cmdrk

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by cmdrk 6d ago
when I was a student in the waning days of Sun, the SPARC/Solaris machines were impenetrable Big Iron guarded closely by the greybeards -- not to be touched by the likes of mere undergrads. Never really did get beyond noodling around w
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by cmdrk 2mo ago
Drat, I was hoping this article would be about outlawing Kubernetes.
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by cmdrk 4mo ago
The invisible guardrails are a test run for the invisible enshittification. Just wait til they start dialing down ability to better absorb peak demand or simply to have more profitable inference
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by cmdrk 4mo ago
IIRC, this is the same lab who created Glaze.
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by cmdrk 4mo ago
Do you think this will be a trend for larger companies as well? The decadal move to all-cloud-all-the-time killed off in-house hardware teams while the C-suite chased their OpEx dreams. It would be interesting if we come full circle on this
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by cmdrk 5mo ago
My observation is that the true believers really don't want to think of models as an inert pile of weights. There's some mysticism attached to imagining it's the ship's computer from Star Trek, HAL-9000 or C-3PO. A file
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by cmdrk 6mo ago
100% the same problem here. I have to show people extremely zoomed-in screenshots of how $VENDOR default monospaced fonts get rendered compared to Terminus at the correct size in order for them to understand my pain. The hinting is just blu
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by cmdrk 6mo ago
Bellringing, specifically change ringing. It’s a type of church bell ringing that is rather algorithmic in nature. Tends to attract mathy types. Religion not required or expected! If you have English-style tower bells near you, it's wo
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by cmdrk 6mo ago
> Their only original idea was Metaverse surely you must be joking.
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by cmdrk 8mo ago
> too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers You and me both. They're doing neat stuff, but I wonder how many other potential customers feel that way too. What is Oxide&
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by cmdrk 8mo ago
bcantrill gave a great talk many years ago about compute-data locality. would be nice to know if those ideas panned out for some customers, but it seems the world has by-and-large continued to schlep data back and forth. it's too bad t
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by cmdrk 9mo ago
Random assortment of projects as time allows with the $JOB. - Prototyping a cute little SSH-based sorta-BBS, inspired by the Spring '83 protocol, but terminal-centric rather than web-based. It's called Winter '78, and if we g
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by cmdrk 1y ago
CephFS implements a (fully?) POSIX filesystem while it seems that TernFS makes tradeoffs by losing permissions and mutability for further scale. Their docs mention they have a custom kernel module, which I suppose is (today) shipped out of
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by cmdrk 1y ago
Does their training corpus respect copyrights or do you have to follow their opt out procedure to keep them from consuming your data? Assuming it’s the latter, it’s open-er but still not quite there.
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by cmdrk 1y ago
I feel that the article draws a false equivalence between skepticism and doomsaying. If anything, thinking AI is as dangerous as a nuclear weapon signals a true believer.
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by cmdrk 1y ago
just wait for the AI summary
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by cmdrk 1y ago
Not to pick on you, but there are always posts like this in every Erlang thread. One is not strictly superior to the other, and the BEAM community benefits from the variety IMO.
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by cmdrk 1y ago
I wouldn't mind the Erlang-dominated front page coming back :)
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by cmdrk 1y ago
Containerization is amazingly great for scientific computing. I don’t ever want to go back to doing the make && make install dance and praying I’ve got my dependency ducks in a row.
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by cmdrk 1y ago
This sounds super cool! Any public code you can share?
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by cmdrk 1y ago
Broadly: Still forging ahead building a game server framework in Erlang. I've shifted my attention away from Godot integration (which AFAIK is still working) and toward LÖVE and Lua. Godot is great, but having to write GDScript on the
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by cmdrk 1y ago
How does this compare to something like BYOND? I realize it’s dated now but conceptually there are some similarities.
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by cmdrk 1y ago
My understanding is that Luerl can remove various modules from being used, like preventing use of the IO library for instance. I would say BEAM itself is not particularly sandboxed, and certainly clusters of Erlang nodes assume a lot of sha
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by cmdrk 1y ago
“My job safe from obsolescence by new technology”, says man directly threatened by new technology
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by cmdrk 1y ago
Godot has a nice netcode story with ENet, WebSocket and WebRTC integration. If you just want a off-the-shelf product instead of bespoke Erlangy stuff, I think there are a lot of good options out there like Godot's native high-level net
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by cmdrk 1y ago
I'm still tinkering on my multiplayer game server framework when not grinding away at my day job. The idea is essentially: An Erlang-based control plane, supporting ENet and WebSocket connection modes, with Protobuf for messages. Erlan
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by cmdrk 1y ago
Erlang is my favorite language but getting a job writing Erlang feels impossible. I make it a habit to ctrl-F every Who’s Hiring? thread and find Elixir occasionally and Erlang never.
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by cmdrk 1y ago
as a Lisp-curious person, Fennel was a gateway drug for me
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by cmdrk 2y ago
Indeed, but the hallowed Job Creators have the means to influence the people in power to make the taxes go away.
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by cmdrk 2y ago
Anything going on these days in Chicago?

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