ElectricalUnion

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by ElectricalUnion 5d ago
Can I block providers (for model, not in general) that have sightly cheaper input/output tokens but have more that 10x the average cache cost? Can I block providers (for a model, not in general) that set up cache write cost when the m
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by ElectricalUnion 9d ago
> But they are. Did you remember to: - check for the other spawned process exit code? - waitpid for all process in the other process chain? - propagate/handle signals, like for example SIGINT/SIGTSTP/SIGPIPE/SIGHUP fo
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by ElectricalUnion 9d ago
Duckdb supports loading and saving to zstd for all it's base loading/saving formats csv/tsv/json/jsonlines, but, for good or bad, those are solid compression. Under most r/w workloads, using parquet/lance&
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by ElectricalUnion 15d ago
Using macos on low memory regimes will make it use disk-based swap. For example, a Macbook Neo (so in theory, something with around 4GiB of free RAM lying around) might eat around 900GB of writes a day while not doing much at all, because
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by ElectricalUnion 16d ago
> If not for NAT, we'd all need a firewall A NAT implementation could broadcast any "WAN" side incoming packets to all link local clients (aka: put everyone in the DMZ). The only thing preventing that is a stateful firewal
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by ElectricalUnion 16d ago
If you're using specifically zstd, on the sender side, instead of tweaking the whole tunnel once, you can use --adapt to dynamically adjust to i/o conditions.
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by ElectricalUnion 18d ago
> PIM would have a full blown IO controller and cache subsystem to fetch remote operands Don't we already have those in mainstream computing in the form of dedicated silicon in DMA controllers? Programmed input–output performance is
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by ElectricalUnion 20d ago
Around and above 40°C, fans _are_ worse that useless - they may actively be killing you instead. > Use electric fans only when temperatures are below 40˚C / 104˚F. In temperatures above 40˚C / 104˚F, fans will heat the body. -
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by ElectricalUnion 24d ago
Qwen3 is not Qwen3.8? > commited on May 21, 2025, over 1 year ago Fairly old update to the README.md of (instead of Qwen3.8), should have raised some flags?
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by ElectricalUnion 1mo ago
AFAIK the only well-known LLM with no "conventional" multimodal encoders required for audio and images is Gemma 4 12B.
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by ElectricalUnion 1mo ago
No duckdb (or parquet). If you want to avoid writes and write amplification, you really want to avoid re-writing all 122880 rows of a row group every time a single insert happens.
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by ElectricalUnion 1mo ago
Infisical, or Bitwarden Secret Manager? Those two look like perfectly reasonable if the llm is just careless (but still, nothing prevents the LLM from intentionally cat'ing /proc/self/environ or from running /usr&#x
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by ElectricalUnion 1mo ago
You can use any message you want, but the model was tested to react reasonably well to the specific token sequence of "\nConsidering the limited time by the user, I have to give the solution based on the thinking directly now.\n<&#x
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by ElectricalUnion 1mo ago
What "democratized computing" was cheaper computing and VisiCalc, not WIMP and GUI? But again, VisiCalc is intentionally limited, it's not a all-powerful environment, on purpose. It's all about intentional limitations, m
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by ElectricalUnion 1mo ago
Almost all web chatbot providers have code sandboxes that they will run (limited) tooling for you. If you ask for it , it will run deterministic linters, formatters, format converters, tests for you. Older versions of Claude would for exam
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by ElectricalUnion 1mo ago
> the terminal is a scary place Isn't the the powerful, unlimited, unopinionated blank LLM text input waiting for your instructions eerily similar to a scary terminal? WIMP and GUI paradigms are the exact the opposite: intentional d
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by ElectricalUnion 2mo ago
Problem is that bash is too sharp to handle to smart and gullible clankers without a sandbox - That I think everyone should be using anyways, for everything, even things not related to clankers - Android and Qubes are right. The app/vm
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by ElectricalUnion 2mo ago
Aren't those speeds for the first few tokens, that, because of no context for attention to attend, are much faster to compute that the others? I expect the actual token speed to nosedive sharply as you get more context utilization. Wha
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by ElectricalUnion 2mo ago
Then have it summarise the meeting transcription over the entire week for the report next week . ftfy.
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by ElectricalUnion 2mo ago
By the time the tokens start coming out 30h later you might need to use your laptop again...
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by ElectricalUnion 2mo ago
Ok, this one will take just 30h (compared to that other project that would take 6.25 days) to start writing output tokens after you say hi in Claude Code.
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by ElectricalUnion 2mo ago
Won't the answer (even for a pretty basic message like "hi") at SSD speeds take like a _entire week_ to _start showing useful output?_ (attempting to do 22k average claude code system prompt + 32k thinking tokens thru 0.1t&#x
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by ElectricalUnion 2mo ago
The funny thing is that JSON parsing is usually kinda unsafe in it's main target language JavaScript, and usually safe in other languages, because of the `__proto__` prototype pollution.
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by ElectricalUnion 2mo ago
> I don't think providing 90% of the structure you need is a failed abstraction. It is, when the "10%" is the actual hot queries that your system will use the most? Code right now "is so cheap". You can provide y
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by ElectricalUnion 2mo ago
I believe the main usecases for this is not requiring changing code, not requiring adding a reverse proxy in front of code I can't change, and "OSI"ish protocols (as in, not really TCP protocols - Remote Database Access, Orac
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by ElectricalUnion 2mo ago
If your files and folders are rw even in a encrypted form, you're still vulnerable to ramsomware if you don't have some sort of immutable ro backups.
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by ElectricalUnion 2mo ago
> developers on any sufficiently large team will come up with extremely widely varied queries to access equivalent information. Ah yes, the famous database integration anti-pattern. > but ORMs also get you to that point without requir
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by ElectricalUnion 2mo ago
> ORMs are good for management and simple CRUD cases I for one think that "simple CRUD cases" is bullshit, those applications don't exist. In practice, System-of-Records systems are rare. (and should be, their value are in
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by ElectricalUnion 3mo ago
> That is a hardware limitation Sounds like a intentional firmware (aka: software) limitation to me?
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by ElectricalUnion 3mo ago
> The insert is upper boundable in advance A concurrent DML happening then suddenly your MERGE INTO WHEN NOT MATCHED INSERT/INSERT INTO SELECT is way larger that you thought? I thought "some workloads can suddenly be way larger

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