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by jart 1y ago
It only makes sense if you understand that everyone is being poisoned, and this is the cure.
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by jart 1y ago
The world's most successful open source developer didn't converge on that communication style for no reason. I don't think I've seen a single person bring up the classism inherent in dictating gentlemanly manners. Part o
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by jart 1y ago
The more this kind of thing happens, the more it's going to blow back on you. The hacks, ideologues, and frauds have done a lot to destroy trust in science and the image of science. When the public backlash comes, muggles aren't g
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by jart 1y ago
I was like this website isn't going to make me cry. Then it shoves a knife through my heart with a montage of that dog movie. Well done.
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by jart 1y ago
Thanks!
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by jart 1y ago
I've only been lucky enough to find one opportunity in my entire twenty-seven year career to write something novel and new. Most of the time we're reinventing the wheel. What separates the winners from the losers is whether or n
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by jart 1y ago
This. This. A thousand times this. I hate Windows / MacOS but love their desktops. I love Linux / BSD but hate their desktops. So my most expensive most powerful workstation is always a headless Linux machine that I ssh into from
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by jart 1y ago
Most people aren't hackers. Thanks to LLMs and vibe coding, even they can now take a can-do attitude to life that feels empowering. There's no longer any excuse to languish in helpless misery and negativity. You can just build thi
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by jart 1y ago
It's important to understand that functions like execve(), which are used to spawn processes, are upstream dependencies of dynamic memory functions like malloc(). It's hairy to have low-level functions in your system depend on oth
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by jart 1y ago
There's always a limit. People only complain when it actually limits them. Most open source people have never needed to glob tens of thousands of files. If you want to feel better, POSIX says the minimum permissible ARG_MAX is 4096, an
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by jart 1y ago
It can. Just set RLIMIT_STACK to something huge. Distros set it at 8mb by default. Take it up with them if you want the default to change for everyone.
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by jart 1y ago
Focus on building and don't worry about being in regulatory crosshairs until you're actually in their crosshairs. The less you know about this stuff the better.
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by jart 1y ago
8.8 percent of Firefox users have 32-bit systems. It's probably mostly people with a 32-bit install of Windows 7 rather than people who actually have an old 32-bit Intel chip like Prescott. Intel also sold 32-bit chips like Intel Quark
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by jart 1y ago
Just increase your RLIMIT_STACK value. It can easily be tuned down e.g. `ulimit -s 4000` for a 4mb stack. But to make it bigger you might have to change a file like /etc/security/limits.conf and then log out and back in.
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by jart 1y ago
I can think of few things I'd wish for more. Although I'd settle for him being the CEO of Mars and then move there just to get away from all this nastiness on Earth.
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by jart 1y ago
And what is that?
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by jart 1y ago
NASA ended their space shuttle program in 2011 and hasn't been able to send things into space since. For the rest of that decade, the only way Americans could access ISS was by purchasing tickets on Russian spacecraft. NASA pivoted to
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by jart 1y ago
Thank you so much for sharing this enlightening fact. Also really happy to see a living legend hanging out here with us.
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by jart 1y ago
Putting aside the people who need LLMs as a prosthetic, the only writers who are asking AI to write lengthy prose for them are the ones who on that occasion didn't have anything important to say in the first place. Maybe they work a fa
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by jart 1y ago
Go vomit words at someone else. I didn't even read it lol
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by jart 1y ago
And you think scientists should be working for the communists instead of the capitalists? Well that's fine too. Scientists are like spoils of war. Scientists were treated well and able to do a lot of good work when they were all employ
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by jart 1y ago
It's a social contract between the people and the enlightened. The people always win on a long enough timeline. But the deal is there should be some sliver of reward for a brief window of time to those who bring permanent light into ou
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by jart 1y ago
The people can wait seven years for the patent to expire.
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by jart 1y ago
I like Andrew Ng. He's like the Mister Rogers of AI. I always listen when he has something to say.
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by jart 1y ago
Use the pigz command for parallel gzip. Mark Adler also has an example floating around somewhere about how to implement basically the same thing using Z_BLOCK.
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by jart 1y ago
https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1935353905149341968
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by jart 1y ago
Would you rather have your AI be a crypto lovecraftian monster or a dyed in the wool national socialist? We at least know we can defeat the latter. Tay did nothing wrong.
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by jart 1y ago
It would be more accurate to say I packaged it. llamafile is a project I did for Mozilla Builders where we compiled llama.cpp with cosmopolitan libc so that LLMs can be portable binaries. https://builders.mozilla.org/ Last
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Gemma 27b can write working code in dozens of programming languages. It can even translate between languages. It's obviously not as good as Gemini, which is the best LLM in the world, but Gemma is built from the same technology that po
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Mozilla and Google provide an alternative called gemmafile which gives you an airgapped version of Gemini (which Google calls Gemma) that runs locally in a single file without any dependencies. https://huggingface.co/jartine

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