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by Jedd 1y ago
> this is a 270M model which is like 1/3 of 1B parameters Did you ask Gemma-3-270M whether 27 is closer to a quarter or a third of 100?
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by Jedd 1y ago
I tend to use byobu as a wrapper around tmux wherever possible - this combination might have gotten the author close enough to where they wanted to be. Well, they'd still need to bring their own ascii teacup. https://www.byo
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by Jedd 1y ago
Yeah, that post was hard to read. I'll concede that I'm hugely empathetic for people that suffer data loss. The pithy aphorism about there being two types of people -- those who haven't lost data, and those who do backups --
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by Jedd 1y ago
The _new_ price has doubtless gone up, as inflationary valuation benefits to the manufacturer / vendors. The resale value of your item has gone down.
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by Jedd 1y ago
This story - Diamonds are Bullshit - comes up regularly, and I bookmarked it back in 2013 because it's so good . https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403988 There is nothing to miss about the impending death of the &
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by Jedd 1y ago
I was both a) delighted and b) disappointed to discover, in my late 40's, the negroni, at a hotel in Brisbane Australia - because a) it became my favourite cocktail, and b) I'd somehow never had one before. It's not, at first
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by Jedd 1y ago
In Australia, a nip of alcohol (spirits) is 30ml - so anything involving more than one ingredient is generally multiples of that.
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by Jedd 1y ago
> And? And you set up your own monitoring systems for your own infrastructure, as you have always done. Or better yet, set up auto-renewal as per vendors recommendation. Vendors - especially vendors you aren't paying - may provide s
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by Jedd 1y ago
> Let's Encrypt stopped its certificate expiration email notification service a while ago, and I hadn't found a replacement yet. This sounds like an easy problem to identify root cause for. I think I received about 15 'we&
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by Jedd 1y ago
It's not clear if there are other places that application state is being stored, outside your database, that you need to capture. Do you mean things like caches? (I'd hope not.) pg_dump / mysqldump both solve the problem of s
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by Jedd 1y ago
Fair that I should have spelled them out, though my point was that TFA touched on some of the considerations that are covered by those fundamental and well known concepts / terms. Knowing the jargon for a space makes it easier to find
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by Jedd 1y ago
Feels weird to talk about strategy for your backups without mentioning RPO, RTO, or even RCO - even though some of those concepts are nudged up against in TFA. Those terms are handy for anyone not familiar with the space to go do some furth
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by Jedd 1y ago
Is '25 years of photos' a North American measure of data I was previously unfamiliar with? As bambax noted, you do in fact need a backup system -- you just don't realise that yet. And you want a way of sharing data betwee
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by Jedd 1y ago
> Quite the opposite. I basically retired at 40. A few of my coworkers did the same. You do get that's anecdotal, right? And that a basic income will mean you don't die from starvation, but won't give you the kind of comfo
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by Jedd 1y ago
> Someone who knows they'll have guaranteed income for the rest of their life is more likely to stop working than someone who is told they will receive guaranteed income for a few years. Is that true - or is that your belief? I feel
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by Jedd 1y ago
> It's called retirement pensions. And what we see there is that most people, as soon as they are eligible ... This feels like a bizarre take on quite a different arrangement. That demographic has planned for ~40 years for tha tran
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by Jedd 1y ago
> That might be true for maybe 5-10% of 20-somethings. The rest will blow it. It feels like everyone that has an anti-UBI position has access to a lot of research that no one else can see - or they're just unwilling to read or accep
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by Jedd 1y ago
> So I have two dead man switch’s. I am reminded of an aphorism about having a problem and deciding to use regex. > Historical data: I’m not chasing down grand mysteries that require fleet-wide aggregate metrics. Everyone believes thi
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by Jedd 1y ago
A reminder that "No Such Thing As a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy" by Linsey McGoey (2015), is an excellent analysis of philanthrocapitalism. (Spoiler - this book does not provide a ringing endorsem
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by Jedd 1y ago
I expected K-19 to be further up the list - or at least get a mention. My naive metric for realism roughly translates to 'How much does this feel like a documentary?' - and K-19, in spite of the big names, certainly felt like a st
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by Jedd 1y ago
(Sydney-sider here) I have a vague memory of people being asked to drive around with a passenger, with the driver holding the wheel down load (twenty to four?) - while the passenger held their arms up high, as if they were holding a wheel.
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by Jedd 1y ago
I would note that I was replying to a comment about the 'big trend of ghiblification' of images. Reproducing a certain style of image has been a regular fad since profile pictures became a thing sometime last century. I was not me
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by Jedd 1y ago
Probably true. But for those of us outside the USA bubble, it's incredibly tring to have to intuit geo information (when geo information would add to the understanding). As others noted in sibling comments, TFA had in fact mentione
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by Jedd 1y ago
Yeah, but so were the bored ape NFTs - none of these ephemeral fads are any indication of quality, longevity, legitimacy, or interest.
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by Jedd 1y ago
In January 2024 there was a similar post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38985152 ) wherein the author selected dual NVidia 4060 Ti's for an at-home-LLM-with-voice-control -- because they were the cheapest cost
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by Jedd 1y ago
Your third sentence seems to agree with my suspicion - subsequent children get less attention. (Though I reiterate my belief that some of the apparent developmental difference is because second children don't need to be as communica
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by Jedd 1y ago
This feels like a weird take. Factually it feels a bit off - with two chickens you very much will get a dozen eggs a week for the bulk of the year (there'll be some variation depending your distance from the equator, your choice of bre
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by Jedd 1y ago
Is that just the phenomenon of subsequent children leveraging the benefits of a slightly older sibling? Combined with some training of the parents by the first child, and therefore a significantly different mindset being exhibited towa
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by Jedd 1y ago
Maybe, but if you're trying to appear folksy by using region-dependent seasonal identifiers rather than, you know, dates AND you're happy that instantly means 10% of your readers will be confounded by that, then I guess go for it.
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by Jedd 1y ago
> ... narrative has become we expect them to be making low-level IT decisions too? I think that's a misdirection. The narrative is that: a) they were using a compromised piece of software b) they should not have been using that soft

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