farfatched

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by farfatched 28d ago
I'm sure GitHub Actions are more intensive, but that doesn't make it harder to scale, which is what martinald said. > Scaling actions is VMs, networking, imbalances in load, memory, insuring that folks aren’t running VM trainin
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by farfatched 29d ago
I try this, but it has issues. * Sometimes I'm in flow state, and so breaking at 17:00 breaks that. * 17:00 is rush hour, so if so leave then, my commute goes from 60m to 90m. So I leave at 16:00, and catch up later. But now I'm c
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by farfatched 29d ago
Yeah, work is now my time for tranquility. My passion for tech remains, and now work is the time I spend on it, but not on my assigned priorities, sadly.
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by farfatched 29d ago
> "The only people who will remember you worked late are your kids." I really need to kick my engrossing tech hobbies. :( And yes to the wider point. There are many people more capable people than me, but sometimes it's ab
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by farfatched 29d ago
Free time will return! Not much, but some evenings will soon be available!
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by farfatched 29d ago
Do we really know?
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by farfatched 1mo ago
Do we understand the mechanism behind any hallucinations?
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by farfatched 1mo ago
Link? (To any of the above.)
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by farfatched 1mo ago
It's just a little fun.
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by farfatched 1mo ago
Safe needle practices have been known for decades, it's really not that hard. If I say I'm going to borrow a needle and just look at it, you should just trust me. If I use it, I make sure to sterilize it before returning it.
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by farfatched 1mo ago
Adjust the size as in making the GUI element larger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_%28software%29 has a picture of completing "Wikiped". Try it out: `apt install dasher`. https://packages.de
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by farfatched 1mo ago
He really was fantastic, and prolific in multiple fields. He wrote https://www.withouthotair.org/ (creative commons) and was the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. Dedicated to &quot
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by farfatched 1mo ago
I don't think this is a fair critique. The author of the post uses standard terminology like entropy coding and arithmetic coding, and cited a paper "in 2023, Google DeepMind released a paper arguing that language modeling and com
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by farfatched 1mo ago
This is the thesis behind the "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms" course that was taught at Cambridge University. > Why unify information theory and machine learning? Because they are two sides of the same
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by farfatched 1mo ago
What does "burn out" mean? Doesn't the CPU throttle if the phone gets too hot? Or maybe some parts like the eMMC aren't spec'd for things like constant logging?
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by farfatched 1mo ago
roberth resigned from the Nix maintainer team, not the Steering Committee. > So while I shouldn’t let myself be bullied away, I am stepping down from the Nix maintainer team. > I am not as of now stepping down from the SC, because tha
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by farfatched 1mo ago
This was such a sad period, and I'm still sad at how you were treated. I hope in cooler times that the lifetime ban is lifted.
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by farfatched 1mo ago
Nix is flexible enough to bend to your will. Perhaps it is no surprise the earlier adopters were people with rigid views.
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by farfatched 1mo ago
A team of two people decided to disband the team, but continue to make contributions.
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by farfatched 1mo ago
The moderation team quit because they could no longer act with impunity. This was the elected steering committee doing its job, and a sign of growing health.
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by farfatched 1mo ago
I've been a user for many years, and have 100+ PRs, but I'm not really a part of the community, so these posts are the only drama I see. The PRs keep rolling and things keep improving! If someone wants to be a part of the communit
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by farfatched 1mo ago
I would love GNU Hurd to succeed. That said, if there's a resurgence in microkernel, it will probably come from the Rust community.
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by farfatched 1mo ago
How novel is it really? You think what they're doing isn't covered in the intersection of OS books, OS papers, other OSs, osdev, random GitHub projects?
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by farfatched 1mo ago
Revealing your identity needs only to be done once, and then you can't undo. It's difficult for us to know what reason they might have for anonymity until we know their identity, at which point it's too late. Also, they'
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by farfatched 2mo ago
Yes, the data source is clearly useful, so not having it is a loss. But an edit is large enough a privilege to require all these checks. Perhaps it's not that OSM that needs a signal, but perhaps it's that there's an opportun
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by farfatched 2mo ago
Oh, not that seriously, but it makes me wonder!
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by farfatched 2mo ago
We've all what a terrible job LLMs do in some problems. But they are doing well at burning down Erdos's list of problems. Perhaps mathematicians aren't a good measure of "truly smart".
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by farfatched 2mo ago
I'm not a sophisticated LLM user, but nor do I have tricky usecases. Opus 4.5 with a plan mode is enough for me: it asks clarifying questions to map out the design space, it covers fiddly parts, it generates good unit/integration
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by farfatched 2mo ago
"Tailscale is a zero trust network!" That's the problem. Tailscale is not zero trust. Tailscale can be used to implement a zero trust architecture, with if deployed with sufficiently granular ACLs, but the most common deplo
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by farfatched 2mo ago
That's fair. In addition, I'd add the great compatibility guarantees, and a community that makes easy-to-learn libraries.

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