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by skirmish 11mo ago
I can assure you that most internal ML teams are using TPUs both for training and inference, they are just so much easier to get. Whatever GPUs exist are either reserved for Google Cloud customers, or loaned temporarily to researchers who
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by skirmish 11mo ago
Right, I wanted to add that the journalist will be fine if they immediately update all packages but OTOH this is not what Windows users usually do.
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by skirmish 11mo ago
I tried to install CachyOS with KDE on my wife's new laptop (Lenovo Yoga) about 3 weeks ago. The version available was 2025-08-28 (still is, just checked), and it was crashing KDE all the time. Quick research told me that version had
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by skirmish 11mo ago
Well, the corporate policy in GOOG now is to only test everything on Chrome. Engineers are not even allowed to install Firefox. This is the result.
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by skirmish 11mo ago
I went to System Settings > Themes > Login Screen (SDDM) in KDE settings and changed from the default Breeze to Maldives, and that broke SDDM login screen to black text mode with a cursor. Later searching for fixes I found that only
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by skirmish 11mo ago
Changing the KDE theme into something other than the default Breeze breaks the whole Plasma: black screen with a cursor instead of the SDDM login screen. Hit this while setting up an Arch system for my wife, spent hours rebooting with reco
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by skirmish 1y ago
Own package mirrors where packages are re-built by ourselves. Adding external public repositories is simply not allowed.
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by skirmish 1y ago
Hm, I wrote this while reading the beginning, and then it rapidly went downhill with alien conspiracy theories.
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by skirmish 1y ago
> their own in-house distro Not really, it is just a well known outside distro plus internal CI servers to make sure that newly updated packages don't break things. Also some internal tools, of course.
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by skirmish 1y ago
The big problem with it was that you had to specify upfront which directories you will be editing, and only those were cloned locally. Later if you wanted to add a quick debug printout somewhere else, you would spend 20 minutes tracking mo
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by skirmish 1y ago
What do you think about this blog post: [1]? It seems to be promoting very similar ideas but I lack education to evaluate its claims. [1] https://andercot.substack.com/p/theres-no-single-objective-r...
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by skirmish 1y ago
A quick search found this example 18 second video generated on 3090: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1kp5jb8/da... I am pretty sure what you want is doable on a 5090 with some effort bu
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by skirmish 1y ago
Like in army training, shared suffering helps comradery.
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by skirmish 1y ago
F.lux / Redshift / Gammastep exist. On sunset, my screen becomes much darker and tinted yellowish / reddish. Then white backgrounds look fine, and I happily continue using my light color themes late into the night. Also, b
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by skirmish 1y ago
I still remember my math undergrad notes from years ago: definitions had a prefix Def circled red, theorems -- Th in blue, examples -- Ex in green. Made it much easier to review my notes before midterms / exams.
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by skirmish 1y ago
Since OpenAI tokenizer is estimated at ~4.2 characters per token, with your proposed "1 char per token tokenizer", the effective context length immediately becomes 4.2 times smaller, and generated output 4.2 times slower (since 4.
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by skirmish 1y ago
And then you wake up at 3:00am and start planning things to do the next working day. Do not recommend it.
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by skirmish 1y ago
List, dict and set comprehensions, generators are used quite a lot in Python and feel very functional to me.
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by skirmish 1y ago
I can say that even now lots of machine learning datasets are kept as rows in gSheets and processed by Python running in Colab. In our team, all our evaluations: read input data from gSheet, run model inference, store outputs in gSheet for
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by skirmish 1y ago
As I heard once, in a large company VPs are rated by the number of reorgs they initiated per year. That explained so much insanity I have seen: a project gets moved to different directors, then after 5 reorgs ends up in its original place.
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by skirmish 1y ago
Have you tried using the git adapter to Perforce backend [1]? It should let you avoid mega-CLs. When Google used to use Perforce, an internal somewhat similar but a bit more advanced tool git5 was very popular. [1] https://git-
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by skirmish 1y ago
I am firmly convinced this came from Stephen Miller (current homeland security advisor). Unnecessary cruelty to legal immigrants is his trademark style.
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by skirmish 1y ago
Windows 11 has stupid unchangeable defaults that keep getting worse with each service pack. To survive in a Windows VM I run, the first thing I install is always a horrible hack to restore flexibility: [1]. [1] https://github.co
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by skirmish 1y ago
People differ. For me, 4k is perfect for an 31.5 incher I have, and I make fonts as small as possible (6.5px fonts in my editor I use all day right now). I appreciate huge expanses of quite readable (for me) text I get.
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by skirmish 1y ago
I have not used it but this is probably it: https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm
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by skirmish 1y ago
Sorry, I skipped some details. They had a pre-agreed $180 "diagnostics fee", which we paid, then they tried to charge $250 on top of that for the part. The contractor had no technical knowledge and kept video-conferencing the of
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by skirmish 1y ago
Recent experience: called a HVAC contractor to fix a heating furnace, they spent 1 hour convincing us to scrap the current furnace and install a new one; once we told him "no" at least 10 times, he spent 30 minutes "diagnosin
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by skirmish 1y ago
> there's a deeper mechanism that we're unaware of or aren't ready to know yet Sure, subconsciousness. No need to invent the whole extra magical worlds.
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by skirmish 1y ago
> what I would do with it I set up one to run Frigate [1] to detect motion over my several security cameras and send me notification emails with still images and video clips attached. It works well, and I hate the idea of sending my pri
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by skirmish 1y ago
> 1 or 2 bad grammer things 1 or 2 bed gamer things

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