I haven't seen a single firefox or chrome crash in months now, you should really stress-test your hardware.

I can't recall a single Firefox crash in at least a decade. What are people doing? I run ublock origin, nothing else. I do sometimes have Firefox mobile misbehave where it stops loading new pages and I jave to restart it, but open pages work normally as do all other operations, so not a crash exactly. Happens maybe once a month

Edit: more context, I power cycle at least once a week on desktop and the version is typically a bit behind new. I also don't have more tabs open than will fit in the row. All these habits seem likely to decrease crashes.

We have 5 computers running Firefox. One computer has regular Firefox crashes. I've done some memory testing that didn't detect anything wrong.

I've tried all kinds of things software-wise but keep getting random crashes.

I wonder if I should do a longer memory test, maybe some CPU stress testing at the same time...

Yeah. Lately even if I OOM my system, firefox doesn't crash so easily, individual tabs do.

For me, OOM effectively crashes my system 90% of the time, usually caused by firefox (chromium too), if a website goes out of control (rarely it's caused by too many pages open, as tab discarding takes care of that).

firefox crashes... decently often for me, but it's usually pretty clear what the cause is [having a bunch of other programs open]. every time i can recall my computer bluescreening [in the last year~, since that's how long ive had it] it was because of firefox tho.

this may have something to do with the fact that my laptop is from 2017, however.

firefox should not be able to cause a bluescreen, that is a bug somewhere in the kernel (drivers)

That was Zen 1, the later ones don't have per chiplet memory controllers, it's all on the single IO die, and they are not NUMA for a single socket.

I assume you mean EU directives and not Belgian law, and the thing is it's incredibly hard to pass an EU directive, it needs to originate in the Commission, then pass qualified majority in the Council then pass a vote in the Parliament. Nothing without a broad consensus can get anywhere near.

These are chips that become e-waste the second a better a model comes out, and nvidia is already limited by TSMC capacity.

This is a ridiculous mindset. Llama 3.1 8B can do lots of things today and it'll still be able to do those things tomorrow.

If you baked one of these into a smart speaker that could call tools to control lights and play music, it will still be able to do that when Llama 4 or 5 or 6 comes out.

If you pay $1,500 for a Mistral ASIC that is beaten by a $15 Qwen ASIC that comes out six months later, you'd be feeling pretty dang ridiculous.

I'm equally capable of making up numbers to support my perspective but I don't see the point.

The point is that the GP's mindset is not very ridiculous if you value things by a price/utility ratio. Software and hardware advancements will lead to buyer's remorse faster than people get an ROI from local inference.

SW and HW advancements will bring this topic in the "good enough for vast majority" field, thus making GP point moot. You don't care if your LLM ASIC chip is not the latest one because it works for the use you purchased it for. The highly dynamical nature of LLM itself will make part of the advantage of upgradable software not that interesting anymorw. [1]

[1] although security might be a big enough reason for upgrades to still be required

I'd pay for $100 chip that replaces anthropic sub and works 10x faster, even for 12 months.

Edit: assuming model owners will let this happen, which they wont

They'll be perfect for an appliance like the Rick and Morty butter robot.

On the upside, Shakespeare isn't going to change soon.

So you're saying we should burn Shakespeare onto a chip? /s

these aren’t made for general chatbot use

It's less impressive when you realize CCC happily compiles invalid C without emitting any errors.

These AI optimized GPUs are criminally bad at 64bit, so no you won't use them for that.

It's a bit more than a quarter (25.6%) of the whole world's GDP, so pretty much everyone.

Non political leadership in the US is getting rattled. I don't know if you watched everyone freak out about WH targeting of the fed last week.

Rank and file GOP got rattled with that one.

They are slow and memory-hungry.

Just buy your own vice president if you don't like it!

Who lost a hundred billion dollars?