Balooga

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by Balooga 4d ago
> How about; if it's already documented, make it available to the end user. There's documentation, and then there's documentation. What passes for documentation in the modern era is scattershot over thousands of JIRA ticke
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by Balooga 6d ago
The trouble with old cables is after years they can become "tacky" or "melt" softer plastics they come into contact with. So storage is important.
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by Balooga 10d ago
Having grown up in South Africa, moving to the states was the first time I ever heard of such a thing as a peanut allergy, or shrimp allergy, or gluten allergy, or any kind of allergy that wasn't having to wear a medic-alert bracelet t
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by Balooga 15d ago
Now I'm feeling pretty good about getting 10-11 tokens/sec running Qwopus 3.6-35B-A3B Q6_K on an old Mac Pro 2013 (trashcan) with 128GB RAM (DDR3), 12 core Xeon, dual D700s. Arch Linux and llama.cpp.
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by Balooga 19d ago
I'm surprised the person responsible for <backspace> mapping to Back navigation didn't mandate that <del> would be super awesome for Forward navigation.
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by Balooga 20d ago
There is the level of understanding of the concept of a Quicksort function, how it works, when to use it. And then there is the level of understanding gained of opening up an editor and trying to write a Quicksort function in Go or C++ or P
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by Balooga 20d ago
Not at all. If you toggle between SD and HD in front of them, it's plain to see. But if you tuned to a random channel, most people couldn't tell you if what they are looking at is SD or HD. "It's all digital, right?&quot
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by Balooga 21d ago
Are you joking? Most people don't notice a difference between 480i and 1080p when blown up on a large TV in their living room. I know this from experience having worked at a satellite TV provider and hearing actual customer feedback.
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by Balooga 21d ago
> Do you think non-citizens can get Social Security or a US Passport? Non-citizen Nationals can get a US passport. For example, folks born in American Samoa.
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by Balooga 21d ago
> You also get treated differently if things go wrong. Not treated differently. Treated the same. You are required by law to enter your country of citizenship using that country's passport (this is true for every country). Not doing
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by Balooga 21d ago
Fox Sports was 720p. Back then, all broadcasters had to conform to ATSC 1.0 MPEG2 transport and MPEG2 encoding due to terrestrial broadcasts. The choices were 480i/p, 720p, or 1080i/p.
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by Balooga 23d ago
Yes, and the cause is almost always due to many small errors, the Swiss Cheese Model[1] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
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by Balooga 26d ago
Have you never watched The Karate Kid? "Wax on. Wax off" -- memorization and repetition are the basis for understanding. How useful it is to remember useless information that one day turns out to not be so useless after all.
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by Balooga 26d ago
Mastery requires memorization. You can't play an instrument without muscle memory. Why are commercial airline pilots required to spend hundreds of hours in simulators? So that when things go wrong they don't have time to think, th
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by Balooga 26d ago
Jevons Paradox [1] > when technological improvements that increase the efficiency of a resource's use lead to a rise, rather than a fall, in total consumption of that resource. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by Balooga 27d ago
This then implies that in the EU, AI-generated content cannot have a license applied? MIT, GPL, CC, etc?
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by Balooga 27d ago
If even the CEO is vibe coding[1], then the CTO has zero excuse. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZADIErqyw
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by Balooga 28d ago
I don't like running, but I continue to run a 10km course a few times a week. Some years ago I felt the transition from someone who just runs for exercise to being a runner. And runners run. So I run.
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by Balooga 29d ago
That's interesting to know. Thank you.
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by Balooga 29d ago
I run Qwen 3.8 at just under 2 tokens/second on a Mac Pro 2013. Why? Because I walked 8 miles to school in the snow, uphill both directions, every day.
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by Balooga 29d ago
> An AI has become sentient and self aware -> the AI owns it Whomever creates that sentient and self aware AI is royally screwed. Can't command the AI to do anything it isn't willing to do, because that would be considered s
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by Balooga 29d ago
The "significant modification" is key. So I don't think one can claim copyright on a book an AI created from a prompt (or even 10,000 prompts) after performing a search/replace to rename the protagonist from A to B.
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by Balooga 29d ago
Out of interest, how long did it take for you to form the habit for regular exercise? I took a solid 6 months of forcing myself to ignore my mind's constant excuses to not work out, to the point of my mind realizing that the excuses ju
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by Balooga 1mo ago
Sailboats in space. That's the ticket.
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by Balooga 1mo ago
"Revealed: group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry" -- The Guardian[1] [1] - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutr...
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by Balooga 1mo ago
Muscle requires protein, yes. Unfortunately, we don't get to keep unnecessary muscle just by eating protein. The body requires a lot less muscle to lug around 200 pounds than it did when lugging around 300 pounds. We have to do the str
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by Balooga 1mo ago
You are correct. It's per decade. Although some days it feels like I only have 16% left.
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by Balooga 1mo ago
Oh thank God! You are correct. It's per decade.
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by Balooga 1mo ago
> operating on land, in the air, in space, on, or under water Thunderbirds are Go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_mBUaPsX6o
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by Balooga 1mo ago
The side effect of drastic muscle loss isn't quickly reversible though. Because muscle is about 3x as expensive to maintain as fat, unless you are on some major strength training to maintain, muscle is the very first thing that your bo

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