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by imiric 9mo ago
That's not what I mean. Of course the buzz will reach mainstream media if everyone on social media seems to be talking about it. What I mean is that the virality was bootstrapped by bots, which in turn was spread by humans. Virality ca
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by imiric 9mo ago
I strongly doubt this tool is nearly as popular as it appears to be. GitHub stars can be bought and social media is ridden with bots. On the dead internet it is cheap and trivial to generate fake engagement in order to reel in curious human
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by imiric 9mo ago
> Qualcomm straight up refuses to support chips through this many Android releases. That's not entirely accurate. They do provide chips with extended support, such as the QCM6490 in the Fairphone 5. These are not popular because mos
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> How often do you test your OS replication script? Not often. It's mostly outdated, and I spend a lot of time bringing it up to date when I have to rely on it. BUT I can easily understand what it does, and the tools it uses. In p
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by imiric 9mo ago
You're making a lot of assumptions there. First of all, I don't see how containers are inherently black boxes or a waste of resources. They're a tool to containerize applications, which can be misused as anything else. If you
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by imiric 9mo ago
Well said, I fully agree. I respect Simon's work, and have no desire to disparage him. He's an accomplished engineer who has made great contributions to the industry. But he's not an authority on this subject. And even if he
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by imiric 9mo ago
The scenarios you mentioned are indeed nice use cases of ZFS, but other tools can do this too. I can make snapshots and recover files with SnapRAID or Kopia. In the case of a laptop system drive failure, I have scripts to quickly setup a ne
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by imiric 9mo ago
I'm currently troubleshooting an issue on my Proxmox server with very slow read speeds from a ZFS volume on an NVMe disk. The disk shows ~7GBps reads outside of ZFS, but ~10MBps in a VM using the ZFS volume. I've read other report
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by imiric 9mo ago
GitHub stars are not a reliable metric[1]. Neither is engagement on social media, which is ridden with bots. It would be safe to assume that a project promoting bots is also using them to appear popular. This whole thing is a classic pump a
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by imiric 9mo ago
Can we please stop paying attention to what celebrity developers and HN darlings like simonw have to say? Listening to influencers is in large part what got us into the (social, political, technofascist) mess we're currently in. At the
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by imiric 9mo ago
Sure it does. Many people are jumping on ideas and workflows proposed by influencer personalities and companies, without actually evaluating how valid or useful they actually are. TFA makes this clear by saying that they were "betting
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by imiric 9mo ago
The amount of discussion and "novel" text formats that accomplish the same thing since 2022 is insane. Nobody knows how to extract the most value out of this tech, yet everyone talks like they do. If these aren't signs of a b
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by imiric 9mo ago
Grafana has been a pretty good steward of OSS. Whether you like their products or not, they've been able to balance the OSS and commercial offerings fairly well.
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That's quickly becoming difficult to determine. The workflow of starting dozens or hundreds of "agents" that work autonomously is starting to gain traction. The goal of people who work like this is to completely automate soft
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by imiric 9mo ago
Agreed, but I'd add tech influencers and celebrities to the top of that list, especially those invested in the "AI" hype cycle. At least the perspective of a random engineer is less likely to be tainted by their brand and age
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by imiric 9mo ago
> The track had been inspected very recently. Maybe the inspection standards are inadequate? Spanish officials are very good at deflecting blame and playing politics. Nobody wants to be held accountable for a catastrophe. Also see the 20
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Isn't all this a manual implementation of prompt routing, and, to a lesser extent, Mixture of Experts? These tools and services are already expected to do the best job for specific prompts. The work you're doing pretty much proves
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> Google stopped being aware of their customer's needs a really long time ago Google's customers are advertisers. They cater to that segment very well. They only need to attract users with "free" and cheap services so
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by imiric 9mo ago
The EU is clearly leading the way in consumer protection, but it still leaves a lot to be desired, and in some ways it's regressing. The GDPR was well intentioned, but poorly specified, so companies resorted to all sorts of loop holes.
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by imiric 9mo ago
And it only needs one server! (Maybe they can afford a hot spare now?) A real lesson in frugality.
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by imiric 9mo ago
Well, I appreciate your optimism, but do think it's misplaced. We live in an increasingly polarized world, with rising political tensions and climate-related problems. Technology has played a major role in adding fuel to the fire, if n
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by imiric 9mo ago
I would like to live in a world where open source (not just open weights) models dominate the landscape, but I don't see that happening. The moat is not the quality of the models, but the compute. Any open model that consumers can run
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by imiric 9mo ago
So they used edge servers? How is this novel or insightful? This article reads like a thinly veiled ad. Certainly not the best way to start a technical blog. If you didn't have the technical insight to know that physics is a factor in
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> Antitrust pressure has slowed consolidation, opened app distribution, killed the anti-competitive iMessage and AirDrop moats, and made big tech cautious about horizontal expansion. Huh? In what reality is this remotely true? It certain
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No, the code is generated by a tool that's "smarter than people in many ways". So which parts of "thinking, testing, and clean up/rewrite" can we trust it with?
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I agree with you on the policy being balanced. However: > AI generated code does not substitute human thinking, testing, and clean up/rewrite. Isn't that the end goal of these tools and companies producing them? According to th
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by imiric 9mo ago
Your GitHub profile is... disturbing. 1,354 commits and 464 pull requests in January so far. Regardless of how productive those numbers may seem, that amount of code being published so quickly is concerning, to say the least. It couldn&#x27
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by imiric 9mo ago
This is a common myth. Debugging unikernels is indeed possible[1][2]. It may not be the type of debugging you're already used to, but then again, unikernels are very different from containers and VMs, so some adjustment is expected. As
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by imiric 9mo ago
Ah, that's good to know, thanks. But then why is there compounding token usage in the article's trivial solution? Is it just a matter of using the cache correctly?
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> By the time you get to day two, each turn costs tens of thousands of input tokens This behavior surprised me when I started using LLMs, since it's so counterintuitive. Why does every interaction require submitting and processing

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