ilidur

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by ilidur 22d ago
Sounds like an ad. No, any cross os operations need to happen via NTFS and using files on the mounted drives is horrible
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by ilidur 1mo ago
What a great essay. Extremely long and it did lose my attention a bit but it conveys something important. The impact is not measured in leaps and bounds but in what you lose along the way. Working on the code for me meant I had an intuition
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by ilidur 2mo ago
Settings -> time management -> short feed limits -> 0 minutes
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by ilidur 4mo ago
Deep Computing have started taking orders for the final product and the Preorders are shipping within the next 6 weeks. They will be shipping from China I expect, but it's a proper shop front. https://store.deepcomputing.io&
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by ilidur 9mo ago
And then all the heuristics you've learnt change under you and you're stuck doing 100-1000 more hours of learning with a drop in quality during that time.
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by ilidur 11mo ago
KiCad sounds to me like a great target for a project based Nix Shell install. Always have the right version for it "locked". It works well with most tools except those that save stuff in the .config folder as it messes up isolatio
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by ilidur 11mo ago
The pin mapping barrier was quite off-putting to me. However I've been tracking progress in the Zephyr RTOS project and the whole line is getting better support by the day
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by ilidur 1y ago
We've deployed mattermost at my company because it meets most requirements that slack did minus the SSO. Surprisingly used by some big government agencies (NASA/USAF)
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by ilidur 2y ago
I would say that's called an anecdote.
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by ilidur 2y ago
Review: An anonymous "distinguished CEO and engineer" suggests if you can't complete a feature in a day, delete your progress (except for tests) and start again the next day. The author then recounts advice he gives to junior
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by ilidur 2y ago
Review: Chonkie is an MIT license project to help with chunking your sentences. It boasts fixed length, word length, sentence and semantic methods. The instructions for installing and usage are simple. The Benchmark numbers are massaged to
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by ilidur 2y ago
Review: Mike Jones is one of the 3 members of the OIDC working group. He celebrates the publication of the spec as a publicly accessible standard (PAS) and has worked to include the erratas so that it is a complete document. Congratulations
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by ilidur 2y ago
Review: The author uses this article to say why they're not writing as much as they want. They break it down into two reasons: self judgement of quality, and the quality bar set by articles and projects in their sphere of reading. It
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by ilidur 2y ago
Review: The article tries to define the staff+ role through the lens of 4 skills: technical, people, project, and product. The article then says that a Staff+ does all of them, both at architecture level and helping build up juniors in the
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by ilidur 2y ago
Review: the article finds multiple instances of users saying that when sharing from the Google discover in built web frame prepends a link shortener type website allowing Google to intermediate the link. The article speculates that it can b
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by ilidur 2y ago
Review: the document starts strong with a methodology and numbers. It covers 3 approaches: Copilot code assistance, Llama3 fine-tuning on their codebase, and RAG on documentation. The first one is the only one supported by numbers, with 27%
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by ilidur 2y ago
Review: The article follows a Library's choice to leave X and move to Mastodon as the former changed hands and engagement methods. The engagements moved from local to global which aligned with their open publication ethos. The conversa
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by ilidur 2y ago
Review: the article covers a small but important project to the x86 emulation under RISC-V by implementing partial support for the vector instructions (Both on RVV 1.0 and 0.7.1 platforms). It also looks at some other micro optimisations.
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by ilidur 2y ago
Review: The article covers 5 models used in a RAG setup and evaluates their performance according to tutorials given by the respective platforms. The results are overall close but larger models show small improvements. It then evaluates the