IHLayman

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by IHLayman 23d ago
Wait wait wait. I don’t accept this premise: “But anger is different from anxiety because anger needs to be directed somewhere.” Citation needed; where did this come from? I think it is very possible to be angry without a source or obvious
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by IHLayman 11mo ago
“ What will happen to democracy in a world where 100% of the population are 27/7 consumers?” …we’ll add three hours to our day? Bu seriously, I support what you are saying. This is why the entire consumer system needs to change, becaus
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by IHLayman 1y ago
> "Smart Local Control" home devices work as expected until the electronics fail Recently one of my Zigbee-controlled thermostats started pumping cold air constantly. To fix it, all I had to do was open and examine the board; o
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by IHLayman 1y ago
You don’t need an LLM for this. Use `kubectl` to create a simple pod/service/deployment/ingress/etc, run `kubectl get -o yaml > foo.yaml` to bring it back to your machine in yaml format, then edit the `foo.yaml` file
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by IHLayman 1y ago
Anaconda was a good idea until it would break apt on Ubuntu and make my job that much harder. That became the reason _not_ to use Anaconda in my book. venv made these problems start to disappear, and now uv and Nix have closed the loop for
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by IHLayman 1y ago
Oh sure! While we’re at it, let’s increase the existing dystopia by giving employers the ability to track our stress levels and let them “compensate” as they see fit…
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by IHLayman 1y ago
Alphabet will definitely try to do that (within their business interest and all that), but I still choose to believe in the precept that “the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”, as old and outdated as that sounds. A n
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by IHLayman 1y ago
I love the idea of this flake to run Ollama even on Windows, but just pointing people to your _everything_ flake is going to confuse people and make it look harder than it is to run Ollama on Nix. If you are using a system-controlling Nix (
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by IHLayman 2y ago
Is it because pi isn’t measured, but calculated? The wikipedia article ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant ) makes a distinction between a mathematical constant and a physical constant, stating that the l
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by IHLayman 2y ago
How this article discusses reproducibility in NixOS and declines to even mention the intensional model or efforts to implement it are surprising to me, since it appears they have done a lot of research into the matter. If you don’t know, th
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by IHLayman 2y ago
“Even are ads are private…” I don’t think that’s possible. Modern advertisers require those sweet sweet metrics, which can never be truly anonymized, and in most cases attempts to anonymize are half-hearted at best.
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by IHLayman 2y ago
One book not on that list that really threw me recently was The Anomaly [0]. The less you know about it going in the better. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anomaly_(novel) .
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by IHLayman 2y ago
Assume around $3/hr per H100 (pretty generous pricing for GCP), that is $2250/month-gpu, or for their fleet of 8000 comes to $18MM/month or around $216MM/year in just compute costs alone, not looking at SSD, bucket stora
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by IHLayman 2y ago
I disagree… the article talks about defining the meter using the pendulum and the second. Other planets would have their own definition of second, but not their own definition of pendulum. Since one meter is prescribed though a pendulum bec
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by IHLayman 2y ago
I can talk to the opposite side about why I am very happy going all in with NixOS. Prior to that I was running dual-boot Windows (for games) and Ubuntu (for coding). Despite all of the progress made on gaming on Linux, I was still having pr
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by IHLayman 2y ago
By the looks of it, the announcement webpage also breaks Tridactyl unnecessarily, so I doubt they are interested in supporting *vim... Joking aside, I would be shocked if someone doesn't quickly write a plugin for at least Neovim to su
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by IHLayman 2y ago
One of the more interesting perspectives I gained about Lord Byron was when I learned of his support of the Luddites from reading the book Blood in the Machine[0], which I am surprised the posted article never mentioned once since it seemed
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by IHLayman 3y ago
Fun fact: if seems that if you use Lockdown mode on Apple devices you can't open PDFs from a browser (no official documentation says it but there is anecdotal evidence). This would allow people with Lockdown mode to open Arxiv papers m
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by IHLayman 4y ago
IRL universities will probably develop a protocol to remove access to helper tools for this sort of thing, maybe metal detectors at the door and specially tailored computers if needed for quizzes. Online universities OTOH are probably going
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by IHLayman 4y ago
“There was a slight increase in risk of HZ in people receiving influenza vaccine in the first 1–15 days after vaccination.” That’s kind of overselling it, isn’t it? The OP study says that stroke chances are lowered for 6 months. I think man
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by IHLayman 4y ago
… why have the operator sit in the cab? If truly teleoperated, then wouldn’t it be safer for the operator to be in a room far enough from the robot so that if there is some accident that crushes the cab or sends electricity through it, ther
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by IHLayman 4y ago
You are looking for the price like I was, and many pages are trying to snare you onto “speak to a specialist” links. Let me spare you the trouble, as you are looking for this page: https://www.insight.com/en_US/shop&#x2
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by IHLayman 4y ago
I will take a stab at this... it is about object localization via sound instead of sight, using very little power. For comparison, let's say you have a sound sensing setup on a Raspberry Pi, known for its low power draw, attached to a
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by IHLayman 4y ago
There’s also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italki . But I actually have shied away from it, mainly because I get nervous talking in front of a live person who will be judging my capability as I talk. I much prefer the i
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by IHLayman 4y ago
I think there’s a typing option: just click on the keyboard icon when entering a conversation?
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by IHLayman 4y ago
I French press my grounds at home too, but I bring water to 200F (93C) instead of boiling, as I was taught in my barista days that boiling water makes the coffee too bitter. Are you supposed to use boiling water for Hoffman method? A cursor
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by IHLayman 4y ago
But, a stake has to be at least 32 ETH, where at $1650/ETH lands you at $52,800. So, the validators have to have a significant investment in the platform, more than your average investor, and far more than anyone simply owning ETH. Whi
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by IHLayman 4y ago
Haskell coders have to do this often enough that there is a token that does this grouping… f $ g x = f (g x), so the expression `a b c` is still a source for ambiguity.
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by IHLayman 4y ago
That is a really good point, and the 3090s have a surprising amount of VRAM on them. For many smaller models this is sufficient. However, where I work without going into a lot of specifics, because of the size of the models, the amount of V
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by IHLayman 4y ago
ML workloads definitely cost a lot of money. Even for a preemptible VM, A100 GPUs cost $0.88/hr/GPU. That's $624 a month for a single GPU and only the 40GB model. Want a dedicated 8 GPU machine in the cloud to do training wit

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