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by mijkal 6mo ago
Good question. Mycellm is the protocol layer: identity, routing, credits, reputation. Similar to how BitTorrent verifies pieces match their hash but doesn't judge whether the content is any good (that's left to trackers, communiti
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by mijkal 6mo ago
This is exactly what I've been building — mycellm.ai. Seed GPU when idle, earn credits, spend on inference. BitTorrent economics for LLM compute. It's live now (my homelab serves the public chat). Would love to have you involved —
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Show HN: Mycellm – BitTorrent for LLMs, pool GPUs into federated networks(mycellm.ai)
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by mijkal 1y ago
This article is a good primer on how AV1 works (and compares with VP8 and VP9): https://www.red5.net/blog/av1-vs-vp9-vs-vp8-comparison-for-l...
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by mijkal 1y ago
When using Promise.all(), it won't fail entirely if individual promises have their own .catch() handlers.
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by mijkal 2y ago
In my xp, React Native was far more fragile a few years ago, but it has improved immensely since then. I quite enjoy working with it these days.
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by mijkal 2y ago
> Hetzner isn't an American company so why should they accept American drivers licenses? When in Rome ...
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by mijkal 2y ago
I've found React Native, especially in recent times, to provide a very good mobile dev environment. I wrote an app and had it running in both iOS and Android in no time (with minimal iOS dev and zero Android xp prior to that). My app i
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by mijkal 2y ago
> Amazon says it has acted properly in response to FTC demands to ensure the preservation of relevant evidence. The company says it gave executives “explicit instructions on how to disable Signal’s DM [disappearing messages] feature.” A
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by mijkal 2y ago
Banks have either a federal or state charter. This bank has a state charter. https://www.dobs.pa.gov/Documents/DoBS%20Forms/Bank%20Forms/...
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by mijkal 3y ago
Washington state makes it so easy. My ballot is mailed to me weeks before the election date. I have plenty of time to research and fill it out. I then drop it off at one of the many official dropboxes around the city (or you can drop it in
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by mijkal 3y ago
> Then they got lazy and just numbered the months. * Chinese et al have entered the chat This pattern is fairly common around the world. It's amusing to me that in the Western world, the original Latin designations are off by two as
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by mijkal 3y ago
Fyi China calls itself 'Zhongguo' — literally 'Middle Kingdom' (Country)
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by mijkal 3y ago
Check out DietPi — Debian-based OS with optimized software packages for devices such as Raspberry Pi. And super easy upgrade options. https://dietpi.com
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by mijkal 4y ago
The US plunged into the worst recession since The Great Depression of the 1930s when Lehman Brothers bank collapsed, which quickly cascaded around the world. 2008 is aka 'The Great Recession'; it likely would have been much worse
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by mijkal 4y ago
Twitter definitely punched above its weight as the go-to forum for companies, politicians, celebrities, media, etc.
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by mijkal 4y ago
For the record, United Airlines leaked that. (Though Apple could have similar provisions with other airlines — we just don't know.) https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/11/apple-spends-150m...
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by mijkal 4y ago
Once upon a time, Apple shipped a few models with both Motorola PPC + Intel x86 CPUs. Eg: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_quadra/specs/mac_quad...
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by mijkal 4y ago
As a Bernie-style 'leftist', I can't say a response to this abortion assertion any better than Pete Buttigieg did on Fox news (<2 min clip), and I bet the vast majority of _all_ Americans would agree with this take: https
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by mijkal 4y ago
As I've matured, I've found the words of Stephen Colbert ring truer and truer: 'Reality has a well-known liberal bias'. I'm a millennial. I've moved from libertarian in college to 'far left' in the Am
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by mijkal 4y ago
It's especially bad when put into context that America is the richest country by far on the planet, yet wealth distribution is extremely out of whack and we allow such conditions to even exist in this country. People struggle and many
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by mijkal 4y ago
The USA — with the 'most rights of any people in the world' — incarcerates the most people, by far, in some of the most inhumane conditions (slavery is explicitly legal in such contexts) among the developed nations. We're &#x
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by mijkal 4y ago
I use Finicky to seamlessly route links to the right place (browsers and apps, such as Zoom so you don't have to bounce in a browser then the app). You can use the args param in the browser callback to get incognito mode for your match
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by mijkal 4y ago
Innocent, accused, or even found guilty — the conditions in American jails and prisons are barbaric and anathema to the proclaimed values we claim to hold. Our media and politicians are quick to portray deplorable conditions in Russia et al
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by mijkal 4y ago
I'm American. And I agree with everything you've said.
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by mijkal 4y ago
Here's an example of what one could do building off a platform like Column: I previously worked at Center ( https://getcenter.com ), which after a few pivots, landed on offering expense management and analytics software to bu
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by mijkal 5y ago
We can go back much further in time and find the same lamentations: 'The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now t
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by mijkal 5y ago
No doubt, Apple is more opinionated when it comes to UI/UX than others — for better or worse. It's a trade-off. Fwiw, Apple does provide more control over the display tucked away under Settings/System Preferences => Access
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by mijkal 5y ago
'Defund the police' means we reallocate the every-increasing funding for armed agents who want for nothing (not unlike the US military — look at the municipal budget allocations for police vs schools etc) and invest those funds in
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by mijkal 5y ago
Reminds me of Hawaiian Pidgin :-) 'If can can. If no can no can'

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