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Xeoncross

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About Xeoncross

Avid code mill

http://github.com/xeoncross http://davidpennington.me

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    Comment #49091253

    FYI, Thunderbolt 3 NVMe enclosures will be 10Gbps and 4 will be 40Gbps which is a big difference (and you'll notice it in the pricing as well)

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    Comment #49090378

    Are commercial/state hospitals really the only form of healthcare you're aware of?

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    Comment #49073557

    There is security that protects users and then there is security theater that provides litigation protection for the company. Sometimes overlapping, but they are not the same thing…

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    Comment #48953455

    I can't imagine why people are looking into alternative healthcare

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    Comment #48835650

    You know, all those people making new n64, playstation, and gameboy titles might be onto something. Apart from steam, I don't think I've heard anything but bad news from modern con…

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    Comment #48822149

    Project: https://github.com/chris-mosley/AmazonBrandFilter Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amazonbrandfi... TIL, thanks for your work!

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    Comment #48809147

    Moving away from the technical solution space - I'm curious, have their been any games (or communities) with a high entry fee/deposit (e.g. $500 USD) to join kept in escrow and los…

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    Comment #48806704

    Redis really is a great piece of software. Low memory, high-performance, feature-rich, and stable. Really hard to beat it for places where you want a durable cache even if technica…

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    Comment #48776587

    "password is to long, max length..." (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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    Comment #48775563

    1. Open a web browser and do a search 2. Read until you find a sentence that you like. 3. Use it as your password

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    Comment #48740487

    I'm really looking forward to the next generation of languages. Not only are the old 90's languages like Java, PHP, and JavaScript now actually doing things correctly. The new lang…

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    Comment #48725130

    What is the speed on responses? (t/s) The full 128GB is surely helpful in keeping browsers, editors and other things running since even 20-35GB models + k/v caches can eat up a lot…

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    Comment #48690777

    > The Corporations Won, because it turns out software engineers turned into IP maximalists Yeah, it's always bothered me that developers are eager to get legal to patent something …

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    Comment #48556932

    Considering the decade of poor results from doing anything other than music, weather and alarms I think we've all learned to avoid using them for anything else.

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    Comment #48511688

    Honestly, we're at a point where AI can write better software than some devs and answer medical questions with more knowledge than some doctors. Likewise, AI is oblivious to it's o…

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    Comment #48507532

    Even for work questions about sensitive IP/code Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is a great option on macOS (35t/s) when you don't want info leaving your laptop. I'm using it with oMLX.

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    Comment #48495394

    I would love to have a more detailed write up on development while mobile. Seems like an ideal way to pass the time vs doom scrolling when on the go. Just how many lunch lines does…

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    Comment #48418748

    I've never liked token buckets (vs sliding window counters) due to the extra work CPU cycles required to "fill" them. It seems like doing an atomic incr on a key based on a `time %…

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    Comment #48407238

    I would rather my kid was in a group of 10 students than 30. I remember very little time actually left for a teacher to help an individual child with all the kids to manage. Most p…

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    Comment #48404095

    Well said, this seems like a very appropriate comparison. GenAI thinks like the human mind in the same way that cars run like the human body. Similar utility in drastically differe…

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    Comment #48392602

    > or (more pointedly) that brain activity could not possibly implement cognition because it can be described as a collection of neural firings. This sounds like a dismissal of the …

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    Comment #48378542

    They are still there either way. They don't suddenly become smarter and/or hard working because we pretend. If anything, it simply increases the pool of people who realize you don'…