FWIW I run the printer in a downstairs bathroom with its own extractor fan and cure in the sun.

I have to say that it is the biggest pain in the arse thing I even own. While the prints come out "good", I find that dimensional accuracy is often really not good at all; and that the whole rinse in isopropyl, finish in the sun process is just a sticky, irritating, and probably carcinogenic drag.

And I can't imagine why USD700 is regarded as a bargain.

So this has served as a fine reminder - I need to sell this damn thing, it just takes up space.

On the plus side: it's a unikernel. You compile it and your application together and get a binary. It has support for running on virtual hardware (https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/hardware/virtualizatio...) and virtio is the new bios, right?

On the minus side: I think porting "traditional" software - say Nginx - to it will be agonising. And I can't make any guarantees about its performance in the same way that Alpine Linux container images are not necessarily fast.

But there's an entire toolchain, debugging story, drivers etc. for something that compiles to tiny and starts up basically instantaneously. Surely that's got to be useful for something?

In practice, of course, it's all going to go a bit south when road cars go to 90% EV. There is already a "formula E", of course.

It strikes me that LLM's are a subtle combination of knowing the language and knowing some facts. If one were making a chatbot for helping (say) people understand their tax returns then you'd want a 'base' LLM that understood language and then add domain specific knowledge via RAG. So "yes" to knowing that Thursday comes after Wednesday; "no" to knowing how high Everest is; and questions regarding income tax have to reference the RAG. Is this correct?

So are there stock "thin" models for doing this? Is it better to train your own?

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Not sure I mind the routers so much. By the time the traffic is traversing the router it had better be encrypted. OTOH an army of domestic routers can at the very least be made into a quite astounding botnet and if we were to dig deeper I'm sure the data around which hardware address comes online and when could be made extremely useful.

In short: you're right. It's not protectionist bullshit, it's a wide variety of reasonable concerns. It also might be a horse that's bolted.

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Those are some huge increases.

I'd say Voodoo 3 mattered because it killed 3dfx.

And the Matrox Parhelia mattered for much the same reason.