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by nextos 2y ago
OK, interesting, so there is some dogfooding, but it's not complete.
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by nextos 2y ago
I use a decade-old NUC with plenty of RAM as a daily driver. It doesn't struggle with anything except MS Teams. It can churn through Zoom or Meet calls while compiling code. Teams is a bloated mess that makes the fans spin at max RPM.
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by nextos 2y ago
MI300 also have decent performance in FP16 (~108 TFLOPS). Not as good as NVIDIA, but it's getting there. Anyone has experience using these on JAX? Support is said to be decent, but no idea if it's good enough for research-oriented
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by nextos 2y ago
GCP plans offer access to high-end NVIDIA GPUs, as well as TPUs. I thought Google products use the same pool of resources that is also resold to customers?
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by nextos 2y ago
In EU, there is a severe shortage of MDs. Part of the problem is that the number of students is not sufficient to satisfy MD demand. In some countries, this is a deliberate policy imposed by MD lobbies, who act like a cartel. In other coun
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by nextos 2y ago
Absolutely, Higher-Order Perl was quite famous back in the day: https://hop.perl.plover.com
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by nextos 2y ago
You can also try looking into The BUGS Book, A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis or Bayesian Approaches to Clinical Trials and Health-Care Evaluation . Both are excellent introductory Bayesian books. Also check this presentatio
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by nextos 2y ago
IMHO the main problem is the fact that lambda expressions have been deliberately crippled. Ruby is often described as a good-enough Lisp despite it is not homoiconic. That's because, like all modern Lisps, it makes pervasive use of blo
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by nextos 2y ago
It's a great book, but my personal opinion is that it would have benefited from an editor that recommended some small changes. The previous edition had a TOC which was barely usable because all funny jokes in chapter names like "8
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by nextos 2y ago
SFOS is sadly not well known in the US as its not sold there, which has definitely hurt popularity. Lack of VoLTE support for quite a long time didn't help either. Still, it's a great option I recommend to anyone who wants to esca
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by nextos 2y ago
It is not easy to do this. A friend learned the hard way. She was visiting the US and needed a laptop. Their online shop doesn't take foreign cards, probably to prevent price arbitrage. Lots of Reddit posts confirm the problem. You can
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by nextos 2y ago
> So when my regular HW-pusher had a T14s G6 with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU, for only EUR1000 + VAT, and I couldn't resist. I wonder where Poul-Henning, who is based in Denmark, got that price. Perhaps he managed to get US prici
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by nextos 2y ago
The base M4 Mini offers great value per $ and per Watt. It'd be cool to compare to a similar PC alternative.
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by nextos 2y ago
I always found Objective-C really elegant, due to its Smalltalk influence. I once read about Brad Cox explaining that the initial prototype was just one or two pages of C code to add objects and messaging. It was interesting to discover tha
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by nextos 2y ago
Ideas stemming from Erlang and Mozart/Oz are indeed a big blind spot in most undergrad programs. Sadly, even in EU all this is becoming a niche topic, which is weird as today's applications are more concurrent and data-intensive t
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by nextos 2y ago
AFAIK, in most of the EU they validate you are a student or an academic through UNiDAYS.
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by nextos 2y ago
That's a good suggestion. How are the cooling systems supplied with Minisforum in terms of noise and efficiency?
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by nextos 2y ago
I use a NUC as a daily driver. The problem with NUCs is that cooling is suboptimal, the fan is small and thus noisy. It can be fixed with a third-party case, but that's at least €60-100 more for a much slower machine. Plus, you may voi
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by nextos 2y ago
I use Linux, but I think the cheapest M4 Mini offers an incredible value and efficiency per €. With education discount, it's around €650, including VAT. It's pretty hard to find such a silent and powerful machine for that little.
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by nextos 2y ago
I think Gmail was great initially because of dogfooding. Right now, the incentives are different, and it's more about releasing new stuff. And we can see how that worked with the Google Chat saga. Lots of other Google products suffer f
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by nextos 2y ago
For me the interesting part of Firejail is the interface. bwrap is usually recommended as a replacement given that the binary is smaller and thus offers less attack surface, which I think is the usual concern. Firejail employs kernel user_n
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by nextos 2y ago
> There's no security model for desktops that works well. Don't you think that something which combines ideas from Firejail and Guix containers could be good enough? For those who have not used Firejail, it is a sandbox that co
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by nextos 2y ago
I use Linux, I would not switch to Android, but I agree the Linux userland should take sandboxing much more seriously. Things like Firejail show it can be done without much friction for the user. The current model, where executables can acc
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by nextos 2y ago
Finder is pretty good, and it's handy to be able to open it from the terminal. But I find it super annoying it litters everything with .DS_Store files and there is no way to turn that off, except for external and network drives. Aside
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by nextos 2y ago
uBlock and Bypass Paywalls Clean. I really liked Vimperator, but sadly it was killed by the new Firefox plugin architecture.
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by nextos 2y ago
Oxford colleges use quite a lot of antique jargon. Battel is also something related that took me a while to figure out. A battel is an account of items supplied by a buttery , see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batt
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by nextos 2y ago
I use Firefox on Linux, but used Safari on OS X. My point was that this gave some efficiency advantage to my MacBook Air running OS X, compared to the same machine running Linux (and Firefox). Safari is a little marvel of energy efficiency.
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by nextos 2y ago
Honestly, I don't think this is true. I had identical efficiency on my Intel MacBook Air running Linux, compared to OS X. Both ran out of battery +/- 10 minutes of each other on the same hardware. The only distinct advantage is Sa
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by nextos 2y ago
AFAIK, memory bandwidth. M2 Ultra 800GB/s, whereas M4 Max is just 546GB/s. For example, local LLM inference has a big bottleneck on bandwidth. 50% extra is significant. I wish the Studio received an upgrade, with a new M4 Ultra po
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by nextos 2y ago
And the bandwidth. A M4 Ultra would be a nice upgrade for large LLM inference on a budget.

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