Twirrim

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by Twirrim 1y ago
We sure as hell could do with some more "common sense" at layers above the AI. Maybe we could avoid this parade of absurdity where people use LLMs expecting them to think.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
It was some time around then. I remember AMD being late to it vs Intel.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
This is almost certainly why the bug changed everything. It's really hard to do time limited trials in any durable fashion, where that encompasses more than a single runtime of the program. Something, somewhere, has to persist some kin
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by Twirrim 1y ago
AI, block chain, rust, go, serverless, nosql, ruby on rails..... The list goes on and on :-) Some of it gets really annoying on the business side, because companies like Gartner jump on the trends, and they have enough influence that busine
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Even the large cloud AI services are focusing on this too, because it drives down the average "cost per query", or whatever you want to call it. For inference, arguably more even than training, the smaller and more efficient they
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Chrome on my oneplus ten, I get flickering black lines routinely. The fact they're going from somewhere along the top, down towards the right makes me wonder if it's a refresh artifact maybe? It's sort of like the rolling shu
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by Twirrim 1y ago
It's wild to me that stdin/stdout is apparently significantly faster than using the API in so many cases. That's the kind of result that makes me wonder if there is something odd with the benchmarking.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I signed NDAs. I wish Glacier was more open about their history, because it's honestly interesting, and they have a number of notable innovations in how they approach things.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Almost everyone went with 1a, every time. It causes significant issues for all sorts of reasons, especially considering the latency target for network connections between data centres in an AD
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I can't talk about it, but I've yet to see an accurate guess at how Glacier was originally designed. I think I'm in safe territory to say Glacier operated out of the same data centers as every other AWS service. It's bee
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by Twirrim 1y ago
At OCI, our VM shapes are all single NUMA node by default. We only relatively recently added support for cross-NUMA instances, precisely because of the complications that NUMA introduces. There are so many performance quirks, and so much so
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Not sure cloud providers will care, all the costs get passed onto the customers. There's already far more demand for GPUs than can be met by the supply chain, too. If they were sitting on excess stock, or struggling to sell, sure.
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Hurd predates Linux by about a year, but was under stop/start development for several years before that too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd It's as old as dirt, in computing terms. It was intended
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by Twirrim 1y ago
> it would be kind of difficult to make a case for a brand new desktop operating system Google is sure trying with Fuscia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system)
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by Twirrim 1y ago
I've got a prompt I've been using, that I adapted from someone here (thanks to whoever they are, it's been incredibly useful), that explicitly tells it to stop praising me. I've been using an LLM to help me work through
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by Twirrim 1y ago
> Together with a few other optimizations, these tweaks yielded over 1,000mi in increased range—enough that we could now afford a remarkable passenger cabin without sacrificing fuel efficiency or range. Honestly, the way the narrative re
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by Twirrim 1y ago
The serialisation cost of translating data representations between python and C (or whatever compiled language you're using) is notable. Instead of having the compiled code sit in the centre of a hot loop, it's significantly bette
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by Twirrim 1y ago
That would be a derivative work, and still be subject to the license terms and conditions, at best. There are standard ways to approach this called clean room engineering. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_desi
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by Twirrim 1y ago
> I don't expect a smart toaster to talk like a BBC host; Well sure, the BBC have already established that it's supposed to sound like a brit doing an impersonation of an American: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by Twirrim 1y ago
> The problem with oceangate is that their CEO was an arrogant narcissist who thought he knew better than everyone, and if anyone stood in his way he would explode with anger at them and fire them. There has to be a point at which you go
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Python performance myths and fairy tales(lwn.net)
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Agreed, not sure it makes them morons. The way their website scraper works is what makes me think they're morons. I opted to honeypot them in iocaine, because their access rate is absurd. On a typical day on my small website, they
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by Twirrim 1y ago
And also while you're there, if no car ever in the history of your app goes down the road at the speed limit ever it's a good indication you'll never be able to ever do it at that speed. e.g. small narrow single lane cou
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by Twirrim 1y ago
The queuing discipline used by default (pfifo_fast) is barely more than 3 FIFO queues bundled together. The 3 queues allow for a barest minimum semblance of prioritisation of traffic, where Queue 0 > 1 > 2, and you can tweak some tcp
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by Twirrim 1y ago
They've long since fixed the C based modules interaction, unfortunately a lot of common knowledge is from when it couldn't interact with everything. If you've written it off on that basis, I'd suggest it's worth giv
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by Twirrim 1y ago
Yes. I've had a small webapp running under it quite happily (complete overkill, but it's a personal project and I was curious). Very basic hello world app hosted under gunicorn (just returning the string "hello world",
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by Twirrim 1y ago
> All I see is that I've been personally attacked and mischaracterized. I think there is a fundamental gap in communication. Your actual point is not coming across at all, anywhere in this thread. That's why you're gettin
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by Twirrim 1y ago
A QR code can capture 3k of data, you can capture a lot of context and details in that, particularly if you apply a little bit of compression (and the kernel has compression algorithms embedded in it). More than can be captured on a screen
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by Twirrim 1y ago
You're talking from a position I don't think many would agree with, at all, and I think the responses you're getting are reflecting that. Syntax is probably one of the single most important things in any language. It matte
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by Twirrim 1y ago
We've had traffic lights like that in the UK for ages. Where I am in the States these days, they're very common. There's one very effective one that manages my turning from the residential street onto to the main road. I w

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