snerbles

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by snerbles 10mo ago
Personally I use eBay and find the most barebones system I can, then populate the CPU+RAM with components salvaged from e-wasted servers. There are risks with this, as I've had to return more than one badly-bent workstation that was pa
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by snerbles 10mo ago
I too have a crippling dual CPU workstation hoarding habit. Single thread performance is usually worse than enthusiast consumer desktops, and gaming performance will suffer if the game isn't constrained to a single NUMA domain that als
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by snerbles 10mo ago
The incentive is less about morals and very much about self-preservation. With online mobs, when the target shows any sort of regret there is blood in the water and the sharks feast. It sometimes turns into a very public form of struggle se
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by snerbles 10mo ago
Ah, yes. The "normal people" canard. It's very tiresome. I refer you to a prior comment of mine and the ensuing chain from the usual HN homeschooling merry-go-round a year ago [0]. -- >> You can also learn outside of sc
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by snerbles 10mo ago
It was the predominant notion when I was a homeschooled kid 30 years ago, and for most of them there is no argument or evidence that will convince them otherwise. State-run education is their orthodoxy, and anything that challenges that is
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by snerbles 10mo ago
> Not only that, but it has been a poorly communicated and documented ride as many in this comment section can attest. The guides are written for cryptographic infrastructure nerds and not regular normal users that have a habit of forg
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by snerbles 10mo ago
Anecdata around SV: I've seen an uptick in urban night drivers with only their DRLs and no tail lights.
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by snerbles 11mo ago
Often projects need a history of stable checkpoints, and source control is one way to provide that.
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by snerbles 11mo ago
At a prior job, employees wearing the logo started getting a lot of unexpected targeted attention outside the office. This ranged from lots of questions from randos about future products, to desperate passers-by handing off resumes on the s
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by snerbles 1y ago
Also the Yellow Press drumming up support for the Spanish-American War.
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by snerbles 1y ago
NocoDB is also a self-hosted option. I used it to power a family project that required regular API access, but without the rate limits of Google Sheets.
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by snerbles 1y ago
For now.
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by snerbles 1y ago
Like any other large corporation, Google has selected for compliant employees over all else. It's more akin to a bureaucracy than a startup now.
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by snerbles 1y ago
Teaching gameplay without an overt tutorial is a difficult skill, maybe this dev can pull it off? It's hard to get into the "new player" headspace without feedback from actual playtesters.
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by snerbles 1y ago
It took me about 30 seconds. Which is a shame, this is the kind of game that immediately draws me in.
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by snerbles 1y ago
Got a little nauseous playing it on desktop. Needs an FOV slider and maybe the ability to dampen camera movement.
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by snerbles 1y ago
I felt like I was back in 2005 all over again. Thanks OP, this was magical.
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by snerbles 1y ago
No fun allowed!
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by snerbles 1y ago
At this point I think they very well do understand. Rocky times are ahead, TPTB know they're at risk if things get bad enough for the average denizen and they want to get in as much leverage against future dissidents as possible.
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by snerbles 1y ago
A guide on llama.cpp's grammars (nine hours and not a single mention of "GBNF"? HN is slipping) is here: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/R... There's a
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by snerbles 1y ago
> All their competitors are doing a lot more with a lot fewer people. According to Wikipedia, for FY25: Intel: 102,000 employees AMD: 28,000 employees Nvidia: 36,000 employees I'm pretty sure the latter two have been growing headcou
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by snerbles 1y ago
Element X shines with large rooms - think joining rooms with 100+ active users and a lot of events to sync. Using multiple clients is not a problem either, I think I have at least 10 active sessions active with my current account. Element l
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by snerbles 1y ago
Mattermost always struck me as more of a Slack alternative. Though the line between the two was always a big blur. > It's not federated though This is a big one for my server - our community has a handful of active "visitors&qu
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by snerbles 1y ago
When I onboard users to my Matrix homeserver, I point them to a preconfigured Element-Web URL and the Element mobile apps. I also mention that there are other clients out there - a handful experiment with them, most don't. One discover
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by snerbles 1y ago
So I've hosted a federated Matrix homeserver for almost eight years now, with a few dozen active users. Beyond the 800 pound gorillas of networking effects and the need to be your own infra engineer (mitigated by things like your integ
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by snerbles 1y ago
> In which case, why fight for it? Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Among other things left unsaid.
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by snerbles 1y ago
For us who remember the 20th Century? Yes, I agree and we can see the causes. For the next generation? It's more that they're wrapped up in centralized closed platforms for their hobbies. Most of them never considered anything els
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by snerbles 1y ago
Their competitor (and our preferred vendor at the time) was always forthright with us about the capabilities of their lasers.
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by snerbles 1y ago
One specific example was Camp Bucca in 2007, around the time local insurgents managed to successfully inflict casualties with a rocket attack [0]. In an onboarding briefing I recall some officers lamenting the delay in getting Google to &qu
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by snerbles 1y ago
> The problem here isn't the crawlers, it's your price-gouging, extortionate hosting plan. No, it's both. The crawlers are lazy, apparently have no caching, and there is no immediately obvious way to instruct/force th

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