schaefer

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by schaefer 3d ago
> Some rich person could just setup a contest with awards and see who shows up, it could be held out on one of those dry lakebeds in Nevada. As a resident of Nevada - HELL NO. That's BLM land. Not an amateure weapons test site. If
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by schaefer 9d ago
I already own one - I've been reading with crosspoint.
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by schaefer 9d ago
I hadn't heard about microslate. Thank you.
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by schaefer 11d ago
Yes, I meant slow down. With effort, the effect can persist. But you have to be willing to make changes.
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by schaefer 11d ago
Go on a ten day meditation retreat. Time will hit the breaks, hard.
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by schaefer 13d ago
Right? Between $18k-40k to run a benchmark.
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by schaefer 13d ago
Somewhere around 2004 I had an experience at the black hole that still amuses me. I was digging through the store when I found a full pallet of computer punch cards. As a computer science undergrad, I thought, “ how cool, I want a bunch to
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by schaefer 14d ago
That’s awesome. I’ve seen the book around, but didn’t know the connection to the works of Borges.
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by schaefer 14d ago
can you point to a write up that discusses what you're talking about? because I would read it.
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by schaefer 14d ago
> attempt at ... irony For the record, I did laugh, I just didn't type it out. > how do you feel about paying 5% on every token's cost to stripe? Life is compromise. In a perfect world, I'd love to buy a linux native s
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by schaefer 14d ago
what I have is a DGX Spark to play and learn on, and an OpenRouter account for actual work. I mostly rent my tokens.
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by schaefer 14d ago
> We currently have 14x nodes of CG480-S6053 ready to ship. Oh, okay, so this is an ad. I do still think it's well written and interesting... But if anything, it's just making me more curious about the newest generation of M5
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by schaefer 16d ago
I love this book so much (Labyrinths, by Borges). I once calculated the number of books in The Library of Bable, and had to try a number of numerical libraries to do so. one after another they kept puking on the large integers. I also thin
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by schaefer 17d ago
As someone that went to community college... I'm pretty sure that the kids getting admitted to Berkeley actually are the best and the brightest. we should absolutely be welcoming them. what are we even doing here?
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by schaefer 19d ago
I don’t think he was asking you to twist the knife.
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by schaefer 25d ago
> honest question, how is [reading a book] better than posting toc on chatgpt and asking it to explain it to you Since you're currently asking humans to explain this to you and not LLMs, you've already got your answer.
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by schaefer 26d ago
Interesting! I ordered a copy of your book about Datalevin. I'll give it a try - even though I don't know Clojure. Congratulations on release 1.0.0, and thank you for your contributions to open source.
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by schaefer 27d ago
Plus those shorts are out of order. So it’s gotta take more effort to piece the plot back together, right? :)
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by schaefer 29d ago
I'm curious if you've personally used datalog in any projects. I've written some prolog, but haven't ever worked with datalog. Minigraph looks promising for some introductory goofing around.
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by schaefer 29d ago
> …can't help but notice how sql is coming from the c-Era of programming. Having … more modern ways to express my queries would be great to improve correctness … SQL is based in pure mathematics: set theory, relational algebra. The
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by schaefer 1mo ago
I feel the same, which is why I only use these tools in a docker container. Because life is compromise.
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by schaefer 1mo ago
> reminds me of... As long as we are already on a tangent about rods, cones, and visual perception: one of my favorite fact is that the occasional genetic mutation that creates color blindness in men sometimes leaves a woman with "t
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by schaefer 1mo ago
> If it's context dependent is it really introspection? When people get lost in a great movie or a great video game, we call it immersion. We say it’s the mark of a great work of art. When people get lost in the perfect challenge,
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by schaefer 1mo ago
I'm going to pretend you're talking about The Doors of Perception. Even though you are obviously talking about Brave New World.
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by schaefer 1mo ago
Kagi search today is better than Google search ever was. And it’s clear that Google’s Ad model ultimately created a priority inversion. The advertisers became the customer. I am so glad Kagi came along with a business model that is actuall
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by schaefer 1mo ago
That’s amazing, nice work Dad. Do you also play the approach music when her power output reaches 1.21 Gigawatts?
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by schaefer 1mo ago
Suspiciously close to the birth of the modern internet?
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by schaefer 1mo ago
What? If copy and paste is disabled in my default browser that would be something like 80% of my total of my total use cases for the clipboard in the first place.
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by schaefer 2mo ago
This is just an elaborate mailing list sign up page. the splash page at https://peppy.bot says chat to get started. no matter what you type you get a popup that says Coming Soon - sign up to our e-mail list.
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by schaefer 2mo ago
My wireless router runs OpenWRT, one day after a particularly embarrassing YouTube binge, I turned on the adblock plugin on my router and configured it to block YouTube as an ad. It’s turned out to be the best thing I’ve done for myself in

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