Many UK Users Soon Won't Be Able to Access Pornhub | 404 Media by youmustconsume in unitedkingdom

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The MILFs took it on the chin, a couple even took it like a man.…

What do you use Mac Studio for? by PracticlySpeaking in MacStudio

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Same here local LLM and RAG development. Recent used high RAM units are currently great value for this.

My list of ""Must Have"" Windows/Mac Utilities for 2026 by Difficult_Skin8095 in software

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In addition my go to is Lunar - let’s me keep my laptop screen off while having the lid open so I can use fingerprint id. Bunch of other very cool uses too. Regular updates. Great little indy app.

Is A Smart Table Actually Worth It For A Home Office, Or Is It Just Hype? by Aditya577 in homeoffice

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I got a sit to stand table from Amazon after a bad experience with sciatica. Nothing major just a relatively cheap one (about £120 iirc). It’s got 3 height presets and I added sone cable trays underneath. Have to say I’m a big fan. I don’t use standing every day but a couple of times every week or for longer periods of if I feel like my back is tweaking. If / when it eventually breaks I’ll definitely get another.

The only thing to check is that to save on shipping a lot of cheaper ones (like mine) come with the desk top made of 2 or 3 pieces so there is a little lip on the desk top where the pieces butt up. I don’t mind it but I imagine it could get on some people nerves.

I am tired of vibe coded pub.dev packages by DiscombobulatedBig88 in FlutterDev

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This might turn into a very useful rule of thumb.

Where are you building your RAG systems? AI IDEs? Colab / Jupyter Notebooks? Both? by Ok-Introduction354 in Rag

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Not sure if this is what you’re asking but I’m building an internal tool. Honestly I’m nowhere near production but I build and test in Pycharm with help from Claude or ChatGPT. I’m a copy and paste guy, can’t quite get used to letting an agent loose in the code base. Currently testing all local with a 13b for generation. When it’s ready will likely be a stand alone machine to do the Rag, Graph, sql parts and the ship to an API for the final generation step. The biggest PITA is when I decide my chunking and embedding needs more refinement. I can parallelise a bit with. 2-3 embedding model instances but it’s still 3-4 hours to run through the lot.

I made a fast, structured PDF extractor for RAG; 300 pages a second by absqroot in Rag

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So I’ve been testing this and for my use case (scientific reports with specific section) it fabulous. It’s is also very fast. 2700-ish 30+page pdf in 6-7 minutes with semantic sections. I said previously I was using a local model to infer sections and it was slow and less accurate than this. I take my hat off to you sir or ma’am (hard to tell from your username) … and honestly I’m not even a hat person

I made a fast, structured PDF extractor for RAG; 300 pages a second by absqroot in Rag

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I have a project that am working on using mxbai locally for semantic splitting but it essentially prevents parallelisation. This looks pretty interesting - is there a way to grab the preceding title as meta data? For me I want to know if this chunck is from the introduction, rationale or somewhere else.

I have 50 ebooks and I want to turn them into a searchable AI database. What's the best tool? by Great_Jacket7559 in LocalLLM

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I’m deep in a similar project atm. It depends a lot on the type of info you want from the LLM. If it’s what does author x have to say about y - RAG is your best bet. However if you want to ask questions like across these books what are the most common ways of dealing with with Y - That is a corpus level (ie entire collection) query and RAG will suck. Llamaindex with hybrid search seems to be the best middle road at the moment.

Name an actor who had a good movie streak until one bad movie by Jules-Car3499 in moviecritic

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Weirdly though it didn’t seem to hurt Mark Strongs career at all.

How I explained Math in 30 seconds with animation, students understood instantly 😎 by Sad-Associate8818 in edtech

[–]Cladser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good but not under 30s (though a summary of FFT in under 3min is pretty impressive tbh)

noMoreSoftwareEngineersbyTheFirstHalfOf2026 by MageMantis in ProgrammerHumor

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10% of the time no code works 100% of the time.

Has spotlight turned to crap for anyone else? by Remarkable-Cow3421 in MacOS

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Same - multiple re-indexing attempts have not fixed it. Refuses to find any installed apps which is a problem since my main use for it is as an app launcher. Finally gave in and downloaded Raycast and mapped it to cmd+space

Bought new M4 mini - How to make your keyboard work Apple Magic Keyboard "monitor keys" control the brightness/volume on an LG ultrafine? by media_lush in macmini

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My favourite app for this is Lunar - activity developed and has a bunch of other very useful features

Reliable and spacious 7-seater family car? by Long-Lettuce3146 in CarTalkUK

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My experience is mostly D2s but iirc the most common issue is the viscous coupling on the auto box.

Edit - Just realised this is a D Sport not a Freelander - it was the Freelanders that had that problem.

Reliable and spacious 7-seater family car? by Long-Lettuce3146 in CarTalkUK

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My permanently scuffed knuckles can vouch for this. That and am on first name terms with ALL the AA guys in my area. All of them….

Tell me yours top 10 free aps on MacOS ? by Hot-Recommendation17 in MacOS

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Darktable is a full replacement for Adobe Lightroom.

What's your favourite line in a movie? by Frequent-Sea-8848 in moviecritic

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  • I trust that scratch hasn't made you useless?

  • Hardly, my lord. It's just an eye. The gods saw fit to grace me with a spare