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marci··on Build your own database
Any repo? even if not production ready. I'm curious about how you approached replication, compared to mnesia or couchdb, especially now that erlang natively supports json.
marci··on What do we do if SETI is successful?
How can something be universal and not universal at the same time?
marci··on Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum
It’s already the case.
marci··on Qwen3-VL
My precedent post should have answered this question. But since it didn't, I think I'm ill equipped to answer you in a satisfactory fashion, I would just be repeating myself.
marci··on Qwen3-VL
it's sometimes not really a matter of which one is better but which one fits best.

For example many have switched to qwen3 models but some still vastly prefer the reasoning and output of QwQ (a qwen2.5 model).

And the difference between them: those with "plus" are closed weight, you can only access them through their api. The others are open-weight, so if they fit your use case, and if ever the want or need arise, you can download them, use them, even fine-tune them locally, even if qwen don't offer access to them any more.

marci··on Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
It all depends on the scale you use. At the individual, sure. But it's like cars. They keep getting more effecient, yet total energy consumption keeps increasing.

The further we can go, the further we will go.

The more CPU power we get, the more JS heavy websites get.

The more images we can generate, the more we will generate.

The more we can do, the more we do, whether we should or not.

marci··on Why our website looks like an operating system
Firefox?

I had the same issue then tried edge and it was smooth.

marci··on Run Erlang/Elixir on Microcontrollers and Embedded Linux
For squeezing erlang in KiB sized RAM, the AtomVM project is probably a better fit.

https://github.com/atomvm/AtomVM

marci··on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
Anthropic has a strong stance on privacy. They won't rug pull.

/s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062683 (Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude chats)

marci··on PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued
Those price are from the (non-official?) european reseller.

You can still get the pinephone at the original price from the original store

https://pine64.com/product-category/smartphones/

marci··on iPhone DevOps (2023)
FP 5 has DP-Alt, are you sure the 6 doesn't?

edit: You're right, an unfortunate downgrade https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fp6-discussion-about-usb-2-and...

marci··on Tiny Code Reader: a $7 QR code sensor
#Qcat?
marci··on Zorin OS
It's in the homepage, in the blue and green parts near the middle (Reliable | Secure). But still, they have the place for windows and macos in the tagline, they could add linux.
marci··on Why English doesn't use accents
> In my native language these kinds of errors are impossible as how you pronounce letters doesn't change depending on the word they are in

Don't forget when the pronunciation depends solely on the meaning.

Live or Live?

marci··on MCP in LM Studio
If you're talking about Deepseek r1 with llama.cpp and mmap, then at this point you can run deepseek r1 on a raspberry zero with a 256GB micro sdcard and a phone charger. The only metric left to know is one's patience.
marci··on MCP in LM Studio
You can't run deepseek-v3/r1 on the RTX Pro 6000, not to mention the upcomming 1 million context qwen models, or the current qwen3-235b.
marci··on My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
Where "tent because I have no better options" fall.
marci··on Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app
If you get a lyca sim card, even there you don't need ID to use it. There might be some restrictions after a month though.
marci··on Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app
In many EU countries, you can buy sim cards from some vending machine, in a grocery store or places where you can buy international telephone cards. No ID required. But phone plans are often tied to your home internet.
marci··on Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard
haha.. now I wonder... a steam deck with dual trackballs instead of dual trackpads...
marci··on Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard
Instead of carrying a small mouse, the case itself could be a trackpad :D

https://ploopy.co/trackpad/

marci··on Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard
And here someone went the other way. She took a framework board and made a steam deck out of it https://www.printables.com/model/1051411-framework-portable-...

A bento/transformer type would be neat. One that can Switch between the 2 modes. Not clamshell or slide.

marci··on Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
> What about replacing Entra (identity and access management), Intune (endpoint management), file sharing (OneDrive), email and calendar (Exchange Online)?

Simple, switch when they find something that fits their need. They don't have to switch everything at the same time. And it's not just about switching technologies, it's probably also about fighting against pushbacks ("lobbying", etc), dealing with training, and other unforseen (at least to the layman) things that happens when a huge entity starts pulling away from microsoft. I don't think there are degooglify/demicrosoftify-yourself manuals at the state level.

marci··on A Thousand Tiny Optimisations
It reads like you said "Arbitrarily delineating good vs. bad glitches is dumb", then immediately proceeded to arbitrarily delineating good vs. bad skill.

People who don't like CS:GO type of games won't find any value or interest in some "player who can consistently headshot fast-moving targets". Some people just like seeing their favorite game break in unexpected ways. It's a bit like going into someone else home in the same building with the same floor plan, or just the mirror tracks in a racing game, everything is uncannily familiar, and this uncanny feeling is enjoyed. Maybe you just don't see the appeal, which is fine as well.

marci··on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
> Behemoths are important because only do they have the economies of scale to take massive losses on R&D and built massively expensive and complex things like rockets, hyperscalers, etc.

I think you meant:

The main advantage of behemoths is their ability to buy startups like candy when they are to big and become risk-averse. Then you don't see startups becoming behemoths anymore, except for the unicorns (called unicorn for a reason).

marci··on My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
If at any point you can find a place of your choosing to rent within a few days without any hassle, you're not homeless. You're not in the category of person that could need help.

> Your saying there is a difference between making choices that resulted in homeless being the only option and choosing homelessness because its the best available option?

Absolutely. For example, if a city wants to build systems to help them, one group would need counseling, temporary housing, while the other would rather haver access to public showers, a dispensary, and another group none of that.

Let say you're in a place that attracts a lot of backpacker/vanlife, whatever you build there you would make people pay for it. There would not be any food bank close to that place.

marci··on My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
- people living out of their car (homelessness)

- Vanlife (not homelessness)

- living in a tent out of necessity (homelessness)

- living in a tent for an experiment/fun/holidays (not homelessness)

marci··on Deepseek R1-0528
That is why the others can't provide stuff like this. RAG/Hallucination check. I just wish Allen.AI models had bigger context, 4k is too small nowadays.
marci··on Deepseek R1-0528
When you're trully open source, you can make ethings like this:

Today we introduce OLMoTrace, a one-of-a-kind feature in the Ai2 Playground that lets you trace the outputs of language models back to their full, multi-trillion-token training data in real time. OLMoTrace is a manifestation of Ai2’s commitment to an open ecosystem – open models, open data, and beyond.

https://allenai.org/blog/olmotrace

marci··on Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game
Becoming powerful might be the easy part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs (The Rules for Rulers / CGP Grey)

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