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jkachmar
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About jkachmar
Interested in writing safer code with modern tools; particularly interested in C++, Rust, Nix, and Haskell.
Formerly Groq, Hasura, Soostone, Symbiont, WeWork, and NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
[Verifying my cryptographic key: openpgp4fpr:0107655cc20afd1a8f3f9872c1782440640bc696]
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Comment #48737571
it was not (solely) about slaves; this was debated in Congress during the process of drafting the amendment and resoundingly put down by contemporary legislators. from Justice Jack…
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Comment #47993413
not speaking in any official capacity, but: we great internal training material courtesy of some very thoughtful folks, and ultimately one hopes that most of the code is going to b…
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Comment #44018794
> And the rest of automakers offerings aren’t half as good. This was true maybe even as recently as 5 years ago, but it certainly isn’t true now. Tesla, at the top end, hasn’t been…
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Comment #43693574
do not listen to someone like DHH, who loves to speak at length on topics that he is deeply unfamiliar with. > Mortality in children, adolescents, and adults with attention deficit…
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Comment #42392268
have you experienced particularly slow pushes with large repositories at all, and if so were you able to resolve them? I did some profiling & it looks like the issue lies with `lib…
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Comment #41723735
reposting my comment from another time this discussion came up: "Cosmopolitan has basically always felt like the interesting sort of technical loophole that makes for a fun blog po…
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Comment #39969441
i don’t support hardware development directly, but i’m a software infrastructure engineer working adjacent to the teams that do so. can’t comment on specifics, but imo our hardware…
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Comment #39433667
i can't comment about sora specifically, however the architecture can support workloads beyond just LLM inference. our demo booth at trade shows usually has StyleCLIP up at one poi…
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Comment #39329854
i live in NYC and have traveled to plenty of other international cities. none of the things that you're saying are true compared to my experiences (or those of my friends) in any w…
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Comment #38741078
right now we’re providing this access to public, anonymous users via this demo chat interface as an alpha test. we’ll be publishing information about API access, and pricing, short…
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Comment #38740122
this is running on custom hardware, if you’re curious about the underlying architecture check the publication below. https://groq.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GroqISCAPaper202...…
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Comment #38691515
unless i'm misunderstanding `whisper.cpp` seems to support streaming & the repository includes a native example[0] and a WASM example[1] with a demo site[2]. [0]: https://github.co…
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Comment #38483742
> i, personally, would not accept money from the company actively militarizing the southern US border but that's just me food for thought, and that was even before they were advert…
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Comment #37420489
extremely disappointing that y’all needed the venue to impose this decision. as said by a friend this morning: > i, personally, would not accept money from the company actively mil…
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Comment #36908665
fwiw in my experience it's entirely possible to avoid this if you don't submit an application "cold" (i.e. through the careers page), but through a recruiter or referral _IF_ you h…
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Comment #36578350
sure but some people also find life more enjoyable with the addition of recreational substances. for such folks, especially ones who don't have much exposure to recreational drug u…
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Comment #36395927
not sure how approachable it might be, but i like to think the documentation isn't too bad for my personal stuff. definitely nothing so well thought out as a tutorial, but i try to…
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Comment #34588495
didn’t realize this had happened until i logged off of my work computer & saw someone had shared this thread in a group chat. looks like we were completely unaffected, as no one ma…
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Comment #34498166
> [...] part of the tradeoff in working for someone else [...] is accepting that you work by their rules. i think a healthy working relationship involves employer & employee collab…
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Comment #34498063
this is a bizarre straw man to stand up in response to GP, especially given the context of the post we're discussing. in my experience, the framing and rhetorical style that you're…
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Comment #33470521
i used to work on rockets and now i work in software, so i think i'm pretty qualified to say that you have no idea what you're talking about.
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Comment #25239687
Small point to make regarding your quote, since I see it come up very frequently in these sorts of conversations. > It is a quotation that defends the authority of a legislature to…
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Comment #24807647
Depending on how complex or time consuming some of these intermediate stages can be, it can be helpful to explicitly cache from them during the build process [0]. If you opt-in to …
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Comment #24771199
Lots of people like to believe this but it really, really isn’t true. Los Angeles and New York City have a substantially larger cultural footprint than other cities. Even though th…