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I just spec a machine up to the defined limit and then buy it, install and claim back on expenses. I'm fact "do I have root on my machine" is one of my standard interview questions.

Their paper outlines the training process but doesn't supply the actual data or training code. There is a project on huggingface: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1 that is attempting a fully open recreation based on what is public.

Open source is a very loose term when it comes to GenAI. Like Llama the weights are available with few restrictions but importantly how it was trained is still secret. Not being reproducible doesn't seem very open to me.

According to the article new builds still can't use gas boilers so I suppose there is that. Dealing with our existing housing stock is going to be a challenge though. Although I plan to eventually replace the gas boiler I'm not sure what with yet. I don't think air source heat pumps will be able to warm my stone build Victorian house.

I've been using https://containertoolbx.org/ recently to manage my "other distro" requirements. It doesn't do anything special but works nicely as a wrapper around podman and does all the bind mounts and uid mappings so you can just enter your $HOME as though you have set up your account in a new OS.

I don't know if the Culture is filmable? Having said that I think they said the same of things like Dune so maybe?

Whatever time I'd get by tuning my start-up would be dwarfed by the BIOS and grub startup dance. I only really reboot when I need to test a kernel.

I fancy a bit of Star Trek but it doesn't look like I have long to wait.

Old demo crew I formed with school friends when I was a teenager.

Yep I've been a happy Antenna Pod user for years. A double tap of my headphones skips 30s forward, triple 10s back and makes skipping past the ads easy.

Have you ever passed a Geiger counter over it?

Also the PFN page locking patches so device memory can be reliably shared with VMs (used for some of the virtio-gpu modes).