gamescope is a custom wayland compositor that Valve built for gaming... In steam big picture mode there is no xwayland or anything, just gamescope. What you are reading from the readme notes that it calls into xwayland…
assuming 2% inflation over 30 years, that means that a dollar in 1996 is now worth $1.81. 80% depreciation versus 25% increase in income is not comparable. The wealth inequality in the past 30 years has dramatically…
The purpose of a deficit, as discovered by Keynes, is to stimulate economic activity. If spent well, it can help reverse recessions and overcome the inertia of a depression to get the economy to a more prosperous…
Phones and laptops from a few years ago are not suddenly unusable. Yes, the cutting edge is very nice, but any laptop past 2016 is useable for the average person. Even gpu inference on older process nodes is perfectly…
Tech bros whether they realize it or not are living a philosophy of fear. They say: in order for YOU to be healthy and safe, we should be allowed to trample THEM (the undesirables), because trust us, the end result will…
you can run Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B (3 billion active parameters + some GB for context) that can easily fit into 10 GB of ram while the not currently active experts are offloaded to the cpu ram with llama-cpp.
Yes absolutely. You can install nonprivileged google stuff on the main account. Alternatively you can setup a private space (accessible to the main user but mostly separate from the main system) with a few clicks in the…
with llama-cpp and offloading non-active experts (from MOE architecture) to cpu RAM, you can easily run 50 tok / s QWEN-3.6 35B on 8-12 GB of VRAM. KV cache is a few GB, experts are ~3-5 GB (assuming q8 quant from…
Friedman's gift to the world was erasing the legacy of justice and desire to help the common person Keynes left behind. Keynes lived through two world wars and learned that global trade does not in fact mean that…
Spotify rigs their system to benefit the large label companies and anyone with a critical mass so the people that "matter" say 'good enough' and the people with no voice get screwed. I suspect an honest implementation…
I know many teachers and funding already works the way you describe: the better a school's students do, the more funding it gets (schools also get funding for the number of days the students show up). What this does is…
Stories like this one, though rare, often remind me that there is hope, and that society is not static. That even though there is corruption, and setbacks, by continuously pursuing a goal we can slowly claw our way…
Milton Friedman's direct quote on immigration: Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It’s a good…
Your solution (of tackling unemployment by tacking it onto national defense), is eerily close to what they discussed in an episode of Yes Prime Minister in the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX_d_vMKswE…
Anyone who wants to understand southern Italy should read "Il Gattopardo" (The Leopard) by one of the last peers of Sicily. Not sure about the malaria cause, but it is true that the South of Italy has traditionally been…
While interesting the post is incredibly vague and jumps to conclusions that in my opinion other data can explan or at least requires further testing. 14th gen intel have "big" and "little" cores. Unless you specify to…
I've been using Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B with images as input so I suspect you perhaps didn't include the vision part of the model during testing (I use llama.cpp and I learned I needed to include the separate mmproj part).
I think the article briefly touches on an important part: people still write blogs, but they are buried by Google that now optimizes their algorithm for monetization and not usefulness. Anyone interested in seeing what…
The purpose of grades is to punish students, something which they are keenly aware of. Remove grades from the equation and hold students back until they have mastered the material and they will cease cheating. If…
National defense is important, just ask Europe post Ukraine war. People taking a good idea and extending it to do bad does harm twice: in the bad act itself and in making a good thing seem bad. I am strongly against US…
I am bullish on AI being used in all sorts of useful and discreet and non-discreet ways in the present and future. However I am exceedingly skeptical of NPUs being some winning bet. No one is running LLMs on current gen…
Heads + TPM is solid but I suspect it is not at the level of Google/Apple secure enclave. And a strong secure enclave provides benefits outside of first boot to secure certain processor state and continuosly ensure…
The problem with laptops is that UEFI is a shadow operating system that keeps running after boot, with a bunch of security vulnerabilities. Furthermore all Intel / AMD chips have a microprocessor state called SMF which…
What about XFinity, which by default shares the wifi you pay for with strangers to create access points around the city?
There is actually, though I suspect it's a different one I found. https://github.com/jopdorp/build123d-freecad (it also supports cadquery) Set it up today and I am really liking build123d in general. I've always wanted…
gamescope is a custom wayland compositor that Valve built for gaming... In steam big picture mode there is no xwayland or anything, just gamescope. What you are reading from the readme notes that it calls into xwayland…
assuming 2% inflation over 30 years, that means that a dollar in 1996 is now worth $1.81. 80% depreciation versus 25% increase in income is not comparable. The wealth inequality in the past 30 years has dramatically…
The purpose of a deficit, as discovered by Keynes, is to stimulate economic activity. If spent well, it can help reverse recessions and overcome the inertia of a depression to get the economy to a more prosperous…
Phones and laptops from a few years ago are not suddenly unusable. Yes, the cutting edge is very nice, but any laptop past 2016 is useable for the average person. Even gpu inference on older process nodes is perfectly…
Tech bros whether they realize it or not are living a philosophy of fear. They say: in order for YOU to be healthy and safe, we should be allowed to trample THEM (the undesirables), because trust us, the end result will…
you can run Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B (3 billion active parameters + some GB for context) that can easily fit into 10 GB of ram while the not currently active experts are offloaded to the cpu ram with llama-cpp.
Yes absolutely. You can install nonprivileged google stuff on the main account. Alternatively you can setup a private space (accessible to the main user but mostly separate from the main system) with a few clicks in the…
with llama-cpp and offloading non-active experts (from MOE architecture) to cpu RAM, you can easily run 50 tok / s QWEN-3.6 35B on 8-12 GB of VRAM. KV cache is a few GB, experts are ~3-5 GB (assuming q8 quant from…
Friedman's gift to the world was erasing the legacy of justice and desire to help the common person Keynes left behind. Keynes lived through two world wars and learned that global trade does not in fact mean that…
Spotify rigs their system to benefit the large label companies and anyone with a critical mass so the people that "matter" say 'good enough' and the people with no voice get screwed. I suspect an honest implementation…
I know many teachers and funding already works the way you describe: the better a school's students do, the more funding it gets (schools also get funding for the number of days the students show up). What this does is…
Stories like this one, though rare, often remind me that there is hope, and that society is not static. That even though there is corruption, and setbacks, by continuously pursuing a goal we can slowly claw our way…
Milton Friedman's direct quote on immigration: Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It’s a good…
Your solution (of tackling unemployment by tacking it onto national defense), is eerily close to what they discussed in an episode of Yes Prime Minister in the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX_d_vMKswE…
Anyone who wants to understand southern Italy should read "Il Gattopardo" (The Leopard) by one of the last peers of Sicily. Not sure about the malaria cause, but it is true that the South of Italy has traditionally been…
While interesting the post is incredibly vague and jumps to conclusions that in my opinion other data can explan or at least requires further testing. 14th gen intel have "big" and "little" cores. Unless you specify to…
I've been using Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B with images as input so I suspect you perhaps didn't include the vision part of the model during testing (I use llama.cpp and I learned I needed to include the separate mmproj part).
I think the article briefly touches on an important part: people still write blogs, but they are buried by Google that now optimizes their algorithm for monetization and not usefulness. Anyone interested in seeing what…
The purpose of grades is to punish students, something which they are keenly aware of. Remove grades from the equation and hold students back until they have mastered the material and they will cease cheating. If…
National defense is important, just ask Europe post Ukraine war. People taking a good idea and extending it to do bad does harm twice: in the bad act itself and in making a good thing seem bad. I am strongly against US…
I am bullish on AI being used in all sorts of useful and discreet and non-discreet ways in the present and future. However I am exceedingly skeptical of NPUs being some winning bet. No one is running LLMs on current gen…
Heads + TPM is solid but I suspect it is not at the level of Google/Apple secure enclave. And a strong secure enclave provides benefits outside of first boot to secure certain processor state and continuosly ensure…
The problem with laptops is that UEFI is a shadow operating system that keeps running after boot, with a bunch of security vulnerabilities. Furthermore all Intel / AMD chips have a microprocessor state called SMF which…
What about XFinity, which by default shares the wifi you pay for with strangers to create access points around the city?
There is actually, though I suspect it's a different one I found. https://github.com/jopdorp/build123d-freecad (it also supports cadquery) Set it up today and I am really liking build123d in general. I've always wanted…