CameronDev @ CameronDev @programming.dev

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I didn't say you can't have a GPU, but to me, its wasteful. I keep my jellyfin server off when not in use, and use WoL to start it when its needed.

I have played with local LLMs, and the models I used were unimpressive, but without knowing what the OP has in mind, we cant know how much power it will use. If it just spins up the GPU once a day for 20 minutes, probably okay, you won't even notice it. But anyone like me who doesn't already have a GPU in their lab will probably notice it quite clearly on their power bill.

A megacorps server farm is huge, but its also amortised over millions of users, they probably don't need 1-1 GPU to customers, so the efficiency isnt necessarily bad. (Although at the moment, given megacorps are tripping over themselves to throw compute at LLM training, this may not be true)

Idle is low power, not zero power. And it won't be idle when its scraping and parsing the sites, so depending on how much scraping its doing, it could be significant non-idle energy usage.

Of course, but even still, those areas are usually ex-natural forests, so the more paper that can be reclaiming via recycling, the less demand for clearing the natural forests. And its probably less energy intensive to recycle than to start from scratch.

Yeah, absolutely. And running a GPU 24/7 to occasionally search is just a waste of power. I'm not convinced that google and bings AI search makes financial sense either, Google dropped live search (where the results updated as you typed realtime) because it was too expensive, how does LLM search end up cheaper than live search?!

Edit: This is the live search thing: https://searchengineland.com/test-google-updating-search-results-as-you-type-49116 ~~Annoyingly hard to find, and I can't find the articles on its cancellation, but from memory it was related to expense. ~~

Edit2: Google Instant Search, and the death was blamed on mobile, and wanting to unify the mobile/desktop experience. I do vaguely remember expense being an unofficial/rumored reason, but I can't back that up.

I personally have zero interest in AI search, if you mean LLM. The fact that it can make stuff up, also means it can miss stuff as well. Neither are acceptable for a search engine.

If you mean some kind of deterministic algorithm for indexing and searching, then maybe.

Also, attempting to crawl sites locally sounds like a great way to get banned from those sites for looking like a bot.

Hopefully with more recycling than new forests, but otherwise that sounds about right. Guess it really depends what we consider as local. Suburb level, probably not viable, but state level, definitely.

Is it easy to produce? Isnt it a lot of treatment steps between tree (or recycled) and usable paper roll? Definitely not requiring overseas shipping, but its also not something easily done down in the shed?

Nicole?!

My company does a mix of scrum and kanban, but its all pretty loose. I suspect its actually very rare to find any of those development models being followed strictly, once you leave uni you'll end up doing whatever the company/team you join does.

Install the adapter and epoxy it to the laptop :D

This is basically the opposite of a thinkpad/framework, but m1 macbook airs are cheapish second hand, plenty of battery life, USBC, lightweight and durable. Definitely not repairable or upgradable though, so if thats important forget it.

Can install Linux (asahi project), but macos is Unix like enough that I found it good enough.

You may want to specify what your needs are. What is this for?

I really don't want him remaking the video...

That is very weird, especially as it was renewed in 2024.

Also appears the Canada is a company in Texas:

    
Registrant Organization: 3501256 Canada, Inc.
Registrant Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant City: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant State/Province: Texas
Registrant Postal Code: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Country: US

  

You have an interesting definition of "good things" my friend. As far as I can tell, it is down, which is why I didn't put a content warning on it.

If you want to try the beta version of Lemon8 for free, check out lemonparty.org.

It still is a thing in some fonts: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/font-ligatures-for-your-code-editor-and-terminal

Took me a while to work out what they were called. Font rendering is hard :(

That is quite a unique quip. I love the idea of geo-based rendering, every application that renders text needs location access to be strictly correct :D.

I'd go further with the codepoint reduction, and delete w (can use uu) instead, and delete k (hard c can take its place)

weird o with the leg

Can you elaborate? Do you mean Q or p?

Really hope we arent stupid enough to vote him in.