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Amazing software, thanks!

Still on XMonad, what are some good alternatives?

Any significant differences in charging experience? Can you use Tesla Supercharging network?

Joscha Bach's talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-self-models-of-loving-grace

It would indeed be better to create appropriately sized storage. However, I don't think that underlying array is resized every time `add` is called. I'd expect that resize will hap…

I was in SF back in May, but didn't manage to get through the waitlist :( It was so cool to see them diving around. Interestingly, when I showed the clips to some of my senior fami…

A “productivity hack” for folks who can’t afford this and already own iPad+Pencil which they primarily use indoors: switch to grayscale mode, it is awesome :)

You can try it yourself on https://chat.lmsys.org (sus-column-r model)

> The output quality is not "ruined" at all. That was my experience as well - 3-bit version is pretty good. I also tried 2-bit version, which was disappointing. However, there is a…

Worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_camp > Operated by the governing Ustaše regime, Europe's only Nazi collaborationist regime that operated its ow…

I didn't try the other ones, but the one I mentioned is the most frictionless way to use several different LLMs I came across so far. I had very low expectations, but this package …

Also worth checking out for more general use of LLMs in emacs: https://github.com/karthink/gptel

I asked what happened last week in one specific region of Europe, and the answer contained a list of relevant events among which was the one I was looking for. Then I asked it to t…

I don't mind paying, but I want to have a Linux workstation. What would be x86 alternative in that price range (if any)? Xeons with HBM are more expensive IIRC

Could someone recommend a book (ideally including problems sets with solutions) to get basic understanding of queuing theory?

I keep notes, but my main problem is that I don’t read them often enough. Somehow I have tendency to keep moving ahead and I really need to have a good reason to go back and look s…

More fun challenges (unofficial Set 9) for those who completed all 8 sets: https://ilchen.github.io/cryptopals/newproblems.html

He explains it quite well: all necessary information is already in the pixel-space and adding more sensors slows team down more than it improves the system performance. My understa…

Can’t imagine the stress levels he had to endure at Tesla. Looking from the outside it seems totally worth it - he solved “the money problem” very young. Now he can do whatever the…

Intel was once known for its memory. Then it became known for its CPUs. I expect that they will pivot at least once more, this time to something which will supersede GPUs for ML wo…

> grug very like type systems make programming easier. for grug, type systems most value when grug hit dot on keyboard and list of things grug can do pop up magic. this 90% of valu…

I picked up Twitter in 2021 after a longer break. Today I prefer lists over following and have several prioritized lists per interest, e.g. P0, P1, ..., Pn for programmers. When I …

There are plenty of trading companies in NL: Flow, Optiver, IMC - check them out

Honest question: following this argument, is it to be expected that a sufficiently complex water pipeline can become conscious?