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Balinares

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  • Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

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  • I'd take a model whose training data is open source and legitimately obtained. The only ones I know about are Apertus and OLMo, and they aren't really competitive.

  • Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America

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  • Yeah, I don't actually know what's up for the Gulf of Mexico but it does seem they implemented a mechanism to show two names in certain contexts. I'll theorize it triggers when a polygon overlaps international jurisdictions with conflicting data, but that's just a guess and therefore likely wrong.

    At any rate there are probably intense internal meetings going on right now...

  • Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America

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  • Unless the Maps backend changed since I last heard about it, they didn't. They use official sources in each country -- for the US that would be the USGS I suppose -- and if those sources publish an update, Maps shows the update, as a passive mechanism. It's preserving the normal name against the USGS change that would take an active action.

    Mind you I still think they should actively preserve the normal name, and be held accountable for not doing so. They won't. But they should.

  • If open weight models are the future, U.S. AI companies are going to have a hard time

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  • Depends on your RAM (main + GPU), but assuming 32GB total: Qwen 3.6 35B A3B for coding support, Gemma 4 26B for general stuff. The LM Studio app curates a list of recommended models that will run well in it and makes it easy to run them.

    Mind you, what I like most about local models is their limitations, because it turns out closed models have limitations of the same nature, just with quite a bit more runway; and becoming aware of those limitations is valuable.

  • Ok to dual boot Linux and Windows 10?

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  • That's not been quite true in a long time.

    When it used to happen, there were a couple of issues involved.

    It used to be that Linux identified partitions ("slices" of hard drive) by number, and when Windows changed its own layout in a way that caused that number to change, Linux could fail to boot. But these days partitions have a unique identifier that doesn't change even when the layout of the hard drive does, and Linux uses these identifiers to keep track of its partitions. So this issue is gone.

    It used to be that installing a boot loader involved taking over the first sector of the hard drive and OSes would fight over that sector on install and during updates. But these days there is a mechanism where OSes can put their individual loaders side by side in a special partition and the PC BIOS lets you choose which loader to use. At worst Windows can only update the default choice. It's been known to do that, but it's easy enough to change back. There are tools that let you do so right from inside Windows.

    So yes, dual-booting Linux and Windows is safe and easy these days. Keeping them on separate drives isn't even necessary anymore.

  • What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?

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  • This, too, shall pass.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • OH. 😂

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • Just wanna quickly applaud the writing in this comment. Conveying a show's vibes this effectively in just a few sentences is not easy.

    (What's the long-payoff Andor joke though? I may have missed it.)

  • Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

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  • I know how MV3 works, thanks. The point remains that from the moment it was announced people have been claiming, usually with much hyperbole, that Chrome was trying to kill adblockers, and yet here we are with adblockers still blocking ads. In terms of software engineering, I actually find it interesting that they managed to achieve the stated goal of preventing a certain class of malware extensions while letting adblockers still work (though I know it's not a widely shared sentiment).

    Mind you, I still preferred living in an MV2 world, and I still encourage people to switch to Firefox. It's better for everyone if the ecosystem is more diverse.

  • Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

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  • uBlock dragged its feet supporting MV3 but AdGuard works fine.

  • What cities have bad vibes or just feel "off"?

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  • Seattle is pretty great, as US cities go. NYC is hit and miss but also feels like a place where real people live real lives.

  • What cities have bad vibes or just feel "off"?

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  • Naples is breathtaking, but... Yeah. That constant niggling feeling dampens the experience a wee bit.

  • Why are you a furry?

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  • You better start believing in furry stories on the Internet. You're in one. The joke that furries run the Internet is only a joke until you discover that it's, in fact, largely true.

  • Why are you a furry?

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  • Hey, so who are you? What kind of person?

    Loyal to your people? Introverted but faithful in friendship? Curious and playful? Are you more dignified, or carefree? Given to hoarding, or full of wanderlust? Drawn to the forest, the sky, the sea, or your den? Single-minded or scatterbrained? A mix of all that? Something else entirely?

    Gee, that's a lot of options. If only there was a way to put some kind of symbolic label on the many little traits that make up the identity of the person that is you... :)

    Also, it so turns out that if you come hang out with those who chose to self-label thus as wolf-like or fox-like or dragon-like or deer-like, you may find they're chill and welcoming people, throw great parties, and don't mind one bit if, ultimately, the you that makes sense to you is in the end human-like.

  • DeepSeek Permanently Reduces The Price Of Its Flagship V4 Model By 75 Percent

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  • They invented a hybrid attention design that drastically reduces the amount of memory needed for the KV cache at inference time. Like, dividing it by 10. And memory is a large part of the cost of inference.

  • What's your favorite movie?

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  • Everything, Everywhere, All At Once would definitely also be my recommendation. Because a kung fu comedy that's also a sci fi thriller, a bilingual family drama that can switch languages multiple times per sentence, a Ratatouille parody, and a 10 minute silent shot of two rocks in a desert, that just SHOULD NOT WORK. The fact it does, and does brilliantly, with ten new directing ideas every minute and a climax that leaves me in tears every time, borders on genius.

  • Badger Badger Badger Video Officially Preserved by British Film Institute

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  • All Your Base is the granddaddy of Internet memes and yet I can't help feeling that its specific subgenre was sublimated a bit later on, with this, the legend, the joyful, the unforgettable: Yatta!

  • Ham and Egg Pizza!

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  • That's an incredible bake for a cheap oven, whoa. Well done!

  • Ham and Egg Pizza!

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  • Dang, it's gorgeous. What kind of oven do you use?