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New comment by UncleOxidant in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

UncleOxidant — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:06:09 +0000

Is there a RISC-VI in the works where they try to learn from the RISC-V mistakes to make improvements?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Seven books I keep close because I love them"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:05:44 +0000

> It [The Bible] is full of great wisdom and great stories, and also cruelty, evil lies, and reminders that the world now is in many ways better than it was because people are better.

Are people better? And if they are what made them better?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:08:14 +0000

I'm hoping for a 3.8-122B MoE

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:06:29 +0000

Wait for the MTP variants that will likely be out within days. I'm on a 128GB Strix Halo box and for 3.6-27B 8bits I was getting about 9tok/sec (not great). With MTP that gets closer to 18 tok/sec (kind'a usable).

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:59:56 +0000

If it's as good as Sonnet 4.6 for most things I'd be happy.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:57:31 +0000

Good morning Dario!

New comment by UncleOxidant in "How Compaction Works in Pi"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:05:05 +0000

But what if the model you're using doesn't have image processing capabilities?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:05:01 +0000

Yes, 3.6 Flash is very fast. I used to get a fair amount of usage of the Gemini Flash models on the free tier. I signed up for their $4.99/month tier (includes 400GB of Google space which was also enticing) and it turns out I only get about 15 to 20 minutes of usage before I get a come-back-in-7-days message. Comically low usage limits on that plan.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "When Will AI Take My Job?"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:18:48 +0000

I agree about AI not killing humanity in the next 5 years, but why do we need rapid AI adoption?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "When Will AI Take My Job?"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:50:58 +0000

Telephone operators? Word processors and typists? These sound like job categories from the 80s. This just the first couple I noticed in the graph there. Aren't those jobs that were already largely gone even prior to AI?

Anyway, they have that first graph there showing extrapolated employment trends, but there's nothing about the methodology they used to come up with it.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

UncleOxidant — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:17:39 +0000

> With AI, "bad" engineers can now amplify their "bad" engineering x10 across the organization.

It's even worse than that. We've got a CEO who has suddenly learned how to vibe code and the stuff he's coming up with is... kind of horrendous. He's coming up with new "products" and proclaiming them the next big thing for us to work on and we're kind of over here scratching our heads asking who would want this? Who would pay for it? I mean, he was able to put together a kind of a cool web app (with 0 web app knowledge) that's supposedly going to let users design thingys with AI, but it just seems like he re-invented a harness/IDE. I suggested that maybe what he wants is a VS Code plugin like Cline or KiloCode... but he hadn't used VS Code.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Qwen3.8-2.4T"

UncleOxidant — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:11:04 +0000

We're all really waiting for the 3.8-27B which is due out in 2 days.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

UncleOxidant — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:51:54 +0000

Just tripping a bit messed up my SI joint pretty bad a few years back. It didn't even seem serious at the time, just a bit of a stumble off of the curb, but the next day I could barely get out of bed and was in pretty serious pain for several days. Couldn't go up stairs and had a tough time getting my pants on. Still acts up sometimes.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system"

UncleOxidant — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:20:09 +0000

The more things change...

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:44:39 +0000

With Opus 5 as the underlying model.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:33:28 +0000

And once we also decided that we needed to attack Iran.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:46:09 +0000

I guess I'm not understanding why this makes sense for AMD to buy Taalas unless they plan to get into hosting. It doesn't seem like a great fit.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:58:03 +0000

I wonder if GitHub actions was a bad idea? Like maybe it's being abused for other kinds of compute besides just builds? And even builds themselves can require a lot of compute. I've only recently had a repo there where I wanted to do builds to make a release (both linux binaries and WASM) and whenever I do that tag and wait a few minutes for those builds to finish I think about all the other projects/repos out there on GitHub doing the same.

I'm really kind of surprised they let us do that - like, why didn't they just have you upload the binaries after building on your local machine?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:08:52 +0000

Here in the US I get PBS on Channel 10 - there's 10.1 (straight PBS), 10.2 (PBS-World) and 10.3 (PBS kids) - do each of these take a separate 6MHz bandwidth, or are they packed into that single 6MHz bandwidth like in Europe?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:05:38 +0000

> this spectrum should simply be reassigned for IP based services, with perhaps some set aside for non profit / educational uses, some for commercial, etc.

We've got internet, but no cable. So we still watch over-the-air TV, though it's mostly PBS at this point (which is non profit). Also listen to FM radio - mostly NPR, a jazz station and a classical station - all also non-profit.