Running qwen3.6 27b through llama.cpp.
It’s about as capable as sonnet 3.5.
I use it for light scripting, but real coding is done by cloud models.
I’m also using it as the brain for my Hermes agent. It sends me digests of news, subreddits, chats that I’d like to read but don’t have time for. It does a great job researching things on the web for me, too.
I don’t miss windows, but I do miss sitting in the same era computer labs with either the university’s own flavor of red hat, or SPARCstations.
The internet was a lot more fun 30 years ago. I guess partly because it felt like magic, and after a degree and some decades in the industry the illusion is gone.
Also, it used to be about sharing pictures of your cat or listing your favourite books. Now everyone is trying to either sell you something or source everything about you to be able to sell you something with more accuracy.
You can use it all day and stay well below the quota. Small context, with the right model for the job. Surgical precision.
But… At some point you shut off your brain, use the most expensive model on the highest reasoning level with your whole codebase as context and just wait for tens of minutes while it burns all the tokens. To speed this up you then send six agents to tackle the same problem from all angles.
I’m surprised to see comments of people actually using it. I know it’s been topping distrowatch forever by inflation numbers.
Also hepatitis A.
Can’t do much about improving visibility without getting more light there.
Is it your cellar? I’ve got this nice solar-powered motion-sensor flood light that I i got for like $15. Let’s me see my dogs when I let them out at night.
You can install rear-facing work lights. It’s not legal to use on the road, but on your own property you do you. Would be activated with a switch up front. Or a wireless XBB relay if you have cash.
There’s an infamous usenet-thread with Torvalds and Tanenbaum arguing over monolithic vs microkernel design. I microkernel is cleaner from a separation standpoint, but that also introduces hurdles and overhead.
Linux is popular because the hardware support is pretty great. There’s few laptop/BSD combinations that work well with sleep/suspend/wifi, while just about any laptop will have everything working with a recent Linux kernel.
Yeah, I mean apocalypse scenario is not my main goal. But it’s nice to have a contingency plan if shit would hit the fan.
This is my second season with the caravan, I had an apocalypse sailboat before that. I put 2x100W on it for the first season, added another 2x100W this season while going from 160Ah lead-acid to 300Ah Lithium. It’s a night and day difference there already.
I’m plugged in most of the time, either for air conditioning or heating - the Mrs wants her comfort. There’s a three-way absorption fridge (220V, 12V or gas) that draws like 110W. I can still be unplugged for three nights or so with that running; which makes long distances or overnight ferries possible without ruining food.
And if we want to stay somewhere without shore power we can flip the absorption fridge to gas and be cooking with gas as well. The compressor fridge chest that sips 30W usually sits in under the awning in front anyway.
You’re right.
Well, still enough juice to pump all the water we need and heat our meals.
We’ll just have to limit hot showers to once a fortnight. Needs about 800Wh to heat the hot water tank.
I think it’s spot on. Even if you use power tools you need to know what kind of screw goes where. But it sure goes a whole lot faster to use power tools.
Sounds to me from the article that this is a seasoned engineer who just doesn’t want to use the tools she’s being handed.
Remember back in the day when you’d see these little badges on websites saying Best viewed with Internet Explorer? And some sites just wouldn’t work right on other browsers?
Soon you went be using any of those shitty sites, either
No, I’d hire the one using power tools and PEX pipes. Not the one stuck in the 19th century.
I don’t power all of it at once, and not direcly off of solar. I could maybe fit another 200W worth of panel on that roof, but for 4000W I’d need seven caravan roofs. That battery is the buffer and it’s a beast. At 300Ah I have 4kWh to pull at 1C.
The fridge sips a nice 30W. Panels put in ~2kWh on a sunny day. So thats a 1.7kWh surplus for running heavy loads - enough to max out that inverter for an hour a day. That’s plenty for microwaving or pumping water.
If power is down for good, then getting water is the main priority. If the pumpa don’t run the water tower is losing pressure fast. I have 40 litres jugged up in the basement at all times for the first few days.
When that dries out my neighbour has a well that we’ve hooked up to five properties. Mostly for gardening, but it is potable. The pump needs power, though, so I’d pull an extension cord over to my caravan.
My caravan has 400W of solar, 300Ah LiFePO4 and a 1.5kW inverter. Also a meshtastic node with an antenna on the roof. That’ll keep the food cold, and laptops charged. It can run a microwave or hotplate, too. I’ve got 20kg of propane if I need to conserve power.
If I was hiring for my hypothetical construction company I’d have a real easy time picking between an employee who gets the job done and one who refuses to use power tools.
Forgive and move on like a good Mormon.
I have a similar one on my computer. But 2038.
Linux has extended quite a few system calls. Not really a problem as they mostly support the POSIX ways.
But there are a few corner cases around threading and file locks that do break on mainline Linux.
Not too big to overcome, as there are exceptions like EulerOS that are both compliant and certified.
Pros:
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I haven’t used windows in almost 30 years, but… I probably missed some games at first that DOSBox couldn’t run well (yet). Not a problem any more.
No, it needs a lot more babysitting than 4.5 does. 3.5 was on the same level of mistakes, at least on the quants I have to use.