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by olowe 9d ago
Mistral now serves GLM-5.2: https://mistral.ai/news/regional-inference-open-models-new-c...
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by olowe 1mo ago
Not sure about use in the Go community at large but Go introduced os.UserConfigDir[1] which is portable across Windows, macOS, Plan 9 and Linux/BSD as per XDG back in 2019. Also CacheDir. [1]: https://pkg.go.dev/os#User
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by olowe 6mo ago
The great thing about Plan 9 is it can make other distributed systems look so complicated. The worst thing about Plan 9 is that it can make other distributed systems look so complicated!
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by olowe 7mo ago
Mistral used to serve a feed actually up until 6ish months ago I guess? Their admin console used to be built with HTMX too which I found kinda interesting. Now the news site and admin console is all in Next.js and slow and no feed.
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by olowe 8mo ago
Revitalising a 20+ year-old GTK mail client with Zig. Talons[1] is my stripped down fork of claws-mail[2] which itself is a fork of Sylpheed[3]. Moving from auto tools to Zig’s build system was a huge quality of life improvement. Most of th
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by olowe 8mo ago
> What sort of companies are those were receptionists have access to tools beyond their role? and why are people approaching the receptionists asking for data queries? It's a fair question. I questioned myself all the time doing the
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by olowe 8mo ago
That's pretty much how it happened. A neighbour bought a medical practice from two retiring doctors in their 80s. One had officially diagnosed vascular dementia but was still practicing. The place was losing money because they couldn&#
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by olowe 8mo ago
Haha thanks for saying that. It’s real! It’s relatively easy to get into the middle of nowhere in Australia after all ;) Actually still haven’t published my journal scribblings on my blog 10 years on..
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by olowe 8mo ago
I was lost, literally, hitchhiking across the Australian outback when this article was published. Going home felt scary because I was afraid to be alone with no one else sharing my interests. Travelling made life enjoyable again because jus
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by olowe 9mo ago
Work may enable altruism outside of your actual job. For example, I got fulfillment from sharing my journey publishing some open source software over the course of a few months. Having savings helped make that possible. SMART criteria[1] ca
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by olowe 9mo ago
Could you cast your mind 10 years back to 2015 and ask yourself the same question? Then fast-forward to today. What could you have done in 2015 that could have prepared you better for 2025? You may be able to do the same for 2005 and 2015.
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by olowe 9mo ago
Plan 9 is definitely not mainstream but readers of your comment's replies may find it interesting when looking into Unix/Linux cruft.
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by olowe 9mo ago
Plan 9 (a Bell Labs successor to Unix) did away with the whole bin, sbin, usr/sbin thing and its shell only looked in /bin. How things got into /bin is a different story. For me this was an eye-opener. I kept trying to wrap m
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by olowe 9mo ago
It's stuff like this that makes me want to scurry right back into the SRE/sysadmin space. Currently back in webdev after a few years out. I just feel like I'm being a pain in the arse to comment "could just write the HTM
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by olowe 9mo ago
AWS supports IPv6 on a number their services now: https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/ipv6/ For example there are options to use their hosted memcache/redis service IPv6-only: https://docs.aws.amazon.com&#x
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by olowe 9mo ago
From the author of Redis on MicroQuickJS[1]: > If this had been available in 2010, Redis scripting would have been JavaScript and not Lua. With that in mind we can do a quick search to see how Lua is used. I found an article on Wikipedia
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by olowe 9mo ago
> I’ve spent a decade doing frontend work. Think about it this way: you've spent a decade writing software. > Does it make sense to change direction at this point? Changing direction isn't a binary thing. You can aim, say, 4
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by olowe 9mo ago
Couple of anecdotes from the dev side. I worked on an IoT project at one of the big German car makers and it was a mess. More money than sense. They didn't really have any idea why they were putting software into stuff. Just some vague
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by olowe 9mo ago
> The old randomized ones were actually better. Exactly. We changed from some fancy one that my boss gave me to a cheap one that you operate with an old-school (can't believe I'm saying that) infrared remote. It doesn't &q
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by olowe 10mo ago
OpenBSD’s dhcpd(8) is apparently basic on the one from the ISC: https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpd Not sure this counts as a fork or when it was “reworked” by OpenBSD, though.
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by olowe 10mo ago
That’s a fair point re: apology. FWIW I take issue with the tone (petty name calling, elitism) of the comments. And I disagree with the assertion if I understand the original comments correctly (that there’s some kind of technical incompete
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by olowe 10mo ago
The specific change: https://github.com/ziglang/www.ziglang.org/commit/c8d046b288... I applaud the migration, and I sympathise with the difficulty of running open-source software projects. Hoping Andrew is ok
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by olowe 11mo ago
It’s more money and more user’s compute being thrown at the problem to get the streaming service’s CDN bill down.
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by olowe 1y ago
The godoc[0] tool provides minimal support for doing something with these comments via its “-notes” flag. It renders any TODOs (or BUG or whatever can be specified by regexp) in the code docs web page. I personally wouldn’t go beyond a sin
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by olowe 1y ago
> If Australia doesn't have the capabilities then why are the university campuses full of overseas students? Because it’s great business: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-27/australias-internatio...
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by olowe 1y ago
> I thought prevailing wisdom was that a used 3090 with it's larger vram was the best budget gpu choice? The trick is memory bandwidth - not just the amount of VRAM - is important for LLM inference. For example, the B50 specs list a
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by olowe 2y ago
Yes see what you mean now. Sorry - I was imprecise with my wording. As a fellow Australian I feel the pain too by the way :) > do absolutely nothing for three full seconds and make me refresh the page with the network tab open This is w
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by olowe 2y ago
Imagine the entire UI of an email client becoming inoperable, diplaying "loading..." and a spinner every time you send mail. We don't do it now nor did we do that when 300kbps connections were more common. Spinners are a crut
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by olowe 2y ago
Does this count? https://github.com/plan9foundation
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by olowe 2y ago
Sad. As a fan of Plan 9 myself it’s somewhat expected. The ideas are strong but there’s something about it all not quite catching on. I regularly referred others to Upspin’s source tree [1] if they wondered about larger systems written in G

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