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by xiphias2 4y ago
I strictly use MIT / BSD style license for contributing because I believe GPL is stopping innovation by stopping refactoring libraries out of programs to be used by other programs, but doesn't really stop companies who don't
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by xiphias2 4y ago
ggml should be ported as well to make it really count, use rust’s multithreading for fun
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by xiphias2 4y ago
Google, Microsoft and Facebook had those teams, all they achieved is to get a new competitor by slowing down the natural pace of getting things into production by dumbing things totally down instead of finding technical solutions to ethical
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by xiphias2 4y ago
The difference is that the whole banking business model is about not never having 100% of the deposits on hand (the banking license is a license to not be 100% fully backed with liquid assets, but you have to follow special rules/regul
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by xiphias2 4y ago
I was just trying to find a modern C++ tutorial, but there's nothing comparable to the Rust Book on the internet. I think even now the best resource to learn C++ is to first learn C, then original C++, then all the modern memory manage
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by xiphias2 4y ago
The most fun thing reading this comparision is again that for an experienced C++ programmer who is used to managing memory by hand (and fixing segfaults), Rust's memory model doesn't seem that hard, because it makes sense, and he
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by xiphias2 4y ago
What you are describing is called a narrow bank, and it exists in Norway. There were people trying to create narrow banks, but they were rejected by regulators, because ,,everybody would take their money out of current banks and put it ther
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by xiphias2 4y ago
It's so boring to see people get blamed for taking their own money somewhere else in time.
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by xiphias2 4y ago
It’s not the opinion that is getting the species killed: it’s just nature, we can’t do anything about it, otherwise we would have seen aliens already.
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by xiphias2 4y ago
I was helping my father in the late 80s to write an accounting software for his own accounting firm. Of course I didn't know accounting, but I could write some basic stuff (in QBASIC) to help with the UI, and he installed it at some pl
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by xiphias2 4y ago
People don't have access to that $250k right now, it takes time.
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by xiphias2 4y ago
Why fake billionaire? Isn't he a real billionaire?
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by xiphias2 4y ago
I was born and raised in eastern europe before having access to internet. US is much more business oriented thinking by default than eastern-europe (where education comes first), although young people nowdays have global access to a lot mor
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by xiphias2 4y ago
I wish there would be exceptions to child labor regulations, but just the opposite kind: I could already do programming at 8 quite well, but I started professionally only after I was 23 because of all the rules. I wish I supported my family
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by xiphias2 4y ago
,,Dickinson said that the Pentagon needs to make sure that all sides understand their legal obligations and have a full understanding of the military’s expectations before those moments occur.'' I'm not an American, but as fa
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by xiphias2 4y ago
I never understood Pokémon cards, they have a marginal cost of 0 to print. With gold I have to trust 1 bank to hold it (generally the place where I buy it anyways, which is not secure), can't do multisig, and can't go through airp
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by xiphias2 4y ago
One option missing from the list is using Bitcoin multisig in multiple countries with physical bank safe vaults. The Cyprus bail-in in 2013 was a wake-up call for me that I don't legally own the money that I have in my bank, and I neve
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by xiphias2 4y ago
You have both at home / work?
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by xiphias2 4y ago
> For 7B model, it always goes above 32gb of RAM, That's double of what Tinygrad uses
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by xiphias2 4y ago
George Hotz already implemented LLaMA 7B and 15B on Twitch yesterday on GPU in Tunygrad llama branch: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/tree/llama The only problem is that it's swapping on 16GB Macbook,
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by xiphias2 4y ago
You can also now play with it in Nostr. Many of us send like 1000 sats (20 cents) instead of pressing the like button, which is a much better signal for posts than on social media, and lots of fun. Jack Dorsey explained many times in the in
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by xiphias2 4y ago
Engineers would have made services smarter by themselves, if PMs wouldn't give them new ,,features'' to implement all the time. Top level goals make sense for focusing, but for generally just improving products significantly,
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by xiphias2 4y ago
I'm sure Europe won't be something like Sri Lanka, but I feel the anti-business sentiment (businesses are greedy) all the time (especially when I visit US where the opposite is far too much, I see how much big companies captured t
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by xiphias2 4y ago
I wish you were right, but EU's share of world GDP is just shrinking every year (both before and after Brexit) because of all the great social structure that give people a peaceful life. As an example GDPR is great for protecting priva
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by xiphias2 4y ago
With webservers we already saw that the way to make new things fast in Rust is to use lots of unsafe Rust when needed, optimize the code, and after that think about the right abstractions that minimize the unsafe code surface.
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by xiphias2 4y ago
https://www.kingston.com/en/solutions/data-security/ironkey What's interesting here that even if Kingston would be able to help, it might not worth for them to do it because of their reputation (and $13B
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by xiphias2 4y ago
Sprüngli is definately the leading chocolate brand in Switzerland (the luxury part of Lindt-Sprüngli). I don't even record seeing Toblerone when I was living there (only at the airport for people exporting it as cheap presents).
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by xiphias2 4y ago
also basic conversions don't work on Google / ChatGPT. Google told me 1 billion sats is 0.1 BTC, ChatGPT 0.01 BTC. Google was still closer :)
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by xiphias2 4y ago
Nostr is this protocol ( https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/01.md ): Events and signatures Each user has a keypair. Signatures, public key, and encodings are done according to the Schnorr s
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by xiphias2 4y ago
Software is advancing in a far more faster pace at this point than hardware. Before we were happy when something new happened in AI every few years. Now we can expect something new / cool happening every few months (10x price decrease

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