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smcnally commented on OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer   obsproject.com/blog/obs-s... · Posted by u/aizk
RobotToaster · 3 days ago
Also Mac only, since non Mac users won't have a clue what metal means in this context.
smcnally · 3 days ago
“Mac-only” was disappointing to read, but OBS’ render performance has been fine on macos and linux even with older hardware. James Webb calls anything heavier than helium “metal.”
smcnally commented on VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT   forums.steinberg.net/t/vs... · Posted by u/rock_artist
alterom · 2 months ago
Triumph is also a garment brand? Never heard of it.
smcnally · 2 months ago
It’s also a Wonder Dog, a Canadian power trio not featuring Neal Peart, and a moment when we shouldn’t evacuate the Death Star.
smcnally commented on Researchers complete first human trial on viability of enteral ventilation   newatlas.com/disease/butt... · Posted by u/mustaphah
smcnally · 2 months ago
> The technical term is enteral ventilation via anus (EVA).

Anecdatally, I have encountered multiple people with congenital capabilities re enteral locution via anus.

Wishfully, training astronauts for enteral ventilation via anus during extravehicular activities that involve writing an ongoing Prince song would be called “EVA EVA 4EVA.”

smcnally commented on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search   anycrap.shop/... · Posted by u/kafked
thebetatester · 3 months ago
Didn't quite figure that one out. I guess the AI isn't a Rick and Morty fan https://anycrap.shop/product/plumbus
smcnally commented on SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight   space.com/space-explorati... · Posted by u/mpweiher
GMoromisato · 4 months ago
Starship is like AI/LLMs in that success would revolutionize the world, but technological failure is very possible. And despite the confident predictions on the internets, we don't know which it's going to be.

After the Shuttle program ended in failure, work on reusable launch systems stopped for decades. A similar thing would happen if Starship fails. Space would remain the province of the military and large governments.

Today it costs ~$3,000 per kilogram to put something in orbit (on a SpaceX Falcon 9). Starship aims to lower that to $10 per kg. That's totally crazy, but even if it could get it down to $300 per kg, that would revolutionize access to space.

Data centers in space, biotech manufacturing, and maybe even asteroid mining and energy generation become practical at those prices. To say nothing of telecommunications, remote sensing, and global navigation--all become much cheaper.

And, of course, that drops the price on all the cool science/exploration goals that we always talk about: massive space telescopes, regular probes to all the planets, and crewed exploration.

We're literally at an inflexion point between two possible futures and we don't know which it's going to be. If I were younger I would absolutely try to work at SpaceX to help tilt the chances.

But as it is, all I can do is root for them.

smcnally · 4 months ago
> After the Shuttle program ended in failure, work on reusable launch systems stopped for decades.

“ended in failure” sounds harsh in this context. Or is that just me whistling past the sunk cost fallacies?

smcnally commented on Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon   ai.meta.com/blog/llamacon... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
walterbell · 8 months ago
What's the minimum GPU/NPU hardware and memory to run Qwen3 locally?
smcnally · 8 months ago
`model.safetensors` for Qwen3-0.6B is a single 1.5GB file.

Qwen3-235B-A22B has 118 `.safetensors` files at 4GB each.

There are a bunch of models and quants between those.

smcnally commented on Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon   ai.meta.com/blog/llamacon... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
logicchains · 8 months ago
No new model? Maybe after the Qwen 3 release today they decided to hold back on Llama 4 Thinking until it benchmarks more competitively.
smcnally · 8 months ago
Beyond solid benchmarks, Alibaba's power move was dropping a bunch of models available to use and run locally today. That's disruptive already and the slew of fine tunes to come will be good for all users and builders.

https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-67dd247413f0e2...

smcnally commented on Google to embrace MCP   techcrunch.com/2025/04/09... · Posted by u/thoughtpeddler
cwilby · 8 months ago
It's 2025's ROT13 cipher for API. /s

It's also "Model Context Protocol", a protocol for LLMs to interact with third-party services.

smcnally · 8 months ago
The ROT13 cipher for API is NVK. NVidia Knows
smcnally commented on DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet   newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/0... · Posted by u/gnabgib
smcnally · 9 months ago
> The DESI collaboration is honored to be permitted to conduct scientific research on I’oligam Du’ag (Kitt Peak), a mountain with particular significance to the Tohono O’odham Nation.

Anyone here know how a request like this was made or the permission given? I haven’t seen this previously.

smcnally commented on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed   scientificamerican.com/po... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
comrade1234 · a year ago
I basically just get my news from the onion now.
smcnally · 10 months ago
A recent financial report on the media industry noted The Onion is on the verge of collapse due to, quote, “not being able to able to make sh*t up that is more idiotic than current reality.”

u/smcnally

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