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fgonzag··on Maybe the default settings are too high
I just blurt out "processing" when they start looking at me weird. People tend to take it well.
fgonzag··on GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
Apple's M5 Max will probably be able to run it decently (as it will fix the biggest issue with the current lineup, prompt processing, in addition to a bandwidth bump).

That should easily run an 8 bit (~360GB) quant of the model. It's probably going to be the first actually portable machine that can run it. Strix Halo does not come with enough memory (or bandwidth) to run it (would need almost 180GB for weights + context even at 4 bits), and they don't have any laptops available with the top end (max 395+) chips, only mini PCs and a tablet.

Right now you only get the performance you want out of a multi GPU setup.

fgonzag··on Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
The model is 64GB (int4 native), add 20GB or so for context.

There are many platforms out there that can run it decently.

AMD strix halo, Mac platforms. Two (or three without extra ram) of the new AMD AI Pro R9700 (32GB of RAM, $1200), multi consumer gpu setups, etc.

fgonzag··on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts
Mine too! Only 2 years old but I can already see the massive anxiety bursts in him.

If this guy has a non chemical cure, I'm all for it. In fact I'm actively researching children psychologists to stave off the meds as much as we can, the problem is that 99% of psychologists are quacks, so choosing them is tough.

fgonzag··on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts
You don't understand what having extreme anxiety at that age feels like.

As someone who lived through that, I refuse to let him. All of memories of school are just feeling anxious about everything, just tight and suffocated, always in a panic. I started living when I started taking anxiety pills at 39 years old, and I can see my 2 year old having the exact same anxiety ticks and fits I have.

I don't know at what age I'll medicate him, but I'll do it as soon as I notice he isn't coping and happy anymore.

Horrifying is forcing him to experience that because you can't comprehend us.

fgonzag··on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts
For me? Not being hyper anxious all day (to the point that I just freeze and procrastinate all day), being able to sort of focus on the most important task (I'm still ADHD with 1000 unfinished projects, but at least I finish the things that have to be finished), eating healthy and enjoying exercising (100 lbs down and got quite good at tennis), not entering into a rage state due to anxiety overflow everytime I fight with my wife, being able to regulate my emotions, I could go on and on honestly.
fgonzag··on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts
Same here, after struggling for 39 years, glp-1 + SSRI + ADHD meds have made me a normal productive human, and 2 years ago I had pretty much given up on the possibility.

Having a child forced me to fix my life, and I'm incredibly happy because of it.

fgonzag··on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
The post has just enough minor grammatical imperfections that a LLM wouldn't make that I don't for a second believe this copy was written by an LLM .
fgonzag··on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
Because unlike the other my journey posts, this one is sharing acquired knowledge and framing it through his (in this instance relatable since it explains the reasons) experience.

Other my journey posts are look at me with only enough subject matter to disguise it.

This post is about sharing knowledge, the others are about sharing experiences.

fgonzag··on French lawmakers vote against wealth tax on super-rich
It is basically an inflation brake, it allows the government to spend and equalize the money supply against a specifically targeted class rather than dumping it wholesale on the economy as inflation (there's a lot more to inflation than direct government spending but it is a cause).

Whether you agree with it or not will vary greatly depending on the effectiveness of your country's government, the wealth gap, your country's currency purchasing power, your general political alignment, and a whole slew of other factors.

fgonzag··on Character.ai to bar children under 18 from using its chatbots
Someone who started using Roblox on its release date in 2006 at let's say 6 years old is now 25 years old.
fgonzag··on The illegible nature of software development talent
Yes, I'd also think it's a great idea to build new apps in a language currently undergoing a distribution & supply chain war between the interested parties.
fgonzag··on The illegible nature of software development talent
Isn't the ruby gems community currently imploding and in the middle of a hostile takeover? Also I've read about quite a few recent politically aligned actions in the community.

I don't know if I'd call that "mature".

fgonzag··on I switched from Htmx to Datastar
I was going to because I like the architecture, but then I saw the fact that licensing changes are going to be frequent, and that the developers seem a bit aggressive on another thread, and I've decided to skip it.

Datastar developers are free to do what they want with their code, but as someone who releases open source software, I'm tired of projects using open source simply to create a moat or user base then switch to a proprietary model.

fgonzag··on US Measles Cases Pass 1500, Worst Outbreak Since It Was Eliminated 25 Years Ago
I don't know why you are getting down voted. As someone with a 2 year old and hoping for another one, I'm terrified of all the things you have to take into consideration that my parents didn't when choosing a school or area to live in.
fgonzag··on Intel's Open-Source Strategy Is Changing at Odds with the Ethos of Open-Source
Intel has pushed open source but really only for their hardware.

Basically hackable source available hardware which in the Linux world is a huge advantage.

AMD has forced Nvidia out many proprietary technologies (gsync) just by countering with an open technology. There is no reason it couldn't execute the same plan against Intel.

Intel lost its competitive edge by trying to maximize captured value. It seems this person want to double down on the strategy, instead of going for absolute best product at the price possible.

fgonzag··on Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs
Hot swap drives are necessary on data centers where you don't want to have to pull the whole server and open the top cover just to replace a disk.

But on a home NAS? What problem would having to power it down and power it on for drive replacement create? You're going to resync the array anyways.

I don't mind them and I do use them but I consider them a very small QOL improvement. I don't really replace my disks all that often. And now that you can get 30TB enterprise samsung SSDs for 2k, two of those babies in raid 1 + an optane cache gives you extremely fast and reliable storage in a very small footprint.

fgonzag··on KDE is now my favorite desktop
He means that it's an amazing utility and everybody should try it, no matter their desktop or operating system (available in windows, linux, and osx)
fgonzag··on Log by time, not by count
Yup, he's trying to solve monitoring and logging with the same setup. I don't think I'd appreciate it, but like all the IT horror stories can be probably made to work.
fgonzag··on Speeding up my ZSH shell
SRE running copy pasted commands directly instead of a script or some automation solution? I don't think the problem is the shell...
fgonzag··on Show HN: McWig – A modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go
Traditionally (classic vim), horribly well. Fully extensible, but Vimscript is quirky to say the least.

Recently (neovim), delightfully. It just uses Lua and exposes APIs for absolutely everything.

fgonzag··on Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google?
Firefox private donations amount to 8 million usd from the last published data. Their CEO makes 9 million a year. 0 of Mozilla donations directly make it to Firefox developers or activities.
fgonzag··on Bankruptcy Took Down the Redbox Machine. If Only Someone Could Take Them Away
These machines could enable an automated check out process that is open 24/7
fgonzag··on IPMI
I've had 40%+ (8 out of 20) RMA rate with ASrock boards (from pcie drives dropping to weird gremlins), while I have replaced two out of over 300 super micro boards, all of them running 10y+

The IPMI interface sure is nicer though

fgonzag··on Big Pharma claims lower prices means giving up miracle medications. Ignore them
My feet have had open wounds for the past year due to psoriasis (and I've gone to every dermatologist I can). It's not just clear skin, it gets very bad with quite painful wounds from the scratching. Especially in hot humid conditions, and I play tennis a lot. 3 people I train with have bad cases, as in having to stop playing for a while
fgonzag··on Thunderbird.net Has a New Look
Have you checked betterbird? It's thunderbird with qol bug fixes and features.
fgonzag··on Software Company HashiCorp Is Weighing a Potential Sale
Jetbrains seems to do OK. I pay for my subscription out of pocket.
fgonzag··on Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret
You usually just do colocation. The data center will give you a rack (or space for one), an upstream gateway to your ISP, and redundant power. You still have to manage a firewall and your internal network equipment, but its not really that bad. I've used PFsense firewalls, configured by them for like $1500, with roaming vpn, high availability, point to point vpn, and as secure as reasonably possible. After that it's the same thing as the cloud except its physical servers.
fgonzag··on Monster Hunter Rise adds new DRM that breaks it on Steam Deck
So they won't have an issue refunding the millions of steam deck and Linux copies who've only ever played it on linux, since it wasn't supported originally.
fgonzag··on June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux (2023)
So not stream (OP never stated RHEL, he stated many packages not supporting stream) AND it doesn't support RHEL 9 which came out almost 2 years ago.
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