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by derefr 2y ago
> It's just a mess, hence why I sort of gave up at some point and for some "esoteric" syscall I just hardcode them. Presuming you don't want to keep doing this forever, but would rather do insane amounts of up-front w
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by derefr 2y ago
The thing that gets saturated first for most at-home or cheap-VPS hosting is the low-throughput network uplink.
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by derefr 2y ago
Choice #3 structure the update code so that verifying the integrity of the update (in kernel mode!) is upstream of installing the update / removing the previous definitions package, such that a failed update (for whatever reason) res
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by derefr 2y ago
You mean “and therefore requiring businesses that take credit cards to enforce the union of all the restrictions imposed by all six companies (which might not even be possible—the restrictions might be contradictory) in order to accept all
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by derefr 2y ago
I believe that Golang, as a green-threaded runtime, is allocating a separate carrier thread for running syscalls on, so that a blocking syscall won’t block the green-threads. These syscall carrier threads are allocated with a distinct initi
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by derefr 2y ago
The one exception being video-based image super-resolution techniques, where the frames of the video are composited together to gain more information than is in any individual frame (which is also how MRIs work!) Tangent to that: does anyon
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by derefr 2y ago
AFAIK the pure platonic ideal of OOP (i.e. the thing that Smalltalk and Self do) makes no mention of subclassing — that’s bolted-on brain-damage that’s become conflated with OOP. The way a “real” OOP language would do subclassing, would jus
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by derefr 2y ago
For running LLMs, I think most people just dive into https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/ and start reading. Not sure what the equivalent is for image generation; it's either https://www.reddit.com
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by derefr 2y ago
I haven't looked into exactly what this project is doing, but here's my understanding: Inference across O(N) pre-trained hidden layers isn't exactly an "embarrassingly parallel" problem, but it is an "embarra
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by derefr 2y ago
> A stack of transformers isn’t performing a sequence of fundamental transformations as much as it as performing a sequence of additions, each layer adding new paint to a shared canvas. I don't know if "additions" is a goo
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by derefr 2y ago
> Look it up, there are tons of videos on YouTube of people doing component level repairs. Leaked schematics make a huge difference here. I've watched these videos — and the people you're referencing doing this are rarely using
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by derefr 2y ago
Pedantry: 1. if you click "UTM SE" in this article, you get taken to https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2024/07/14/0819 ; 2. and this page in turn is apparently of an unusual "commentary
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by derefr 2y ago
> because merely decompressing the packages is very slow Is this because the guest code is making syscalls that context-switch, and that imposes a lot of interpretation overhead; or is it mostly because the emulator's disk driver ma
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by derefr 2y ago
You can already get a desktop on iPadOS, though. A remote one. Apple has never had a problem with RDP/VNC/etc clients for iPadOS.
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by derefr 2y ago
The point of the proxy, is that it would talk to these fifteen different backends and convert them into a generic key-value API. And also, as with the AWS solution above, do TTL-based cache refresh of the secrets, cache-invalidation when
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by derefr 2y ago
> Also, at any project with a sane architecture, you're using 1 vault and maybe 1-2 ambient strategies to pass the data. You won't use all the vaults at the same time anyway You're assuming the secrets here are managed by
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by derefr 2y ago
It has translated to reliable legacy software. You can snapshot a piece of software, together with its runtime environment, at the point when it's still possible to build it; and then you can continue to run that built OCI image, wi
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by derefr 2y ago
Yeah, but the Open Container Initiative is supposed to be the responsible adults in the room taking the "fail fast" corporate Docker Inc stuff, and taking time to apply good engineering principles to it. It's somewhat surpr
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by derefr 2y ago
> even more if not using Infiniband It's interesting that the above "HPC reference architecture" shows a GPU-to-GPU Infiniband fabric, despite Nvidia also nominally pushing NVLink Switch ( https://www.nvidia.com&
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by derefr 2y ago
Why are all the various "secrets vault" approaches so splintered and proprietary, anyway? Why is there a separate tool I have to install for: • AWS secrets, GCP secrets, Azure secrets... each has its own API • secrets in a HashiCo
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by derefr 2y ago
I think the point is less for apps, and more for the infrastructure that deploys apps (think: a Kubernetes control-plane), when that infrastructure depends on secrets from AWS but does not itself live within AWS — i.e. the "hybrid clou
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by derefr 2y ago
Lucky you, buying computer hardware new-in-box :) I think, for at least the first 30 years of my life, every Linux system I've ever built was with "hand-me-down" hardware. First hardware from my parents, then from various fri
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by derefr 2y ago
> which is probably fine since using a card that old on a modern machine suggests you aren't that interested in games or VR I think a more correct assumption is that you're likely interested in running games of at most the era
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by derefr 2y ago
I'm surprised the reverse-engineering folks that like jailbreaking game consoles and decompiling game ROMs, aren't all over the idea of decompiling old Nvidia drivers to modify + recompile them to speak to modern kernel APIs.
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by derefr 2y ago
PnP will always work for a simple+direct+modern (GPU → DisplayPort or HDMI → display) display path; but there are a lot of people who for whatever reason still need to use VGA. Despite EDID being invented during the VGA era, it wasn&#x2
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by derefr 2y ago
What Linux solves through configuration, Windows solves by having everything you buy come with its own model-specific drivers that burn the needed configuration into the .INI + .DLL. Windows "not liking your video card" is presuma
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by derefr 2y ago
> I think this started around the 90ies that devices turned into magic black box consumables that are expected to "just work" while being undiagnosable when they don't. I would say that it's more that the architecture
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by derefr 2y ago
> For a long time the X Window System had a reputation for being difficult to configure. In retrospect, I’m not 100% sure why it earned this reputation, because the configuration file format, which is plain text, has remained essentially
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by derefr 2y ago
I would note that a notional "log store", doesn't have to just be used for things that are literally "logs." You know what else you could call a log store? A CQRS/ES event store. (Specifically, a "log stor
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by derefr 2y ago
After some of the replies, I gave this a bit more thought, and I came up with an entirely-different design that (IMHO) has a much better security model — and which I personally like a lot better. It eschews webpage-supplied Arbitrary Code E

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