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At another layer : Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40766791 (June 23, 2024)

This blog post was really helpful to understand the ecosystem: https://alpopkes.com/posts/python/packaging_tools/ It mentions uv at the end and rye at first (which use uv internall…

I remember the kettle took forever at ~ 9000 ft (near Huanglong, Sichuan Province).

You might not have a fork if you dine with philosophers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem )

Disclaimer: this is an *hypothesis* I made, all this might be wrong: * A social graph is built from various sources * If I'm connected to Bob, I will see content related to his int…

similar post 4 months ago: Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move (servethehome.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734706

Same experience here. It used to give me spot-on recommendations based on my watch history-often out of nowhere, but still accurate. That was one of the reasons I subscribed to You…

This partly explains why the recommendations I receive don't feel like mine. Multiple times, it's been obvious that the suggestions were pulled from other profiles and I could even…

I used to love YouTube's algorithm: suggestions outside of my subscriptions but exactly on the spot. I used to took time to curate. However since few months, all recommendations be…

I discovered that my institution blocks all traffic to Russia (v8.js-dos.com is hosted in Russia).

Global configuration for an instance: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/f1a148f53e9fbd10e95b... https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/970

A few years ago, I remember someone conducted a study on the quality of SearX(NG) results using different Internet providers: mobile, fiber, and VPN. I'm not sure if this person is…

Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers. The intent of SearXNG is to be stateless (with no sessions on the server) and to work without JavaScript. However, this approach limits cer…

Podcast is one of two the reasons I've unsubscribed Spotify (as you describe, the UX is terrible). The other one, I was not able to "teach" the algorithm what I like even after 3 m…

I've turned off web/app activities and don't use Google web search (directly). However, I keep YouTube and maps tracking (from time to time). YouTube because this is one of the alg…

Previous post from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895833 (there are other posts with one or very few comments)

This might be relevant here: there is a Rust implementation of this algorithm by BurntSushi [1], and discussion [2] about the performances and Hyperscan [3] in the case of Suricata…

I was avoiding EMM386 as much as I could on my slow 386SX25: there was a huge performance hit. There was the Unreal Mode aka Flat mode. With few lines of assembly code, an memory a…

Post from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25217291 Post from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32134038

Seafile (a file sync storage) is inspired by git to store the files (internally there are repositories, branches and commits). However the file are not stored directly: > A file is…

For now the suggested communication protocol is: * os.pipe and serialization (pickle or whatever): https://peps.python.org/pep-0554/#synchronize-using-an-os-pi... * immortal object…

This job offer suggests a lot: https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1627555/Pri... Found on Slashdot: https://m.slashdot.org/story/419681