My attempts to try ternary encodings from Unsloth with llama.cpp on ROCm failed miserably. Either ggml or ROCm simply can't run it at this time on gfx1201, and CPU isn't fast enough.

That doesn't really answer these questions.

As far as I can tell the Twitter poster hasn’t answered any of the hard questions either. Just the screenshots and some comments, but I also don’t have time to go through the hundreds of comments in that thread.

He did post the 1-line patch for Mesa to add GPU support like I said above: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/40...

Heck, even dirty power from the wall can contribute. I've seen improvements in stability from putting things behind power conditioners.

Definitely that too, particularly in 2nd-world countries. I remember having a difficult time with dirty power for some hardware products I was responsible for at one time, where the customers were in the Middle East nd Africa in the 1990s. We ended up having to have the PS manufacturer do a redesign to help compensate for dirty power. It can be done, but it costs a bit more.

Not being able to keep Slack and Outlook open at the same time seems like a pretty significant productivity hindrance to me. 8GB RAM is truly pathetic in 2022.

I’m freaking out the equivalent of mutt and irc require more than 8GB of RAM to run simultaneously.

What are modern operating systems and applications doing?

You can post images in Slack and use text formatting. Those are things that use memory.

Sloppy memory management is what uses memory. But those apps are in a class of their own, along with Electron apps.

Slack is an Electron app.

Gifs. I'm only half joking.

I used outlook on the browser when needed and slack was open most of the time

I also had around 200 tabs open on the regular

Now I wouldn’t tell you it was a good experience because it wasn’t. But it was usable even pushing the hardware to the max.

Children don't have Slack and Outlook open. Gmail in a web browser and Discord, maybe. My old M1 Air works just fine for productivity workloads, and has for years.

Is Slack that much worse of a memory hog than Discord? Aren’t they both built on electron?

Not sure about slack vs discord, but browser Gmail is almost certainly less memory hungry than Outlook. And that’s probably enough of a difference by itself.

You can make a pretty good electron app or one that kinda sucks. Slack is in the latter category.

VS Code (or rather VSCodium in my case) is also electron based but it's been relatively snappy in my experience - though I don't use a lot of third party plugins.

Say what you will about Microsoft but the performance of VS Code is really good.

Not having to use outlook is a feature not a bug.

Do you actually have a problem with Slack and Outlook open at the same time on an Apple Silicon Mac with 8GB of memory? Or are you assuming?

I was replying to someone that made that claim from apparent experience.

> Not being able to keep Slack and Outlook open at the same time seems like a pretty significant productivity hindrance to me. 8GB RAM is truly pathetic in 2022.

I read this as how bad software quality has gone down, that a mail program and a chat program don't fit in 8GB of RAM.

You don't get it, do you. Technology is only political for brief periods. When introduced, they are apolitical, existing to solve a specific problem. They become political based on usage. Then, the technology either becomes obsolete or so ubiquitous as to make any politics largely irrelevant.

That said, I don't think technology should be either political or apolitical. If there's a need to use a technology to solve a political problem, then do so. Once done, one should just revert to the natural state of enjoying or abandoning the thing for what it is.

Where any two people are reasonable, I would posit that you have classical anarchy. Only a combination of unwillingness to cooperate and open hostility results in a power struggle. In my experience, the absence of preexisting tribal prejudice tends to generally have people start off favorably since people like to be liked.

Some kinds of spinners serve as a coal-mine canary indicating if the app has gotten wedged. Not hugely useful, but also not entirely useless.

If Windows 2000 still had security updates and modern hardware support, I'd sure as heck still be using it. Every version since has been a regression.

> Every version since has been a regression.

So very true.

I set up a machine with Windows 2003 Server Datacentre Edition last year. That's the version of the XP codebase that has PAE support and can access >4 GB of RAM... and with all the junk turned off. No themes, for instance.

It was really pleasant to use.

Give me that, with MS Security Essentials and no IE, just Firefox, and I could happily work on it today.

Anyone with the means to travel to Epstein's private island had the means to travel to a place where prostitution is legal and do what you want with legitimacy. You only would have gone through him if you wanted someone trafficked. Age of the "prostitute" can only make association worse, never OK.

I think this person is joking. For one, they're mixing metaphors between Epstein and the rumored Trump pee tape, then tying it into Nokia where neither seems to apply.

I was indeed making light of a grim situation. Not only did the people in Epstein's web commit particularly heinous crimes, those crimes were subsequently used to gain influence over people with economic and national security responsibilities, in order to bend them to the priorities of foreign powers. I take all of that very seriously.

Nevertheless, apparently without any hidden agendas, Stephen Elop destroyed a legendary company and lost thousands of dedicated and competent people their jobs.