lee_ars

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by lee_ars 5d ago
My dude, you only need to put the registered trademark symbol after the first occurrence of the mark. You® don't® need® to® put® it® after® every® mention® of® Click®House®™™®™®™®™®™.
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by lee_ars 8d ago
What in the blue fuck is going on with that awful, awful fade-in blur effect on the text? That's one of the worst things I think I've ever seen.
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by lee_ars 17d ago
Lawmakers—contemporary and otherwise—have in fact decided many many times that the state can deprive you of your life as punishment for certain crimes.
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by lee_ars 23d ago
> Your right to push back on that... Human test passed. AIs make giant flashy mistakes. They don't fuck up basic grammar.
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by lee_ars 25d ago
> Then why isn't it done more often? Because it tends to require a lot of thought and effort along totally separate engineering pathways than most of the actual functional coding. Good UI design is not easy, and the skills to do it
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by lee_ars 26d ago
I don't like assisting reddit's monetization/AI training machine by tying my browsing activity directly to an account identity. I would prefer to browse anonymously and make them work at least a little bit harder to compile m
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by lee_ars 1mo ago
> I think you might want to download new anti-Texas talking points. No need—the current ones are uploaded directly into my mailbox regularly by Randy Weber, my district rep.
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by lee_ars 1mo ago
Texas specifically has heavily politicized and demonized wind power, in spite of having massive successes with it prior to 2016 and being a leading producer of it. Solar isn't as bad, but is still seen as "leftist." The polit
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by lee_ars 1mo ago
Sounds like a poster child for LXC containerization with Proxmox — all the host-level management of a non-ephemeral VM (including snapshots!), without the every-machine-has-its-own-kernel overhead.
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by lee_ars 1mo ago
> You document what needs to be reverse proxied and give examples for caddy and nginx, repeatedly cursing at nginx for not having an if that’s useful. Somebody hasn't read the docs and doesn't understand how nginx's "
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by lee_ars 1mo ago
You'd think, but nope, it def doesn't — the site's TLS cert is issued by Google Trust Services, which issues domain-validated certs via ACME, so no, the only thing the site owner had to do to get that certificate is demonstra
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by lee_ars 2mo ago
Definitely heard re: the python code, yeah—it seems fine to my limited ability to review, and the functionality is there, and at least organizationally the structure makes sense to me, but I can't speak to its sophistication or whether
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by lee_ars 2mo ago
> I get that this is someone writing for money and I have no experience in that realm, and I'm sure conde nast prefers faster writing for something less in depth... FWIW, Conde has no input on my work. Conde is the machine that prov
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by lee_ars 2mo ago
Nice!! Excellent job. I like the idea of using one of the side dots to show NTP sync status, too.
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by lee_ars 2mo ago
Asked and answered in the article comments, but briefly, I don't keep my phone in the bedroom at night, so no.
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by lee_ars 2mo ago
> Then I think this is a trap to get some kind of proprietary app onto your phone. This was my thinking as well, and why I rejected the idea. I'm not installing some rando company's information-harvesting data-selling garbage a
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by lee_ars 2mo ago
Did you peek at the project's repo? The Ars piece is more of a narrative write-up; the repo has the step-by-step runbooks that I tried to ensure were beginner-friendly.
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by lee_ars 2mo ago
Look at it this way: LLMs are trained, among other things, on quality professional prose. I've been writing for Ars for almost 14 years at this point. I don't sound like LLMs. LLMs sound like _me,_ lol.
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by lee_ars 2mo ago
nope. i was using em-dashes and semicolons before they were cool.
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by lee_ars 2mo ago
To be fair, I did the research, the BOM, the systemd service and timers, the packaging, most of the installer, and the deployment pipeline myself. It's just the python and the Fusion modeling I needed LLM help with. Coding beyond bash
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by lee_ars 2mo ago
True terminal art connoisseurs are still using their registered copies of TheDraw from 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
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I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated(arstechnica.com)
181 points by lee_ars 2mo ago|173 comments
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by lee_ars 2mo ago
OP, why mess with acme.sh's cron schedule with your own cron job that calls its cron job? You might instead consider running acme.sh again with the "--install-cert" flag, coupled with its "--reloadcmd" flag, in orde
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by lee_ars 3mo ago
The tweet you link shows "Qwen 3.6 35b NVFP4 - 256k ctx, 110 tok/s", but I'm getting only half that, around 50 tok/sec, on a DGX Spark with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 (via vLLM) plus speculative decode w/EAGLE3. I&#
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by lee_ars 3mo ago
I'm currently fiddling with a DGX Spark and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (specifically Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 under vLLM, with EAGLE3 speculative decoding via eagle3-dogacel-vllm), and it's pretty okay in terms of smarts. The speed is relativel
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by lee_ars 3mo ago
> ...the game is utterly fucked with insane bugs atm As someone who's been playing since alpha 1.2.0 starting back in october 2010, there has never been a moment in minecraft's entire history where the game hasn't been utt
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by lee_ars 3mo ago
It works well so far, but what's up with the weird non-standard menubar menu? It's very odd, and it doesn't respect system light/dark mode preferences.
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by lee_ars 3mo ago
I haven't paired it with Ghidra MCP; because the games are relatively tiny (I'm starting with one of my personal favorites, Karl Buiter's Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic, which is like <700KB all in), I made a first baseli
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by lee_ars 3mo ago
I'm currently working through research and testing for an article on Ars about the Spark and what things one might do with it, and I've kind of stumbled into a two-LLM agentic setup with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (via nvidia/Qwen3.6-35
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by lee_ars 3mo ago
I'm running Deepseek v4 Flash locally on a dgx spark via Antirez's Dwarfstar ( https://github.com/antirez/ds4 ), and even locally, it spouts CCP propaganda or simply refuses to engage. The CCP leanings are bake

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