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by juancn 3mo ago
I would feel a lot better using SSH keys rather than passkeys. At least those are understandable.
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by juancn 3mo ago
What if I lose all my apple devices? House break-in and they steal my mac and my phone? You're basically fucked even if you buy a new one because you need one of the other two to log in.
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by juancn 3mo ago
Same here, also what if I lose the device? I can safely write down a password on a piece of paper and keep it somewhere phyisically safe. Passkeys and 2FA are a usability nightmare if you need to recover, or all the security vanishes if you
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by juancn 3mo ago
It's too conservative, on my Air M4 I run gemma-4-12B-it-qat-UD-Q4_K_XL fine with llama.cpp The app states "Small Models (1-3B)".
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by juancn 3mo ago
You can run it in JSLinux if you don't want to risk it running locally: Go here: https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?cpu=x86_64&url=alpine-x8... And run: bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://alga
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by juancn 3mo ago
Yeah, thanks!!
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by juancn 3mo ago
Excellent article! I think it has the right level of detail, one question though: why the shape of the tensor? 4x8x11. That I didn't get from the text.
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by juancn 3mo ago
Interning can be really helpful. In the early noughties I worked in a compiler in Java, and using String.intern() at the lexical level helped a lot with compiling speed and garbage generation. It can be a neat trick, since you do it at lexi
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by juancn 3mo ago
TLDR AI Summary of the thing: https://gist.github.com/juancn/9bc654ccffbba113271a068a2d854... (I found the flourished language of the original a bit too much for my taste)
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by juancn 3mo ago
I already had a DSL and with a proper prompt and a checker tool, even tiny LLMs could build really good scripts in that language. Gemma 12B QAT was excellent. Actually the tool-calling convention is a small DSL too. I suspect the DSL ideall
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by juancn 3mo ago
Nice! Why not just go full character mode? The smooth motion is nice, but a bit of overkill, also it adds complexity to the collision code. I suspect this can be done using a variation of Bresenham's line algorithm for the trajectories
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by juancn 3mo ago
Battery life is shorter, and some are a tad heavier.
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by juancn 4mo ago
Doesn't just emacs render to a tty? Or is this for some Emacs build with its own renderer?
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by juancn 4mo ago
Effort. AI is low effort, which signals you really don't care, you're out there for a quick buck. It's insulting. It makes people feel irrelevant.
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by juancn 4mo ago
Apple doesn't like to be held hostage, it has the cash coffers, so it wouldn't surprise me if they're somehow buying dedicated production capacity for the future. Not that they will start making memory themselves, but they ha
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by juancn 4mo ago
90% of my model use is on local open-weights models. The things that I need to automate do not need frontier models. Heck, even a gemma-4-12B-it-qat-UD-Q4_K_XL can deal with a lot of complexity if properly guided (it can run on 16GB of unif
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by juancn 4mo ago
All leadership is like that. Even if you're not a people manager. I'm an IC in a technical leadership position, all of these hold true with the added constraint that I cannot tell anyone what to do. I hold no carrot or stick. I ha
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by juancn 4mo ago
That's always an issue, but the industry seems to be moving away from 2D circuits. Reducing trace length seems to be the way forward for faster/larger circuits. Signal propagation time on-die is becoming an issue. Things like Huaw
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by juancn 4mo ago
Yeah, but it was probably the right call at the time. Backward compatibility was a breath of fresh air at a time were code needed constant porting and rewriting. No two machines were alike. It's one of the reasons the PC became so popu
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by juancn 4mo ago
Everything is within spec, reproducible builds are not a goal of C/C++. The compiler builders may take pity on you, but really there's no bug here, just unwarranted expectations.
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by juancn 4mo ago
It's still too unpredictable trying to be transparent IMHO. Scalarization can fail in surprising ways just due to what a maximal atomic write can be on the target platform, and then it fall back to heap allocated objects. Even if there
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by juancn 4mo ago
The triple click is annoying. I mean, select the word, then press check, then press continue. It could be one single click and move to the next, show me my last result at the same time you ask me for the next one.
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by juancn 4mo ago
The influence has spread wide, there's one even in Buenos Aires: https://buenosaires.gob.ar/gcaba_historico/jardinbotanico/la...
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by juancn 4mo ago
I'm trying to figure out exactly how to best use AI, but not just as a chatbot user. How to integrate it to solve useful problems. Make delightful products. So many things that used to be intractable now are probabilistically solvable
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by juancn 4mo ago
It's like the e-everything trend of the 90s. It's pushing an internal tech detail onto customer faces that only care about a problem being solved. It's virtue signaling for investors and a usually misguided attempt to look tr
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by juancn 4mo ago
It's kinda like that, there could be a proprietary fraud detection heuristic in there that you don't want to get out.
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by juancn 4mo ago
The most important thing a human translator does is certify that the translation is faithful. Period. You could do a machine translation if you want, but you better pore over every word in case you end up on the witness stand.
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by juancn 4mo ago
Not really, I've been using linux since the Slackware on diskette era. I know my way around recompiling a kernel (used to do it on a 486). I also did dev on Windows, I know the internals pretty well (I even did embedded on CE, writing
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by juancn 4mo ago
Like I care. I'm not that interesting.
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by juancn 4mo ago
They get updates forever, and even after they're usable anyway. They even get serious security updates even after that period, and you can install linux if you really want to, but it makes no sense to me.

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