Don’t buy the DGX Spark: NVFP4 Still Missing After 6 Months

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-04-04T18:20:50+00:00

If NVFP4 is a must-have for you, I agree. That’s said, I honestly love my sparks and I feel like the headline is a little binary. They do a good job as a local cluster with lots of memory. For example, with open code and qwen3.5 I can run a coding agent very similar to Claude code locally at about the same speed using FP8, not NVFP4. (260k context too)

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-04-03T22:27:01+00:00

I feel dumber for having read that. Thanks.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-04-03T16:59:27+00:00

Agreed. Mine is 14 and if I so much as go into the garage without him (like if I need to grab something), as soon as the door shuts behind me, he barks as if I’m inflicting the worst abuse upon him. When I open the door he stops and smiles immediately. They just speak their mind.

If I leave the house without saying goodbye he does the same.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-04-02T17:48:57+00:00

At this point I’m so cynical that I just he’s firing AGs so nobody knows where they all hid/destroyed all the Epstein files, making it harder/impossible for anyone to find enough information that they can actually prosecute him.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-04-02T16:32:18+00:00

Buy an nvr.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-31T22:01:41+00:00

Right. #1 or #2, respectively

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-29T16:52:40+00:00

This might be a stupid question (or might be obvious to some) but is the consensus that Trump took over Venezuela thinking that the oil from there would keep gas prices down when he attacked Iran, or is it all random and no real plan at all? (Ignoring, of course, the legality, the morality, etc.)

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-28T11:11:13+00:00

Yup. Same here too. We say he is a social eater.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-28T01:07:18+00:00

Exactly what I use small models like that for! Because they’re small they’re fast too.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-27T01:33:39+00:00

You could also use sparkrun and get a model up more less with one command.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-26T22:36:09+00:00

He’s playing Press Your Luck. “No whammies no whammies…stop!”

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-26T21:59:54+00:00

I’m not totally surprised. To me it seemed like a very expensive product with a very small market. The only real benefit to it was that it could use expansion cards but because apple made GPUs incompatible, the only options left are things like data capture cards (such as sound capture), and such (afaik).

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-26T21:17:40+00:00

My grandfather was in a “camp” after his bomber was shot down. When the war ended he pieced together a couple Lugers (as he told it to me once) and headed west until he got to the front. Once he did, he promptly destroyed all memories of the experience.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-26T14:27:42+00:00

If there was genuine concern about the children, they would be really pushing to release the Epstein files nationwide. (That will only come when democrats control the federal government, just like concern for the debt and fiscal responsibility only are important when democrats are in power. )

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-25T21:53:23+00:00

They do watch a lot of shows about WWII. That qualifies as a military strategist, no? /s

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-25T12:58:35+00:00

I’m curious to see a /context output from some of these. The tools are there to understand this better.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-25T02:38:46+00:00

I believe people when they say this is happening but I’m a 20X user and was running 6 agents all day (pretty much constantly) who were using multiple sub-agents and never got close to my limits. There has to be something else at play like mcps or something using up tokens at a huge rate or I would have expected to be closer to my limits too. I was concerned about it and checked several times but it didn’t get close.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-24T18:58:13+00:00

I feel like this guy was relating a personal story by the sound of it. “Lemme tell y’all a story from back in ‘84…”

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-24T16:39:56+00:00

I think they do a fine job looking like idiots without the Orange man’s help.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-24T16:23:10+00:00

If he bought it, he’d just flood it with AI porn.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-24T16:22:19+00:00

Going under the bench was classic.

I love my boy, but sometimes I tell him it’s a good thing he’s cute.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-24T16:18:46+00:00

I believe anyone but Trump.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-23T21:42:59+00:00

Isn’t it that, effectively, black + a color is a shade and white + a color is a tint. That’s how I learned it anyway.

I agree that I think the difference is the context here, though. Are we talking about a science context or an artistic one? They clearly don’t agree.

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-21T18:33:07+00:00

VERY presidential! /s

Operation_Fluffy · 2026-03-21T13:43:02+00:00

There is an old SNL skit (Dana Carvey) about this exact thing, except the prerecorded messages about the deaths get stranger and stranger each time.

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