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I wonder if another path to “success” for ladybird could be rather than end users downloading it for the main browser, if it gains enough dev interest, we could get some kind of competitor to electron and it would end up getting bundled in that way as a lighter weight runtime to chromium for that use case.

looks like it only has the physical connections for USB 2. Fun fact about usb 3, it’s really a completely separate physical standard from usb 2, just designed in such a way that a single port can have BOTH usb 2.0 and 3.0 connectors in it at the same time. In theory this would allow for devices to use the full bandwidth of 3.0 + the full bandwidth of 2.0, but as far as I know no device does that.

> In theory this would allow for devices to use the full bandwidth of 3.0 + the full bandwidth of 2.0, but as far as I know no device does that.

Not as a single device (no XHCI controllers allow this), but yes if you presented two devices to the OS (with some XHCI controllers.)


according to https://downdetector.com/ Gemini is down too (and copilot, but that just uses ChatGPT right?)

I tried this in my mac mini m2 16GB, unfortunately I have to use an usb disk for the model weights, and I’m getting 0.5 tok/s. Still, being able to run (heh maybe crawl is more accurate) a 100B model on this computer AT ALL is pretty cool.

I see disk maxing out at 400 MB/s, this disk should be able to hit 1GB/s (it hits that eg when verifying the check sum of the weights), so there might be some optimization to be done there (I’m guessing it’s because the weights access is not pure sequential reads but involves some randomness depending on which expert)


surprised to see nothing at null island[0]. Good job cleaning your data

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island


I have to say though as a xfinity customer, being able to get wifi basically anywhere urban is pretty nice

Yea this almosts sounds like it could be a great idea with proper execution, nothing like this in the UK. Imagine if they were upfront and said "well knock a tenner (or whatever is reasonable in the US) if you allow your access point to be used as a hotspot"

> nothing like this in the UK.

It turns out there are several similar services offered in the UK by ISP's like O2, Sky, and BT¹ (recently rebranded as EE-WiFi²) who claim to be the UK's largest WiFi Hotspot Network. Perhaps that's due to it being opt-out on their routers since it was first introduced over a decade ago.

[¹]: https://info.btwifi.com/help/

[²]: https://ee-wifi.ee.co.uk/public/ee/index.htm


This is actually hotspot rollouts as far as I know though? You dont see BT/EE wifi networks everywhere, particularly not where you'd expect to see a concentration like residential streets / buildings with this kind of system, mainly see BT / O2 hotspots in public spaces like train stations + event spaces.

Tbf may just be less monopolisation of broadband making it more sparse, but they actually have a map of hotspots on that site which implies they are intentionally placed.


https://xkcd.com/927/

To actually add something to the discussion though: I guess getting LLMs to control robots is cool, but would potentially have more severe consequences than pure software since it interacts more with the physical world


I wonder if there will be an updated xkcd for ai.

Like... don't need standards, just explain to an ai what the target hardware is and it will output binary bits that match.


that and always putting the “current year” at the end of the search term (so the results are more recent, I guess?), except that “current year” consistently ends up being 2-3 years ago since I guess that’s what’s in the training data (even on a harness that injects the current date)



I gotta laugh at some of the models it suggests, for example:

> AnkitAI/Parable-Qwen3-4B-Claude-Fable-5-GGUF

you’re telling me you managed to fit Fable 5 into just 4B?


Fyi that model name to me reads

Qwen3 4b params distilled/trained with fable 5


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Well to be fair here... the title of this post doesn't mention fine tuning, it mentions quantization.


Don't make fun of people you think are ignorant, it's a pretty shitty look


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