dirkg

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by dirkg 4mo ago
The RTX/DGX Spark, Mac Ultras with 128GB unified ram are all ~$5k. Its still an expensive toy for rich people, it might as well be an H100 for 99.9% of the population (not devs with high paying jobs, of course). the value of local mode
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by dirkg 4mo ago
> For 16GB laptops, Qwen 3.5 9B is the undisputed champ. you can run qwen 3.6 35BA3B on a 12-16GB vram gpu and ot works pretty well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F_5pdcD3HY&t=1s even the 27B in some quants can fi
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by dirkg 4mo ago
I have no idea why people dont use GCP more. Its made by and for devs unlike the hideous complexity and stupid UI in every layer of AWS. AWS has much bigger mindshare, thats it. Google has a well deserved reputation killing products, but th
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by dirkg 1y ago
Meta illegally scraped 80TB of data from Anna's archive, Libgen, Zlib etc. I'm sure other tech giants did too. Without paying them a cent, costing these projects $$$ in bandwidth/hosting etc. when I hear people complain about
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by dirkg 1y ago
I've always liked powerlevel10k, or its equivalent tide for fish shell, which I much prefer over bash/zsh. Its fast, async, has everything you need, and is much easier to configure. I've always wondered why someone doesn&#x27
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by dirkg 1y ago
even incognito?
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by dirkg 1y ago
Most websites send massive amounts of telemetry data which is never mentioned but somehow MS doing this for Windows/Edge etc, which they fully disclose, always is. e.g. Netflix/YouTube
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by dirkg 3y ago
Vim style keybindings and navigation is massively overhyped as is vim itself. Cue endless debates about how Vim is the best ever ...... I'm sick and tired of everyone telling me that their neovim setup with a tiling window manager with
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by dirkg 4y ago
the only part I question is the 'regardless of family wealth'. This is purely 1st world and even here for the middle class and above only. Sure, poor countries are improving, but there's no guarantee, not with increasing weal
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by dirkg 4y ago
If this is public I can only imagine what Google has internally. Does DeepMind compete in this space or is it fundamentally different than a llm like Bard? With their massive codebase and already deep investment in AI/ML, I'm pret
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by dirkg 4y ago
Nodejs solved all this years ago, now we have super fast shared package managers like pnpm, yarn etc, not to mention deno etc, why can't other languages adopt the same system?
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by dirkg 4y ago
Hyperion is literature and art, besides having just as many mind blowing scifi ideas. Its easily my favorite.
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by dirkg 4y ago
the final book has the most infuriating, idiotic and worst character I've read in scifi. She repeatedly makes the worst possible choice, literally is responsible first for humanity being enslaved and then being wiped out, before making
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by dirkg 4y ago
There will never be a MacBook of Linux or Windows unless the OS is optimized as much as MacOS is to the underlying hardware. Windows is optimized to a high degree and still cannot match the standby/resume times or battery life of MacOS
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by dirkg 4y ago
Whatever happened to the WARN lawsuits against Musk? How is he allowed to layoff 40-50% of staff with zero notice?
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by dirkg 4y ago
because JQ is already loaded, and it IS minimal. You could do querySelector(...).addEventListener etc but why would you?
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by dirkg 4y ago
Would be real funny, and fitting, if he demands Twitter switch all servers over to Windows.
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by dirkg 4y ago
there is no far left in the US. The 'left' here would be center/right in most other countries. The right/conservatives are the true evil who are responsible for basically every bad thing here and the real problem is that
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by dirkg 4y ago
also at every level, where you are expected to file forms or deal with any officials, you will be asked to pay some bribe, and there will be 'agents' who offer to do it for you using whatever illegal means they can, for a 'fe
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by dirkg 4y ago
Musk/Tesla have been selling alpha quality at best and vaporware in reality FSD for a long time. Its never ever going to work as claimed. Its crap software that endangers other people on the road and routinely kills people and all they
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by dirkg 4y ago
sometimes I think MSFT should buy Everything and replace Windows search with it. There are some plugins that use it for other file managers. But then again, they will almost certainly screw it up, given that Windows Search still can't
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by dirkg 4y ago
Musk doesnt deserve credit for the success of Tesla, if you mean actually providing any leadership or technical skills. I do not work there so obviously I dont know internal details but everything we know points to him not making any contri
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by dirkg 4y ago
How much work needs to be done to make other frameworks/components/toolsets/React libs ect compatible with Qwik? What is the extra work involved in converting a medium size project written using e.g. NextJs to Qwik? vs starti
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by dirkg 4y ago
Musk is a sociopathic pathological liar who's also conservative, the first thing he's likely to do is unban Trump, Along with all the other far right nutcases. Not because he necessarily likes Trump but because its the most contro
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by dirkg 4y ago
Theres no way any police reform will hapen as long as we have unions and qualified immunity
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by dirkg 4y ago
Why is a 5yr old article being posted now? If this were to catch on, it would've. I just dont see it being used anywhere. Having a full Linux kernel available is a major benefit that you lose, right?
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by dirkg 4y ago
I hadn't even heard of Zig till the recent news everywhere on dev blogs about bun.sh, and AFAIK it remains the biggest production project using it. I'm sure there are plenty of other languages such as Nim etc that never get simila
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by dirkg 4y ago
Natural numbers start at 0, so it makes sense. 1 is just as arbitrary as 2 or 79823 etc. Math wouldn't work without 0. Thats good enough for me.
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by dirkg 4y ago
Jared has done phenomenal work and I really like his ethos of optimizing everything, but I remain skeptical about bun's stated goal of replacing node. Its clear now that their end goal is to make money off their hosted service, which w
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by dirkg 4y ago
I had no idea about this and the implications are truly terrifying and amazing. Its not just wifi at home the entire world is now a big mesh network. So theoretically it means literally everything everywhere which has wifi coverage can now

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