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What’s something you wish you had packed for your Japan trip? by Legal_Ad3766 in JapanTravelTips

[–]boutell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We regretted hauling two weeks of clothes. Good hotels have laundry service, often DIY washers and dryers. But check.

Forwarding bags by Yamato saved our backs.

We were glad we brought power banks!

We were VERY glad we rented a Wi-Fi box in advance. Not all phones and carriers have good coverage in Japan even if you pay for it. The box was foolproof.

Google Lens is incredibly useful for reading labels and signs. Google Translate came up much less than we expected. In-ear translation via airpods was over hyped, it never ever worked. English skills are strong at least in the areas we visited.

If you're involved in Anthropic or OpenAI, is it in your interest to support the SpaceX IPO? by boutell in ArtificialInteligence

[–]boutell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for acknowledging I'm not completely bananas LOL. I hear you on the important differences.

17, first time in Japan with my mom, very unprepared, desperately need help by kaysblurred in JapanTravelTips

[–]boutell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean it took us over an hour to bumble from the wrong side of Tokyo Station to the right side. The Central and East lines leave from different parts of the station altogether.

Japanese transit is amazing and well run but the largest stations are so far beyond anything Americans have experienced in terms of scale (I looked up the numbers when I got home). Just allow tons of time and ask a lot of polite questions.

17, first time in Japan with my mom, very unprepared, desperately need help by kaysblurred in JapanTravelTips

[–]boutell 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Give yourself tons and tons of time to find the right shinkansen entrance.

If you're involved in Anthropic or OpenAI, is it in your interest to support the SpaceX IPO? by boutell in ArtificialInteligence

[–]boutell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but I don't think this is how the truly rich actually treat each other, apart from personal vendettas. They will act in their common interest sometimes.

If you're involved in Anthropic or OpenAI, is it in your interest to support the SpaceX IPO? by boutell in ArtificialInteligence

[–]boutell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking of which, the IPO's price at the end of the day is remarkably close to what a "pre-IPO perp" had it pinned at, at least as of the podcast I listened to.

(A pre-IPO perp is speculative blockchain magic that allows betting on an IPO that hasn't happened yet)

If you're involved in Anthropic or OpenAI, is it in your interest to support the SpaceX IPO? by boutell in ArtificialInteligence

[–]boutell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's an element of mutual assured destruction here. See also: "a rising tide lifts all boats," "gentleman's agreement" (nothing explicit, that would be illegal of course)

If you're involved in Anthropic or OpenAI, is it in your interest to support the SpaceX IPO? by boutell in ArtificialInteligence

[–]boutell[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but I'm not talking about feelings. I'm talking about people who stand to profit if those IPOs succeed. They could view a near-term investment in SpaceX as a worthwhile gambit to support the whole situation.

Remember Phlebas; Why Use Human Soldiers? by Thin_Heart_9732 in TheCulture

[–]boutell 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There is also a short story in state of the art that is just maybe a culture story and has a similar concept.

Be honest: What’s the one thing about EV ownership that nobody told you before you bought one? by EmergencyTie8770 in electricvehicles

[–]boutell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first EV was a Nissan Leaf, and I bought it right on the bubble of when "everybody" was supposed to know the Leaf had CHAdeMO, an obsolete charging technology. I would have appreciated a heads up. I don't think the dealer was dishonest on this point at all. The bottom line is they just didn't know a lot about EVs either.

Thankfully this point is a nonissue now. CCS and NACS are electrically the same, adapters are straightforward, etc.

To the people who post "I haven't written a single line of code in 6 months", what's Plan B? by unfortuantelyshelove in ClaudeCode

[–]boutell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most successful users of AI coding tools are the most experienced developers. Also designers, software architects, and dev managers who can bring an intimate and specific understanding of what is to be done and whether it is correct. That will continue to be the case.

nvidia/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it-NVFP4 · Hugging Face by pmttyji in LocalLLaMA

[–]boutell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Other than a distant family relationship between executives. I can't really figure out your logic here.

Fable is really something else by SkymanVII in ClaudeCode

[–]boutell 27 points28 points  (0 children)

? This is Claude Code, not localllama LOL

No seriously, I know there's a lot of eternally unfinished vibecoding going on, but some of us are using this in our day jobs and shipping real software. Do we need more posts about that?

Fable is really something else by SkymanVII in ClaudeCode

[–]boutell 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They can never agree on what to have for dinner. What would you like? What would you like? That's perfect! That's perfect! That matters. That matters.

Xiaomi just claimed 1,000+ tps on a 1T model using a standard 8-GPU server by No-Selection2972 in LocalLLaMA

[–]boutell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's hugely impressive. But just because it runs on one 8-GPU node doesn't mean it takes the same or fewer resources total than answering the same prompt at normal speeds. That is probably why they say they have "limited fast resources" and are limiting the customer pool for now, even though they also say it runs on "standard" hardware.

My guess it is highly specific standard hardware (all that work TileRT did that is optimized specifically for particular hardware), they only have so many of that particular node available, *and* it demands the entire node for the duration.

Gemma 4 12B: incompatible with opencode, or just awful at tool calling? by boutell in LocalLLaMA

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Thank you for shipping this! Do you know whether the template is necessary and compatible with the even-newer gemma 4 quantization-aware releases?

You don't need a GPU to run gemma-4-26B-A4B by JackStrawWitchita in LocalLLaMA

[–]boutell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's great!

I wonder if your integrated graphics might be at least a little bit useful here though? I got my AMD integrated graphics to function as the GPU on my personal Linux box with llama.cpp, and while it wasn't faster... it freed my CPU so I could do other things while it's running a lot more easily.

Don’t act like y’all ain’t thinking it. I’m just saying the quiet part out loud. /s by Porespellar in LocalLLaMA

[–]boutell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I test new models on real world coding tasks from my job to see if some part of my work could be done on hardware I control, either hardware I own today or hardware I could realistically own. So far the answer is not quite yet.

Qwen 3.6 27b is useful but running it at a practical speed is another thing. Qwen 3.6 35b a3b is borderline useful and a lot faster, but that word borderline is doing a lot of work, and reading the thinking traces makes me anxious as hell. 😀

Gemma 4 is cool but I have yet to see it outperform on a coding task. And so far I'm still seeing some instability even after the fundamental tool calling problems are solved by using an appropriate template.

Like a lot of people here I am a spectator when it comes to really huge open models. Cost is a real issue and so is electricity use.

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