- You may be calling it "quark" then? From a quick search:
"The two most common translations of tvorog are cottage cheese (common in the US) and quark (common in Germany). The process of making these different cheeses is quite similar: you take fermented, acidized or sour milk, and separate the curds from the whey. For cottage cheese, cream is added to the curds before they’re packaged, and for quark, the curds are not overly dried so the curds come out quite soft and creamy. Tvorog, on the other hand, is most often packaged as dry grainy pieces of curd."
- It happened to me several times for real. Credit cards not accepted for charges below $15; cash in my wallet $4.05. Next I spend 30 minutes trying to install my bank app with a horrible cell connection so that I can use Zelle to send that $6 payment for coffee. The barista thinks I am a bum.
- Ditto, the TP-Link's Archer A7 firmware is a security nightmare [1] but with DD-WRT installed it is very stable and reliable.
[1] Daughter invited ~10 classmates to prepare for a science competition, and one of them had a virus (I assume) that hacked TP-Link's firmware to draft it into a botnet. WAN connection would drop every hour for a few minutes, plus unexplained internet traffic while nobody was using it. Resetting firmware did not help, installing DD-WRT fixed it once and for all.
- Another safe option I use: Vero V [1], it runs Debian + Kodi, so it is all open source. Great support by Sam, the founder, too.
- Or you could just install the linux-cachyos kernel from AUR [1], it even detects your CPU and optimizes for it automatically,
- > It's a lesson that's always learned far too late when it becomes slow and costly to deliver something new because you've amassed so much tech debt
No, it is just standard operating procedure: deprecate a working system and write a new system from scratch, with 50% of features not supported. This side-steps the tech debt and gives everybody artifacts for promotion. It screws all users of the system but who cares about them!
- Then in your next performance review you get dinged as "not responsive", "not a team player". Trying to work in peace is a in instant loss nowadays, just play the visibility performative game as all the quickly promoted people in office do. Why do you think your management cares about getting things done? If they did they would reward it.
- I can assure you that most internal ML teams are using TPUs both for training and inference, they are just so much easier to get. Whatever GPUs exist are either reserved for Google Cloud customers, or loaned temporarily to researchers who want to publish easily externally reproducible results.
- I tried to install CachyOS with KDE on my wife's new laptop (Lenovo Yoga) about 3 weeks ago. The version available was 2025-08-28 (still is, just checked), and it was crashing KDE all the time. Quick research told me that version had lots of KDE bugs that have been since fixed, yet no new release.
Maybe it's different on Nvidia (wife's laptop had AMD graphics), but I expect a very bumpy road ahead of him.
- I went to System Settings > Themes > Login Screen (SDDM) in KDE settings and changed from the default Breeze to Maldives, and that broke SDDM login screen to black text mode with a cursor. Later searching for fixes I found that only Breeze was compatible with Qt 6.x, and any other choices there would break SDDM the same way (I did not try it though).
First, I had to figure out how to manually mount LUKS-encrypted laptop drive while booting from a USB stick, that took a while.
Trying to recover, I re-installed kde, sddm and sdd-kcm and qt5-declarative packages. Still broken. I made sure /etc/sddm.conf was the default configuration, still broken. Then finally I stumbled upon /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf, which was still overriding defaults to Maldives. Deleting it finally fixed the SDDM login.
My wife was thoroughly not impressed with Linux out-of-box experience!
No Nvidia graphics, this was a Lenovo Yoga laptop with AMD graphics.
- Changing the KDE theme into something other than the default Breeze breaks the whole Plasma: black screen with a cursor instead of the SDDM login screen. Hit this while setting up an Arch system for my wife, spent hours rebooting with recovery USB image and tweaking configuration until it all worked again.
Wouldn't call it stable.
- The big problem with it was that you had to specify upfront which directories you will be editing, and only those were cloned locally. Later if you wanted to add a quick debug printout somewhere else, you would spend 20 minutes tracking more directories and merging / rebasing branches. All because git choked on the huge monorepo.
- What do you think about this blog post: [1]? It seems to be promoting very similar ideas but I lack education to evaluate its claims.
[1] https://andercot.substack.com/p/theres-no-single-objective-r...
- A quick search found this example 18 second video generated on 3090: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1kp5jb8/da...
I am pretty sure what you want is doable on a 5090 with some effort but it will not be just a text prompt to video. More like input key frames as images and interpolate video between them.
- F.lux / Redshift / Gammastep exist. On sunset, my screen becomes much darker and tinted yellowish / reddish. Then white backgrounds look fine, and I happily continue using my light color themes late into the night. Also, bias lighting on the wall behind the monitor helps my eyes avoid strain.
- Since OpenAI tokenizer is estimated at ~4.2 characters per token, with your proposed "1 char per token tokenizer", the effective context length immediately becomes 4.2 times smaller, and generated output 4.2 times slower (since 4.2 times more tokens are needed for the same output). Doesn't look like a good tradeoff.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center