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by zxexz 2y ago
Found my sister! I think I met up with her a few days after this photo was taken. I was envious of her being able to thru-hike - but I made the time to go visit her along the trail and probably did about 400 miles of it, on and off. Excited
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by zxexz 2y ago
Not arguing that Christianity and other religions aren't misogynistic - I mean, seriously, there is a borderline unfathomable amount of serious misogynistic baggage there. However, on the point of last names, I feel the urge to point o
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by zxexz 2y ago
If the feedback loop is tight enough, anything is possible! Every crash becomes a dopamine rush!
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by zxexz 2y ago
I've been curious about a running something proxmox-like for a while, but I really want something a little more "hackable" without learning an entirely new system for managing configurations, yet still has an intuitive interf
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by zxexz 2y ago
Contrary to the (most of the) rest of the comments here, I quite enjoyed this. It's refreshing to get a (relatively former) outsider's take on a world that's a majority of one's working hours. Is the content of this arti
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by zxexz 2y ago
Just a thought - looking at it another way, "code", in the popular zeitgeist, has an association with rigid, unchanging processes. I feel like perhaps, the sentiment comes from that? Like, even if you're just implementing bub
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by zxexz 2y ago
And, next release, they'll have had been trained on one more example of an answer for that sort of question ;)
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by zxexz 2y ago
Yep!
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by zxexz 2y ago
Huh, that’s convenient and really useful. When I do ridiculous import hacks, i usually just do it be importing a module, that trades the ast module to rewrite code, exec it and shim in an exit(). A preprocessor would be so much more ergonom
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by zxexz 2y ago
Huh. I've had the opposite experience. Neo4j has a pretty nice interface and package overall, but I was not impressed with the performance, and the developer experience was about on-par with Elasticsearch (not comparing the two databas
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by zxexz 2y ago
IME, with flakes, yes. Fork nixpkgs and remove what you’re not using, manually cherry pick what you want. That’s not advice I’ve heard anyone give before, but it’s so nice to just have a a distro that is yours, and everything has a purpose.
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by zxexz 2y ago
U+200E before letters spelling out show in my comment. Just noting that while I would have enjoyed the show very much even if I had this "spoiler", it certainly would have lost some "magic".
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by zxexz 2y ago
I remember watching a (won‎d‎erful) T.‎V. ‎show[0] that came out within the last couple decades, and feeling like a certain scene was definitely a nod to this story. The drama, and physics (and resolution) was done differently, but it left
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by zxexz 2y ago
My process for this is usually: - Poke at the EXE for a few hours to days. Sometimes it's just a self-extracting executable and you can just find the raw firmware binary. Sometimes you have to spend a few days relearning the basics of
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by zxexz 2y ago
You are right! Though I do have immense respect for those languages - not love, but respect. The way one respects a grouchy aging tiger. Not extinct, its ilk will be around forever, and I don’t want to be the one caring for it.
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by zxexz 2y ago
Multiclassing is hard, but some get by as a making a divine pact and taking Eldritch Blast and Prestidigitation as cantrips. When all you have is sledgehammer, even smaller hammers are nails.
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by zxexz 2y ago
I’m aware of a couple people at health systems/hospitals that work maybe 400 hours/year making $500k+/year. Experts in legacy languages, specifically COBOL and MUMPS. For legacy billing and EMR/EHR and related systems co
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by zxexz 2y ago
Installing automatic gates at crossings can fix (almost) 15~20 fatalities a year there? I've seen at least double-digit traffic deaths in my life, 4 of which I've watched happen and can vividly recollect, here in the USA. Instal
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by zxexz 2y ago
I love NixOS, and the nvidia-x11 package is truly wonderful and captures so many options. But having such a complex package makes updating and regression testing take time. For ML stuff I ended up using it as the basis for an overlay, and r
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by zxexz 2y ago
Yeah, I think this is 100% it but I’m not aware of any standards. I have spent a bit of time watching wildlife ecologists do bird banding at one site and they had a log of all the rings, so they could identify them by sight. Because there a
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by zxexz 2y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing. Truly tragic. I wonder where all the parts are sitting now, hoping it’s not just e-waste, but knowing that likely is the case. A shame about the quasar research, that would have been a wonderful project to read abou
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by zxexz 2y ago
Prefixing this here with - this is just my experience, I’m sure everyone who’s gone down this rabbit hole has had a different experience. I usually trawl Ebay for a little bit every day when I’m looking for something specific, and start mak
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by zxexz 2y ago
Yeah, I buy AMD Epyc almost exclusively, primarily because it’s so freaking annoying to even decide which Intel CPU will work for a given application. Plus you can usually get current or previous generation Epyc cores new for less than hal
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by zxexz 2y ago
I presume from the comparatively many more reads/writes that a standard, larger, and non-immutable distro would perform on average
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by zxexz 2y ago
Thanks, I sure will when I have the time. I’ll posts something and/or shoot you a message if I figure anything out too :) I have an MI100 still sitting around somewhere that I’ve meant to repair, but that hardware pales in comparison t
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by zxexz 2y ago
Yeah those crypto cards were nerfed. Truly e-waste, I’d love for someone to figure out some innovative ways to use them, maybe with some unhinged hardware mods.
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by zxexz 2y ago
I think as a rule of thumb, latest generation hardware makes the most sense for cloud compute providers supporting AI. But while yes, training can be bottlenecked easily by internode training speed, it really depends on the model, model siz
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by zxexz 2y ago
What do you mean not much good for AI? I guess it depends, 10 year old equipment is not great but plenty of 7 year old stuff is excellent. SN2700 switches for example are EOL, but that doesn’t matter because you can run mainline Linux fl
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by zxexz 2y ago
So am I, but that makes total sense in your case, providing cloud compute. Doing that without contracts and warranties sounds like a nightmare (I haven’t downvoted you at all, I’ve seen your comments in a few threads and an really intereste
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by zxexz 2y ago
If you’re OK with used equipment, I find Infiniband basically on par pricewise with used ethernet gear. Mellanox stuff is super easy to test and you can run everything with a mainline kernel. MQM8700/MQM8790 switches can be had really

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