mattdw

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by mattdw 25d ago
My M4 Pro 48GB gets about 13tok/s, in both 3.6 and 3.8 27b Qwens. Qwen A3B and Gemma get closer to 100tok/s from memory but the results are pretty poor for coding tasks. Edited to add: for agentic workflow I’m running omlx which t
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by mattdw 3mo ago
Podman can run compose - either its own, or docker-compose if you tell Podman to listen on the docker socket. I use Podman on both macos and Windows, with compose files, so I'm a bit perplexed by this whole comment.
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by mattdw 1y ago
This is really great - great style, charming little world. Love it!
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by mattdw 2y ago
New Zealander here, really thrilled to see our national medical testing service (primarily blood tests) in here. I've sent a note to them to make sure they're aware of this. Also I feel like I took the wrong path, trying to be a s
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by mattdw 2y ago
For events that have happened, absolutely. Events in the future are often slightly more ambiguous though! I do agree that "with attached Timezone" or "as UTC" are absolutely the sensible defaults, I'm just suggestin
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by mattdw 2y ago
For sure, but for future events to be correct I still have to store that as (plain datetime, pacific/auckland), not translated to utc at the point of creation/saving. If I store only a UTC datetime I have unrecoverable lost import
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by mattdw 2y ago
Calendar events often want to be interpreted according to whatever the local timezone currently is. For instance "10am every second Sunday" shouldn't adjust to 9am during Daylight-Savings time. And my 7am alarm clock should d
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by mattdw 2y ago
When it’s a library of code, the language it is written in is pretty pertinent information as that’s the language it has to be consumed from…
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by mattdw 2y ago
I found the Scanner API (1) to be pretty handy for the more complex parsing in past years. It’s Foundation so hopefully also on Linux/Windows, but if not there’s also one on GitHub called SwiftScanner. 1: https://developer.a
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by mattdw 2y ago
I'm a some-time Django developer and... I caught the bug instantly. Once I saw it was model/ORM code it was the first thing I looked for. I say that not to brag because (a) default args is a known python footgun area already and (
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by mattdw 3y ago
Natron is essentially a clone of Nuke, the ~standard compositing software for the VFX industry. It's impressive that it exists and competes with some very expensive alternatives. Its maths and colour science is good and it seems to ope
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by mattdw 3y ago
I've only played with Nim a little, but I found it really compelling and honestly quite fun to write. It's quite elegant and economical and the performance is impressive for the lack of ceremony. However, the language itself still
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by mattdw 3y ago
`ptr`, `addr` and `cast` are the only ways to introduce unsafety, as I understand it. You have to run three greps, but you can definitely grep.
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by mattdw 5y ago
NZ isn't currently issuing visas outside of a few categories of "special worker in shortage". (In order to citizens and residents a better chance at getting a quarantine spot.) So this introduces a new special exception for t
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by mattdw 7y ago
He's pretty clear in the article that it's the "title-description-body" model that doesn't work -- tweets don't generally benefit from a title or a summary.
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by mattdw 7y ago
In the VFX industry you don't roundtrip lossy codecs; first step is to decode to something lossless like EXR or TIFF, and those are what you pipe through your workflows. (With maybe lowres JPEG "proxies" to make iteration a b
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by mattdw 8y ago
It's essentially the same process to begin with (I think), but every time the ray hits something you fire off secondary rays probabilistically from the hit point to see what that point is receiving light from, and so on ad infinitum. U
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by mattdw 9y ago
BS corporate red tape is a reality, though. So why not offer workarounds that help them give you money?
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by mattdw 9y ago
Let's maybe also consider the role of e.g. US interference and sanctions in your two examples, before we decide capitalism good, socialism bad.
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by mattdw 9y ago
The point is that you're not expecting people to ever pay it, because you've set it high enough to be a solid disincentive. If people are actually paying it regularly, you obviously haven't set it high enough. This is also co
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by mattdw 10y ago
A New Zealand bank has made this one: https://cleverkash.asb.co.nz Obvious there's a certain advantage to already being a bank for projects like this.
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by mattdw 10y ago
Really? connection.exec_, .map, .build – there's a lot more non-SQL going on in the second example than the first. The first may be syntactically far from SQL, but the use of familiar vocabulary makes it pretty understandable from a SQ
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by mattdw 10y ago
There are tools to go between the two (from http://cubic-bezier.com/ to Flash's HTML5 export), but I don't think there's any general solution to go from a UI like that, to code. What if one of your points is
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by mattdw 10y ago
Surely the right to the drug was only worth $11B in the first place because of $84k possibilities at the other end? If it was only ever going to be $1500, that $11B would have been adjusted accordingly.
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by mattdw 10y ago
I would have expected the vast majority of the killing was of animals e.g. hunting. You don't seem to have left any room for that possibility.
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by mattdw 11y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines states (roughly) that "headlines in the form of a question can usually be answered with 'no'". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by mattdw 11y ago
And that's the problem with systemised bad incentives.
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by mattdw 11y ago
Because poor people are not stupid. They're often actually pretty damn rational within their constraints. Smarts alone does not equip one to handle a windfall.
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by mattdw 11y ago
Swift seems to distinguish 'mutating' from 'changing'. The name 'array' in your example remains pointing to the same object, it's just that that object is being internally mutated. Not sure that there&#x27
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by mattdw 11y ago
But with a completely different set of sensory input, and under a whole different set of constraints.

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