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by jwr 1y ago
That's OK — not all of us follow all the progress on a daily basis, and a model that is a month old doesn't become useless just by being a month old!
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by jwr 1y ago
I just use my laptop. A modern MacBook Pro will run ~30B models very well. I normally stick to "Max" CPUs (initially for more performance cores, recently also for the GPU power) with 64GB of RAM. My next update will probably be to
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by jwr 1y ago
This is depressing. We are already meat in the google ad-serving machine that tracks us, profiles us, gives us "free" stuff (gmail, anyone?) in order to feed us advertising. Now even that advertising will be AI-generated. The huma
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by jwr 1y ago
> Did you then spend a month or two inspecting that setup? Did you do that after every dependency upgrade? TBH, I never updated some of the setups. What's the point? Their job was to generate a CSS. Why would I want to upgrade depen
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by jwr 1y ago
I always wondered why people found it acceptable to just run npm on their systems for anything they do, and have it download anything on any build. Coming from "make" with repeatable and predictable builds, I was appalled that you
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by jwr 1y ago
I hope the older versions (V2) will be maintained for a while… I can't help but worry about the upcoming ensh*ttification — I think it's inevitable that some day some exec at this now large company will come up with innovative ide
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by jwr 1y ago
Or, just don't use a table saw. Get a tracksaw. It simply isn't true that a table saw is "required" for woodworking. Yes, there are cuts which take more time and/or are more difficult with a tracksaw, and in general
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by jwr 1y ago
> the APP3 are what forced the upgrade to iOS 26 I resisted, did not upgrade, and I have to suffer through Apple's spiteful treatment of my AirPods as "just another Bluetooth device". You can't even see the battery st
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by jwr 1y ago
Oh, the irony. I still remember how in the early days of Android vs iOS discussions, the main point was "but it's OPEN!". The word "open" was used as a comma by Google people. It was The Thing. The Difference. Good
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by jwr 1y ago
Oh, this is where I disagree. A wire can be quietly and discreetly cut with wire cutters in seconds. This is no protection at all. It's just inconvenience for you. What I've been using for years is a heavy chain with a lock (disc-
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by jwr 1y ago
If you don't know him already, I highly recommend videos by LockPickingLawyer — he routinely destroys bogus claims of various companies within seconds. It's quite entertaining to see how little security you actually get from most
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by jwr 1y ago
> Is it possible to hot-reload a stateless function in Clojure without restarting the system? Sure. But over the years I learned that I don't want to do that unless I'm debugging something, and I'd never do that in a produ
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by jwr 1y ago
Ex-Common-Lisper here. I spent many years writing software in CL, then discovered Clojure, and have been writing and maintaining a large production system in Clojure/ClojureScript for 10 years now. I would not want to write anything in
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by jwr 1y ago
> the real challenge is standardization and integration. Different manufacturers use vastly different battery management systems (BMS) and cell configurations - a Tesla pack is fundamentally different from a Nissan Leaf pack. Isn't
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by jwr 1y ago
> the expected battery turnover is not occurring I find this somewhat amusing, because the black PR of the fossil-fuel industry would have us believe that EV batteries basically have a 2-year lifespan, cost lots of CO2 to produce, instan
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by jwr 1y ago
I'm in Poland and every solar installation I've looked at has a pay back time of around 5 years. The main reason is subsidized electricity — consumer prices are artificially low. If you take commercial pricing, it's closer to
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by jwr 1y ago
Yes, there are good reasons for mounting panels vertically (other than just needing fence instead of a roof, obviously). A 5-minute session with a search engine or an LLM will explain those.
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by jwr 1y ago
> Don't skimp on TVS This. I know from a friend (ahem) that if you do, you will discover problems in production deployments, when it's too late to fix things.
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by jwr 1y ago
That can happen with any server, physical or virtual, at any time, and one should be prepared for it. I learned a long time ago that servers should be an output of your declarative server management configuration, not something that is the
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by jwr 1y ago
Of course. It's a production SaaS, after all. But I don't monitor with sub-minute resolution.
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by jwr 1y ago
Yes. Which is why I try to keep my software from being overly complex, for example by not succumbing to the Kubernetes craze.
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by jwr 1y ago
As a data point, I've been running stuff at Hetzner for 10 years now, in two datacenters (physical servers). There were brief network outages when they replaced networking equipment, and exactly ONE outage for hardware replacement, sch
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by jwr 1y ago
I'm confused: which of my choices do you specifically mean? I didn't mention any choices I made.
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by jwr 1y ago
I am impressed by the efforts of the fossil fuel industry (and I think many car manufacturers) to discredit EVs. Their campaign has been sneaky and devious and very, very effective. To spread good FUD, there has to be truth in it, so that d
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by jwr 1y ago
Great explanation of the difference, thank you! Nothing to add.
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by jwr 1y ago
RethinkDB is somewhat maintained, and while it is a very good database and works quite well, it is not future-proof. But the bigger reason is that I need better performance, and by now (after 10 years) I know my data access patterns well,
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by jwr 1y ago
No, I use vpncloud for a local (within a datacenter) VPN. This lets me move more configuration into ansible (out of the provider's web interfaces), avoid additional fees, and have the same setup usable for any hosting provider, includi
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by jwr 1y ago
Note that we might be talking about two different things here: some of us use physical servers from Hetzner, which are crazy fast, and a great value. And some of us prefer virtual servers, which (IMHO) are not that revolutionary, even thoug
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by jwr 1y ago
I actually benchmarked this and wrote an article several years back, still very much applicable: https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance-...
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by jwr 1y ago
> when you have an outage, your stuff is tied to physical servers and they can't easily be migrated I don't see how that follows? Could you please explain? I run my stuff on Hetzner physical servers. It's deployed/man

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