justinlloyd

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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I did a fine tuning and embedding on a large LLM that is based on 50 years of daily journal entries, extensive daily notebooks usually measuring in the hundreds to thousands of words per day, and personal writings across a half-dozen differ
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I do it only for myself, and as supporting evidence when it comes time to negotiations, or a CYA moment, and if it has reached a CYA moment, I am usually putting one foot out the door anyway because the working relationship is probably dete
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I think a repeating timer acts as a calming or focusing tool for some. I don't advocate it personally, unless your life or work schedule must be ruled by the clock. When I say "write everything down" I mean use the lightest o
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I think setting a timer for every 15 miunutes is the perfect way to destroy your productivity, especially for when doing deep thinking type of work. I use the Pomodoro technique if I am unfocused and cannot make a start, which happens on oc
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
9,999 people out of 10,000 telling you "don't do this, if your manager doesn't know what you did 10 months ago, the manager isn't doing their job" would have difficulty telling me what they had for breakfast last Tu
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
The customization section is interesting, though it is missing things such as multiply & conquer, table wrapping, and the mask & jump techniques, but then, you aren't going to find every custom technique covered in any one text
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I don't drink coffee because I need the caffeine. I drink coffee because I like the taste. There is an addiction component. I've given it up in the past and had the two week headache that wouldn't go away. But if good coffee
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
This is absolutely brilliant. It doesn't change the way shopkeepers and small business owners currently work, which is absolutely critical to its success. Uses a familiar form factor, another critical aspect to its success. Can work of
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I had the Atari ST Book. Somewhat dreadful machine. And I had the Amstrad PPC 512 portable which could also be powered by ten regular C-cells. It would eat NiCads by the hour. And I also had the Sinclair Z88, which lasted about a week or tw
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
And that is also why Dragon Data owes me about 4,000 UKP (in 1980's money).
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Not just functions, but procedures too, and local variables. DEF PROC, DEF FN, and LOCAL.
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Yes. That's exactly it. Just like an acoustic modem. And also how software and data was stored on compact audio cassette when disk drives (the floppy kind, not the hard kind) were too expensive or out of reach of the average person.
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
It'll be a cold day in Hell before I put that much information into a venture-backed SaaS that is driven by the desire to monetize my life by any means necessary. It also over complicates what is a simple requirement by throwing unnece
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I own an RV. The RV came with two thick manuals, one for the RV chassis, and one for all of the appliances that were factory installed. I am not the first owner of the RV. My brother, a meticulous military man kept the documentation for eve
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Last one I put physical hands on was running 24TB, and was expandable to 32TB.
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I still blog, non-anonymously just for the hell of it, less so than I used to due to the pandemic, but I still have my cooking blog (which contains no life stories), programming blog, personal blog (consisting of quips, jokes, movie reviews
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
There is no bike shedding. Personal attack. There is no dichotomy. Try again.
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Reddit begins with the letter R, not the letter H.
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37813899
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
_I_ think you skimmed over the part where _I_ emphasized _I_. As in, this budget applies to me. Not anyone else. Not what does it. Not whether this nuance qualifies. Merely, can I do it for $N? I think what many people seem to do is taken a
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I would state it in person, but not on an indelible public forum. In descending order of expense: Insurances > food > mortage > utilities > rent > hobbies > travel > cleaning > maintenance > takeout.
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Read it. I cannot say whether the concept of a manifesto for small games is a worthwhile endeavour. It sounds like an ideology, a stricture on creative thought, and then you start the endless debates as to what qualifies, and audiences bifu
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Family: "We're going to an area where there's no WiFi, no distractions, no internet, just quiet solitude!" Me: "Awesome! I'll get my laptop so I can work on some personal projects without distraction." The
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
We studied assembly as part of our ancient literature class because so few written examples of languages from that era of humanity still exist to this day. We have had heated discussions over the pronunciation of NOP and BRK. Is it "no
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I prefer to self host vs running my brain in the cloud. After all, there is no cloud, it's just someone else's brain. Eventually, someone on HN, in a few decades, will admonish with the same fervour at the proposal of self-hosting
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I loved Byte. I was a subscriber to the bitter end. I learned C from Byte, which lead me to developing a C compiler (also from a Byte article series) in 6502. Along with a number of data structures and algorithms. If Byte were around today,
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
The article kind of comes off as spammy/scammy and I fully expected to reach a point where the author wanted to sell me a course for $99 on how to achieve whatever it was he was hawking. I have a propensity for staring at points in spa
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
You can use redis or memcached, but every MMO or online game I've been involved with, unless it was a "web game", has eschewed those for the most part. The game server maintains the state, knows all the objects in the univers
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
The "cache, lots of cache" statement is the most true of any MMO architecture we can build. I did some optimization work earlier this year on a project where the single back-end server is now handling 2 billion requests per minute
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Siig and a few others make a HDMI to USB-C converter for around $50.

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