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New comment by whoahwio in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

whoahwio — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:37:41 +0000

dumping money into Gemma and shorting new data center buildouts is a level of Corporate Vision that ends up in an HBS case study

New comment by whoahwio in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

whoahwio — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:26:14 +0000

Makes me wonder about the partnership with apple to use gemini. safe to assume apple has a preference for on-device, and the best open model (for consumer hardware at least) is a google property with an apache 2 license. Interesting dynamic and seemingly a bright spot in the market

New comment by whoahwio in "State of Homelab 2026"

whoahwio — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:58:08 +0000

yes, the economics, and ease of use, of google/apple cloud storage is unmatched

and yes, most people willing to endeavor into the area are hobbyist, with all that entails

however, reading even one story of someone losing access to their cloud photos for xyz reason, is enough to decide that you ought to have some mechanism in place to ensure ownership of your data

New comment by whoahwio in "The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet"

whoahwio — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:35:36 +0000

That “smart” vs “dumb” distinction doesn’t apply here though. What is discussed has nothing to do with the ability to physically land a bomb in a precise location, that problem seems to be solved reasonably well already. “Smart” in this case has more to do with using ML/LLM to select a target.

New comment by whoahwio in "Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month"

whoahwio — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:36:17 +0000

This is much better positioned for longevity than google’s URL shortener, I’m not trying to make that argument. My point is that 10-15 years ago, when Google’s URL shortener was being adopted for all these (inappropriate) uses, its use was supported by a public opinion of Google’s ‘inevitability’. For Perma, CF serves a similar function.

New comment by whoahwio in "Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month"

whoahwio — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:15:42 +0000

While Perma is solution specifically for this problem, and a good one at that - citing the might of the backing company is a bit ironic here

New comment by whoahwio in "Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade"

whoahwio — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:17:31 +0000

I'm not sure the political currents present in America today indicate that states won't eagerly trample the right's of their citizens. Especially considering the voting restrictions and minoritarian rule pet projects of the right.

America is also rife with examples of the federal government intervening to protect citizens from their states — Brown v Board, or most extremely the Civil War.

"People need to vote" is insufficient for regressions on issues that affect people's livelihoods. For example, Texas has a larger democrat-voting population than many blue states, "just voting" won't do anything to improve their livelyhood in the foreseeable future.

New comment by whoahwio in "Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade"

whoahwio — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:57:04 +0000

> Gay marriage, on the other hand, has near zero historical precedence outside of a few cases with Roman emperors and stuff like that.

Unsure if you're presenting that as the human history that exists "in Thomas's mind" or actual history