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by Twirrim 8mo ago
I get tolerable performance out of a quantized gpt-oss 20b on an old RTX3050 I have kicking around (I want to say 20-30 tokens/s, or faster when cache is effective). It's appreciably faster on the 4060. It's not quite idea
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by Twirrim 8mo ago
OCI supports it with Intel. I know it works with AMD, but we don't officially support that so far as I'm aware. The performance hit on AMD is bigger than Intel, last I looked.
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by Twirrim 8mo ago
Projects around planting trees have often failed, in part from the choice of tree, in part because it takes more than just planting a tree to restore the habitat. It's generally better to work with the existing flora to promote growth
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by Twirrim 9mo ago
The opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics included a celebration of the National Health Service, which got mysteriously cut from the broadcast in the US, at a time when there was a bunch of fuss over Obamacare that had come into eff
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by Twirrim 9mo ago
Pooling connections somewhere has been fundamental for several decades now. Fun quick anecdote: a friend of mine worked at an EA subsidiary when Sim City (2013) was released, to great disaster as the online stuff failed under load. Got shif
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by Twirrim 9mo ago
I've biased towards this heavily in the last 8 or so years now. I've yet to have anyone mistakenly modify anything when they need to pass --commit, when I've repeatedly had people repeatedly accidentally modify stuff because
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by Twirrim 9mo ago
Agreed, these seem like ideal patches to me for a first contribution. Solves a specific problem, doesn't require a lot of effort on maintainers side to review, and should give them a straightforward path to familiarise themselves with
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by Twirrim 9mo ago
Thanks, no idea where my brain was when I typed that!
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by Twirrim 9mo ago
>Roundabouts are worse for land use though, which impacts walkability, and the safety story for pedestrians and bike users with them is decidedly not great as well. They're much safer for pedestrians than intersections. You're
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by Twirrim 9mo ago
They (you?) haven't even figured out Matrix yet, from the looks of things. edit: If you really are the author of the post, I'd strongly encourage pulling it, now. Although the damage is now already done to Cloudflare, keeping it
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by Twirrim 9mo ago
Sony's history of media formats and devices is fascinating. I keep thinking that at some stage they're going to stop creating new ones, but somehow never seems to happen. This goes into just 6 of the media formats, but there are s
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by Twirrim 9mo ago
Over a decade ago I was working for AWS on Glacier, we jokingly pitched an April fools day article about how Glacier stores customer data on vinyl records, and that 9 out of 10 customers preferred the feel of their data when restored. AWS d
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by Twirrim 9mo ago
Nothing. They could just cut ties and be done with it.
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by Twirrim 10mo ago
How, exactly, have they made Tailwind worse just to make more money? Point to specifics, please.
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by Twirrim 10mo ago
> Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients FWIW these kinds of claims have been a cyclical thing constantly throughout my nearly 3 decades long career. We're always on the verge of thin clients r
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by Twirrim 10mo ago
https://archive.is/2RVMh
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A Go question: how do you test select based code?(utcc.utoronto.ca)
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by Twirrim 10mo ago
So what's next? Students using AIs with text-to-speech to orally respond to the "oral" exam questions from an AI? Where do we go from there? At some point soon I think this is going to have to come firmly back to real peopl
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by Twirrim 10mo ago
Previously discussed in 2019, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20352439 Someone shared a link to that site in a conversation earlier this year on HN. For a long time now, I've had a gzip bomb sitting on my server
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by Twirrim 10mo ago
So could Go ( https://pkg.go.dev/embed ), Rust ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.include_str.html ) and a number of other languages in the set.
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by Twirrim 10mo ago
I'm not sure why the contents of rounds.txt isn't just provided as some kind of argument instead of read in from a file. Given all the other boilerplate involved, I would have expected it to be trivial to add relevant templating.
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by Twirrim 11mo ago
Agreed, `pf` is a delight to use. Borrowing a demonstration from https://srobb.net/pf.html tcp_pass = "{ 22 25 80 110 123 }" udp_pass = "{ 110 631 }" block all pass out on fxp0 proto tc
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by Twirrim 11mo ago
The OS doesn't always know everything about workloads to be able to make the right decisions.
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by Twirrim 11mo ago
I can't speak to the accuracy of the diagnosis, but the claims about NTP are bizarre, and to the best of my knowledge, wrong. There's nothing specific about the times the incidents cluster around that would have anything to do wi
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Yup, using this approach it's possible to build/use aarch64 containers on an x86 machine. This technique means that a much smaller set of operations are being emulated (doesn't have to emulate the entire kernel etc) For some
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by Twirrim 1y ago
It's a weird choice of word (especially in the company name, honestly). To my mind, loopholes are things that get closed. I would not want to be relying on a loophole for anything. "Whoops, sorry, an innocent kernel update bro
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I've been using active listening approaches for about 6 years now, when I interview candidates, to great effect. I give a head's up to the candidate of what I'm going to do, right at the top after introducing myself. During
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I've been experimenting over the past year or so, and keep trying to visualise things. Part of this spun out from the fact that I can dream (I rarely seem to, or at least remember them), but when I do, I remember that it was a vivid r
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by Twirrim 1y ago
We start out doing things in the CPU, create dedicated hardware for it externally, then slowly but surely bring it closer and closer to the CPU until we end up integrating the specialist capabilities into it. Often these capabilities enable
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by Twirrim 1y ago
They're required to do it by law, some posturing the Texas legislature went through a few years back in the name of "fighting anti-semitism". Virtue signalling stuff. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01

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