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by green7ea 1y ago
I have a Strix Halo based HP ZBook G1A and it's been pretty easy getting local models to run on it. Training small LLMs on it has been a bit harder but doable as well. Mind you, I 'only' have 64 GB with mine. Under Linux, get
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by green7ea 1y ago
I also have one with 64gb — best laptop I've ever used :-). I have the same regret of not waiting for the 128gb version to be available before buying.
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by green7ea 1y ago
The HP zbook g1a ultra is as close as you can get with Strix Halo. There are two screen options and the OLED one is high resolution. It's Ubuntu certified as well and can run LLMs nicely. The keyboard, trackpad, etc are all to notch. I
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by green7ea 1y ago
Sure, I can chime in. I've been using emacs for about 18 years with meow for the last 4 or 5. I have the caps lock as control switch for about 10 years so it's not about that for me. I still edit with chords in insert mode but meo
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by green7ea 1y ago
This 1000x. I was working in Europe for a big American company, which will remain nameless, and they started shutting down most, if not all, of their European operations. A change in the US tax code made software development amortize over 5
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by green7ea 1y ago
Both are possible. You can have alternative app stores on Android without any restrictions — the most famous example would be F-Droid which hosts free software. Nothing stops Epic, Meta or any company from also having such a store. When you
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by green7ea 1y ago
This happened to me recently in Austria, I had to get a new phone to be able to do internet banking. You can only use the app with attestation from the PlayStore, AppStore or surprisingly Huawai store. When I complained repeately that this
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by green7ea 1y ago
Sadly that's not always (or won't be soon) an option. I recently had to buy a new phone so that I could run the 'updated' banking app that requires attestation to run — I was running google free Lineage. Without attestat
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by green7ea 1y ago
llama.cpp and lmstudio have a Vulkan backend which is pretty fast. I'm using it to run models on a Strix Halo laptop and it works pretty well.
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by green7ea 1y ago
I somewhat recently settled on using use-package and straight — I highly recommend this approach. You can get pretty far using what comes with emacs and adding a bit more. You can see how I do it in my emacs config[1] but it's a little
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by green7ea 1y ago
It's funny, the comment also uses the em dash (—) which is usually a giveaway for AI — very few people know where it is on the keyboard. Sadly for me, I really like using it and an international keyboard makes it easy.
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by green7ea 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I removed the text highlighting. Hopefully it reads better. You might have to control+f5 to see the changes, I had to.
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by green7ea 1y ago
I would see that C++11 started the modern C++ era and the later standards have refined and perfected it. I would be very sad to have to go back to C++98, it would feel like a different language — I would only be inconvenienced to go back to
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by green7ea 1y ago
As far as I know, many experienced C++ programmers have a list of warnings they use for their projects and it varies by industry since different compilers will have different flags. When I was working on bigger C++ projects, one of the seni
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by green7ea 1y ago
Author here, I do prefer a language like Rust that makes all of this automatic but that isn't always an option. There are other parts of Rust that can be hard as well. I wrote this article for a few friends who have recently started wo
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by green7ea 1y ago
Author here, that's a good approach :-). I see shared_ptr as a code smell since shared ownership makes life difficult.
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by green7ea 1y ago
Author here, parent comment describes it very well — shared_ptr are a last resort, not a first one. They are quite heavily (and badly) used in some code bases (ROS). I'm planning a future article that covers shared_ptr in more details.
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by green7ea 1y ago
Author here, I put that in place for people who skim articles or paragraphs — this is a surprising amount of people. Would it be better if it was more subtle? Were you reading in dark or light mode?
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by green7ea 1y ago
C++ is a difficult language to use well but it becomes a lot easier when you turn on the 'correct' warnings. Turning on the `-Wdeprecated-copy-dtor` warning would help you not forget one of the cases in the rule of 3. I would have
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by green7ea 1y ago
Author here, what you say is entirely correct — I didn't emphasize enough that this was all possible before in a more limited way. Those parts were cut out to try to make the article more focused on understanding RAII. The modern parts
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Modern C++ – RAII(green7ea.github.io)
43 points by green7ea 1y ago|106 comments
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by green7ea 2y ago
This project looks amazing — I didn't think bootstrapping like this was possible. Kudos on the project :-). This might displace chainguard as my goto docker images :-).
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Leveraging Types for Better APIs(github.com)
1 points by green7ea 2y ago|0 comments
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by green7ea 3y ago
There are great opportunities here — improving farming being a great one as you mention. Changing our farming methods to increase humus and topsoil quality should bring back vitamins to our food. Not only this but it should also capture a g
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by green7ea 3y ago
Most essential resources aren't consumed but part of cycles — food, water, shelter. These cycles are sustained by energy and, if we were to use it well, the sun alone provides more than enough. A simple example of this is that water is
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by green7ea 3y ago
I've done the same blind test with decent but not amazing headphones (HD590) and I could tell the difference all the time as long as the music was slightly complex. If loudness was artificially boosted, I had a harder time but could st
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by green7ea 3y ago
There's perf/watt but also area on the core that's an important factor. Watt and area are often related but not always. Do you know how the A510 cores and Apple's efficiency cores compare on area?
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by green7ea 3y ago
That's an interesting guess but I wouldn't necessarily agree. I've been a touch typist as long as I can remember and have been an avid emacs user for the last 15 years. I used vim for about 2 years before switching. I do have
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by green7ea 3y ago
| I call my billion-dollar mistake. It was | the invention of the null reference in 1965. | | -- Tony Hoare It might turn into a real billion-dollar mistake, not just a metaphorical one...
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by green7ea 4y ago
I'm not sure if you're familiar with Cem Yuksel's excellent work in the area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK4zy5OKbHs

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