NortySpock

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by NortySpock 7mo ago
Which is still slightly useful - I've got two Dell Wyze 5070, fanless, and being able to load them with 16 GB of ddr3 ram each for a song meant they were basically an obvious upgrade from being so cramped for RAM running a Raspberry P
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by NortySpock 7mo ago
I tried the Zed editor and it picked up Ollama with almost no fiddling, so that has allowed me to run Qwen3.5:9B just by tweaking the ollama settings (which had a few dumb defaults, I thought, like assuming I wanted to run 3 LLMs in paralle
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by NortySpock 7mo ago
https://terraformindustries.com/ Terraform is working on that - burstable synthetic methane generation using cheap catalysts that you can afford to idle, only generating methane when electricity is cheap.
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by NortySpock 7mo ago
I personally have used Qwen2.5-coder:14B for "live, talking rubber duck" sorts of things. "I am learning Elixir, can you explain this code to me?" (And then I can also ask follow-up questions.) "Here is a bunch of l
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by NortySpock 7mo ago
Yeah, but if the problem you are solving is rare for most practitioners, effectively theoretical until it actually happens, then people won't switch until they get bit by that particular problem.
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by NortySpock 7mo ago
Energy security is national security. Cheap electricity means you can do things that made "no sense" with expensive electricity. (e.g. smelt aluminum) Cheap electricity means you can underbid regions that have expensive electricit
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by NortySpock 7mo ago
I managed to get qwen2.5-coder:14B working under ollama on an Nvidia 2080 Ti with 11GB of VRAM, using ollama cli, outputting what looks like 200 words-per-minute to my eye It has been useful for education ("What does this Elixir code d
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by NortySpock 8mo ago
I've switched to Linux Ubuntu KDE desktop, play my games on Steam Proton, and I'm happy.
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by NortySpock 8mo ago
There are single player scenarios in Beyond All Reason, though not yet a campaign with a narrative. There are AI opponents and you can configure friendly and hostile AI players. There are also two dedicated "beat waves of enemies then
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by NortySpock 8mo ago
Here was my recent pitch on why I like Elixir: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45896313
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by NortySpock 8mo ago
How do you add new linter rules? Do you have to clean up an equivalent number of lines of warnings to enable an additional linter rule?
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by NortySpock 9mo ago
Until Congress passes a law nationalizing their company, and forces them to sell their company to a holding company owned by the government.
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by NortySpock 10mo ago
I ended up adding the https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2 library to OpenSCAD and it had some reasonable options for some gear and rack-and-pinion modeling that I needed to do. (3D printing a sacrificial gear for a sea
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by NortySpock 10mo ago
So a data flow path that is a dag. Yeah, sounds right. Also seems close to Erlang / Elixir supervision trees, which makes sense as Erlang / Elixir basically gives you microservices anyway...
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by NortySpock 10mo ago
It's not an index, it's just (probably parallel) file reads That being said, it would be trivial to tweak the above script into two steps, one reading data into a DuckDB database table, and the second one reading from that table.
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by NortySpock 10mo ago
The Spring RTS FOSS engine is an engine, but does not provide the game assets or game-specific code. Recoil is a fork of the Spring engine (background: Spring made backward incompatible changes; Recoil forked to retain backward compatibilit
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by NortySpock 10mo ago
CU suggestion: Kansas City's largest, CommunityAmerica Credit Union https://www.communityamerica.com/about-us
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by NortySpock 10mo ago
https://github.com/MadAppGang/dingo This project proports to be typescript for golang
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by NortySpock 10mo ago
Amundsen has two databases and three services in its architecture diagram. For me, that's a smell that you now have risk of inconsistency between the two, and you may have to learn how to tune elasticsearch and Neo4j... Versus the conc
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by NortySpock 10mo ago
It is considered prudent to write a business plan and do some market research if possible before starting a business.
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by NortySpock 11mo ago
Or both the doctor and ChatGPT were quoting verbatim from a reputable source?
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by NortySpock 11mo ago
For me, it was Elixir pattern matching + GenServers + SupervisionTrees + Let It Fail mentality. I've fought null pointer exceptions longer than I want to in C# servers and Python code. Usually because we're introspecting into a me
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by NortySpock 11mo ago
I've been enjoying and contributing patches to Beyond All Reason, which traces its inspiration back to the Total Annihilation real time strategy game. It's truly incredible what a community can achieve over the course of ~20 years
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by NortySpock 11mo ago
Neato! I might just self-host this at home and explore using it for my 3d printing needs... Declarative constructed solid geometry sounds like how OpenSCAD works. I was curious if you took any inspiration from that project, or if you had fo
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by NortySpock 11mo ago
Thanks, the "does not throw an exception" property got my mental gears turning in terms of how to get started on this, and from there I can see how one could add a few more properties as one goes along. Appreciate you taking the
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by NortySpock 11mo ago
I keep thinking I have a possible use case for property -based testing, and then I am up to my armpits in trying to understand the on-the-ground problem and don't feel like I have time to learn a DSL for describing all possible inputs
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Note: by "client" I mean "consuming application reading from a Kafka topic" Not your parent poster, but Kafka is often treated like a message broker and it ain't that. Specifically, it has no concept of NACK-ing mes
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Or you have your kids early, raise them, and then focus on community tasks (like running the ship) after that. I don't think I regarded my kind, wise, and friendly grandmother as a 'non-reproducing adult resource drain'... Se
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by NortySpock 1y ago
anti-aging / life-extension medicine might make a dent in the number of generations you need to get somewhere. Plus, thinking you need to live near a star, on a planet, is merely a bias for "free" fusion power and gravity th
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Endless Sky seemed like a nice refresh when I tried it a few years ago, did a few initial quest lines. It was interesting how the different faction technologies had different power/mass/volume/hardpoint production and consump

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