KingMachiavelli

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by KingMachiavelli 7d ago
Super annoyed they did not announce a new AirPods Pro or Apple TV. My NVIDIA Shield is getting a bit old (not really an issue unless I want to stream raw 90GB Blu-ray). A bit strange for Apple to let fairly popular products just go so long
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by KingMachiavelli 8d ago
Computationally what’s the difference between a human and an LLM besides scale and speed? Trained humans are still using heuristics and shortcuts. Just because these are subconscious and only possessed by talented, trained professionals doe
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by KingMachiavelli 15d ago
Not sure why people are latching on to this. I'm 95% sure the AI agent was not "trained" on this intellectual property but rather the IP was just analyzed and it's usage and details were recorded to the AI agents memory
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by KingMachiavelli 1mo ago
Hmm, I'm using the CachyOS kernel but on NixOS. What CPU/GPU are you using? I tried using the flatpak Chromium in case it was some NixOS build optimization oddities but didn't see much of a difference.
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by KingMachiavelli 1mo ago
A more accurate title is can Intel (Linux/Windows) beat Apple? If you don't want to run Windows, is there even a choice? My issue now with the non-Apple computers if you want to run Linux it's really hard to predict how awful
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by KingMachiavelli 1mo ago
As much as I like to hate on larger cars. In reality, I use my SUV (3 row, Subaru Ascent) all the time for camping and outdoor activities (80% of weekends or so). I just took out the middle seats to build a full-size bed platform (75x45” or
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by KingMachiavelli 2mo ago
Don’t many medications and medical devices contain microplastics either on purpose (fillers) or un-avoidable (plasticizers in IV tubing). Unless the FDA has an existing microplastics policy, it would be weird to inconsistently apply it. Lot
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
In some states you no longer can interact with a phone at all unless mounted. Phone mounts kind of suck or you’ll be in a rental without your nice mount. A 15” screen is easier to read than a small phone bouncing on a mount. If I’m spending
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
Window units can be added to basically any existing home. And like you said roofs are an option. France could afford AC with their relatively cheap power but it’s just culturally and politically unpopular despite heat related deaths being e
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
> build an image from scratch with the packages you want Using what? Using NixOS to configure a system is orthogonal to the system actually running the Nix binary. Nix/Nixpkgs provide well maintained package derivations and module c
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
Err, the email list has like 13+ bad addresses? I get a lot of "Address not found" responses.
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
Actually, quite an honest and in-depth review with many genuine good points about the state of Nix. If you genuinely need sub 1GB image sizes, you would have to reimplement many of the Nixpkgs conventions like glibc/systemd. I’d still
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
My toolchain for both is managed by the Nix derivation wrappers. It’s trivial to set custom C/C++/Rust/Go/NodeJS flags. As long as I have one flexible build tool, I can customize it for both server and embedded.
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
IMO the nixos-rebuild scripts are unnecessary and just obscures what’s being built. build-vm is the same as building the configs “config.system.build.vm” attribute. nixos-rebuild is fine for getting started but you end up needing to use the
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
What do you mean by image? In Nix you instantiate a NixOS system and specify the architecture. There are a number of tools to build a disk image from a NixOS system. $ my-arm-system = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem { system = "aarch64-li
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
Embedded just means ARM 99% of the time and it's cheaper and easier to use native ARM servers (AWS has them cheap) than to make 100% of software cross compile. Some parts of the firmware might need to be cross compiled but those projec
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
I've been using Nix for "embedded" systems for few years now and it works fine. I don't quite understand why "embedded" has historically meant learning a completely separate tool. I've been building for x8
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
Doesn't running consistent losses eventually cause tax issues with the IRS? If the losses are offsetting profit elsewhere, I would assume the IRS would become very interested in challenging the validity of the hobby business?
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
Sure but homeowners can literally have their cake and eat it too. Homeowners who like where they live and don’t want to sell are best served by scarcity. Unfortunately that means they can play both cards, they can benefit from scarcity whil
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
Is there something systemic behind these frequent incidents with military aircraft? It is using old, legacy equipment? Is it due to using rushed, streamlined procedures designed for war-time even outside an active battle environment? Are th
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
Assuming they would not have liquidated it earlier (perhaps via some semi-legal instrument) to cover past or future bad decisions. Crypto certainly isn’t doing well now. The 7.84% state would probably be significantly diluted over this time
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
Wow quite nice. I’ve been working on a side project (so all vibecoding) a tool for canyon mapping (Canyoneering). I made a decent interface based on Leaflet and react but I struggled to add a more complex interface without just recreating t
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
I don’t get why Spotify didn’t inject themselves into the ticket buying pipeline. They recently announced something but it’s kind of strange. I often find I learn about a festival or concert too late to buy tickets or they are prohibitively
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
Isn’t it a self-fulfilling issue? Dependence on H1B and other visa dependent workers leads to lower salaries which discourages local talent from that specialty. What requirements did the role have and what’s the salary range? From what litt
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by KingMachiavelli 3mo ago
IPv6 zones are great. IPv6 neighbor discover is great. Link local doesn’t need SLAAC or DHCPv6 server. It seems clear that browsers would need to special case this and implement OS specific rules for what a valid Zone ID is. Browsers have o
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by KingMachiavelli 4mo ago
Wow, it's crazy that some states have over 2x the mortality rate of others. Also pretty striking how quickly mortality increases with age even at "young" ages.
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by KingMachiavelli 4mo ago
1. Born in typical midwest American town from American parents also born in the US just as their parents (at least 4 generations) 2. Nope, met after arrival. 3. Studies completed and employed legally. 4. "How soon after her last entry
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by KingMachiavelli 4mo ago
Absurd, currently trying to figure out how to sponsor my wife and now this. The wording seems to imply that even those here on valid non-immigrant visas (F1) would need to apply via their home country. It doesn’t help that I130+I485 (AOS) c
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by KingMachiavelli 4mo ago
> But I don't see what other options are available for states to compete with each other if not through tax breaks. They should compete based on actual policy including tax policy. "Tax breaks" for specific projects are ju
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by KingMachiavelli 4mo ago
Frankly, I think we need to bring back corporal punishment for specific crimes. The process to arrest, prosecute, and then imprison people for "public space crimes" is basically flawed. Arresting and prosecuting is slow and expens

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