NortySpock

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by NortySpock 4mo ago
BAR does have a series of scenarios for singleplayer / offline play. Or in multiplayer you can arrange a co-operative game with humans against AI opponents, which often has substantially less flaming involved, especially when playing a
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by NortySpock 4mo ago
Knowing what to build (and that it hasn't already been built or bought elsewhere in the company) requires bits of information / person-to-person networking / visibility into the state of the company that not all managers or V
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by NortySpock 4mo ago
You can also observe this in games like Dyson Sphere Program, (which is all workers and queues and buffers) where adding a buffer storage section of a belt only hides the fact that you are under-producing one of the components required. The
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by NortySpock 4mo ago
Orbital ring would kickstart the space economy like nothing else, and is technically achievable with existing materials.
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by NortySpock 4mo ago
As others have said, the server receives a function call request and decides what to do with it. Whether or not a user or session is currently authorized to perform the action they want is something you evaluate inside the function -- but y
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by NortySpock 4mo ago
Nice, I might try using this as I'm currently on 16 GB of RAM / 11 GB VRAM and feel like the VRAM is usually idle except for when I game or try a local LLM. It would be nice to have dynamic scaling or even just auto-shutoff on VRA
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by NortySpock 4mo ago
Hey, congratulations on creating this! While I'm already using a Raspberry Pi, NATS, docker container, etc and am happy with my setup, I am looking forward to reading over this and seeing how it works! The use of an RTOS and berry look
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by NortySpock 4mo ago
I have occasionally wondered the same thing. Thinking about it more, on my setup I have a DVI port on the motherboard that I would be happy to use with a DVI cable, but I instead need to buy a DisplayPort <-> DVI converter cable to pl
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
Cool! Thanks for the details, and your blog posts are usually interesting food for thought, so thank you for them too!
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
"[would have spent] $1,199 with Anthropic, $980 with OpenAI" How many tokens is that, input/output-wise? (a) I'm curious if you feel like you got $2000 worth of value out of them in the last month? (b) I'm also curi
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
I don't think your counterpart is arguing that OpenRouter created DeepSeek. Rather I suspect their argument is that there are 13 providers listed on OpenRouter for DeepSeek v4 Pro that are competing on price. (That's the default b
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
I asked the LLM to explain, rephrase, or rewrite things until I was happy. Some examples : I asked for examples of how the algorithm worked. I asked for examples of how to call the code. I asked for a happy-path unit test and a simple error
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
Thank you for all your work. I love your reports (even if they fly over my head when the timelines get squirrly), I love that you release them under an ethical reporting guideline, and I don't blame you if you take your test harness pr
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
You're kicking a man when he's feeling down. Have some sympathy for a man who loves to do things, teach people about the things he's found, and just hopes that good things will come back to him.
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
> I don't think AI coding is a bad thing. [...] it levels the playing field [...] I'd like to put regional differences aside and say AI coding / LLMs are incredible tools. While I'm nervous about my job as a programm
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
I made an account on OpenRouter.ai , created an API key, plugged the API key into the Zed editor, and started asking free models questions about my codebase. Once I felt I had some confidence on what the spend rate would be, I bought $20 US
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
No worries, no hard feelings, I was just surprised that what I thought was a specific response was assumed to be a generic-ish bot response. (then again, I didn't spell out that the game I contribute to is Beyond All Reason.) I do tota
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
Hi, I am not a bot. Also I do not work for VictoriaMetrics. Please feel free to go through my post history and observe I comment on things I am interested in, like databases, servers, and video games.
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
I thought observability was shoved on Clickhouse by other stacks deciding to use Clickhouse as their recommended database for observability (SigNoz springs to mind but they were not the only one)
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
If I can ask a separate question: what scalability problems did you run into with Victoria{Metrics|Logs|Traces}, and at what scale did you hit them? VictoriaMetrics and Logs have worked fine in my quiet homelab, and VictoriaMetrics appeared
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
If we're talking seawater already, why not dilute it with seawater down near the ocean floor and have it react with some rocks or something? Why put chlorine gas directly into the atmosphere?
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
Sounds useful for small-ball internal analytics datasets you want to place on shared team server. I can definitely see exploring this for some homelab use.
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
(a) used books. As a Midwesterner I love that can directly order specific technology books (the ones everyone recommends), literally from a Goodwill in San Francisco, for the price of a good meal (b) dodging Amazon co-mingling of inventory.
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
Wrong answers: $1 Plausible answers: $10 Good, useful answers: $100 Validation and Verification is what separate "should work" from "is shown to work". Anyone can write non-functional code. It's functional useful co
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by NortySpock 5mo ago
Does "local Ollama" or OpenRouter count? I fell into using Zed because there was zero sign-up friction when trying to set up a connection to a local Ollama LLM. Literally "drop-down, select the model you want" Once I got
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by NortySpock 6mo ago
First, I think sorting PRs by "recently updated" can be a good proxy for "does anyone care about this PR"... If it's being bumped and reviewed, it is. But also definitely start setting up linting rules / labels
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by NortySpock 6mo ago
Well "Outlook (new)" finally stopped OOM-ing on my very normal-sized inbox, so I went back to using it over Outlook Classic... Can't say I notice a difference much these days. (Not a residential inbox, the "I work in IT&
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by NortySpock 7mo ago
One mental model I have with LLMs is that they have been the subject of extreme evolutionary selection forces that are entirely the result of human preferences. Any LLM not sufficiently likable and helpful in the first two minutes was delet
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by NortySpock 7mo ago
This, make sure the 'active' flag (or deleted_at timestamp) is part of most indexes and you're probably going to see very small impacts on reads. It then turns into a slowly-growing problem if you never ever clean up the soft
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by NortySpock 7mo ago
So how do we upgrade the heat rejection system of this planet? Clearly removing C02 is expensive, but can we just paint some of the desert with paint that reflects in the infrared window? Or make clouds as Neal Stephenson talks about in his

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