Also a good option for experimenting with local AI: GMTec AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 --EVO-X2 AI Mini PC
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GMTec AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 --EVO-X2 AI Mini PC seems pretty similar and only $2000.
Would be interested to see head to head benchmarks including power usage between those mini PCs and the Nvidia Thor.
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Seems like a great concept. Hope they are commercially successful.
It reminded me about another geothermal energy idea: dig about 3 or so miles straight down and harvest the heat that is there already. I guess that's a lot harder than making a dirt pile. But maybe it could become practical if there was enough commercial effort and large scale manufacturing of the equipment.
Kind of brings it around full bore though. Why do that kind of project when you can just harvest actual fuel like oil or gas?
I think this stuff can become practical with more scale and wide manufacturing of equipment and development of efficient techniques. But it requires you to do a lot of upfront work based on principal rather than the bottom line.
So anyway again great idea because it eliminates a lot of challenges and costs that come with concepts like "Journey to the Center of the Earth" etc.
> “It’s clear that it is very helpful to have AI helping you write code. It’s not clear how you run an AI-coded code base,” he commented. Armstrong replied, “I agree.”
Can’t say I’m surprised that a crypto CEO - an industry totally overflowing with contradictions - is completely unfazed when confronted with yet another contradiction
It's not a contradiction. AI is now an important tool to have for software engineers. It's not at the stage where you can just let it do the work without supervising and refining what it outputs.
Sometimes it will randomly generate something like this in the body of the text:
```
<tool_call>executeshell
<arg_key>command</arg_key>
<arg_value>echo "" >> novels/AI_Voodoo_Romance/chapter-1-a-new-dawn.txt</arg_value>
</tool_call>
```
or this: ``` <｜toolcallsbegin｜><｜toolcallbegin｜>executeshell<｜toolsep｜>{"command": "pwd && ls -la"}<｜toolcallend｜><｜toolcallsend｜> ```
Prompting it to use the right format doesn't seem to work. Claude, Gemini, GPT5, and GLM 4.5, don't do that. To accomodate DeepSeek, the tiny agent that I'm building will have to support all the weird formats.
Maybe you have your temperature turned up too high.
Unlike the common opinion here, I find the AI search results on top really good. 50% of times it appears it answers my question and I don't need to scroll past it to get to the actual search results.
I think the quality of that feature and underlying LLM improved dramatically from when they initially deployed it to now.
ilaksh commented on LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers threedle.github.io/ll3m/... · Posted by u/simonpure
Blender will just add AI creation/editing
There are probably already a bunch of Blender Add-Ons or extensions that build with AI that are in the approval queue and just being ignored. https://extensions.blender.org/approval-queue/
ilaksh commented on Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol blog.nginx.org/blog/nativ... · Posted by u/phickey
Just to check, this means we can use some extra lines in the nginx configuration as an alternative to installing and running certbot, right?
Also does it make it easier for there to be alternatives to Let's Encrypt?
> Fully understandable by a single person
Riddle me this, Batman.
What's the scope of "fully understandable?" How much of this home PC could be reasonably audited by individuals or small teams?
I've got no exceptional opsec needs as an individual, but I spend some time wondering the minimum required resources to audit a PC. Looking through the docs I see cases where there are multiple suppliers for a recommended part -- that's very cool!
As a "fake programmer" and web jockey, this looks like the right balance of complexity to learn with.
I don't think it's really a fair claim in an educational context. There are at least two completely modern computers (which I assume means fairly complex) including the Raspberry PI and another one he is using the the bus or something.
I just don't think modern CPUs really quite fit the claim of "fully understandable by a single person". I mean maybe technically but that is misleading in an educational context where there are much simpler computers that are definitely fully understandable.
Maybe all of the stuff he wraps around the main CPU is understandable though. And the expansion cards are cool.
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