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The solution for this is to pay open source maintainers for their attention. If I want them to review and merge my bugfix I should attach $1000 to the PR.

Not an option for me until it supports submodules.

I typically work with commit chains of at least 5 commits in various states of code review, so I spend at least 60% of my development time editing an old commit in the middle of a …

This machine needs better networking options to be useful, such as built-in 100Gbit QSFP28. There is not enough space between the x4 PCIe slot and the power supply for a NIC to fit…

It's pretty clear to me that coding agents are a significant cause of the current glut of comp-sci graduates unable to find their first job...

I think there's room for win-win solutions here; the cost of placating the locals is a rounding error compared to the cost of these data centers. 1. Local governments can require t…

I like Rust and use it full-time professionally. Unsafe is not the same as unsound. Unsound means that the unsafe code is not maintaining the aliasing invariants on references requ…

I don't think this does enough to address to supply-chain security concerns. Before I use a crate, I want some assurance that the transitive deps have had a proper security audit, …

I stopped using Facebook back in 2021 when the majority of my feed was reshared political content with 20+ comments from my friends fighting about divisive social/political issues.…

Is the RTL for the FPGA available to be tinkered with?

> Every corporate network to which I've connected worked just fine without it. Just because it appears to be working fine doesn't mean you are in control of it. Without hardware at…

If regular people can repurpose old hardware, so can shared providers, who can extract more value from the hardware and thus afford to pay more. In a constrained market, supply and…

My point is that dram demand is mostly orthogonal to whether everyone is using open weight models or secret weight models. Heavy demand for local models (whether secret or open wei…

If local models are good enough, doesn't that increase demand for DRAM as everyone buys DRAM for their poorly utilized local machines? Surely it is a more efficient use of DRAM to …

I wonder how good LLM agents are at reverse engineering FPGA bitstreams... I want a robust open-source ecosystem where anyone can take my hardware projects and modify them without …

There isn't enough hardware in the world for everyone to run their own SoTA model. The only hope we have is if we work together to host these on shared infrastructure, benefiting f…

That DRAM would get even more use if it was removed from these machines and placed into a shared pool :) I joke, but thanks to the brutal DRAM market there has been some movement i…

My point is that it is WAY more efficient if we put the world's DRAM supply into a shared inference pool instead of stranding it in local machines where it won't have as high of ba…

I think folks in this thread are underestimating how expensive it is to serve a SoTA model at 100 tokens a second. In addition to the $500k in capital costs, you also have signific…

Many small crates published by large, trustworthy projects are fine and preferable to one large crate that "does everything".

Good luck finding reasonably priced switches and low power PD ICs that support type 3 or type 4 PoE. Also, supporting those tiny pulses requires large capacitors to hold a charge i…

PoE is lousy for sensors. The switch will cut the power if you draw less than 10mA (480 mW), so regardless of PHY efficiency (which is terrible compared to most RS-485, CAN, or eve…

Even more interesting, the developer manual: https://discreetfx.com/documents/NewTekVideoToasterDeveloper... I remember using this thing when I was a kid, trying to figure out how …

I had the misfortune of writing a complicated WPF app from scratch circa 2010-2011. Performance using the WPF widgets was terrible compared to HTML/Javascript/Blink; we ended throw…

Most software uses 10x more memory than is necessary to solve the problem. In an ideal world, developers would stop building bloatware if their customers can't afford the DRAM.