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bavell

1,682 karma · joined March 21, 2016

Solopreneur, full-stack web dev with a healthy helping of devops, happy k8s user, Arch enthusiast (btw), amateur guitarist.

Great men I admire: - Jimi Hendrix - Claude Shannon - Carl Sagan

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bavell··on Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
Incredible!
bavell··on Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)
Damn, this describes me too accurately haha. They're so cheap! How could I not at least try!? XD
bavell··on Helldivers 2 PSN account linking update will not be moving forward
It's the one thing preventing me from buying the game :(
bavell··on Zebra remains on the loose in Washington state, officials close trailheads
I always assumed it was to see how much blind trust people had in authority.
bavell··on Intro to "Ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power": Naming power
I don't understand why people look at me funny when I tell them I'm a squid person. Must be a skills issue.
bavell··on Krazam OS
I clicked on safe space and all was right in the world once more
bavell··on Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students
> The sanctions for BloomTech appear to be quite severe. It can no longer collect any income share loan payments from grads that didn't get a job in the past year, and has to cancel the multi-thousand dollar finance charge for students who graduated more than 18 months ago and don't work a job making more than $70k a year. Plus, current students must be allowed to drop their loans and withdraw, or be able to continue attending but with a third-party loan.

> As an added bonus, BloomTech and Allred personally have to pay into the CFPB's victims' relief fund, with the company getting fined $64k and the CEO $100k. Plus, Allred is prohibited from student lending for a decade.

bavell··on Bitcoin Block 840000
I was with you up until the last paragraph. Thinking small isn't going to help much imo.
bavell··on Bitcoin Block 840000
I remember when the first GPU kernels came out... exciting times!
bavell··on Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code
Would be more impressive if it didn't take 5+ seconds to respond or if there was any indication something was happening after clicking. Also, I guess I'm supposed to connect my mic up and talk to this? No thanks!
bavell··on Mixtral 8x22B
I'm experimenting with using them to help me make a mod for a game (Vic3). It has a lot of config files and I'm using AI to help generate the data structures and parsers/serializers.

It's coming along but very hit or miss with the small models I'm using (all my poor 6750XT 12GB can manage).

I could be doing something wrong though, even with GPT-4 im struggling a bit - it's very lazy and doesn't want to fully populate the data structure fields (the game file objects can haze dozens/hundredss of fields). I'm probably just not using the right incantation/magic phrase/voodoo?

bavell··on Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded without their consent
> There is no one I will ever interact with that has a greater chance of ending my life than an on duty police officer.

So why in the world would you "stand your ground" in this scenario?? Perhaps you posted in the wrong comment thread?

bavell··on Ford's battery flagship socked by mold sickness, workers say
Must be a west coast thing, never heard the phrase living in the coastal southeast.
bavell··on Show HN: Leaping – Debug Python tests instantly with an LLM debugger
I've come across Aider before and was trying to remember the name just the other day - thanks!!
bavell··on Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards
I've been using my 6750XT for more than a year now on all sorts of AI projects. Takes a little research and a few env vars but no need to wait for "official" support most of the time.
bavell··on Staff Speak Out at Turing Institute due to four men being given top jobs
That's a stretch! It's common knowledge women are more nurturing than men, especially with regards to children.
bavell··on Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
Interesting, do you think illegal immigrants are occupiers? By your definition it would seem so.
bavell··on Technocensorship: When Corporations Serve as a Front for Government Censors
Perhaps there are important reasons why they are #1 and #2?
bavell··on JSR: The JavaScript Registry
Love this idea, defer the IP problems to DNS where everyone already has expectations set.
bavell··on Show HN: Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024
Sounds like a fun project!

> whisper.cpp with person segmentation

Super curious about this bit. Did you use the --diarize or the --tinydiarize flag? How accurate/reliable was the segmentation? Sounds like it was good enough to use at the very least. I had looked into this a few months ago but thought it wasn't good enough yet.

bavell··on AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
Try with ComfyUI... works great and easy setup on my 6750XT. I've had it working for about a year now with SD, LlamaCpp and WhisperCpp.
bavell··on Finding a new software developer job
> An engineer who can’t admit they don’t know something when it matters is...

a bad engineer.

bavell··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
> ...all other species would get lost, reducing biodiversity and effectively meaning an extinction-level event.

Reducing biodiversity doesn't equate to an extension-level event though. It also doesn't mean all species who didn't thrive would be lost - many would be affected but not existentially so.

I'm reminded of George Carlin's joke about the planet being fine long-term, we're the ones who will be screwed.

bavell··on AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Linux Performance
I've had very little issues (other than not amazing perf) with my last-gen 6750XT running llamacpp and SD for the last 8-10 months.
bavell··on Ask HN: What local machines are people using to train LLMs?
Very cool website, love the aesthetic! Would love to know how you made the animations and the algos behind them.
bavell··on Push notifications – What to push, what not to push, and how often
Yeah but it's on an app-by-app basis. Just disable push on the noisy/spammy ones and keep it on for well-behaved apps.
bavell··on Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]
I thought Tom's replies were much more convincing than Derek's.
bavell··on "CSS is dramatically more difficult than learning assembly language" [audio]
> I ended up just playing around with putting attributes on various components until I found what worked.

It's sometimes hard for me to wrap my head around flexbox as well. If you haven't already seen it, this page [0] is imo the flexbox bible. There's one for grid [1] too.

[0] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

[1] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

bavell··on "CSS is dramatically more difficult than learning assembly language" [audio]
I'm not sure about that, flexbox has a major and minor axis, which you can define with flex-direction.
bavell··on "CSS is dramatically more difficult than learning assembly language" [audio]
CSS definitely gives you plenty of rope to hang yourself with if you aren't careful about how you choose to apply it! I've been in a few codebases with lots of !important overrides and deeply nested selectors which quickly becomes unmanageable.
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