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I’ve been running Ollama on my Mac Studio for local AI experiments. I followed advice to try oMLX instead and it’s ludicrously faster, like maybe 5-10x for both time to first token and completing the response. I haven’t benchmarked it,...
putting the module back in...uh, module
If fossil fuels are made from fossils, are oil, gas and coal made from dead dinosaurs? Well, no, but they are made from fossils. We do not heat our homes or run our cars on dead hadrosaurs. Instead, we burn very old plants and algae. It...
There was a cold breeze early on this Free Comic Book Day as I stood...
Shower and a meal before flying to Tokyo
Started reading: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 📚
The Kaweco Sport Fountain Pen is one of the best pocket pens on the market, and one of this year’s hottest releases has been the Lunar Shadow model. I have one to give away this week, with an Extra Fine Steel nib, and the winner is: ...
To find the path to the disk, run lsblk. Let’s say, path to the disk is /dev/sdc. To check if the disk is compatible with smartctl, run: $ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdc | grep Enabled SMART support is: Enabled Then to print a health report:...
I have a couple of things I want to post about
The Toronto-born trumpeter and composer Kenny Wheeler left a big hole when he died in London in 2014, aged 84, after more than 60 years in the UK. A quiet and almost pathologically self-effacing man, he was hugely admired by his peers,...
Another one from Bibigo that’s certainly for the European market yet slap a distribution sticker on with US standard nutrition facts and there you go. [...] The post #5530: Bibigo Korean Style Udon Noodles Tteokbokki Chilli Flavour –...
Did I say iPad only? Wow, that didn’t take long! Just days ago, I posted about using only my iPad for the past three months. Now I’m using my PC laptop. What timing!? If only I hadn’t posted that post… Anyways, it’s for a special...
I’ve finally had a look at this codec and it’s not particularly remarkable (and I did it mostly because it beats documenting minute details of MVS). Anyway, there’s nothing much interesting about it. Like its successor, it employs...