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First and foremost, China isn't energy-limited like the US is. A modern grid, lost of cheap power coming online every day. The worlds most advance ultra-high voltage transport link…

> All media other than paper and stone will become extinct Somewhat tangential... I once worked for the national archives. Unlike libraries, the archives typically have the only co…

We got it. I can't say it has helped much, though. Fable is still completely useless for securing code. Opus does an OK job, though.

The Chinese lifted themselves put of poverty. The state just stopped keeping them down. The people deserve the credit. Not the state.

The question wasn't if Zuck has been successful, it was if Meta has succeeded at anything new. When was the last time Meta made something original, brought to market and had succes…

They can’t follow instructions at all. They are a year behind Claude.

fwiw; I had unexplained anxiety, fatigue, poor sleep and cognitive decline as a post-COVID induced histamine intolerance with a few bonus attributes. High amounts of histamine woul…

I worked on an OSS project and we had a volunteer working from Tobago. His computer wasn't working properly so we sent him a new one. It got smashed by customs. Literally.

For me, the appeal of local compute is first and foremost confidentiality and having the possibility to run my 200K documents through an LLM just to see what happen without having …

This post conflates scalability and performance. PostgreSQL is fast on smallish systems, but try adding more CPU cores and you'll see performance gains will not be linear at all. M…

fwiw, I've had good luck scaling git, specially doing clones, in the HTTP layer, using Varnish. this was CI bringing Github Enterprise to it's knees.

We had a SCSI zip-drive at our uni and it was a brilliant way to drag megabytes of content home. Even though I had amazing internet (2Mbit shared by 100+ ppl), the zip drive would …

You have to deal with a lot more stuff. You have to order/pay for a server (capex), mount it somewhere, wire up lights-out-mgmt and recovery and do a few more tasks that the provid…

MoE is excellent for the unified memory inference hardware like DGX Sparc, Apple Studio, etc. Large memory size means you can have quite a few B's and the smaller experts keeps tho…

https://github.com/varnish/varnish/issues/33 It should be fixed fairly quick.

We've been pushing 1.5Tbps with TLS in lab settings. I've yet to see any other HTTP product being able to saturate these kind of networking. There is lots to be said about threadin…

we're not at all a huge company. we're 80 people with a lot on our plates trying to juggle this on top of everything else. but I truly appreciate the feedback. I'll reach our to th…

I feel like this is captures the point very well. Google removing this software, means that for 99% of the users on the platform, the choice to play this gets taken away from user.…

Varnish Software released hitch to facilitate TLS for varnish-cache. Now that Varnish has been renamed, Varnish Software will keep what has been referred to as a downstream version…

fwiw; Varnish Software still maintains and supports hitch, but we can't say we see a bright future for it. Both the ergonomics and the performance of not being integrated into Varn…

in my experience this has a lot more moving parts than it should.

wow. there are actually no tests here.

I think it is interesting that these pieces of software are now being inspired by Midnight Commander and are being built by people who never worked with or experiences the original…

the whole point of varnish software keeping a public version of "vinyl cache" as "varnish cache" with TLS is to give people a way to access a FOSS version with native TLS. I think …

The problem is that the the LLM can't distinguish between data and instruction so there is just so much the harness can do.