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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Cement Memes

Posts tagged with Cement

The Great Volcanic Cork Experiment

Geology Engineering Earth-science
1 year ago 45.2K views 0 shares
The Great Volcanic Cork Experiment
Someone just discovered the geological equivalent of putting a cork in a champagne bottle! The suggestion to plug a volcano with cement is hilariously missing the whole "magma under immense pressure" part of the equation. Volcanoes aren't just fancy lava dispensers—they're pressure release valves for the Earth's molten interior operating at temperatures exceeding 2000°F. That cement would either vaporize instantly or create the world's largest pressure cooker explosion. It's basically proposing to solve a bomb by putting your thumb over the fuse. Nature always finds a way... usually an explosive one!

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Back up Hugging Face models to a NAS before they vanish

Models do disappear from Hugging Face. How I keep a local copy I can verify: pinned hf download, SHA256 manifests, Ollama's blob store, and a ... Read article →

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