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by edude03 2y ago
Nix has been my daily driver for about 10 years, all 10 on servers, and about 3/4 on a laptop. The thing that hits close to home for me, is the inability to use software that doesn't support nixes opinions on how to do version man
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by edude03 2y ago
Containers are only reproducible at run time not at build time. Once you build a container and pull it down by its sha256, you'll get the same environment each time. However if your Dockerfile does any IO (curl, apt get, pip install et
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by edude03 2y ago
As a heavy container user myself - I've been using containers since I needed to build my own 3.x kernel to test them - docker doesn't solve the reproducibility problem nix solves - IE, I can make a Dockerfile that does `RUN curl
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by edude03 2y ago
And of course - often apps ask for permissions they don't need at opprotune time ie "enable development mode to get 100 more gems" or "enable notifications to use this app"
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by edude03 2y ago
I'm hoping I haven't become an out of touch tech bro, but I believe if you're able to flash libreboot on your software development machine you're able to afford $50. _should_ you have to spend more money to support bloat
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by edude03 2y ago
Honestly I worry more about hiring an oppositional / defiant / insubordinate “asshole” more than the AI use itself because what does it say about an applicant if their first instinct when challenged is to say “your process is inva
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by edude03 2y ago
Point taken, although I feel like $2k a year would be really cheap if AI delivered on its hype.
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by edude03 2y ago
This is exactly the problem with optimizing metrics though. It seems like they’re getting more money from less customers but it puts them at might higher risk that those big customers will churn and tank the company which also increases as
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by edude03 2y ago
Maybe I'm reading it with rose coloured glasses - but I feel like the only thing kubernetes "did wrong" is allowing them to host multiple control planes. Yes, you need 3+ CP instances for HA, but the expectation is you'd
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by edude03 2y ago
Like most tech stories this had pretty much nothing to do the tool itself but with the people/organization. The entire article can be summarized with this one quote > In short, organizational decisions and an overly cautious approac
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by edude03 2y ago
I used this product when I lived in a building where I could get a 500mb and a 100mbit connection but not a gigabit connection. I had the server side setup on digital ocean and it "worked" in so far as I could pull 600mbit/s
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by edude03 2y ago
Nerves and hot code reloading got me into erlang after I watched a demo of patching code on a flying drone ~8 years ago. While I can't imagine hot reloading is super practicle in production, it does highlight that erlang/beam&#x2F
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by edude03 2y ago
Daily nix user across Mac and Linux, though I use Mac for actual development. No problems here moving between the two with my dev env defined on GitHub [0] [0]: https://github.com/edude03/dotfiles
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by edude03 2y ago
What kind of issues are you having?
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by edude03 2y ago
Transformers were made for machine translation - someone had the insight that when going from one language to another the context mattered such that the tokens that came before would bias which ones came after. It just so happened that tran
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by edude03 2y ago
Yes although how close to verbatim is debatable. For example there are questions that you’d ask that other people have asked many times before that you’d like the exact answer for (e.g. when does daylight saving time end?)
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by edude03 2y ago
What does it mean to predict the next token correctly though? Arguably (non instruction tuned) models already regurgitate their training data such that it'd complete "Mary had a" with "little lamb" 100% of the time.
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by edude03 2y ago
Envoy is legendary in (dev)ops circles, but I don't understand what it lends to the AI space. I feel like building a separate backend service that runs behind envoy would make more sense but that's just me.
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by edude03 2y ago
Nice to see Jeff finally got some success running GPUs on the pi. Though, as the conclusion kind of points to, it's not very practical today. To be practical I guess we'd need to see faster bus speeds, newer GPU support AND proba
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by edude03 2y ago
I think the point was this isn’t the norm though. If you know you need to be pinned to a core you CAN configure kubernetes to do so but it’s not the default and therefore you are unknowingly leaving performance on the floor
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by edude03 2y ago
was surprised by this as well
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by edude03 2y ago
I’m a bell customer in Canada and it used to be the case that the ISP provided modem had a CPU too slow to run PPPoE at a gigabit despite the ISP selling plans up to 1.5gb/s (it could only do 600mb/s or something but don’t quote m
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by edude03 2y ago
_generally speaking_ most data science is "we tried this and it improved this metric" the how and why is often poorly understood, and even when it is, it's often later once the system has been working for awhile. But also I&#
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by edude03 2y ago
IIRC the actual model is private and only downloads once you activate the device so presumably if the company was shutdown you couldn’t use the device anymore unless someone shelled out for training
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by edude03 2y ago
I mean let’s be frank here. The sort of people who are enthusiastic about this also aren’t going to be stopped by the law especially with the low risk of getting caught.
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by edude03 2y ago
I’ve been saying this since Tesla released autopilot because I personally think teslas implementation is the best but there isn’t an easy way to compare it to something like radar cruise with lane keeping other than saying they’re both leve
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by edude03 2y ago
That kernel panic sounds like a hardware fault just from first blush. Sounds like it's turning on some device but the device isn't responding after being turned on
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by edude03 2y ago
12B is pretty small, so I’m doubting it’ll be anywhere close to internvl2 however mistral does great work and likely this model is still useful for on device tasks
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by edude03 2y ago
One aspect I've yet to see covered is how existing hardware doesn't seem to be designed for s0ix to work as intended anyway. For example, on mobile phones it used to be the case that the application processor wasn't actually
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by edude03 2y ago
Tried to apply but was unable to since my school wasn't listed in the required education section

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