TheRoque

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by TheRoque 2y ago
Does solar power generation really align with peak power usage... ? For most of Europe and the US, peak usage is during winter, and this is the time where the days are shorter, and the sun is lower in the sky.
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Sounds a bit pessimistic. It has never been that easy to create music, videogames, produce videos, comics, and distribute them. Nowadays basically anyone can do it, so the amount of content available is gigantic. Moreover, alternative ways
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by TheRoque 2y ago
The whole premise of this article is to compare the chess state of the art of 2019 with today, and then they start to talk about llms. But chess is a board with 64 squares and 32 pieces, it's literally nothing compared to the real phys
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by TheRoque 2y ago
It's true, nuclear energy costs more, but you're avoiding the elephant in the room and don't address the core issue that solar and wind energies are intermittent, and that you will anyways need to use some controllable energy
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by TheRoque 2y ago
"forward" doesn't mean anything, please specify ? But I'll complete for you, by "forward" you meant producing energy free of greenhouse gases (and ideally pollution), all-year round, and all-day round, and unle
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by TheRoque 2y ago
It's great to shift on renewable energy, but the end goal is to reduce greenhouse gazes, and mostly Co2. Regarding this, they are still doing really bad [1], compared to countries like France who kept nuclear plants. I think that shutt
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Nobody talked about "high performance". I'm just talking about using all the cores on a machine. People write stuff in Python and JS for obvious reasons that I don't need to detail here.
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Threads in Python in python are locked to a single core, and in NodeJS it's really annoying to pull off. That's why people use PM2, Uvicorn and Gunicorn.
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Well, running multiple instances of the same app is not only about "points of failure", it's also about using all the cores of your machine. Typically, using PI (nodejs), Docker or Uvicorn (python), you can spin up multiple i
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by TheRoque 2y ago
I see. Wasn't aware of this. I considered taking SQLite for my current stack, but dismissed it because I've read lot of bad stuff with concurrency. However, it says that it doesn't work over networks, so basically you can&#x2
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Well, since the SQLite database is one simple file, isn't SQLite a hassle when you have some concurrency/parallelism ? And what if you have separate services that need to access the same DB ?
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Yeah, you could buy the Morgan Freeman voice pack for only 20$
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Phi-3-Mini, which is in the benchmarks, was released after Llama3 8b
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Why isn't there a comparison with the Llama3 8b in the "benchmarks" ?
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by TheRoque 2y ago
In their defense, I find SQLAlchemy syntax quite horrible, and I always have to look up everything. It also got a 2.0 release recently which changes some syntax (good luck guessing which version ChatGPT will use), and makes the process even
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by TheRoque 2y ago
I have been trying to be an aUtoDidAct for the last 5 years and I seriously failed. My technical skills are stagnating. My social skills deteriorated. My network is abysmal. The value of working in team with others, and being able to talk t
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by TheRoque 2y ago
There's a whole subreddit dedicated to this, r/StallmanWasRight
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by TheRoque 2y ago
The worst is having random people questioning your expertise because of what ChatGPT told them.
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Seems like a weird take. To me it's just another abstraction level, could be useful for quick PoC or hobby website, could be unusable for a backend that wants larger features. Either way, where do you draw the line between useful abstr
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by TheRoque 2y ago
> However, their no-code approach generates awful code difficult to follow, making apps less reliable. Moreover, using a UI is slower than coding, especially now that AI assistants are here to help you. I don't get this one, the sen
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by TheRoque 2y ago
I'm really curious about AI and the terminal. Do you have good tools to recommend ?
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Sadly yeah. I managed to install it both on my mom and dad's computers. I didn't push them, they were genuinely curious and sick of having to remember their Microsoft account to do some stuff on windows. They have been running Lin
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by TheRoque 2y ago
First it's gonna be an obvious setting, then it's gonna be a setting deep in the "features" of windows, then it's gonna be a register you have to edit, then it's gonna be an obscure powershell script you have t
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Interesting, thanks for the insights
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by TheRoque 2y ago
178 points, 145 comments in 2 hours, how did this disappear from the front page ? Anyways, my biggest concern for discord is their unclear business model. They have a ton of free features (unlimited video and voice streaming, unlimited mess
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Well guess what, old GPUs are still used a lot. According to steam hardware survey https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/ The GTX 1060 is more used than any RTX 40XX, and the 1080 is about as used as t
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by TheRoque 2y ago
My point was different, the parent was saying "pick the right GPU then". But if I pick AMD I don't have Cuda, and if I use NVidia I have CUDA but buggy graphics. Some other features might or not be well supported by Linux dep
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Package management in most Linux distro is a bliss, this I 100% agree on.
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by TheRoque 2y ago
Yes, this is a good point, however when it comes to GPUs, you might not have an optimal choice at all, since some stuff come only on NVidia GPUs. However, after the GTX 1080 they released open source drivers and things should be better for
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by TheRoque 2y ago
I don't have the time to dig into all these links, but this might be different than an OS issue, more of a manufacturer, or a poor choice of hardware from the people posting it, or they messed up with their software (not updated driver

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