MerrimanInd

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by MerrimanInd 26d ago
Even with a free tier, having the gall to charge 20% more than Red Hat does for their enterprise Linux workstation license is pretty ballsy. And Red Hat is putting actual significant software engineering into their offerings to make Linux m
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by MerrimanInd 26d ago
I don't understand this at all and I've deployed Linux machines to workstations and factory environments. It's an "all in one" in that it has compute and a keyboard. But the mouse isn't integrated (literally ju
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by MerrimanInd 29d ago
I'm not an AT Proto wizard (there's a lot of good text and video explainers out there) and I know that Tangled is building on it but also adding their own functionality. But from a high level, I register my 'knot' with m
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by MerrimanInd 29d ago
I've always suspected that at least some of it is information laundering. I used to work in engine development and calibration. There aren't many people who know how to do engine cal and it's incredibly important to get your
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by MerrimanInd 1mo ago
I recently got a spindle and a knot set up on my home server (along with Tranquil PDS). A few rough edges that we got ironed out but it's cool to have all of that self-hosted on my own machine yet still part of the AT proto world! I&#x
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by MerrimanInd 1mo ago
It's a massive problem that mobile apps are most users favorite way to consume programs yet are one of the few forms of distribution being gatekept by two massive and opinionated companies. It feels like the slow creeping rot at the fo
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by MerrimanInd 1mo ago
One way to phrase that would be to say that you have a vested interest in supporting the idea that end user skill is more important than ingredients since you sell a means of improving end user skill. Not sure if that's a source or a c
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by MerrimanInd 1mo ago
But the point is that no matter how well you cook the steak you're not creating quality, you're just getting the most out of what you have. The cow and the farmer created that quality. I believe we lose sight of that because so mu
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by MerrimanInd 1mo ago
I'm more of a coffee nerd than a steak aficionado but I've often made the comparison between those two. In both cases, the enthusiast considers their skill in making coffee/cooking steak to be a differentiator and they immers
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by MerrimanInd 1mo ago
> "Although it will happen incrementally, astounding triumphs – fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics – will eventually become commonplace." https://ia.samaltman.com&#x2
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by MerrimanInd 1mo ago
Zoo really snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. They got so many things about CAD right (new kernel, solid UI, programmatic language with either graphical or text editing) then they went and did this extremely online-only/SaaS mod
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by MerrimanInd 1mo ago
Climate change is another big problem that frontier AI labs have handwaved away as being "solvable" by AGI. The premise that a pure superintelligence could hand us a plan to beat climate change that's so good and airtight tha
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by MerrimanInd 2mo ago
I'm playing around with it. I self-hosted the Tranquil PDS (personal data server, part of AT Proto), a knot (git repositories), and a spindle (CI runner) on my home server. It was all relatively easy to set up but even in the week that
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by MerrimanInd 5mo ago
20GB isn't enough for a 13B parameter model? I thought the 29-31B models could run on a 24GB GTX x090 card? I'm currently shopping for a local LLM setup and between something like the Framework Desktop with 64-128GB of shared RAM
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by MerrimanInd 5mo ago
Looks like Azure might be the common denominator.
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by MerrimanInd 5mo ago
It's crazy that the systems the best designed for decentralization like git, email, and the internet itself wound up being the most centralized with single points of failure.
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by MerrimanInd 5mo ago
I wonder if we could find a way to donate unused tokens or even local compute resources to open-source projects we support. Especially for security auditing where it could probably be somewhat more asynchronous and disconnected than the ope
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by MerrimanInd 7mo ago
In the auto industry these are usually called a series hybrid and there have been a handful. The Chevy Volt (though it had the ability to directly connect the engine to the wheels at highway speeds), and the BMW i3 and i8, the Fisker Karma&
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by MerrimanInd 7mo ago
That's a complicated question that unfortunately has quite a bit of "well it depends" in the answer. I worked in the auto industry for a long time - both doing engine development and EVs - so my opinions here are well-informe
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by MerrimanInd 7mo ago
When one gets in the weeds on EVs or ICE cars two things become shockingly clear: internal combustion is hilariously inefficient YET gasoline is hilariously energy dense. Most people's intuition is wrong on both of these points but the
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by MerrimanInd 7mo ago
Hannah Ritchie is a quite well reputed writer and data scientist squarely in the climate field. She's written two books on climate and I found the one I read ( Not The End of the World ) was quite good and data-driven. https:/&#x
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by MerrimanInd 7mo ago
I had the exact same thought while reading the above comment, as helpful and generous as it is. Google's entire business model is to help people find things on the internet. They're an insanely well resourced company with all kind
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by MerrimanInd 7mo ago
I was in engineering school back in ~2012 when Google Glass came out. One of my classmates got hold of a pair when they were still quite uncommon and wore them to an extracurricular club meeting. Within minutes someone made a comment about
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by MerrimanInd 7mo ago
My non-technical mother recently texted the family group chat to try to get us to use Signal. The winds are shifting towards privacy in a broader sense than ever before. This type of counter argument ("that doesn't sell [product&q
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by MerrimanInd 7mo ago
> 8GB RAM, you can upgrade your RAM to 12GB with 50€ Possibly the best per storage RAM price on the market right now!
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by MerrimanInd 7mo ago
The iPad and MacBook teams have been in market competition for nearly a decade now while clearly Apple corporate strategy has been trying to nerf each line to prevent them from actually competing. It's an artificial tension that gets m
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by MerrimanInd 7mo ago
It could absolutely be false nostalgia since I was a Mac fan from about 2005 to 2009 with an MBP that had the breathing feature but this really felt like a high point for computer hardware. It felt slick and performant but still serviceable
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by MerrimanInd 7mo ago
I hope that the EU becomes a real innovation center of decentralized tech initiatives. There are all these tech movements like local-first apps, atproto/activitypub, and self-hosting that could be absolutely supercharged by both the us
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by MerrimanInd 7mo ago
> default to pretty good punctuation, spelling and grammar If leaving out the Oxford comma here was an intentional joke I both commend and curse you!
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by MerrimanInd 9mo ago
I love this. I spent my holidays hearing non-technical family members complain about their ever deteriorating Windows experiences, issues that make me righteously angry at Microsoft. IMO the next important unblocker for Linux adoption is th

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