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fermuch··on Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split
Ollama uses llama.cpp in the background. It's more of a tool to use models: you download models as if they were docker images, you have a centralized way to organize your models, you can create new models with `Modelfile`... It's the docker of AI.
fermuch··on Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split
On linux at least it already works like that
fermuch··on Medellín's Green Corridors
This is a very interesting initiative, and fills me with hope. Not only better temperatures, but even better air (PM2.5 levels reduced!)

But I do wonder, what about insects? Are there more insects because there are more places for them to live?

fermuch··on How we applied fuzzing techniques to cURL
cURL is also embedded in a lot of applications. An exploit within curl could lead to a vulnerability in the host application.
fermuch··on Zuck on the Apple Vision Pro
Yes, all Quests are android based. You can even sideload apks!
fermuch··on GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer
There are some! This is called "Docker in Docker", and you need to expose your docker socket to the container, which has some security implications.

It can be secured, as gitpod does, but as I understand it is a PITA.

fermuch··on Elixir is now a gradually typed language
Typings in elixir are and will continue to be optional.

This announcement says it is detecting pattern matching and guards at build time instead of runtime, so nothing is changing.

And the "upcoming" (still in investigation) new types are totally optional. Only enabled if you use fat arrows.

You'll still have the advantages of having the core library and third party libs typed in your IDE, even if you don't use types.

fermuch··on Problems on the Galaxy Store
In Brazil we have a right to return online orders in the 7 days of the purchase. I assume this is covered (I'm not sure). Steam does return the game if you have less than 3 hours in it.
fermuch··on The state of silicon and the GPU poors
I am hopeful developments like Mistral (a 7B model with the performance of ChatGPT for most of the tasks I've used it for) keeps happening. Seems like we can still compress a lot of knowledge.
fermuch··on The first stable release of a memory safe sudo implementation
It seems like those changes are noted here: https://github.com/memorysafety/sudo-rs#differences-from-ori...
fermuch··on South America is living one of the climate extreme events
I'm on Brazil and yesterday we had 30ºC (about 86F). It's crazy to have these temps in winter! And that was yesterday. Today, it is about 16ºC (60F). Crazy times! No one knows if they should prepare winter or summer clothes.
fermuch··on Algae powers computer for a year using only light and water (2022)
What does it consume, apart from sunlight? And is it a year because it died after that, or just because that's how long the experiment went?
fermuch··on ChatGPT Plugins
it says it'll respect robots.txt if you don't want your page crawled (parsed? interpreted?)
fermuch··on Compact holographic sound fields enable rapid one-step assembly of matter in 3D
Figure 6 shows the method with gel particles. If I'm interpreting it right, it's suspended on a liquid (I most likely am wrong).
fermuch··on Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?
Immersed VR connects to the computer but runs on its own. Imagine a remote desktop with multiple monitors.
fermuch··on ClickHouse Cloud is now in Public Beta
I've been running clickhouse for production as a solo dev for a year now and it's been great so far. I've had to tune it a bit for the machines I have, but everything works and it's incredibly fast. Not even comparable to postgres. For analytics, it goes way beyond what you'd expect, even under heavy writing.

Even join-heavy queries work great.

fermuch··on Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser
> Ah yes, can't wait to run my offline-first app on a kubernetes-on-docker-on-linux-on-qemu-on-wasm stack in the browser to have closer alignment between my server and browser implementations.

You can run vscode on docker on kubernetes on the browser with gitpod!

fermuch··on Almost every Ferrari sold since 2005 is being recalled
Putting the car in neutral should be tried first, since it disconnects the engine from the wheels.

Handbrake stops the wheels immediately. At 10mph might not be that bad but still, neutral is the safest bet IMO

fermuch··on Introducing multitasking to Arduino
And can use up to 8mb of psram and 16mb of flash
fermuch··on Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (2012)
IIRC ext4 does this already. Saved me a couple of times.
fermuch··on A gas made from light becomes easier to compress as you squash it
That would create a Kugelblitz, a black hole made of light.
fermuch··on Using a tiny HC32L110 ARM chip
I've been using ESP for a while and they are trying things with RISC, and might eventually be lower cost.

Does the rp2040 have wifi and bt?

fermuch··on Dockerizing a Programming Language
WSL1 as far as I understand works like wine, transpiling calls to NT. But isn't WSL2 just a VM?
fermuch··on Py2cr: A Python3 to Crystal Translator
Could webassembly provide that? As far as I understand it can be seen as a target callable from any runtime (C, rust, python, the browser...) so a new language could implement wasm and all its libraries could be used?
fermuch··on Pico CSS Framework
Back in the internet explorer times bootstrap was invaluable. Even if you were very good at CSS you just needed a different set of rules for ie.

You might be interested in tailwind. I'm unsure how to explain it, but it is a pleasure to use once you get used to it.

fermuch··on Which stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet?
Our radio waves have traveled for about 200 light years. Proxima centauri, our closest star, is located at 4246 Light years from us.

Very, very unlikely that someone can hear us, even if they tried. Space is huge.

fermuch··on What will programming look like in 2020? (2012)
Writing boring chores or repetitive code is amazing. Need to handle all cases in a case in pretty much the same way but changing only one thing? Write the first one, the rest is auto coded perfectly.
fermuch··on The Perfect Voxel Engine
I have no idea why from the perspective of a developer, but as a devoted fan of minecraft I can say it does look like the evolution of the genre.

Minecraft has "voxels" (they are rendered as polygons) that are 1 meter square in size. More granularity would add a lot to the games. There are even mods that try to add a more granular kind of voxel to the game, like "chisels & bits". That one specifically is very popular and used in most modpacks, so that might be a hint for a successful voxel game in the future.

fermuch··on Canistilluse.com
Some users don't know what key "shift" refers to.
fermuch··on Mars helicopter employs advanced control techniques to survive in-flight anomaly
It might be related to the hostility of the environment. The chips aren't radiation proof, so it is expected to have some bit flops due to radiation.
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