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by skirmish 2y ago
Agreed, these [1] work very well in open plan offices. [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPCHBCQ
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by skirmish 2y ago
> Very original Not really: both Google's internal VS Code based IDE and Colab have various background pets as an option: [1]. I am pretty sure the developer saw them. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Incorgnito&#x
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by skirmish 2y ago
Meanwhile The Economist says [1]: "In a way, those over the age of 55 but under the age of 75—roughly speaking, the baby-boomers and some of what is referred to as “Generation X”—are the new problem generation. <...> Whereas youn
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by skirmish 2y ago
> Vernor Vinge's SF idea of slower and faster areas of space His ideas were more ambitious: there are advanced technologies (e.g. FTL travel) that work in "fast" space but completely stop working in the "slow zone&quo
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by skirmish 2y ago
I think the GP is referring to practices like [1] "Google claims copyright on employee side projects". [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21823413
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by skirmish 2y ago
> sitting in front of a screen for 8+ hours a day is slowly killing both my mental and physical health Do strength training when you are stuck waiting for things: tests running, mandatory meetings where you only listen. I have a set of
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by skirmish 2y ago
Adapting ML models to run inference on devices: phones, smart cameras, edge accelerators. Computer vision models first, now LLMs.
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by skirmish 2y ago
"What Is To Be Done?" -- V. Lenin
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by skirmish 2y ago
At 50, I pivoted from enterprise-style Java server development to AI (computer vision, now LLMs), and I am having fun at work every day.
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by skirmish 2y ago
Officially it is mandatory 3 days in office per week at Google, but if your manager / director / VP ignore auto-generated emails about your misbehavior, you can coast on less.
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by skirmish 2y ago
I worked around several of those pain points: - A requirement of a non-local Microsoft account to install or use it, with no opt-out With some effort, you can use local account: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-
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by skirmish 2y ago
Then eat a "healthy" avocado toast and gain 400 calories back.
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by skirmish 2y ago
Llama v3.3 70B after quantization runs reasonably well on a 24GB GPU (7900XTX or 4090) and 64GB of regular RAM. Software: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp .
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by skirmish 2y ago
If you are afraid of cellulose then you should stop eating any vegetables and fruits. They contain large amounts of cellulose also called "dietary fiber", which USDA says you need large amounts of: about 30 grams per day.
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by skirmish 2y ago
Look up "gongfu steeping", it is a well established method, e.g. "15 to 30 seconds for the first infusion, then add 10 seconds to each subsequent infusion. If it seems a bit weak, leave it for longer."
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by skirmish 2y ago
> physical non-reactive presence of particles can clog and get in the way of natural processes mechanically That would mean fiber in food is harmful since it is not digested. Cellulose is just a common type of natural fiber. Meanwhile:
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by skirmish 2y ago
> add a mechanism to create many more universes when a correct result is hit Simple count has not much to do with the outcome observed, IMU each branch in a split is not equally likely. If you finely sub-divide a low-probability branch
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by skirmish 2y ago
Even today, Russians distinguish light blue from dark blue as completely different colors (голубой vs синий). Culturally different color understanding is not rare at all. For me, personally, English-speakers are being weird when they dist
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by skirmish 2y ago
Quantized 30B models should run in 24GB VRAM. A quick search found people doing that with good speed: [1] I have a 4090, PCIe 3x16, DDR4 RAM. oobabooga/text-generation-webui using exllama I can load 30B 4bit GPT
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by skirmish 2y ago
Rust does "errors as values" pretty well, see [1]. You can manually handle them if you want, or just apply the '?' operator to auto-propagate them out of the function. In both cases, it is obvious that there was an err
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by skirmish 2y ago
> As interest rates decline Why would they decline any further? The consensus right now is inflation will go up due to incoming administration's stated policies, and rates will go up too.
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by skirmish 2y ago
The best way to deal with such insanity is to slow down: get requirements, "design" for a few days, if requirements change "design" a few more days etc. Furious coding just burns you out, and not much progress is made i
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by skirmish 2y ago
I once tried to give interval range estimates, the manager said "I cannot work with that, give me a single number". (And when I gave a single number, he said "that is much too long" and tried to negotiate it down to 10
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by skirmish 2y ago
I once got a bright idea to climb up the stairs to the 13th floor where our office was located. Once I got there, I found that doors can only be opened from the inside, so I climbed 13 floors down and took an elevator up again like a good
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by skirmish 2y ago
> For reference almost all SWE hires start at L3. Straight out of school, yes. With a few years of outside experience and an advanced degree, it is easy to join at L5. Which I think is ideal, no promotion headaches, just focus on inter
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by skirmish 2y ago
How close are you to the screen? With my face about 1 foot away, I can easily scan all corners on the 32" 4k flat screen just by moving my eyes.
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by skirmish 2y ago
That would affect only a few borderline trials and would average out with subsequent throws. It would be much more worrisome that the length of a needle or the width of a stripe is not infinitely precise, that would consistently affect all
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by skirmish 2y ago
By repeatedly throwing a needle on a striped pattern: [1]. Obviously, you will need an infinite number of throws for an infinitely precise measurement of pi. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon%27s_needle_problem
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by skirmish 2y ago
The only free food is bananas from what I hear. Fits the starving African theme!
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by skirmish 2y ago
Here are hardware recommendations from another similar (and well established) project: [1] [2]. Even though they don't recommend Reolink cameras, I have both Amcrest and Reolink cameras working well with Frigate for more than a year n

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