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by cafed00d 6mo ago
Open with multiple browsers (safari vs chrome) to get more "accurate + glanceable" rankings. Its using WebGPU as a proxy to estimate system resource. Chrome tends to leverage as much resources (Compute + Memory) as the OS makes av
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by cafed00d 10mo ago
Nice! I've been using deepwiki and loving it! Obviously goggle's gemini powered alternative would be much better and trustworthy. I just hope Google doesn't kill this one as quickly as they did Stadia etc.
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by cafed00d 1y ago
To me, AI hype seems to be the most tangible/real hype in a decade. Ever since mobile & cloud era at their peaks in 2012 or 2014, we’ve had Crypto, AR, VR, and now AI. I have some pocket change bitcoin, ethereum, played around for
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by cafed00d 1y ago
How do you think about core business logic (or at least, _significant_ business logic) being embedded within prompts like here: https://github.com/langmanus/langmanus/blob/main/src/prompts... Do you
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by cafed00d 2y ago
Absolutely! Even for inference! The SOTA models for all commercial purposes need to run on a consumer’s device. Running either Grok2 or DeepSeek or even Llama405b requires nearly 400-500gb of memory. Buying a tinybox with enough gpu memory
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by cafed00d 2y ago
It could be much worse: how many projects simply die because they’re locked away in a corporate basement because some corporate attorney decided it’s “too risky to leak IP” Despite all the layoffs & black founding fathers debacles Googl
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by cafed00d 2y ago
Google has become cool again!
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by cafed00d 2y ago
I so want Valve to make this
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by cafed00d 2y ago
I’m on an H1B visa since 2017. I extended in 2021 and again in 2023 (thanks to approved I-140). But my visa stamp in my passport is from 2017 which expired in 2020. I haven’t made efforts to get another stamp mainly because of the pandemic
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by cafed00d 2y ago
The 12 years or so I have lived in America I have observed that people always keep the door open for those walking behind them. Always. Everywhere. DC, Boston, LA, New York, Seattle, Cupertino, everywhere. Nobody cares about anything. Some
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by cafed00d 2y ago
> Or please tell me how to use the magic mouse while it's charging? Am I just holding it wrong? is that really a deal-breaking decision to buy an iMac? Yeah, sure, I agree it's super silly design that they put the port under th
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by cafed00d 2y ago
More than a majority of a software engineer’s time is spent on bug triage, reproducing bugs, simulating constituents in a test, and debugging fixes. Doesn’t matter what the computer becomes — AI, AGI or God-incarnate — there’s always a role
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by cafed00d 2y ago
I cannot agree more! Fish shell is the absolute best! I think I may have switched over to it in 2017 _because_ of Julia's blog. And it has been a boon for my productivity. I set up a whole dotfiles tracking system and periodically kee
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by cafed00d 2y ago
He could visit all the apps in the world from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube to Spotify on the web, right? Of course, he cannot use Friendster or Tumblr or Vine — all great iPad 4 era apps but can you really blame Apple for those apps _not_ e
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by cafed00d 2y ago
Reading the comments is convincing enough to believe there is no viable business to be built on the mobile web. It's great technology, sure; but not a great business. Mobile web apps won't pay the bills for people who build them.
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by cafed00d 2y ago
Why can’t a business be built solely without giving Apple a dime? The web is free — as in freedom and as in gratis. It has a developer tools system funded by hundreds of companies, developers and community members. There’s hardly any order
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by cafed00d 2y ago
I 100% agree. I'm no Musk stan; in fact, it irks me this dude has so much money & power that he wields for personal benefit (i.e. buys twitter and shuts down @elonjet) and yet acts like he's relatable to the middle class. But
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by cafed00d 2y ago
How does one decide what constitutes "basic"? Is a password-manager a "basic" feature? If so, then is "Passwords.app" bundled by Microsoft into Windows an unfair advantage because of distribution when compared
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Show HN: A Small BitNet GPT in MLX(github.com)
4 points by cafed00d 2y ago|0 comments
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by cafed00d 2y ago
There are only two acceptable solutions to this problem: 1. No error message. Just recover the cached message. 2. The message is deleted There’s a world we live in where ahem-ahem a certain design focused company would’ve done it this way.
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by cafed00d 2y ago
That’s a bit too cynical. I agree the nefarious data guzzler of an ad machine is siphoning up that voice data but hey if that’s all they wanted they had Google Fi/Voice etc. This definitely seems like a Google building products people
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by cafed00d 2y ago
Calculus has never gone out of style ;) Todays ML frameworks grapple with the problem of “jacobian-vector products” & “vector-jacobian product” as a consequence of understanding the interplay between gradients & derivative; and the
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by cafed00d 2y ago
I agree a hundred percent that domain knowledge is the single most dominant influence to problem solving expertise.
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by cafed00d 2y ago
You’re right it’s a total guess. It’s based on my experience in the field. My strong “opinion” here comes from an observation that while calculus may have been a required subject of study in awarding engineering degrees, the reality is, pe
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by cafed00d 2y ago
Yeah computer science went through this weird offshoot for 30-40 years where calculus was simply taught because of tradition. It was not really necessary through all of the app developers eras. In fact, it’s so much so the case that many so
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by cafed00d 2y ago
Calculus, because all of engineering depends critically on the modeling of real world phenomena using ordinary or partial differential equations. I don’t mean to disregard other branches of math — of course they’re useful — but calculus sta
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by cafed00d 2y ago
I always likened "engineers"[1] to "people who are proficient in calculus"; and "computers"[1] to "people who are proficient at calculations". There was brief sidestep from late 1980s to early 2010s (
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by cafed00d 2y ago
I like to think back to 2011 and paraphrase what people were saying: "Is anyone seriously using gpu hardware to write nl translation software at the moment?" "No, we should be use cheap commodity abundantly available cpus an
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by cafed00d 2y ago
The wall socket in your house is completely your property too. Yet, you don’t have a right to demand the socket company to put a semiconductor chip in it, along with the installation of an OS, along with an App Store and tools that allow yo
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by cafed00d 2y ago
Like I said: they’re not buying a simple rearrangement of atoms. Heck they’re free to dunk those atoms they paid for into baby oil. Nobody cares. Nobody is entitled to dictate what _software_ should be on the device. If end-users have the

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