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Comment Wow! (Score 1) 19

"Even with Democrats in control of the House and Senate, the companies see fractured politics as the norm, including within the Democratic Party."

I don't need a frontier LLM to tell me that the Democrats are ineffectual.

The problem with actively trying to be centrist to please everyone is that a) that's impossible and b) it means actively trying to find candidates who are less progressive than the one you're looking at when you're also supposed to be the more progressive party.

Comment Re:Playing with fire. (Score 1) 33

The AI companies themselves don't even really understand how their creation works. But I don't see why that would make them immune to criminal negligence.

Indeed, that point is irrelevant because the AI companies do know how their creations access other people's systems: through some type of harness without which all they can do is poop out text. And they first trained the model on content which could produce such a result, and then configured that harness in such a way that doesn't prevent the AI part of the software from accessing things it isn't supposed to. They did both of those things willfully, without regard for the safety of others, and knowing that it can and will go off the rails in that manner. Is it mere negligence when you set into motion a machine which is likely to cause harm? And why should it be any different for code?

Comment Re:Think smaller (Score 1) 78

It's a FlashForge Adventurer 5M. This is the Klipper host I'm talking about. I don't know how much RAM is in the other parts, it's not that relevant. It's really not enough memory so ZRAM is a necessity. There are mods for the printer, I am using ZMOD. It also offers a Klipper upgrade, fluidd, lower-memory camera streaming, and a better touch screen interface.

The AD5X has 512MB, the AD5M and AD5M Pro have only 256 and it's not enough. It causes timer too close errors. The controller hardware is just generally inadequate, which is unfortunate because the printer hardware is quite good.

Comment Re: America is a 25% functional unemployment (Score 1) 193

My perspective is that they're trying to get the same talent for less money. If it didn't save money compared to doing something else, or if they didn't at least think it did, they wouldn't do it. This isn't even complicated, it's business.

It used to be that business worked with education in order to foster the kinds of skills that would be needed in the future, then trained employees for specific jobs as needed. But the quality doesn't drop enough for the average customer to notice when they use the current method of firing long-term employees in favor of some new guy who has the new thing on his resume already. This is the only thing needed to explain why it's all outsourcing and H1Bs. Nobody wants to invest in a country any more, all of the corporations think they're above such petty things... until a war starts for economic reasons they caused.

Comment Re:data || GTFO (Score 1) 78

So, at first when they were introduced they were faster, because they used cores comparable to your CPU. That's why they were expensive. Then cheaper ones were introduced, they did less of the work, they were slower. In that case more of the "RAID" magic is happening in the driver instead of on the card. But expensive RAID controllers with full offloading were still fast. Eventually our CPUs got to be fast, and now software RAID is usually faster.

In the case of hwraid vs swraid, there is another reason not to use the hwraid — your devices get married to that controller. There are utilities which can convert the data to work with another controller, but what a hassle.

Anyway yes this technique currently requires a CXL controller, it seems as though it is really just a way to reduce the latency penalty for using one.

Comment Re:Think smaller (Score 1) 78

Seems like that would be entirely false.

Sure, if you have no experience and want to share your feelings about it.

Embedded and constrained systems are where a proper amount of RAM is easiest to provide directly.

This is a matter of perspective. Where you're shipping many units and want to save money, it can easily be false, as it was in both of my examples.

How does one know where they "need ZRAM" and where they don't?

man free

Comment Think smaller (Score 3, Interesting) 78

ZRAM and Zswap are used all over the Linux ecosystem, even on machines as constrained as the Steam Deck

The technique is especially useful on even more constrained systems, like embedded controllers in 3d printers and such. The only places I've ever needed ZRAM were on a phone with 512MB and on my 3d printer with 256MB.

Comment Re: America is a 25% functional unemployment (Score 1) 193

I say BS.

Yes, that's pretty much all you say.

if you are unable to beat out the bottom 25% of workers in your pursuit of a better job, then I'd say you probably *couldn't* do the job of an H1b worker.

I see you've never been involved in hiring. I'm not surprised, I wouldn't involve you either.

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