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permalac··on Grok Weights Available via Torrent
How many H100 does one need to run this?
permalac··on NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated with ADHD in Youth
Absolutely. Take my two kids, they are wildly different,and so equal. One can focus a bit the other is impossible to get focused. He gets distracted when doing a wee, is astonishing, sometimes I'm speechless.
permalac··on Why Software Projects Fail
Only bad developers would state they don't do bad code.
permalac··on Astronomer's lament: Satellite megaconstellations are ruining space exploration
Someone will start pushing telescopes up there, with fast Internet in space why not have good telescopes up there as well. For cheap, not like Webb.
permalac··on Nearly all of California's reservoir's are above their historical averages
This visualisation is super useful. Thanks.
permalac··on Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
I work with identities. I've worked in Spain, France and uk.

99% of lay off are agreed and there is no need for account termination, my current company let's you have your account open 30 days after your last day, so you can move data out to your next company.

permalac··on Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day
EMBL-EBI’s open transfer systems provide ~5PB of data each month.

ftp.ebi.ac.uk for example.

permalac··on Keeping a long shell history
Good tool, but my history is so noisy I had to find another way. Lately I started to add a new habit in my shell actions.

When a command has some cognitive requirements I create a script with some ${1:-default} values and I store them all in $PATH enabled local/bin

All my scripts start with __ and then some capital letters indicating the topic.

I can copy them to new machines, which is something I would not do with my history.

permalac··on Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]
Is the project still active? I'd love to find a solution for my email issues.
permalac··on Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease
I'm not eating the weeds.
permalac··on Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease
I use it to kill the driveway weeds, works like a charm.
permalac··on How much garden you would need to survive on
Potatoes can be kept in store all year round, but do they provide all the necessary proteins and stuff those 18 people require?
permalac··on Thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making
Try catalan. Is somehow nice, sounds nice. Is not easy but does not have as many rules as others, and can be used as bridge between French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Also, Andorra has now made it mandatory to be able to keep tour residency so that's a plus.
permalac··on Khoj: An AI personal assistant for your digital brain
At this point I'm surprised nobody connects these tools to Gmail, Gsuite, and/or a posix structure. If it has to be my self hosted AI assistant I should be able to provide my documents to it, right?
permalac··on Berkshire Before Buffett (2015)
I was about to say the same. The article has low value, the title is not even expanded. I only see a list of dates and prices, but nothing of worth.
permalac··on Octopuses, crabs and lobsters recognised as sentient beings under UK law (2021)
We may need to try and be better than them. I think that is the point, at least for me.

I'm no vegetarian, and I like to indulge myself with some 'pulpo a la gallega', But one thing is killing an animal because we are at the top of the food chain, and another thing is killing in the name of sport or culture.

permalac··on Ask HN: What are the most eye-opening textbooks you have ever read?
The priest reads pieces and tells you what to think. Now stand up. Then it tells you a Christ story. Now sit down. Now some other bullshit full of mind bending content. Stand up again.
permalac··on Greater than 90% chance of El Niño persisting into Northern Hemisphere winter
Care to explain to someone who just landed in UK and has no context on how el niño afects UK?

Does that mean I have to prepare for a winter from today till summer 24?

permalac··on Slack GPT, the Future of AI in Slack
I wonder what will happen with : - people who overpromise and underdeliver. - don't update their calendar - don't read their email - don't deliver on their promises. - people who lie in general, those you find in every company, the dilutive ones.
permalac··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
How does your focus evolve or progress while fasting? Any relevant difference between the first days and the last days?
permalac··on SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup economy
Same for me. I worked with managers who mostly tried to do a decent job, some failed some succeeded, some were incapable others were good even when working at 50% of their capacity.

I've only had to deal with one bullshit machine and he quickly moved to another location, my guess is he is moving every time his bullshit has grown to difficult to keep up.

permalac··on Solar panels reduced my electric bill in 2022
Can you share the cost brakedown ?

How much did you pay for the installed kwh?

permalac··on Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus
I thought this was already covered when EU found several government entities using it against political adversaries.

Also Cailou IIRC

permalac··on Managing tape drives and libraries with the Unix/Linux CLI
I feel is missing a clear way to identify self rewind tapes,otherwise you may be reading the first file multiple times.
permalac··on Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)
Very strong stroke.
permalac··on Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
Self censoring? Or cease and desist?
permalac··on Ask HN: How to leave academia? And where to go?
Writing on cellphone.

I went from private to academia. Fully understand your pain. When my contract expires in a couple of years I will apply to the biggest companies around me.

I'm in the IT sector, so I'll apply to any position in Barcelona, because I've visited and liked the city. My plan is to look at companies there and find LinkedIn contacts, if they are really hiring usualy they have referral bonus and that helps being acknowledged from the inside contact.

If that fails, I'll apply to all remote positions posible.

And if that fails I'll call my previous employer.

In your case, being a professor, I supose you could find some ITIL training, and then go to any process management position in companies above 1000 employees, they are always looking for smart people to understand their mess. They usually promote internally for things like this, so you'll have to contact their HR directly. Or you can contact their ceo directly in LinkedIn, they are just normal people, usually with high prioritization capacity, so send them a "Hello, I'm a professor of X and I like to change careers, could you let me know if your company has positions that would be suitable to my skills?"

And hope for the best.

permalac··on CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people
I'm with bee_rider, the point of the games is what you just said, so why so surprised?
permalac··on Stephen Diehl: Crypto is ‘commoditisation of populist anger, gambling and crime’
Why does it need to die?

I see products like iota with high potential for product tracing and logistics management at scale.

permalac··on /r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story
Add /s or people will not understand
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