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by pdimitar 1y ago
Were you able to find out why? This is very interesting and I'd never guess it.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Well I work mainly with Elixir in the last 10-ish years (with a lot of Rust and some Golang here and there) so EMQX would likely be right up my alley. Do you have any other recommendations? The time is right for us and I'll soon start
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Thank you so much again. Yes, we are not Google scale, our main priority is durability and scalability but only up to a (I'd say fairly modest) point. I.e. be able to have one beefy NATS server do it all and only add a second one when
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by pdimitar 1y ago
That's an amazing analysis, thank you so much! What are your impressions of Red panda? We're particularly interested in NATS' feature of working with individual messages and have been bitten by Kafka's "either proce
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Thank you for the validation. As much as I don't like NVIDIA's shenanigans on Linux, having a local LLM is very tempting and I might put my ideological problems to rest over it. Though I have to ask: why two eGPUs? Is the LLM soft
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Oh, we can run LLMs efficiently with AMD GPUs now? Pretty cool, I haven't been following, thank you.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Do you happen to know if it can be run via an eGPU enclosure with f.ex. RTX 5090 inside, under Linux? I'm considering buying a Linux workstation lately and I want it full AMD. But if I can just plug an NVIDIA card via an eGPU card for
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by pdimitar 1y ago
And I am extremely skeptical of your "direct evidence" (source?). Most jobs are not measurable, they are more like N amount of employees collectively moving a target / goal. And just like in school projects there are the lazi
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Could be true actually, thanks for the perspective. Though I still would not describe it as complaining, it's more like "Have you thought about that group of potential users?".
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by pdimitar 1y ago
> Apparently not too busy to visit HN and post shallow dismissals. Indeed, as you have just excellently demonstrated. I did not dismiss anything, I generalized, which I believe we're all aware is never accurate. Thought that much
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by pdimitar 1y ago
And you cannot have both at the same time, because...?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Oh well, if you find that way then many people -- myself included -- would be very interested in your blog post. Bootstrapping remains a tricky territory, not because it can't be done very quickly but because it leaves a lot of tech de
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Seems we both screwed up. :D Thanks for the clarification.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
> There is hope that LLMs can be used to convert shell scripts to other languages, because they can make the jump that experienced devs have learned to avoid: rewriting from scratch. What else do you do when refactoring in small steps i
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by pdimitar 1y ago
You have my admirations for fzf, it helps me dozens of times every day. And I do understand that authors of such prominent tools will want to have tamed integrations with people's shells, makes perfect sense. That being said, as a guy
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by pdimitar 1y ago
What kinds of attacks was Secure Boot designed to mitigate? Is it the evil maid attack? Or an accidentally ran with `sudo` program can indeed screw your entire boot process and inject rootkits etc.? Or is it something else?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
A lot of stuff is quite commoditized already, and I never found the size of a user base a convincing metric to judge by (not to mention the chicken-and-egg problem that you just demonstrated). People are doing genuinely hugely impressive pr
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by pdimitar 1y ago
To me it sounds like it's time for you to get to know Elixir's (Phoenix's) LiveView. It does this even better and you barely write any JS at all.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Not in the over-the-top gross and scary way of WH40k, no, but many people have autonomy in such a small number that they might as well be Servitors.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I do. Admittedly I got tired of double-checking if my phone's keyboard will betray me.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I don't disagree with what you are saying but that ship has sailed decades ago. Nobody in the tech area did anything meaningful to keep them at bay, like make a fully free search engine where it's prohibited by an actual law in an
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by pdimitar 1y ago
The algorithm still can't make me buy or read rage-bait. Of course the machine will never stop trying. But with results decreasing gradually with time, the human will get discouraged and will turn it off. It happens at places, btw.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Feel free to enlighten future readers?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Ah, I don't mean the Windows-specific stuff. I mean the binary diffing and RLE. While not difficult, I am just curious how others approached it.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Very curious to read your code doing it. Thought of a very similar approach but never had the time. Are you keeping it somewhere?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Well money is always the rub. And many people, once they become better off, become stingy and paranoid and don't want to reinvest -- which I completely understand, especially if they didn't have rich parents and trust fund(s) and
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Wild overreactions is exactly what we need -- f.ex. the Linux kernel's gross negligence of security is no longer good enough is one thing that regularly comes to mind. New geopolitics are in place, too. Our entire branch should do much
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Who is "we"? A lot of "us" don't have the time to do programming as a hobby -- even if we started off that way. Many of "us" don't accept blanket grouping with privileged others who had thousands of o
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Regulation against ruling class will never happen. They hire the regulators, more or less, with a few nice and hopeful exceptions, but they're vanishingly rare. I believe the science knows how to fix capitalism, and has known for decad
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by pdimitar 1y ago
> It does mean that only "niche" craftsmen, like myself, will produce anything of decent Quality, but will be unable to do so at scale, because we can't get a team together, large enough to do big things. Why can't

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