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by mmastrac 3mo ago
Is it just me or does this post not mention how much RAM they had? I would love to know - I have a dual-Xeon 1U screamer with 96GB of DDR4 RDIMM just sitting around... FWIW I'm getting a hardware max of 20 tok/s (approx topping ou
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by mmastrac 3mo ago
There's a bot user that seems to crosspost every lobsters story here if it isn't already.
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by mmastrac 3mo ago
This sort of thing is a lot of fun. I've been going smaller.. I have a custom-quantized Rust port of DiffusionGemma (26B) that seems to perform better (in responses) than benchmarks seemed to indicate and reasonably fast for its model
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by mmastrac 4mo ago
Author here - if anyone has any contacts at Cloudflare to get the proxied domains (at least roadpay[.]cc) taken down, that would be great. I wasn't able to get an abuse report to stick. Ditto for the related LinkedIn profile and Twitte
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by mmastrac 4mo ago
They are long-lived if you're a mayfly. But I think the point is that they should be cheap to set up, and because of the short life, never really contain anything except the potential to compute when needed, not important data.
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Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack(grack.com)
5 points by mmastrac 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mmastrac 4mo ago
Om Malik was the guy who had the biggest influence on the direction of my life, by far. It was through him I met Naval Ravikant in 2007, and then through Naval I met my co-founder that led to my startup exit in the '10s. Luck surface a
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by mmastrac 4mo ago
One of the most fascinating things to fall out of the AI apocalypse is seeing how abundant AI access amplifies the qualities of a company. IMO, Deno has always been more methodical, more focused (maybe too focused?) on standards. But now th
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by mmastrac 4mo ago
The consequences of plugging the wrong voltage or polarity into a barrel jack, most of which are compatible enough, is pretty bad. Ask me how I know.
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by mmastrac 4mo ago
FWIW this post has both a "thanks" section for the human reviewers, and numerous footnotes linking to more authoritative sources.
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by mmastrac 4mo ago
I'd love it if WASI modules could introspect their own custom sections (potentially even more introspection than that), but I've never been able to figure out a good way to do this. Seems like a fairly useful feature for a few use
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by mmastrac 4mo ago
Author here, happy to answer any questions. I've been working on building some higher-level abstractions on link sections (specifically, link-time optimized collections like maps (1) and sorted slices (2)) and wanted to share the hard-
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There Is Life Before Main in Rust(grack.com)
93 points by mmastrac 4mo ago|25 comments
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by mmastrac 4mo ago
Looks great, but why isn't there a checkbox to turn off the chunk of pork fat? I use avocado oil, personally.
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
Types and generics are hard to parse in regular macros without a tt muncher. Ditto for fn args. If you need to do actual matching of types, you can't capture them as $xxx:ty because Rust will not allow a larger matched token to be brok
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
I like the idea. I think I'd feel more comfortable if I could drop an .rs file into the eBPF dir instead of a .c one. It's already a Rust project! :) And for some reason I was expecting this to be a kernel-accelerated webserver -
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
Great writeup! Apologies if it came across as a criticism of the writeup itself, more of a frustration of years in the proc_macro space. It's surprising how little information exists out there about proc_macros in general.
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
As someone who has spent a _lot_ of time writing declarative and procedural macros, the important thing to ask before digging into a macro is whether you need a procedural macro at all. Complex proc macros absolutely do slow builds down. In
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Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust(symbolica.io)
162 points by mmastrac 5mo ago|29 comments
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
I seriously looked at this as a way to improve the RAM situation in a QNAP 2U unit that I was having trouble sourcing RAM for. It's somewhat annoying that legit memory-over-PCIe is gated on PCIe5 and chipset support. In the end I just
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
CyberChron. If you don't need to know, don't ask. And you're also assuming that all the pings are being returned by this box.
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
I've weirdly found that I like the Google AI mode in specific cases, and I find that the hybrid is the worst of the two worlds. There are some cases where I don't know exactly what I'm looking for and I want the AI to curate
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
The most effective rule for me is no addictive apps on my phone or laptop - browser apps only. The browser apps are _far_ less addictive and just enough friction to keep me off them for extended periods of time. As well, infinite scroll jus
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
Last update seems to be "lawsuit was filed" with zero updates since then. That stuff tends to move slowly.
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
Dav2d doesn't have the same nice ring to it. I hope there's someone with a decent repo-name punning skill who'll contribute before that. avi2ude? av2go?
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
_NSAKEY part deux
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
I am certain that the max sustainable boost from AI use -- with code review and otherwise all-in -- is approximately 20% with the appropriately skilled senior engineering talent, and the token budget for any engineer should not exceed that.
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
That looks vaguely breadboardish too
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
Did the microcode disassembly find any useful backdoors to read microcode without decapping?
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
How would that be technically feasible? Would we get IP bans?

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