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schaefer

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About schaefer

Hi friends,

I enjoy Rock Climbing, Go, Software Engineering, and Buddhism.

dilapidated homepage: https://slow.camp

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49220562

    That’s amazing, nice work Dad. Do you also play the approach music when her power output reaches 1.21 Gigawatts?

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    Comment #49198251

    Suspiciously close to the birth of the modern internet?

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    Comment #49172284

    What? If copy and paste is disabled in my default browser that would be something like 80% of my total of my total use cases for the clipboard in the first place.

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    Comment #49090974

    This is just an elaborate mailing list sign up page. the splash page at https://peppy.bot says chat to get started. no matter what you type you get a popup that says Coming Soon - …

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    Comment #49034961

    My wireless router runs OpenWRT, one day after a particularly embarrassing YouTube binge, I turned on the adblock plugin on my router and configured it to block YouTube as an ad. I…

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    Comment #49028643

    If only they wouldn't be evil... ugh.

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    Comment #48987716

    absolutely beautiful. I'd love to learn this process and attempt to capture a local rock climbing route. anything you write about the process, or how you learned are very welcome.

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    Comment #48967901

    I flip flop between qwen 3.6 27b and qwen 3.6 35b 4b active. But there’s also the quantization of DeepSeek v4 flash called dwarfstar

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    Comment #48960694

    From TFA: > In this last Bikeshed in acmqueue, I will ponder the far future of free and open source software (FOSS), hoping to upset so many readers that... > During the past coupl…

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    Comment #48909253

    > Or were you asking if it leaks memory? yeah, If variable c where of type void* instead of duck , the assignment on line 13 would leak the memory used by the vector .

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    Comment #48907944

    Well, you’ve certainly convinced me to read your library. Thanks for the blog post.

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    Comment #48907597

    in the first example: ``` 10: rjk::duck c{std::vector {1, 2, 3}}; 11: c.size(); // 3 12: 13: c = std::string{"hello"}; ``` Does the assignment on line 13 call the destrucor for the…

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    Comment #48892275

    > Python ... didn’t move the needle until the mid 2010s. Nope. I was on a Python project in 2006 and earned a paycheck doing so.

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    Comment #48883624

    > So an effective way is to replace the time you spend in front of a screen... I removed Instagram, YouTube... Really great advice. Last week I configured my wifi router at home to…

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    Comment #48877489

    I think it's the 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard [1] with the "M edition" keycaps. [1]: https://www.8bitdo.com/retro-mechanical-keyboard-m/

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    Comment #48838987

    It's still spooky to see exponential scales on the money axis. I do not have exponential funds in my allowance...

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    Comment #48652700

    > The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs... safety stilts.

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    Comment #48588069

    It's 170 lines. that's not "massive".

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    Comment #48582708

    Pricing for on-premise deployment is “talk to us”. No thank you.

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    Comment #48469455

    > ...you bet your ass... Humorously, whether I choose to participate in this hypothetical or not, I am already betting my ass. This whole situation feels like the game [1]. [1]: ht…

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    Comment #48465500

    > I don't think anyone has a firm grasp on actual inference costs. There are huge numbers of users (myself included) that do have an exact idea of what inference costs are - on ope…

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    Comment #48386451

    If this is how they treat their employees, I hate to think how they treat their customers.

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    Comment #48334773

    >(re)built are not what I'd describe as "terrific". It sounds like you are a strong candidate to try out the new improvements mentioned in this devlog and see what benefits you can…

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    Comment #48334083

    > having moved from Linux ... to freeBSD default install makes my laptop last about twice or thrice as long. I’ve literally never heard this from anyone before, and I have to admit…

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    Comment #48322897

    Thank you!