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by bityard 8mo ago
It's fascinating to me that people are still making money on RDBMS UIs in 2026. Maybe there's hope for my markdown notes app after all?
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by bityard 8mo ago
The repo you linked to is a WWV simulator, WWV broadcasts the time via _audio_ (double-sideband amplitude modulation) at various fixed HF frequencies. SOME clocks might be able to automatically receive and decode this signal, but not many.
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by bityard 8mo ago
I remember seeing this on Hackaday. Very clever idea!
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by bityard 8mo ago
Python already has a lot of half-baked (all the way up to nearly-fully-baked) interpreters, what's one more? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Python_software#Python...
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by bityard 8mo ago
I think the hard part about that is you first have to train the model on a BUTT TON of that new language, because that's the only way they "learn" anything. They already know a lot of Python, so telling them to write restrict
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by bityard 9mo ago
In a company I used to work for, "sustaining engineering" was the team of developers that handled all of the bugs and issues reported by customers on old-but-still-technically-supported versions of the products. (The ones who work
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by bityard 9mo ago
I haven't heard of this but he must be pretty proud of it, the page title is literally, "Homepage of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs", his name is in the logo, and the picture is on the front page.
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by bityard 9mo ago
Yes! The idea of DNS records "propagating" gave me entirely the wrong mental model of DNS very early in my career. Granted, the confusion didn't last long because I read the cricket book soon after, but it was still pretty ja
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by bityard 9mo ago
Stuff like that sends me down rabbit holes and when I finally come up for air, I say, "Gee, now I see how people can build their entire career around this!"
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by bityard 9mo ago
When MP3 became popular, people were amazed that you could compress audio to 1/10th its size with minor quality loss. A few decades later, we have audio compression that is much better and higher-quality than MP3, and they took a lot m
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by bityard 9mo ago
If it works anything like the memories on Copilot (which have been around for quite a while), you need to be pretty explicit about it being a permanent preference for it to be stored as a memory. For example, "Don't use emoji in y
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by bityard 9mo ago
Well, the clouds are upside-down, so I don't think I can give it a pass.
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by bityard 9mo ago
Came here to post the same thing. Very entertaining series of videos!
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by bityard 9mo ago
Correct, a rack full of datacenter equipment is not going to compete with anything that fits on your desk or lap. Well spotted. But as a counterpoint: there are whole communities of people in this space who get significant value from models
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by bityard 9mo ago
Thanks, that makes sense.
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by bityard 9mo ago
I've read that page before and although it all certainly sounds very impressive, I'm not an AI researcher. What's the actual goal of dynamic quantization? Does it make the model more accurate? Faster? Smaller?
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by bityard 9mo ago
Hi Daniel, I've been using some of your models on my Framework Desktop at home. Thanks for all that you do. Asking from a place of pure ignorance here, because I don't see the answer on HF or in your docs: Why would I (or anyone)
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by bityard 9mo ago
You are not wrong, small models can be trained for niche use cases and there are lots of people and companies doing that. The problem is that you need one of those for each use case whereas the bigger models can cover a bigger problem space
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by bityard 9mo ago
Local models on your laptop will never be as powerful as the ones that take up a rack of datacenter equipment. But there is still a surprising amount of overlap if you are willing to understand and accept the limitations.
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by bityard 9mo ago
I think a funnier variation of this would be a fantastic new AI therapist that is 100% local and private and runs entirely in your browser. (But under the hood, it's ELIZA.)
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by bityard 9mo ago
But--and this is crucial--the one about regexes is hilarious. It also comes from a time in Internet culture when humor was appreciated instead of aggressively downvoted.
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by bityard 9mo ago
It's worth noting that all of this drama stems from the (somewhat opaque, to put it nicely) reddit comments of one KDE developer, so that warrants treating it as a rumor in my book. It would be prudent to wait for an announcement or cl
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by bityard 9mo ago
Location: Ann Arbor, MI Remote: YES Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Linux, Open Source, Python, Storage, Git, CI/CD, Ansible, Virtualization (and now getting into self-hosted AI) Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/i
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by bityard 9mo ago
I think the whole concept of testing confuses a lot of people. I know I was (and still sometimes am) confused about the various "best practices" and opinions around testing. As as well as how/what/when to test. For my pr
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by bityard 9mo ago
You can block shorts this way? Neat! Excuse me, I need to go set up a subaccount for my newly adopted fictional child.
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by bityard 9mo ago
> a strong culture of considering both sides Ah, no, the HN commentorship is quite highly biased toward a particular demographic and set of political beliefs, which is a thing that needs to be acknowledged. "Considering both sides&q
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by bityard 9mo ago
It depends on lot on the sub and how their moderators police the community, but yeah, I've seen lots of that. I've been aggressively downvoted before for pointing out facts that people don't want to be true. (And these were n
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by bityard 9mo ago
Pretty much all wikis would have a "Sandbox" page for trying out that particular wiki's individual syntax and features.
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by bityard 9mo ago
I was part of a squadron that flew KC-135s in the mid 2000's. Those 135s looked positively modern inside and out, compared to the worn-out H-53s and C-130s that I worked on a few years prior at a training base.
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by bityard 9mo ago
It's MUCH more expensive to design and build an aircraft from scratch than it is to repurpose and maintain an existing design that fits the requirements. The major cost sinks are not even the design and manufacturing, it's all of

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