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unstuck3958

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About unstuck3958

me at fahads dot net Feel free to start a conversation.

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    ditto. I have talked about it before with someone who shared the opinion that falling birth rates is the end of the world, but to single that out is creepy indeed. I do understand …

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    Comment #44679458

    Anecdotal: definitely a long way to go for systems programming, non-trivial firmware, and critical systems in general. And I say this as a huge fan of LLMs in general. I work as a …

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    Comment #44569933

    how much of the world would you guess be willing to pay for, say, instagram?

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    Comment #44043613

    wouldn't writing a parser of sorts that would replace emojis with a valid alphabetical string identifier be trivial?

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    Comment #43913262

    I live in Kashmir. Can verify the two have been shot down at least.

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    Comment #42945722

    I read your guide to C programming as a teen, and as a firmware dev today I'm forever indebted to you.

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    Comment #41834519

    Why are there so many paying Kagi customers who feel the to write multiple paragraphs of testimonies? This is so unusual of HN. Reeks of astroturfing.

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    Comment #39334734

    As a happy paying member of two years, thank you for making Niagara!

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    Comment #38711710

    Tangetial: I'm not a huge dwm/suckless guy, but I have it on my Raspberry Pi. I love how instantaneous everything feels. Compared to 14-core, 32GB work laptop running Windows which…

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    Comment #38705171

    > like the new Phi-2 model Phi-2 isn't fine tuned for instruction following yet.

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    Comment #38695984

    It's incredible how accurate the Chatbot Arena Leaderboard [0] is at predicting model performance compared to benchmarks (which can and are being gamed, see all the 7B models on HF…

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    Comment #38663205

    Thanks for those ideas! Exactly what I'm looking for. Though I've settled for a combination of alternative #4 and #1, I'm using my phone's hotspot with USB Wi-Fi stick.

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    Comment #38638191

    So without going into too many details, I can't do it because my VM would still need to be authorized by one of my company's security providers. Which should've been fine, except t…

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    Ask HN: How to tunnel HTTP(s) through filesystem?

    My work laptop (Windows) has internet access which goes through my company's VPN, but I also need internet access on a Linux Virtual Machine which I'm hosting through VirtualBox. S…

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    Comment #38622190

    While I agree a website/spreadsheet would be convenient, it's not that complicated. As long as GPU is handling 50-75% of the LLM layers, you should get a decent tok/sec speed (unle…

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    I'm one week in my zillionth attempt to quit smoking. Reading stuff like this helps.