BossingAround

An off-topic question, are Apple's M-series chips any good at current AI/ML work? How does it compare with dedicated GPUs?

I liked the idea of mini PCs, but for my usecases, they weren't powerful enough. In the end, I went with what I'd call "medium PC" - Intel NUC 13 extreme. Desktop-level components in a small form factor. At the time, I couldn't fit more powerful components into similar SFFPC. Of course, I paid premium price for it.

In the end, Intel gave up on the whole idea and sold NUCS to Asus, which means I'll never have another NUC, sadly (I wouldn't support company with as bad customer service as Asus).

Wow, this looks awesome for a low-usage home server (since it makes no noise). Does it handle load well though?

Love it. My VSCode takes 3GB of RAM and that's a single window with like 5 files open at one time. I've long been looking for a good-enough replacement (though I don't think I'll be able to leave debugpy for a while)

What projects are you working on that take 5GB of venv size? My venvs are under 1GB. What I would consider a large automation framework is ~150MB.

Until that director comes

Expecting results

Yesterday

For anyone looking for a package to install, there are, sadly, none yet:

> Ladybird is in a pre-alpha state, and only suitable for use by developers

Going to sleep is the easy part. The quality of your sleep is the thing :) The biggest problem is that you don't know how good/bad your sleep is, unless you make some changes to your lifestyle (e.g. starting or stopping with coffee).

> I drink it because I enjoy the taste and that's where it ends.

Coffee is a very bitter drink. I don't know you of course, but my guess is that what you like more is the dopamine caffeine releases in your brain, which you've now associated with the taste. You can try and experiment with good decaf coffee to see if it is actually the taste that you like.

Well, per [1], it increases dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, and other chemicals in the brain. It is highly unlikely that it has no effect on one's decision making (esp. when you take it when you are _not_ very tired). It's more likely that you don't notice the effects, but the effects would likely be measurable.

It's the same with caffeine. I'd wager a guess that most people don't think it influences their decision making... And yet it seems it does (e.g. [2]).

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...

[2] https://www.freethink.com/health/does-caffeine-harm-your-dec...

Meth specifically is believed to be one of the contributing factor in the early success of the German army. Interestingly, I believe the same was used by the Japanese to encourage suicidal attacks, since, it turns out, it's easier to carry one when you're high as a kite.

Caffeine is a very interesting drug that makes capitalism and just daily work bearable. It's interesting that this went all the way to 1800s for the US.

After reading Your Mind on Plants [1], I decided to do an experiment, and stop any caffeine intake for ~3 months. After ~1 month, I felt "normal". Only when you cannot rely on a drug, a clutch, you realize how many pressures you face every day. One might have a deadline, something doesn't work, some part of work is boring... Maybe you just slept badly. Coffee fixes all of those.

Nothing is free though, and soon, you'll discover your sleep is not the best pretty much every day of the week. That, in turn, forces you to consume more caffeine, and thus the addiction cycle begins.

Interestingly, after being 3 months caffeine free, I succumbed to the pressure and started drinking some amount of caffeine again (work needs to be done, caffeine makes it easier to concentrate -> it's really difficult to say no).

I would encourage everyone to examine their relationship with this particular drug. It's insane to me that the population in 1800s was already so addicted to the drug that the lack "plugs" threaten to lose the civil war.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Plants-Michael-Pollan/dp/05...

I would think that the container world is dominated by OpenShift, tailed by using plain K8s.

> The main problem with these "works out the box" distro, there's no "box" to start with.

You know, I realized this recently, as I was updating the HW in my desktop PC. After days of trying to figure out why an AMD GPU is power throttling (and thus giving me ~20% of the performance I paid for), I just gave up and installed Windows.

It pains me (and honestly, it's a huge pain to set up Windows from scratch as well), but at least the proprietary driver blobs that you can download work as advertised.

This really showed me that in my free time, I don't want to futz around with setting up my HW on Linux. I just want to use it. And even though I bought a computer that officially supports Linux (intel nuc extreme), the experience of setting it up is pretty bad even for me, a software engineer who's been using and administering Linux for the past ~15 years at work.

I understand what you're saying, and I understand the maintainer's POV. But, nothing prevents you from installing firewalld, right? It should just work.

It's the best bleeding edge distro. More stable than Arch, and rolling (unlike Fedora for which you have to a system upgrade every 6 months).

The same applies on Steam Deck. This is a thing with immutable systems.

Whenever SUSE is mentioned, I remember their songs, e.g. how to pronounce SUSE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdexZlVkAY

SUSE did $0.67B in 2022. It's a live and vibrant company that focuses on traditional Linux and its management. Though it has cloud & container offerings of course, I think SUSE's greatest strength is for people that want to use multiple Linux distros (Debian and Debian-likes, RH and RH-likes) and get support for all of them under one roof.

I don't know which particular customers are using it, but given the revenue, there must be _a lot_ of SUSE systems in the corporate world.

I don't know why you're being downvoted, that's exactly how it'd work under Stalinist communist regime.

You expose VPN to the internet, and expose SSH access just to the private VPN. You can still use SSH keys for your SSH auth, but now with the added layer of listening only on the VPN network.

Isn't that strictly better? I.e. even if an attacker exploits a vulnerability to get to your private VPN network, they now have to find another exploit to get SSH access (presumably with the same SSH keys setup).

Edit: Aaah, the VPN isn't a private VPN, but Raspberry Pi Foundation's VPN, to use some of their solution to get to your RPI, right? In that case, I agree, the attack vector is just larger. I was confused because the article mentions a private VPN that Jeff has set up himself.

Do people actually like ligatures? I tried it with the IntelliJ font and I could just not get used to it. Maybe because I'm slightly dyslexic, but boy, it almost felt like the code I was reading was in a different language.

Ligatures might look beautiful, but my brain just says "nope, I don't know this symbol" and refuses to process it in a meaningful way.

Melatonin won't improve the quality of your sleep. It might induce sleep if your body doesn't naturally produce melatonin, e.g. due to going to bed at very different times throughout prolonged periods. But, outside of that, melatonin isn't very useful as a sleep quality enhancer.

Similar to CBD, IIRC, one would have to take very large amounts of CBD to produce any statistically significant effect on one's sleep, and CBD gummies are not the most bioavailable CBD there is.

My guess is it's placebo rather than anything else.

I don't know how people imagine viagra working - it's not like you take a pill, you continue browsing the internet, reading news, and suddenly, a boner lifts your desk.

I would think (and hope) that uninstalling the app "unbricks" all other apps.

You could use stash for just that use case (even multiple times to make multiple "patches").

For a more robuts method, you could also just commit (without pushing of course). Then, you can do "git reset --hard HEAD~1", and you have a pre-patch env ready for more work. When you need to re-do your commit, you can check reflog to get the ID.

Either way is, to me, an easier way to achieve the same result as patches.

Do you think AWS wouldn't give you a secret cheaper price if you wanted to purchase 10k IP addresses?

Perhaps orthogonal problem - imagine you join a new company that has an enterprise product with hundreds of tables. Is there a way to connect Dataherald to my DB, and ask basic questions about the DB? E.g. "where are stored records related to X".

True. But, it's also a clock, which is presumably difficult to read, hence the simulation.

Arguably the best OS? For what? For browsing the web, video editing, etc.? Maybe. For development? Jesus, macOS doesn't even have native container support. All the devs I know with macOS then either get a second Linux laptop, or spend a lot of their time SSHd into a Linux server.

For dev (at least backend and devops), macOS is not that great.