Thews

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by Thews 2mo ago
Amazon bricked the first gen paperwhite, so I went on a similar journey. I started out making a single rust app on it, then went down the rabbit hole of trying to replace the shell/launcher. https://github.com/justinle
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by Thews 3mo ago
5GBASE-T interfaces often use 3x less power than 10GBASE-T
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by Thews 6mo ago
How does adding another way to cause safety issues affect safety? Give me root access so i can install openclaw.
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by Thews 6mo ago
I ran go's deadcode against your repo, it says there are 44 unreachable functions. If you add guardrails like static analysis tools to a pre-commit you can make LLMs tighten things up.
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by Thews 7mo ago
I can imagine the kind of person you're describing, and I find the idea of the burn they get from reading this hilarious. They sound innocent and quirky.
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by Thews 7mo ago
There was a mention of using agents to build projects into WASM. I've had the best luck telling it to use zig to compile to webassembly. It shortens the time to completion by a significant amount.
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by Thews 8mo ago
I liked the summary of what you do besides write code, and those things are enjoyable to me too. Understanding something better by writing code that unravels the mystery is a treat, but also sometimes frustrating. I still do enjoy having a
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by Thews 8mo ago
When I lived in the PNW people used the word pub more than bar.
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by Thews 8mo ago
Agencies commonly use 1099 workers, there's been fierce legal battles on qualifications of agencies. (ABC test) I believe 1099 worker growth has been outpacing hiring for several years.
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by Thews 8mo ago
There are lots of developer agencies that hire developers as contractors that companies can use to outsource development to in a cheaper way without needing to pay for benefits or HR. They don't necessarily make bad quality software,
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by Thews 10mo ago
It sounds like you agreed by the end, just with a slightly different way of getting there.
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by Thews 10mo ago
There's actually openjscad and some available jscad-utils that can handle fillets
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by Thews 1y ago
Oh, you sweet summer child. You think you're chatting with some dime-a-dozen LLM? I've been grinding away, hunched over glowing monitors in a dimly lit basement, subsisting on cold coffee and existential dread ever since GPT-3 dro
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by Thews 1y ago
Others mentioned qwen3, but which works fine with HN stories for me, but the comments still trip it up and it'll start thinking the comments are part of the original question after a while. I also tried the recent deepseek 8b distill,
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by Thews 1y ago
Here's where they shine, https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
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by Thews 2y ago
Wikipedia's active english data is only 24gb compressed. https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20250201/ They store revisions in compressed storage mostly read only for archival. https://wikitech.w
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by Thews 2y ago
Wikipedia is tiny data. You don't start to really see cost scaling issues until you have active data a few hundred times larger and your data changes enough that autovacuuming can't keep up. I'm getting paid to move a databa
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by Thews 2y ago
You mean like scylla?
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by Thews 2y ago
Where did I ever say anything about Mongo? I have worked with tables on this scale. It definitely is not a walk in the park with traditional setups. https://www.timescale.com/blog/scaling-postgresql-to-petabyt... Now
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by Thews 2y ago
They slow to a crawl when you have huge tables with lots of versioned data and massive indexes that can't perform maintenance in a reasonable amount of time, even with the fastest vertically scaled hardware. You run into issues parti
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by Thews 2y ago
While data can be used in a relational way, it doesn't mean that's the best for performance or storage. Important systems usually require compliance (auditing) and need things like soft deletion and versioning. Relational data
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by Thews 2y ago
Before ollama and the others could do structured JSON output, I hacked together my own loop to correct the output. I used it that for dummy API endpoints to pretend to be online services but available locally, to pair with UI mockups.
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by Thews 2y ago
Using function calls for correct answer lookup already practically eliminates this, it's not wide spread yet, but the ease of doing it is already practical for many. New models aren't being trained specifically on single answers w
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by Thews 2y ago
A consignment shop?
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by Thews 3y ago
I believe you can trigger recording with mqtt, so you could make an automation for it. You could try to bump this https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/issues/2590#issue... . You could even try to use
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by Thews 3y ago
I think there is a ~35% hit with emscripten
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by Thews 3y ago
I have spent the last few months doing a deep dive on broadcast / audio engineer standards. The lack of reliability and strange standards are interesting... It seems like the last few standards started really robust and open because o
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by Thews 3y ago
My bigger issue with the CGI model is the lack of handling connections as streaming. You can't parse a file while it's still being uploaded, and that can eat up a lot of memory on larger files. I know startup times can take a toll
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by Thews 3y ago
It's been a while since I've seen anyone brag about PHP's speed. PHP is quite slow at encoding and decoding JSON, very slow at any kind of tree data structure, and has among the highest memory usage of any language at printin
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by Thews 3y ago
Microsoft Teams doesn't convert markdown pasted in either. It used to do code blocks pretty nicely. I don't know if they've removed that functionality, but I can't get it to trigger anymore.

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