jnovek

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by jnovek 3mo ago
I don’t think that’s true. The US is China’s most valuable trade partner.
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by jnovek 3mo ago
“The Handmaid’s Tale is a bad book” is a wild take to start with. “I still think, even in these crazy, censorious times, that people who love banned books list are (intentionally or not) hearkening back to an older time when a centralized b
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by jnovek 3mo ago
It is censorship if those books are not included for a specific reason. “We aren’t including this book in the library because we don’t have space for every book.” <—— not censorship “We aren’t including this book because we don’t think i
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by jnovek 4mo ago
You are correct, for me TTFT is about 50% longer on an M1 Ultra than on a GPU, but you can also get an M1 Ultra Studio with 32GB for < $2000. I’m wrong about the prices, but $4k-$5k for a GPU is way out of hobbyist range where a computer
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by jnovek 4mo ago
I think that’s only true for MoE models. A dense model like 3.6 27b will require more (plus a KV store).
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by jnovek 4mo ago
An M1 Ultra has 800gbps unified memory. It’s nothing to do with Apple, it’s their microarchitecture. They’re just about the only game in town with high-bandwidth memory if you want >24GB (for less than $10k, anyway).
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by jnovek 4mo ago
> I'm willing to throw your mental wellbeing out with the bathwater on this, though I feel bad about doing so. So what, disabled people should just stay home? That’s your answer, just make society hostile to people like me? I bet th
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by jnovek 4mo ago
> it's the default expectation that in public space people can be spoken to It is not the social norm that anyone can be spoken to in public at any time, you are oversimplifying things. E.g. it is largely considered socially inapp
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by jnovek 4mo ago
“All forms of media used to have a kind of social underground or niche.” These things and their corresponding communities still exist, they’re just not big presences in the mainstream internet places like TikTok where they are overwhelmed b
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by jnovek 4mo ago
The problem is that you don’t know what the person that you randomly chat up is dealing with. You could be doing this kind of thing to anyone. If I have earbuds in, I’m probably listening to classical music. It helps me self-regulate in bus
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by jnovek 4mo ago
I don’t mind talking to strangers, I’m actually a very chatty and genial person. Some would even say that I don’t know how to shut up. I just don’t want people (strangers or otherwise) to interrupt me at times when I don’t want to talk. My
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by jnovek 4mo ago
I am unwell; I have ADHD and if someone interrupts me it takes me a long time to get back on track. It’s very inconsiderate.
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by jnovek 4mo ago
This has nothing to do with expectation of privacy. Private setting or public setting, it’s rude to bother people who are busy.
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by jnovek 4mo ago
> I like it when other people try to talk to me. I don’t.
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by jnovek 4mo ago
> Virtually everyone seems happy to have an interaction If a stranger bothers me while I have my headphones on I may act friendly and polite, but I am actually very irritated.
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by jnovek 4mo ago
I have some difficult-to-treat medical issues and about 1/3 of the handful of pills I take every day are off-label. I think when you get into less common medical concerns off-label use becomes much, much more frequent. E.g. gabapentin
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by jnovek 4mo ago
It didn’t have that sort of immediate, intense effect for me (though yours isn’t the only account like this that I’ve seen) but I’m still happy with the outcome; it dropped my average 1-to-10 pain score by about two points at three months.
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by jnovek 4mo ago
I would find this behavior extremely aggravating from a co-worker. If you can’t be bothered to edit down your ramblings by hand, just don’t send me anything at all.
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by jnovek 4mo ago
Doctors with big egos are a huge problem because they don’t listen to patients. I deal with some medical issues and, if a self-absorbed doctor walks into the room, I know my problem isn’t being solved today.
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by jnovek 4mo ago
I guess before I roll out questions and criticisms, I just want to say that this is a really cool project. I love it. Could you make the dots smaller in the updated UI? I didn’t realize at first that you were using an actual map of Roman pr
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by jnovek 4mo ago
The calculus in “buy or build” has shifted for me over the last six months especially. If I can make an agent build it, I get the version that’s tailored for me. > It was a simple project in terms of technical complexity. That’s the thin
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by jnovek 4mo ago
Were the thousands of commits and hundreds of feature branches over the last 9 months just to keep up appearances, then? Were the 850 people who forked it in on the scheme, too?
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by jnovek 4mo ago
While most startups fail eventually, failure in less than a year with over 7 million dollars is not the expected median. It’s the exact sort of thing that due diligence is supposed to prevent. Also the whole project is open source. If you w
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by jnovek 4mo ago
Right? I’ve been through due diligence and it’s neither a quick nor simple process, even for seed.
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by jnovek 4mo ago
What do you mean by $60b in value? Revenue? Valuation? Cursor’s most recent raise was at a post valuation of $29b. Also, leadership at MSFT has talked quite a bit about their strategy with VS Code and it’s exactly what I was describing abov
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by jnovek 4mo ago
I did miss it, thank you!
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by jnovek 4mo ago
I am a sucker for cultural reference jokes, esp if it’s some subculture that I am/have been a member of (e.g. IRC in the late 90s/00s). It’s fun to find a connection to a stranger, even if it’s vague and superficial. It’s somethin
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by jnovek 4mo ago
You internalize the inner workings of all the libraries in your venv? Impressive! My current project’s uv.lock has ~60 packages in it already, reading and comprehending those tens to hundreds of thousands of lines of code must be time consu
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by jnovek 4mo ago
LLMs these days seem to have no problem using language semantics to conceptualize what’s happening in a program. This is my favorite use of an LLM, “why is this library doing x” and then it digs through the library itself in my venv to find
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by jnovek 4mo ago
What the heck is *******?

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