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by colinsane 9d ago
FYI, x86_64-linux and i686-linux nixpkgs bootstrap seed is not 25 bundled binaries, but 181 bytes, since https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479322 . at publication date this article would apply to non-x86
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by colinsane 17d ago
> I wonder if one solution here could be to turn up Anubis difficulty if the first page hit is not one of the obvious entry-points to cgit. Anubis has a fairly capable "policy" system. you can place something like this in your
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by colinsane 17d ago
the brutal truth is that if the website operator simply disabled Anubis, your page load would likely take more than 30s. when a system was designed for 100 req/s and bots hit it with 5000 req/s, nobody entering that queue is hav
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by colinsane 17d ago
> Is the CPU cost actually worse than mildly annoying everyone > What is the cost of 20% and is that cost worth “mildly annoying” everyone? from the articled: > With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only abo
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by colinsane 23d ago
the fastest, most compliant model remains the cheapest. you could discount Sol to the same price as Luna and i would still prefer Luna for 90%+ of tasks. once you hit this baseline capability, speed and predictability dominate for anything
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by colinsane 28d ago
i'm not sure how much people realize that the modern "graphics driver" is actually just "the kernel multiplexes userspace messages to/from the GPU and we've taught mesa to understand each family of GPU you&#x27
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by colinsane 28d ago
i've watched Seattle's lightrail add more announcements over the speakers at the station and the train cars starting with "assaulting a train operator is a federal crime", and then that same message translated into 5 oth
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by colinsane 29d ago
> I don't find it particularly logical; datacenters have existed forever and most money poured into computer programs are basically designed to mess up your life (deny you credit, deny you healthcare, rebook your flight to a terribl
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by colinsane 2mo ago
love this project. i used it on my pinephone daily for at least a year: it does _everything_ you'd want and does it fast. problem for me was that they vendor like 30 different dependencies in a totally bespoke way that's largely i
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by colinsane 2mo ago
we've barely scratched the surface when it comes to the available design space of agent harnesses. i also expect you'll see markedly different results if you constrain yourself to small models. there even trivial harness improveme
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by colinsane 2mo ago
hopefully all of the above? at some point the conversation has to go past this reflexive "USA uses tech abusively -> but look at how abusive China is with tech -> ..." back-and-forth to acknowledging that neither party is yo
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by colinsane 2mo ago
i'm mildly annoyed by the project in general because i put in a sizable effort getting the whole sway stack to cross compile correctly in nixpkgs/NixOS, keeping that stable for a year so that people could build on it, and then sud
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by colinsane 2mo ago
i hadn't considered that Seattle might be an outlier; the numbers vary by city more than i knew. https://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/documents/2... page 11 has the $ figures. "link
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by colinsane 2mo ago
the turnstile thing is more complex than you perceive because almost every transit system relies on public funding. here (Seattle) those fares only fund about 10% of the _operating cost_ of the transit per Sound Transit's own reports.
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by colinsane 2mo ago
i just prompted Kimi & it replied with an uncensored version. i posted the transcript as a reply to you, and HN automatically flagged it. but go on.
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by colinsane 2mo ago
> The bigger problem with the post is that it talks out of both ends of the mouth: it’s clearly meant as a personal attack, but also insists that it isn’t. my instinct is to step up and defend Andrew: to say that truly, he has strong opi
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by colinsane 2mo ago
the options available to small web hosts are: 1. do nothing: everyone gets page loads of 30s if not worse. 2. put the content behind anubis -> load drops by 80% and page loads are back to "a couple of seconds" (including the cl
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by colinsane 2mo ago
just their smallest dataset looks to be 6 TB _compressed_. not a thing you can really ship as part of the agent. but if somebody made a fetch_url tool that sharded that across all users of it, i'd give it a try. could probably just lay
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by colinsane 2mo ago
ironically (?) i prefer to improve Pi by connecting MCP servers instead of native extensions in part due to this (process-level sandboxing is trivial; anything more granular -- as would be required for in-process plugins -- is far more inti
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by colinsane 2mo ago
any tips for calibrating or even just validating these handheld CO2 meters? i've taken a few Amazon-listed CO2 meters from $dirt-cheap to $150, tossed them in a ziplock, and then discharged CO2 from a canister into the bag & sealed
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by colinsane 3mo ago
i installed the playwright MCP to let my agent access walled sites (specifically ebay and WSJ). i noticed that 90% of the time it was bounced from a site, it just reached out to a different site that wasn't walled, and i think it'
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by colinsane 3mo ago
that's somewhere between saying "use Android, just switch to Graphene if/when they lock it down", and saying "just switch to postmarketOS/Ubuntu Touch/whatever flavor of Linux takes off". i've wa
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by colinsane 3mo ago
AgentWorld is _fantastic_. i just migrated "down" from the 122B A10B qwen model to agentworld (35B A3B) because it feels as capable, easier to steer, and it's 3x faster. also i like that if i drop more sophisticated tools int
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by colinsane 3mo ago
i like that people are taking the privacy argument seriously, after however many decades. i think there are other arguments to be made for running these locally which are less settled, but IMO the Fable debacle drives it home: the surest wa
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by colinsane 3mo ago
the _one_ downside i've seen is on an airplane serviced by Starlink: UDP was extremely lossy to the point that whatever recursive resolver i was using at the time would mark half of all nameservers it saw as "unhealthy" and s
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by colinsane 3mo ago
Buy Bitcoin. look, i'm sorry, but this is a thoroughly solved problem by now.
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by colinsane 3mo ago
the companies which have the power to alleviate these shortages are the same companies who are profiting most from the shortage. scarcity is an asset, it's not irrational that a concentrated marked will produce more of that asset.
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by colinsane 3mo ago
can those macs boot linux? i've heard about Asahi but have no idea how far along they are. i've got my fleet configured with nix and sure, nix can target darwin, but there's a _lot_ of sharp edges there: i don't really w
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by colinsane 3mo ago
i asked gemini and it replied with "Error: 400 Your prompt was blocked by safety filters. Please revise and try again."
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by colinsane 3mo ago
curl used to have rust in it, dropped it 1.5 yrs ago. AI doesn't help with the hard parts here i don't think. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/21/dropping-hyper/

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