catdog

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by catdog 9d ago
Is there money in frontier?
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by catdog 26d ago
The problem is that the UI speed largely was not kept at that level but considerably slowed down again despite exponentially growing compute power.
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by catdog 1mo ago
Taxis in general are a working and proven business model. You could have been skeptical about the way they approached it but surprise surprise, you can make money providing taxi services. Less so with "AI", it's not proven at
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by catdog 2mo ago
> It's doable but has limited benefits when they're limited to 2-4 GB of RAM anyway. Back in the day there was no real benefit. Today it's different as most Linux distros don't really care much about supporting 32 bit
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by catdog 2mo ago
I owned a Samsung NC10 which had a non-shitty keyboard as its outstanding feature. Was a nice little Linux machine I used a lot. Only bad thing, those Intel Atom N2xx CPUs are just awfully slow, even back then. Today realistically I don&#x2
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by catdog 2mo ago
Sadly even back in the day mostly some very early models shipped with Linux as Microsoft promptly made sure they don't.
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by catdog 2mo ago
Except for the price. Apart from portability and battery life a huge factor was them being (very) low cost.
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by catdog 2mo ago
> Netbooks didn’t need Microsoft’s help in dying. Nobody bought more than one of them, the experience was that bad. If I remember correctly Microsoft put a limit on the HW specs for getting those cheap Windows copies while simultaneously
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by catdog 2mo ago
> Proxmox is merely Debian with some fancy curtains. It's part of the appeal that it is mostly just Debian under the hood. If I want to run containers I would also not see it as the best choice but it really shines in managing qemu
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by catdog 2mo ago
Also your script often might not be that battle tested, more likely it will have bugs and miss a few important edge cases.
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by catdog 2mo ago
> there's a special place in hell for helm in particular for using text/template to generate yaml Indeed. Using text templating for structured documents is already quite bad, doing it with a significant whitespace language it&#
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by catdog 2mo ago
It's the industry standard for running and shipping containerized applications, at least for the ones which are more complex and/or dynamic than an application container and maybe 1-2 databases. It provides a well defined and stab
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by catdog 2mo ago
On low power, mostly idle systems that's definitely a downside. K8s is always busy, probably largely because it's whole architecture is centered around reconciliation loops which contentiously compare the actual state to the desir
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by catdog 2mo ago
That's really a huge issue right now (to some extent even before the AI hype) that almost everywhere google is effectively the only entity explicitly allowed to scrape.
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by catdog 2mo ago
Maybe they have just too much money at hand, would not surprise me, people are still investing into gen AI like there is no tomorrow. Also, for the completely criminal operations, you only have to find a way to infect and distribute your bo
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by catdog 2mo ago
Same here, the usefulness of the slop machines is quite limited compared to the downsides.
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by catdog 2mo ago
Yep quite useless. It's well known that postgres defaults are tuned for low resource usage, not for max performance. There are calculators like https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/ to get a better than default config with nex
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by catdog 3mo ago
Switched to that one some time ago, more features and adapts faster to changes in newer proxmox versions https://github.com/bpg/terraform-provider-proxmox
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by catdog 4mo ago
I think it will in general go more into the direction of using the technology a bit smarter. This will include smaller models but certainly also just less usage overall. Currently a lot of people seem to just burn through tokens without thi
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by catdog 4mo ago
> This is just how the VC game works. Cross-town Uber rides don't stay $5 forever. Basically yes but there is a small difference I think. Things like Uber took an existing and proven business model. slapped an App on top and priced
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by catdog 5mo ago
Really need to try PyInfra, the concept sounds nice. You don't have to do crazy things with Ansible for that yaml DSL becoming the opposite of helpful. Things which would be quite straightforward to express in code become quite cumbers
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by catdog 5mo ago
I think in general not being able to replace the battery toolless is quite an acceptable compromise nowadays. The needed mechanism and the protective shell the replaceable battery needs definitely takes up space which can be used for more c
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by catdog 5mo ago
Also availability of original spare parts is important. Aftermarket batteries often tend to be shitty.
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by catdog 5mo ago
Nonsense. It just mandates easier repairability and spare parts availability, not ad-hoc replacement. Also this does not apply if the battery is able to retain 80% of its original capacity after 1,000 charge cycles so "innovative"
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by catdog 6mo ago
You can even use the chip on the card together with some cheap HW device to authorize the transactions made with the app. This actually exists [1] for quite some time but seems to be mostly limited to Germany. But this and the use of other
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by catdog 7mo ago
> But the job had better take fewer people, or the automation is not justified. Not necessarily. Automation may also just result in higher quality output because it eliminates mistakes (less the case with "AI" automation though
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by catdog 8mo ago
“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” ― John Maynard Keynes
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by catdog 8mo ago
The thing is, there is next to no software that "doesn't need further changes" at all. There is always something, sure it might be infrequent and/or most of the time nothing really big or difficult (except sometimes) but
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by catdog 8mo ago
It's an application issue but implementation wise it's probably way more straightforward to just open a separate network connection per thread.
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by catdog 8mo ago
An LLM is an impressive, yet still imperfect and unpredictable translation machine. The code it outputs can only be as good as your prompt is precise, minus the often blatant mistakes it makes.

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