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New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:07:21 +0000

Yeah, I'm seeing 8-9 t/s on a Xeon CPU E3-1270 V2 @ 3.50GHz with an old Nvidia Quadro K2200 (4GB). I run gemma4:e2b and gemma4:12b-it-qat on Ollama.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:28:37 +0000

There's always NsCDE which should run on modern Linux. Haven't tried it myself.

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "What will be left for us to work on?"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:48:00 +0000

I think this is underrepresented in everyone's calculations about how AI will affect software engineering. In my experience (and apparently yours as well) this is what many companies are using it for. All those pesky bugs that are minor annoyances but not show-stoppers are getting addressed. They aren't helping us sell more software, but they're dissatisfiers for the customers.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:13:56 +0000

Easy; take your comment before you post it and have the LLM evaluate it against the rules.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:31:17 +0000

You're not wrong, but I would like to point out that there is also the Civilian Weather Observer Program (CWOP) that is fed by a lot of private weather stations (the kind you can buy at Walmart of Amazon and put at your house). I believe the data is aggregated and averaged to account for variations in installation deficiencies, and used to inform/enhance the government maintained data feeds.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:23:33 +0000

Hard disagree, my rep is an idiot

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:27:18 +0000

Stupid people also assume there are not exceptions to every rule. But you can't build your systems (or your arguments) around edge cases, because that would be ignoring the vast majority of use cases.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:01:15 +0000

They used to. Not anymore.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:00:52 +0000

That is the weirdest thing I've ever read

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:59:32 +0000

HERE WeGo does traffic, if you want to ditch Google Maps.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:56:13 +0000

Open source? Not that I've found. I use HERE WeGo for searching and driving, and CoMaps for walking around.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:53:29 +0000

> Personally I wish more scaremongering were happening right now.

You might be the first person in history to say that

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:01:04 +0000

> climate simply hasn’t, until recently, required it.

I would qualify that as it hasn't required it since the invention of air conditioning.

Which also isn't strictly true; the high temperature for Paris on July 1st this year is identical to the high for the same day back in 2015[1], and there are several times since 1970 that the temperature was over 30C.

Other sources[2] indicate 1947 was just as brutal as 2019 and 2022, and the warmest night was in 1772 (27.5C)

[1] https://weatheronthisday.com/intl/paris/7/1

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Paris (standard Wikipedia reliability warning applies)

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:38:16 +0000

I love that I got downvoted above for literally suggesting they ask someone who was recently in America for their opinion as to what America has to offer.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:04:21 +0000

Capitalism doesn't break things, it builds them. You're thinking of greed, which exists in all economic types.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:01:01 +0000

> It's insane they aren't using this opportunity.

Instead they're taking the opportunity to be insane. But the faithful are not allowed to admit that.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:58:25 +0000

Ask those returning home from world cup visits. They'll be in the best position to compare to their home country.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:16:22 +0000

Or round, like the hobbits do

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Immich 3.0"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:55:41 +0000

I got annoyed with Immich and external storage, because in order for every user to have their own facial recognition data on a large set of photos, you have to add the folder as external storage for each user, which means image previews for each user, even though the source image is the same. So if you have 3 users, you use up 3 times the space for the same thumbnail image.

It got to where I had 20% of my space was just thumbnails for each user, even though it was one set of images in the external storage.

Maybe that's changed recently.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:14:18 +0000

I, Robot (2004) dealt with this issue, too

Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a... canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?