skrellm

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Show HN: Simpleboot and Easyboot(gitlab.com)
4 points by skrellm 3d ago|0 comments
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by skrellm 4d ago
No, you forgot about the dependencies (others said it to be 700Mb). And 2,900 LOC is still way too much for handling a remote API call, especially in a high level language such as Python where the biggest part of the task is delegated to se
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by skrellm 4d ago
ROTFL, I had to laugh so hard! "Without the Bloat" vs. "litellm routes LLM calls across providers and translates between message formats. That core is buried under 100k+ LOC" Seriously anybody considering 100k+ LOC not a
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by skrellm 4d ago
Yeah, UNICODE messed this up, really badly. Sometimes there's an offset (like with Latin, +/- 32), sometimes lowercase and uppercase is interleaved (eg. Latin extended), and sometimes they are in totally different blocks simply be
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by skrellm 5d ago
I've also implemented a SIMD accelerated, but case in-sensitive (*) search algorithm as an stb-style single header library, also based on Wojciech Muła's work. https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/fast_memcasemem See th
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by skrellm 6d ago
> Just wait until they manage to apply it to physical goods like cars and dishwashers. This already happened... It's called subscription or mortgage loan. Most households don't have that kind of money at once, they are already
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by skrellm 6d ago
Yeah, okay, I made the same mistake as Sony. I wrote "buy", but what I meant was "spending money" in a general sense (regardless if it's buying ownership or paying a license fee). Second hand customers simply can&#x
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by skrellm 6d ago
> Especially getting rid of physical second hand sells/buys will force consumer to buy the games straight from Sony That's what lawyers and other corporate drones think, but they are plain wrong. The only reason why people want
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by skrellm 7d ago
Yeah, but the link talks about `ZwMapViewOfSection`. From that page: > For calls from kernel-mode drivers, the NtXxx and ZwXxx versions of a Windows Native System Services routine can behave differently in the way that they handle and in
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by skrellm 7d ago
> I really, really disagree with that statement. But you're wrong, although not for the reasons you think (suggested by your examples). > I don’t think ai models come close to nuclear weapons Unless AI models are controlling the
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by skrellm 11d ago
> If companies are willing to pay top dollar for the best models But they are not willing to pay. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566137 The referenced NYT article says Open Source LLM's market share increase
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by skrellm 12d ago
This is great! It can finally substitute the entire upper management! Their job is easier to automate than an engineer's or any creative's, and considering their salary it's a lot more gain for any company!
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by skrellm 12d ago
> So you've verified this? Yes, verified. I would not have said it otherwise. https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/terms-of-service/ > 14.5. Class Action Waiver. > YOU AND THE SONY ENTITY WIT
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by skrellm 13d ago
> Class action civil case should still be doable? Nope, because there's a stance in EULA's footnote (with extremely small letters) that you give up your rights to class action civil case.
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by skrellm 21d ago
> the actual main problem are those people who underestimate the capabilities of AI Nope. The actual main problem are those people who totally ignore the real costs of AI. Remind me, when was the last time when billions and trillions of
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by skrellm 21d ago
And who is going to pay the bills for that? No AI companies were able to make profit so far, and unemployed masses surely won't buy expensive ChatGPT subscriptions. Will AI labs make profit from AI using companies? Hardly, unemployed m
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by skrellm 22d ago
> but it on the official MSDN site, and it does document a call in Ntdll.dll. Does it? What's FILE_BASIC_INFORMATION? Link gives me 404. How do you replace kernel32 API with this? > It’s easy to find many more examples such as h
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by skrellm 22d ago
> I'm not sure its really correct to call UEFI programs bare metal. I think you can. UEFI is a firmware which comes with the hardware, stored on the motherboard. It's there and automatically runs when you turn on your machine.
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by skrellm 22d ago
> no, you can also call ntdll (or even syscalls although those aren't stable), there's plenty of documentation on the internet I mean officially. Yes, you can find some on the internet, but nothing on the official MSDN. > bu
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by skrellm 22d ago
Visual programming is not for everyone. I have two kids, one loves Scratch, the other despises it. Fun fact, Scratch wasn't the first iteration of visual programming, and one could argue that Lego NXT was even more successful. https:&
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by skrellm 22d ago
> That said, these rely on USER.32.DLL and KERNEL32.DLL to do the majority of the heavy lifting. Since the low-level Windows kernel API is undocumented and non-public, using these system DLLs is your only option on Windows. It's jus
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by skrellm 22d ago
> it would make a great replacement for GRUB or rEFIt. Try https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/easyboot
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by skrellm 22d ago
> Not sure why the Windows version would be much bigger than the bare metal one. That's probably because there's a bug in the linker, which puts uninitialized variables in the data segment instead of bss. This means unlike the
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by skrellm 22d ago
I agree, it's a shame it's not FOSS. Besides UEFI, it has a Windows GDI port, but if it were FOSS one could add SDL backend for example and then one could compile it for Linux and Webassembly as well.
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by skrellm 22d ago
> If you have a PC mainboard whose UEFI supports NTFS, does that filesystem work too? Yes. The UEFI Simple Filesystem Protocol is transparent to the UEFI app. The protocol gives you open/read/write/close calls, without nee
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by skrellm 28d ago
I understand this very well. I've also created a tool (a virtual fantasy console in my case) to teach my kids programming, called MEG4. Then I've created an engine in it to create very similar text-based adventure games like this
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by skrellm 1mo ago
I've created a similar tool, for compressing and converting, but it can handle not just images but animations as well. https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/paltool/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4908847
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by skrellm 1mo ago
> If you meet with a technical friend to drink a beer, and s/he ask what your project can do, which are the 10 coolest examples that you can show? Nothing. This is for those who already understand the benefit of shrinking images and
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by skrellm 2mo ago
> My suggestion is to write a blog post Thank you for your kind advice. But the thing is, I'm not a blogger guy, I've never ever written any blog in my life. If you take a look at my repos, you'll see my focus is on writin
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by skrellm 2mo ago
> Now they produce electricity at a price that's often above market price Do you have any source? I'm not french and all I can hear from the news is that France's nuclear electricity is cheap, for example: https:/&#x

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