adamcharnock

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by adamcharnock 1mo ago
My latest trick (literally from yesterday) is to just ask it to write according to ISO 24495-1, the standard for plain language: > [This standard is] for anybody who creates or helps create documents. The widest use of plain language is
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by adamcharnock 1mo ago
It's somewhat old, but NASA has its SRTM height-map dataset. I wrote a project for reading this in Python many moons ago, in case it is of help to anyone: https://github.com/adamcharnock/python-srtm I originally u
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by adamcharnock 2mo ago
I've been a long-time fan of Mikrotik. I even ran an ISP on it a fair while ago. I have a couple of archived GitHub projects if they are useful to anyone: - Router OS Diff - Can diff two configs and give you the commands needed to brin
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by adamcharnock 3mo ago
Yeah, fair enough. And yes, adding a Redis cluster is fine, it is just another moving part to manage. But given that the alternative is made out of unobtainium, I guess that is just the way of it :-)
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by adamcharnock 3mo ago
> One, it would be cool to be able to embed it, similar to sqlite, directly into applications. I've found myself wanting this on several occasions too. I.e. wanting all my rust backend processes (k8s pods) to have some minimal share
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by adamcharnock 4mo ago
> which you can only obtain by having a strong CS base and coding manually for years. I hope this isn’t the case. It is the route I took, but it also doesn’t seem to be a likely route going forward. Strong CS grounding is feasible for su
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by adamcharnock 4mo ago
I’m not sure. We’ve always had to pick the level of abstraction we start teaching at. Voltages, transistors, registers, assembly, C, etc. This feels like it could just be a progression of that.
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by adamcharnock 4mo ago
I've been wondering if there would be a benefit to inverting how we teach subjects now. Previously we would teach from the bottom, and build up. Semi-colon goes here, curly brace goes there, and then build up to architecture, systems,
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by adamcharnock 4mo ago
I see a lot of conversation here about provider feature parity, but my hope is that sovereignty doesn't have to be strictly about the region or company you choose. For me, the strongest form of sovereignty can come at a lower level. Th
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by adamcharnock 4mo ago
FWIW - I also really like Wispr Flow, but I moved to running the 'Whisper Large' model locally using Handy ( https://github.com/cjpais/Handy ), which has been essentially as good, while also having lower latenc
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by adamcharnock 5mo ago
Honestly, I still had to practically stand on the clutch with mine! I'd teach someone to drive it and say, "now push down on the clutch". They they would heave and struggle, then eventually succeed and look victorious. I&#x27
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by adamcharnock 5mo ago
Yeah, I was introspecting as I wrote that!
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by adamcharnock 5mo ago
I do, but a friend is taking care of the farm now. I moved back to the big city lights (Munich, as fate would have it).
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by adamcharnock 5mo ago
Mine and a pedal and steering column lever, so I guess I got one of the fancy ones!
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by adamcharnock 5mo ago
Up until a year ago I was regularly using a Massy Fergusson 135 [0] (Perkins Diesel version), made sometime in the 1970s. It was wonderful! So amazing to drive and use. Clunky and heavy, but you really really felt like you were using a mach
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by adamcharnock 5mo ago
This is something we've[0] done a number of times for customers coming from various cloud providers. In our case we move customers onto a multi-server (sometimes multi-AZ) deployment in Hetzner, using Kubernetes to distribute workloads
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
FYI, PR created: https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner/pulls/1382
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
We have two entities. An EU one and a UK one. I'm based in Munich, servers are in Germany.
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
Ping me an email, adam@ domain. If you're interested I'll see about getting the PR created sooner rather than later.
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
We can run a Forgejo instance for you with Firecracker VM runners on bare metal. We can also support it and provide an SLA. We're running it internally and it is very solid. We're running the runners on bare metal, with a whole lo
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
We've migrated to Forgejo over the last couple of weeks. We position ourselves[0] as an alternative to the big cloud providers, so it seemed very silly that a critical piece of our own infrastructure could be taken out by a GitHub or A
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
Hello! I think this is a fair question, and improving the communication on the website is something that is steadily climbing up our priority list. We're not really that kind of product company; we're more of a services company. W
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
This is essentially how it is. Additionally, the reality is that our customers don't often even need to think about using root access, but they have it if they want it. They are putting a lot of trust in us, so we also put trust in the
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
FYI, AWS offers free Egress when leaving them (because they were forced to be EU regulation, but they chose to offer it globally): https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-i... But. Don't le
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
To put it plainly: We deploy a Kubernetes cluster on Hetzner dedicated servers and become your DevOps team (or a part thereof). It works because bare metal is about 10% the cost of cloud, and our value-add is in 1) creating a resilient plat
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
An interesting question, so time for some 100% speculation. It sounds like they probably have revenue in the €500mm range today. And given that the bare metal cost of AWS-equivalent bills tends to be a 90% reduction, we'll say a €10mm+
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
You sum it up very neatly. We've heard this from quite a few companies, and that's kind of why we started our ours. We figured, "Okay, if we can do this well, reliably, and de-risk it; then we can offer that as a service and
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
Indeed! We've yet to go down this route, but it's something we're thinking on. A friend and I have been talking about how to bring Nix-like constructs to Kubernetes as well, which has been interesting. ( https://git
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
Fair point! 5 - Datacenter (DC) - Like 4, except also take control of the space/power/HVAC/transit/security side of the equation. Makes sense either at scale, or if you have specific needs. Specific needs could be: speci
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by adamcharnock 7mo ago
This is an industry we're[0] in. Owning is at one end of the spectrum, with cloud at the other, and a broadly couple of options in-between: 1 - Cloud – This is minimising cap-ex, hiring, and risk, while largely maximising operational c

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