drob518

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   by drob518 8mo ago

   Yep, me too. That’s the eternal trade-off. I’m always pretty sure that there’s a specific Emacs function or mode that does exactly what I want, but I mostly can’t be bothered to find it beyond a quick guessing search via apropos (C-h a). I
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   by drob518 8mo ago

   Which-key is invaluable as a way to navigate a large key chord hierarchy. Great for learning mode-specific commands that live under C-c.
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   by drob518 8mo ago

   Cue RMS giving the Church of Emacs skit…
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   by drob518 8mo ago

   Interesting. I use ELPA/MELPA all the time and find things pretty stable for my own uses. Surprisingly so, in fact. I honestly expected more hiccups. I wonder whether it’s differences between the packages that we use or the complexity
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   by drob518 8mo ago

   So, curve fitting the training data? So, we should expect out of sample accuracy to be crap?
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   by drob518 8mo ago

   Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum.
7. 577.▲
   by drob518 8mo ago

   Yep. “You spy on mine, and I’ll spy on yours, and then we’ll share info.”
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   by drob518 8mo ago

   Definitely. This museum is great if you love Dutch masters, particularly Rembrandt. Highly recommended.
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   by drob518 8mo ago

   He was a brain nerd, for sure.
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    RIP. I was a big user of Pagemaker back in the early 1990s. Great product for the time.
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    Definitely that too, particularly in 2nd-world countries. I remember having a difficult time with dirty power for some hardware products I was responsible for at one time, where the customers were in the Middle East nd Africa in the 1990s.
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    So, it wasn’t my imagination.
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    I concur. A lot of “flakey” issues can be traced to poor quality power supplies. That’s a component that doesn’t get any attention in spec sheets other than a max power rating and I think a lot of manufacturers skimp there. As long as the s
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    Thanks for the info. I’d like to do agentic coding first, but then chatbot and classification as lower priorities. I don’t really care about image gen. Also, if you’re only able to run 35B models in 32GB, seems like I’d definitely want at l
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    That works for a LOT of people. Not me, but the everybody else in my family.
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    I agree with the sentiment, but in general it's not worth my time to try to purge. I used to do that back in 2005. Heck, in the 1990s, I'd buy a new hard drive every year. But these days, I find that a hard drive lasts me for 5 ye
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    Have you used local AI models on a 32 GB MBP? I ask because I'm looking to finally upgrade my M1 Air, which I love, but which only has 16 GB RAM. I'm trying to figure out if I just want to bump to 32 GB with the M5 MBAir or make t
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    Wise guy. That said, upvoted for cleverness.
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    The original link has nothing to do with any recent tariffs. The study period from 2018 through 2022 and specifically looked tariffs on wine driven by the Airbus/Boeing kerfuffle happening at the time.
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    Thank the founders for the Commerce Clause, at least when it's applied correctly and isn't being abused.
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    To what end? It varies a lot. Between 0% and 100%+ of the cost could be passed onto the consumer (100%+ when every distribution tier passes along what came to it and then marked it up). Maybe you can create a statistical distribution with m
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    We the fuck is we. Consumers, that is. "Tariffs are dumb" sounds more like a temper tantrum than a meaningful comment from an actual economist.
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    If you've seen one tariff study, you've seen one tariff study. There are so many factors that end up influencing the end-state of the system. It literally depends on the particular type of good, the producer, producer's marke
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    The whole Internet was designed for precisely this use case. If there is an outage, the distributed system will try to find another path. No actual central point of failure. As you say, the single brick is hyperbolic. But yea, those sharks
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    History Rhymes: Large Language Models Off to a Bad Start?(michaeljburry.substack.com)

    1 points by drob518 8mo ago|0 comments
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    Thanks for the link. I’m interested in trying it.
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    There’s no use arguing. As the ancient Lisp proverb says, when the programmer is ready, the parens will disappear. Until then, you’re just wasting your breath.
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    Yea, kudos on the docs. It’s rare that something this new is this polished. Well done!
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    by drob518 8mo ago

    Coming from Clojure, I like types being invisible. Square brackets feels like a needless change. If you want sexprs, just use sexprs. Interesting ideas, as you say.
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    by drob518 9mo ago

    Yes, but you’d be foolish to realize your gains if you think the stock still has a long way to run. That just triggers taxes and eliminates any further upside. So, we can reasonably conclude that either BH thinks Amazon’s run is nearly exha