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New comment by cosarara in "Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs"

cosarara — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:39:50 +0000

My first idea would be to generate one of those heatmaps using RYS as the base model. And see if it gets meaningfully better. And then again!

New comment by cosarara in "KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support"

cosarara — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:33:22 +0000

You can use IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. Things might break, but the feature exists.

New comment by cosarara in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

cosarara — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:17:26 +0000

> Compared to the $8,000 Framework Cluster I benchmarked last month, this cluster is about 4 times faster:

Slower. 4 times slower.

New comment by cosarara in "Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why (2024)"

cosarara — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 10:57:47 +0000

But we are not talking about a malicious ssg, we are talking about a vulnerable ssg that somehow needs to be patched. Unless your ssg connects to the internet, this is a non issue.

New comment by cosarara in "The Internet Archive is back online"

cosarara — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:39:41 +0000

That doesnt help with CGNAT.

New comment by cosarara in "Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds"

cosarara — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:22:53 +0000

> I can't imagine how it would be possible to construct a jump call with an invalid value

You can use the bx instruction to jump to any address stored in a register.

> Additionally, what would happen if one of TheZZAZZGlitch's incorrectly reconstructed ROMs was run on a real GameBoy?

It would crash, and eventually start playing the ROM on the speaker, the whole point of the video :)

New comment by cosarara in "Raspberry Pi is manufacturing 70K Raspberry Pi 5s per week"

cosarara — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:21:09 +0000

We were comparing the N100s not to the Pi5 but to this $98 Wo-We AMD: https://www.wo-we.com/collections/mini-pc/products/mini-pc-a...

The grandparent comment said you could get an N100 for the same price, but they are all more expensive no matter how you look at it.

New comment by cosarara in "Raspberry Pi is manufacturing 70K Raspberry Pi 5s per week"

cosarara — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:24:04 +0000

For x1.5 the price, from what I can see. Are there any under $100?

New comment by cosarara in "Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64"

cosarara — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 21:24:46 +0000

The typical modern gaming PC uses a lot more power than the original xbox. Yes maybe it's more efficient because it's doing "more", but in the end it's one person playing a game.

New comment by cosarara in "My First Impressions of Nix"

cosarara — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:43:26 +0000

Depending on what you are patching, it will invalidate a great part of the cache, and you will be looking at very long build times for everything in your system.

New comment by cosarara in "User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)"

cosarara — Thu, 18 May 2023 13:00:02 +0000

I gave up scrolling the terms and conditions.

New comment by cosarara in "Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (2012)"

cosarara — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:27:17 +0000

But not every synesthetic person sees the same colors for every key, right?

New comment by cosarara in "Show HN: JXL.js – JPEG XL Decoder in JavaScript Using WebAssembly in Web Worker"

cosarara — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:11:09 +0000

The rationale would be that it might be more efficient to WASM-decode JXL than to download a JPEG, especially in pages with lots of images, but I would want a fallback if the browser does not support WASM.

New comment by cosarara in "Show HN: JXL.js – JPEG XL Decoder in JavaScript Using WebAssembly in Web Worker"

cosarara — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:31:07 +0000

https://cosarara.me/misc/jxljs/ in my test, it will simply fall back to jpeg, even if the jxl.js library is loaded (scroll down to Image with fallback).

New comment by cosarara in "Show HN: JXL.js – JPEG XL Decoder in JavaScript Using WebAssembly in Web Worker"

cosarara — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:34:54 +0000

Is it possible to fall back to a jpeg if the browser does not support js, wasm, or web workers? With a element, maybe?

I did some tests on my own server and found that for some reason it's quite fast when running on https, but super slow on insecure http. Not sure why that is, maybe the browser disallows something that's important here for insecure connections.

New comment by cosarara in "We're moving away from swap partitions on our Linux servers"

cosarara — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 17:47:57 +0000

And I think that, sadly, it's not even a full solution, because linux can manage to get thrashing even without swap. It pages in and out things like memory mapped files or the content of executables of stopped processes. See for instance: https://serverfault.com/questions/898388/how-to-prevent-kern...

New comment by cosarara in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page"

cosarara — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:46:47 +0000

Maybe, or maybe the new equipment is much more efficient than the one it's replacing. It sounds true, but you can't really tell if it is or not, and really my annoyance is in saying it costs any estimated amount of energy, or carbon, to transfer 1GB of data. It does not, the transfer itself is basically cost-less. What costs money is running the infrastructure that makes it possible, and that's much harder to measure.

New comment by cosarara in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page"

cosarara — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:12:50 +0000

I agree with this. I was disagreeing with the statement

> Bandwidth is extremely carbon intensive.

and the reasoning that supports that statement.

New comment by cosarara in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page"

cosarara — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 08:13:25 +0000

I don't agree with the reasoning presented. It takes the estimate for the amount of energy that it takes to run the internet infrastructure and clients (141GW * 8765h in a year = 1235865 GWh), divides it by the amount of data transferred yearly (241 billion GB) and gets to 5.12kWh/GB.

You might argue that if people download more data, more equipment needs to run to enable it, but really all this energy consumption is happening regardless of my PC being idle or saturating its fiber pipes with torrents. If your website weights 14kb, all this same equipment needs to be on for my PC to load it.

New comment by cosarara in "Photos of chickens, taken by chickens"

cosarara — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 20:36:41 +0000

By that logic, I am taking a selfie every time I speed in front of a speed camera, or I drive in front of an average speed zone camera.