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by rahen 11mo ago
Lisp didn’t really disappear, symbolic AI did. Lisp was ideal for reasoning systems, its homoiconic and meta-programmable nature is perfect for manipulating symbolic structures and logic. But when AI shifted toward numerical learning with n
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by rahen 1y ago
Did you really use vi on DOS in 1991? I don’t remember Elvis being easy to find back then, and I don’t think it was a TSR either, so the compiler couldn’t be spawned in the background like it was with the Borland IDEs. Almost every C bedroo
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by rahen 1y ago
Isn't it the same for all mining activities, including gold? You typically spend a massive amount of energy digging and processing earth to recover a few grams of gold, and that energy isn't recoverable.
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by rahen 1y ago
Indeed, it must have legal value. Even so, some stores accept Bitcoin and Monero (thus making them money) but won’t accept USD in Europe or Euros in the US, so you can't use them despite those currencies having legal tender status. So
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by rahen 1y ago
Isn't money just bits too nowadays? As far as I understand, Bitcoin is backed by energy and scarcity, much like gold: it requires significant energy to "mine" a Bitcoin, and it can't be easily duplicated, if at all. That
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by rahen 1y ago
I highly doubt that, considering Stallman's stance on freedom and personal sovereignty. Free software often operates like market anarchy (pure meritocracy), similar to the Internet. Coercive structures of centralized power that dictate
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by rahen 1y ago
Can you be more specific about why you are not upgrading to Tahoe concerning software freedom?
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by rahen 1y ago
For some, it’s the sheer grandeur and architectural splendor. Strasbourg, Chartres, Cologne or Rouen Cathedrals, with their scale and delicate designs, often stand out. For others, it’s the spiritual resonance of a place. The Cathedral of S
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by rahen 1y ago
I use Emacs (org-mode with TeX and Beamer exports) for almost everything, it's my office suite among other things. The only time I still need LibreOffice is for diagrams and charts, and even that is slowly being replaced by Mermaid. h
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by rahen 1y ago
This is the first thing that came to my mind. Why pick an OCI container instead of an LXC container since it's a stateful workload? Going OCI here only makes sense for temporary, disposable sessions.
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by rahen 1y ago
This is odd. The current hash rate is around its nominal 5 GH/s, and neither any pool nor individual seems to be above 50%: https://miningpoolstats.stream/monero This Qubic group claims to concentrate 3 GH/s of ha
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by rahen 1y ago
LXD was forked as Incus, and it’s an absolute delight. Seamless LXC and virtual machine management with clustering, a clean API, YAML templates and a built-in load balancer, it's like Kubernetes for stateful workloads.
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by rahen 1y ago
This is worth undertaking. macOS's stricter approach to handling some questionable hacks in Emacs could improve the codebase across all platforms. The PGTK frontend for Emacs (the Wayland-native frontend) was derived from the macOS ver
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by rahen 1y ago
You shouldn't root Graphene, it breaks its security model and is certainly the reason why Revolut doesn't work on your phone. It works like a charm on mine.
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by rahen 1y ago
Just build it yourself. Or you can install glibc on both Void and Alpine, if you want the pre-built binary.
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by rahen 1y ago
This sounds plausible and fascinating. Let’s see what it would have taken to train a model as well. Given an estimate of 6 FLOPs per token per parameter, training a 7B parameter model would require about 1.26×10^22 FLOPs. That translates to
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by rahen 1y ago
Reductio ad absurdum. A 300K-param model was small enough to be trained offline, on curated datasets, with CPUs and RAM capacities that absolutely existed at the time, especially in research centers. Backprop was known. Data was available.
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by rahen 1y ago
You’re basically arguing that because A380s need millions of liters of fuel and a 4km runway, the Wright Flyer was impossible in 1903. That logic just doesn’t hold. Different goals, different scales, different assumptions. The 300K model sh
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by rahen 1y ago
You're missing the point. No one is claiming that a 300K-param model on a Pentium II matches GPT-4. The point is that it works: it parses input, generates plausible syntax, and does so using algorithms and compute budgets that were ent
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by rahen 1y ago
I would have thought the same, but EXO Labs showed otherwise by getting a 300K-parameter LLM to run on a Pentium II with only 128 MB of RAM at about 50 tokens per second. The X-MP was in the same ballpark, with the added benefit of native v
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by rahen 1y ago
I know most people couldn’t care less about this, but those gimmicky animations probably consume more computing power than the entire Apollo project, which strikes me as unnecessary and wasteful. Given the choice, I’d much rather have a cle
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by rahen 1y ago
No need for an RPi 5. Back in 1982, a dual or quad-CPU X-MP could have run a small LLM, say, with 200–300K weights, without trouble. The Crays were, ironically, very well suited for neural networks, we just didn’t know it yet. Such an LLM c
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by rahen 1y ago
So if I understand correctly, the hardware paradigm is shifting to align with the now-dominant neural-based software model. This marks a major shift, from the traditional CPU + OS + UI stack to a fully neural-based architecture. Am I gettin
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by rahen 1y ago
I'm not sure anyone invoking "classic Unix" is pining for modem noise or line printers, though that seems to be how you're interpreting it. That’s more a caricature of early computing than what defines the Unix philosoph
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by rahen 1y ago
Interesting perspective. sysinst could certainly use better ergonomics, but I wonder whether he’s really approaching NetBSD like a typical user would - someone after a classic Unix experience on modern hardware. With an old-school Unix mind
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by rahen 1y ago
It still looks a lot more legible than a TECO script. ed was a big improvement in ergonomics.
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by rahen 1y ago
Isn't this violating the first rule of AI safety: do not let an AI change its code?
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by rahen 1y ago
You can mount a data partition inside, so the 16GB limit is really just for the system.
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by rahen 1y ago
If by any chance you're an Emacs user, check out Eshell. It blends Elisp macros with shell commands, and since it keeps the buffer model, you can use all the usual Emacs tools for searching, sorting, and more. It's a unique shell
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by rahen 1y ago
"Personal computer" can refer either to a small-form computer, in which case the Olivetti P101 was likely the first in 1965 (the PDP-8/E was also a contender), or to a microprocessor-based computer, in which case the Micral N

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