan region. It's also a great alternative to any US news sources ev…

Default Debian Trixie out of the box configuration without changing any systemd config file allows gnu screen to work as it always has. There would have been great uproar and screeching if basic &#x…

URL appears to go to home page of RO military, another URL is: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260726-romanian-jet-sho... …

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Reviewing the screenshot example of Heretic in use, the list of 'harmful' prompts it retrieves from HF and runs: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mlabonne/harmful_be…

We're going to have to remember the custom 'blimp' to quiet the mechanical action of the IMAX camera, which is quite loud otherwise. https://ymcinema.com/2026/07&#x…

Audio recordings aren't good enough, this is why I keep 24x7 recordings of my life in 8K (4320p) raw YUV 4:4:4 color space video with uncompressed 24-bit audio. The NVME RAID array bills are gett…

The appeal has been completed and he's been acquitted. Note the past tense in how the CBC wrote this part: "The Wisconsin police identified Mr. Klayme as the offender using the incorrect use…

Correct, I might have broken the title description rule, but I think my description more accurately summarizes what happened. I don't think my title is biased one way or the other.

Note, the post title field isn't long enough, this is a skyrim themed username used on a 3rd party service. Not for the name used by character in Skyrim itself, which is not (without extensive …

Kimi K3 is in no way going to fit in 96GB RAM * 16 units (1536GB) unless badly quantized and with a small amount of context.

You say that now, but wait until one of these is charging at you across a field with a QBZ-95 strapped to its back and a 1024 resolution thermal sensor.

Build it in the shape of a domesticated Bactrian camel, put the seat in between the humps, use the humps for extra battery (or cargo compartments)

I think you've just nearly described the 'Chevaline' mechanical horses in The Diamond Age, but without the nanotech

> Wheels were invented for a reason Literally we have a very old saying that is "don't reinvent the wheel" and yet people persist in doing so, when an already near optimal design exi…

> and the Pakistani Taliban (which has the same leadership as the Afghan Taliban) has continued to attack CPEC [3] and targeting Chinese personnel [4]. Is it a fair assumption that a major factor i…

Within the neighboring region, China has also been sending extensive signals of "we support you and will engage in full trade with you, and retain full diplomatic relationships, etc, no matter wh…

> leadership doesn't trust China because they undermined Iran's position on Hormuz by backing the UAE [4] Would you say that in the broadest possible sense, this is because China cares m…

Exporting oil from the west side of Saudi Arabia works until some armed group like the Houthis with drones/missiles places a credible enough threat at another chokepoint that the ships won't…

My understanding is that they have a rocket body fabrication facility in NZ, where some of their historical institutional carbon fiber fabrication knowledge and stuff is, the engines and avionics an…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427351 Design and manufacturing is in the los angeles region aerospace industry cluster. It's been a US company for the last 13 years. htt…

One example of a typical liquid fueled small third stage would be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fregat …