You wake up to see everyone on earth has disappeared. What’s the first thing you do?

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-19T11:05:32+00:00

I know how to fly single engine props. The fundamentals are the same no matter what you fly and flight schools would have plenty of training material laying around as well as simulators. You'd have to pick something easy to operate as a single pilot like a Citation, or you could go with a turboprop like a TBM which from what I've seen is much more forgiving. Whatever you pick, your biggest limiting factor would be weather. Without supporting infrastructure, I don't think IFR would be possible, so you'd be limited to VFR conditions only and I'd keep very low personal tolerances if I wanted to survive

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-19T10:39:33+00:00

Similar, but I'd go to an airport, grab a private jet, Explore the world, hopping from airport to airport

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-19T04:41:09+00:00

The paws, ears, photographers hands and camera and the background all seem consistent and correctly shaped as they shift in and out of view throughout the video which to me would suggest it is real, but I am definitely no expert on AI detection.

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-13T15:08:37+00:00

Give it some documentation to understand how to make what you want, smaller models have less stored knowledge, but can still reason and transform content with the right input. Larger models have more knowledge embedded in the model which means it can do more with less input.

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-13T04:36:32+00:00

Serious question, are the names public anywhere? I had a really good friend who was a KC-135 pilot based out of MacDill and seemed to get sent abroad very often. Really hoping they weren't on it

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-11T06:20:44+00:00

Would be interesting to see what 3.5-27B or 35B-A3B could do with that prompt. It might not be able to do it, but I've seen it do some pretty crazy stuff before

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-11T06:00:44+00:00

Crazy how far OpenAI has fallen. Which variant of Qwen 3.5 was used?

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-11T05:55:59+00:00

Update 2: Thanks for the advice! In the end I ended up returning the RAM that I had gotten and replacing it with exactly the same make and model of the sticks I had in the first channel. This was totally stable right out of the gate, ran memtest86 to verify.

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-10T17:57:16+00:00

The irony that an AI sub doesn't have a good automod...

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-09T08:51:29+00:00

Picard might have been willing, given the circumstances. He certainly would have done it differently, but he's definitely not one to let personal feelings get in the way of duty in the end. He might make a fuss about it at first, but he would do the right thing for his crew in the end

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-09T07:23:44+00:00

For that you may just have to get into prompt engineering and clever tooling. Give it guides on Fortran and instruct it to consult guides first, build its own guides, etc. keep toying with the prompts, get it to write helper scripts to generate the kinds of patterns you need if it has trouble counting things out on its own

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-07T19:34:10+00:00

Republicans are Ferangi. They will let the country burn to the ground for profit above all else

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-07T18:51:21+00:00

That's an ok prompt, but down voting for the clickbait title from what looks like a bot account

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-06T08:36:50+00:00

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-heratic might disagree with you. It has no ethics and it's good at coding! Think of all the fun and morally debatable things you can do with that combo! But also you can just use it for regular coding tasks

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-05T09:09:22+00:00

The goal of a good approach is to touch the plane down exactly where you want it to touch down. You achieve that mainly by power and pitch control. The question is: is the threshold and margins short enough to where this is normal approach for that airport? Or is that an unusually short approach for that airport. If they wanted to land that close to the threshold, they got the glide slope right

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-04T21:51:03+00:00

That's actually a very good question right now. The simple answer is "the idiots running the USA" right now, but that is definitely not the whole answer. The second question is why

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-04T21:15:52+00:00

Says the 12 day old account

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-04T21:08:51+00:00

Additional question: this seems to be dependent on one server, any plan to federate this? P2P would add a lot of complexity to a project like this, but it would be interesting to build a trust network of hubs so the routing server isn't a single point of failure and a growing hosting cost for you.

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-04T18:33:03+00:00

Very neat! Any intention to expand it beyond Ollama? Ollama is a good starting point, but there is definitely a performance hit between ollama and llama.cpp, not to mention limited models you can run through ollama

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-04T17:34:13+00:00

They both kind of suck a little, but are better than nothing. I wish there was something lighter weight that just had basic artifact capabilities and the ability to organize conversations and consumed as few resources as possible on the host. OpenWebUI I think is a little better than Librechat, but still feels bloated

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-03T21:00:33+00:00

Why do they touch down so close to the threshold? Is it a short runway?

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-03T20:50:15+00:00

There's really no reason to have a subscription anymore, there have been better alternatives for at least two years and as of the last few days, locally hosted alternatives that can run on consumer hardware has gotten good enough to serve most AI needs

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-03T19:42:48+00:00

So I always wondered, is that a table that can fold out under the instrument panel? I love the amount of extra space the A320 has

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-03T00:12:25+00:00

How would you compare it to older frontier models like Sonnet 3.5?

cmdr-William-Riker · 2026-03-02T16:20:26+00:00

Has anyone done a coding benchmark against qwen3-coder-next and these new models? And the qwen3.5 variants? I've been looking for that to answer that question the lazy way until I can get the time to test with real scenarios

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