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by aftbit 3mo ago
That wouldn't have contributed much to the discussion. Electrical insights often come from analogies. It's easier for most people to understand time derivatives in the context of an accelerating car than it is to understand them i
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by aftbit 3mo ago
Arguably they already did with the "cloud native" systems. There were plenty of examples personally known to me in the mid and late 2010s of smaller tech companies trying to run production PostgreSQL on 8-16 GB of RAM because they
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by aftbit 4mo ago
Power is just the time derivative of energy, like velocity is the time derivative of position. Both batteries and capacitors store energy, which they can release at some given peak and average power. Batteries tend to focus more on energy
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by aftbit 4mo ago
Please don't! Getting tricked by the satire and then slowly realizing it's insane is half the fun.
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by aftbit 4mo ago
It's available for rental from the domain cartel if anyone wants to drop some $$ on making the joke just that little bit more real.
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by aftbit 4mo ago
So when Anthropic uses millions of copyrighted works to train their model, that's fair use, but when Alibaba uses Anthropic's model to train their own, that's infringement?
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by aftbit 4mo ago
grepability is underrated. This is one of the reasons I dislike passing functions into interfaces - it makes it harder to follow the call chain when the functions are constantly renamed. Luckily there are often solutions that just come down
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by aftbit 4mo ago
Ah yeah those are bad linting rules then. That's one of my pet peeves. Inconsistent style is better than style forced into jankiness. Also... linters should auto-format whenever possible. I'll make a few exceptions, but broadly I
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by aftbit 4mo ago
In my opinion (and it's just that - an opinion, and mine - yours may differ), it's better to make the code as stupid simple as possible. When you build it, don't assume future change in that spot, because you could be terribl
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by aftbit 4mo ago
Same in the USA I believe.
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by aftbit 4mo ago
How long can they retain my identity information? I didn't see an answer to that in the post - did I just miss it, or are they being purposefully obtuse?
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by aftbit 4mo ago
Similarly, I've seen some developers who seem to think that any inline string or numeric constant is evil. In one PR, I saw: HTTPS_SCHEME = 'https' DOMAIN = 'www.example.com' url = HTTPS_SCHEME +
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by aftbit 4mo ago
$26.5 trillion dollars. That's more than $3,000/yr from every single man woman and child on the planet. Another way to put it - more than 10x as much as all of the US spends on food every year. For Grok/xAI. That's bonke
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by aftbit 4mo ago
SpaceX is not "vital" for national security. It's a powerful tool, but it's not vital. And in any true peer conflict involving the US, Starlink satellites would also prove vulnerable just like undersea cables.
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by aftbit 4mo ago
It seems like most of the energy associated with espresso would not come from the brewing step, but rather from the cultivation, processing, and transportation of the beans. Similarly, the brewing energy is likely 100% electrified, and coul
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by aftbit 4mo ago
It's very likely to hallucinate. I'm mostly using Gemma 4 31B now when I need something offline. It is a very strong model for its size.
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by aftbit 4mo ago
Yes, if your trust model allows you to use API providers or the big 3, you 100% should. They have better util than anything you self host, so they can be more efficient. On top of that, they're shoveling cash into the fire to try to ca
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by aftbit 4mo ago
Yeah it 100% depends what you want the model to do. Some tasks, like extraction, summarization, or simple tool calling (e.g. "turn on my desk lamp") are very doable with tiny models. Others, like coding or more advanced agentic wo
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by aftbit 4mo ago
That's DS4 Flash right? How does it feel in intelligence and speed compared to DS4 Flash hosted by Deepseek themselves or another API provider? I've been using API DS4 Flash for a lot of personal projects and have been quite impre
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by aftbit 4mo ago
Yep - I'd say either that or 4x 5090 is a great entry point to running local models "well". Two of them would be even better. If you don't have $12-24k to spend, you can try your hand with tiny models or quants or slow s
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by aftbit 4mo ago
IMO running local models "well" still requires an expensive hardware investment. You really want 96GB of VRAM on a modern Blackwell arch to run these models with decent KV cache. Trying to run them on a unified memory Mac, an AI M
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by aftbit 4mo ago
I've used three in my career as an Arch user: yaourt yay paru https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru/issues/1563
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by aftbit 4mo ago
With this _actual_ attack, it would have been trivial to detect. The signature was: 1. Orphaned package adopted 2. Has post-install hook added 3. Which uses npm or bun Yes, you're right - detecting this could have led to a more sophist
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by aftbit 4mo ago
TIL about pg_partman https://github.com/pgpartman/pg_partman/blob/development/doc...
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by aftbit 4mo ago
Has anyone from the AUR team (such as that is) published a retrospective yet? This was some impressively fast firefighting but in all honesty, it seems like some changes are needed, either in AUR policies or in the wrappers. I should be abl
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by aftbit 4mo ago
I had 15 of the infected packages installed! Luckily I have not updated any of them during the campaign. The full script checks this (in a fairly brittle way) but this comm one-liner does not. It seems like the AUR should change the orphan
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by aftbit 4mo ago
Why is this logarithmic?
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by aftbit 4mo ago
Most people buy scissors just to cut some paper. We can't expect everyone to recognize that they are sharp.
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by aftbit 4mo ago
This makes me idly wonder what would happen if a Bluetooth device appeared mid-flight with a title like "Bomb will explode if we do not land at LAX before 3 pm" (on a flight to LAX scheduled to land at 2:30 pm or whatever). The id
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by aftbit 4mo ago
Yeah this is really dumb. If someone really wanted to cause harm, they would just name their device "April's iPhone" or something. If they really wanted to send a threat, they'd pass a note to a flight attendant or name

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