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tandr··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
thank you! That was quite educational.
tandr··on Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Thank you!
tandr··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
by the looks of it... any front collision == instant death?
tandr··on Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
What would be these additional vllm flags, if you don't mind sharing?
tandr··on LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
I think they are talking about AWS dashboard, but I might be wrong.
tandr··on ForgeKV – Redis-compatible KV server in Rust that scales with cores
I understand that the project is in his early stages, and documentation (README) is very much WIP. So, couple questions

    1. "SSD backed" - on-the-fly 100% time (like KVRocks), or requires same "save" like Redis does?
    2. (if it is like kvrocks) Do you have any perf numbers for DB sizes that are, say, 10x of RAM size?
tandr··on Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe
Some simpler benchmark table would be great. May I suggest Ollama on base machine, Ollama with T1, Ollama with T1+T2 etc. on midsize and big models to compare token/sec?
tandr··on -fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C
Niklaus Wirth died in 2024, and yet I hope he is having a major I-told-you-so moment about people blaming Pascal's bounds checking to be unneeded and making things slow.
tandr··on Go away Python
It works, but the best in me I cannot explain fully first 3 symbols. /*?sr/bin/env finds /usr by expanding *? to a first matching directory. But why not just /*usr/ instead?
tandr··on Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries
Index Size

    Biscuit 277.09 MB
    Trigram 86 MB
    B-Tree  43 MB
Pretty much you exchange space for speed
tandr··on Backing up Spotify
Spotify just (last week or 2 weeks ago) introduced lossless compression (FLAC) and it sounds amazing.
tandr··on Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
Last decades? wipes the tear You surely forgot /s at end, I hope. The evil incarnation what is called "Samsung fridge" that I have in my kitchen required repairman's attention just 3 months after the purchase. And then every 3 months after. And children sacrifices, sorry - steam baths, for the ice maker every month or so.

Samsung appliances - never again.

PS. Repairman told me that Samsung have fixed already one of the problems my fridge has by the time he looked at it, kind of hidden recall and fix. Fridge's version (yes, they have versions) have advanced like 7 iterations already from the time I bought it. That means there were at least 7 serious design/manufacturing problems that they had to fix.

tandr··on Always Invite Anna
Thank you, a very heartwarming story indeed.

I think you just have coined a new saying - "Always invite Anna" sounds intriguing, and yet at the same time very descriptive.

tandr··on First Ultrasonic Chef's Knife Vibrates 40,000X/Second for Easy Cutting
How crazy will it drive my dog?
tandr··on Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights
Red vs Blue?
tandr··on What to do with C++ modules?
I was, but I guess adding /s at the end in these cases is a requirement nowadays...
tandr··on What to do with C++ modules?
Or could it be (or to be a bit of devil's advocate) that Rust projects require only 2% (1/50) of manpower, comparing the same project using C++?
tandr··on Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second
Pardon for the old meme here, but... "Pics, or did not happened!"?
tandr··on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
Is it weird that internet companies do not have this kind of oversight?
tandr··on Remove All AI Features from Firefox
Or you can configure it to use local ollama, and actually use it when needed

    browser.ml.chat.hideLocalhost: false
    browser.ml.chat.provider:  http://localhost:11434
tandr··on Tree Borrows
> Apples don't fall far from the tree, indeed.

And one could say that they borrow from the tree some of their qualities. Sorry, couldn't resist.

tandr··on Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
I tried it as a FS for a data volume (200GB) on Linux a year ago, after reading how stable it is "now". The first hard crash made it unrecoverable no matter what I have tried. Never again.
tandr··on RFK Jr.: HHS moves to restore public trust in vaccines

   > I can't wait to travel to Mexico or Canada to get a vaccine!
But... how? I do remember times during COVID when you couldn't even get on the plane without proof of vaccine.
tandr··on Memetics – A Growth Industry in US Military Operations (2006) [pdf]
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
tandr··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
Thank you, I haven't watched the show. But by the sound of it - that logic and his "style" in general are not that far from what "real life" characters are arguing about.
tandr··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

    > And who's worth the most? Companies that lose money.
I am failing to see the logic in this, sorry.
tandr··on Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
The larger model (235b) on chat produced rather an impressive answer on a small coding task I gave it. But Qwen-30B-A3B gave a result for the same task worse than Qwen 2.5 does.

"Write a Golang program that merges huge presorted text files, just like sort -m does". Quite often models need "use heap" as guidance, but this time big model figured it out by itself.

tandr··on Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
Would you be kind and share some examples?
tandr··on After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
Will we ever remember that?...
tandr··on Restructuring Announcement
I think you might've misspelled "ruining" a bit. It is ok, I think we have read you correctly anyway, at least I did.
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