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Working with a variety of AI models (Claude, Grok Build, various locally run models) and agents, I am scratching an itch. When people deploy python and perl code, they have to eith…

Look for llmfit on github. This will help with that analysis. I've found it reasonably accurate. If you have Ollama already installed, it can download the relevant models directly.…

Thoughts on disabling ad blockers, subscription requests for sites, and the economic model underlying much of the internet these days.

Teams regularly fails at video conferencing. It complains of low network bandwidth at random times, and I check my firewall (OpnSense with fq_codel enabled and reasonable bandwidth…

I noticed the comments pointing out that TDP is a marketing number, and max power draw for this part can be higher. The cooling seems to have been inadequate. A rule of thumb I use…

As will Python and many others.

I recall that while I was at SGI. Many of us within SGI were strongly against the move to sell this off to Sun. We blamed Bo Ewald for the disaster to SGI that this was, the lack o…

Same in Julia, but no need to "import math", its already built in :D joe@zap:~ $ julia _ _ _ _(_)_ | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org (_) | (_) (_) | _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type…

Not true by any stretch. I've used komodo[1] for more than 2 decades as a debugger in Linux, Mac, and Windows. More recently VSCode on all 3, for debugging. Definitely not a dead l…

I have perl code I wrote in 1992 that still works properly, without changes. The binary executables have changed ISA from MIPS 4 to x86_64, and are compiled fortran (gfortran). The…

At a previous job, I regularly worked with dfs of millions to hundreds of millions of rows, and many columns. It was not uncommon for the objects I was working with to use 100+ GB …

A friend sent me the image from page 9. The email signature. It is mine, from when I ran my company. Mid 2010s. I'm not much worried about this specific example of information exfi…

1: Yes. Has happened 3 times in my career, most recently this past May. 2: Minimally. I was asked for the reason for my departure, and I was transparent as I could be, indicating w…

This is my current pain with Julia. It makes deploying code require the entire environment, or a PackageCompiler built sys-image. I've played with static compiler, and other techni…

FWIW, I've used MaraDNS for a while, about 10 years. It works nicely for my small domains. It is missing some things that require I do some workarounds, but for the most part, it d…

> the "winning" strategy is to have high-level scripting languages where you can ignore most of the details, which call into hyper-optimized, high performance libraries. For instan…

So I pulled up my jpg of the Sombrero galaxy to see (its been my laptop background for a few years). I could barely make out Iris in it. Absolutely awesome though! Something about …

Ugh ... that's depressing.

I just went through this process. Got autorejected after the personality/IQ test thing. My essay was 13 pages. As for notable things I've done, I worked on an experiment in undergr…

Catastrophic loss of precision is, as the name implies, catastrophic in terms of the calculation context. For scientific/engineering codes, and things requiring a preservation of r…

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA About: PhD theoretical and computational physicist writing code, working on modeling systems, teasing actionable data out of massive (TB->PB) dat…

I don't support this at all. This is printing as a service, with interesting consequences once you cancel the service even with remaining assets available to you. To get you to thi…

Back in my more perl-ish days, I recall pythonistas doing this. Sad to see little has changed.