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by barrkel 11mo ago
Lobbyists are how companies talk to governments. If you believe that companies create value, then you should believe that companies should communicate with governments. It can help prevent low quality regulations from being pushed through.
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by barrkel 11mo ago
Direct kinetic war between nuclear powers is pretty much unthinkable - mutual annihilation if either core territory is threatened. Instead, wars happen through proxies or direct attacks on non-nuclear powers, and then you need the ability t
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by barrkel 1y ago
And if dispersion isn't good, it would be worthwhile running the vectors through another model trained to disperse them.
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by barrkel 1y ago
All I need in a remote, though, is a direction pad and about 6 buttons: power, select, back, home, volume up & down. And those power and volume buttons need to be routed to the display (projector in my case) and sound bar respectively.
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by barrkel 1y ago
I found wezterm pane resizing to be very glitchy, and using native panes along with the muxing server was about 80% of the reason I wanted to use it. But for whatever reason, maybe font related, the resizing logic is unstable and it gets in
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Quick thoughts on the recent AWS outage(surfingcomplexity.blog)
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by barrkel 1y ago
The guys who built my 9995wx threadripper pro system believed that AIO was basically necessary for the chip. The radiator part of it covers almost the entire top of my case, pushing air through.
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by barrkel 1y ago
It all sounds somewhat impressive (300k lines written and maintained by AI) but it's hard to judge how well the experience transfers without seeing the code and understanding the feature set. For example, I have some code which is a se
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by barrkel 1y ago
Research runs mostly. https://epoch.ai/data-insights/openai-compute-spend
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by barrkel 1y ago
If you've ever lived in a world of stacked commits with develop on main (i.e. not gitflow, no feature branches), combined with code review for every commit, git will soon start to aggravate you. Git doesn't make rebasing a chain o
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by barrkel 1y ago
It's a little bit trickier though, if you're selling hardware with a one off cost and not a subscription. Because your installed base grows even with flat revenue. The lifetime cost of CS (including the calls from people who need
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by barrkel 1y ago
I've switched to Linux. It's easier at this point. It's less slick, but I absolutely do not trust MS any more.
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by barrkel 1y ago
I'm reminded of how Carmack talked about the extra efficiencies available when targeting consoles, because you knew exactly what hardware was available. It's great that the efficiencies available can be shown to be extractable. Th
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by barrkel 1y ago
Anyone who uses zfs out of the box in a way substitutable with xfs, shouldn't. So I guess they serve a purpose that way. But that argument doesn't need any numbers at all.
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by barrkel 1y ago
It's hard to take those benchmarks too seriously. ZFS, btrfs and I guess bcachefs - which I've never used and don't have any opinion on - do things XFS and EXT4 don't and can't do. I know more about ZFS than the oth
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by barrkel 1y ago
It's antithesis. And it's really overused by ChatGPT.
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by barrkel 1y ago
Would a Silicon Valley 30-50% smaller be better for American workers? That's a rough estimate for how many engineers etc. that have or had a H-1B at some point. If you think of value creation as requiring fuel, humans are an input to t
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by barrkel 1y ago
You don't outsource; you set up an office instead. The problem with outsourcing is similar to the problem with contracting. You have limited ability to direct the work, the terms need to be specified up front, the contractors can subst
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by barrkel 1y ago
That's a lot of evidence free speculation. "Many people believe", and you doubt any studies that show the opposite.
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by barrkel 1y ago
Using grammar constrained output in llama.cpp - which has been available for ages and I think is a different implementation to the one described here - does slow down generation quite a bit. I expect it has a naive implementation. As to why
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by barrkel 1y ago
Democracy is little more than a mechanism for non-violent transfer of power among elites. We rely on things other than democracy to protect minorities. Institutions, laws, restraints on power; things the committed democrat believes are unju
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by barrkel 1y ago
I had to choose between California and Germany. It is a thing.
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by barrkel 1y ago
My Lunar Lake Zenbook has over 10 hours battery on Windows. Maybe Linux is ok, but I don't get the impression it's in the same category, much less ahead. But I don't use my laptop for much more than browsing and wsl2, and mos
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by barrkel 1y ago
I've used Linux laptops for work since 2013. I finally switched to Linux on the desktop earlier this year, after getting a laptop and experiencing Windows 11. The laptop isn't running Linux yet, I'm not confident the battery
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by barrkel 1y ago
Using an LLM to (re)write your prompt or system prompt (for local models) is free alpha.
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by barrkel 1y ago
I find myself bimodal, when comparing my "speed" to others in social situations. If there's something that's novel to me, I feel like I'm slower than the average bear. Not massively slower, but with a desire to take
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by barrkel 1y ago
Indeed I use such a machine in my day job. 64 slow Epyc cores, presumably power efficient. But even on that machine, builds are slower than they could be, and distributed builds are the way.
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by barrkel 1y ago
I also built my own, since the late 90s. But I'm not building my newest: a 96 core threadripper with 768GB ram. I went with a specialist to ensure it works compatibly. I expect it to last me a good few years, and I don't really an
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by barrkel 1y ago
You usually want O(1) indexing when you're implementing views over a large string. For example, a string containing a possibly multi-megabyte text file and you want to avoid copying out of it, and work with slices where possible. Anyth
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by barrkel 1y ago
There are a handful of professional uses for a workstation that are hard to beat with a laptop. If you're compiling code, you generally want as much concurrency as you can get, as well as great single core speed when the task paralleli

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