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So if I buy 1000 of these I have an exascale supercomputer? I remember when exascale was disparaged as science fiction :)

Nuclear pacemaker is astonishingly bad ass

Real shame that CalDAV didn't dominate the way SSH/email/whatever dominates.

I use Todoist which is the only one that actually works IMO, kicks ass, but I wish it wasn't one someone else's backend.

All the coverage of emdash as LLM telltale inspired me to finally bother to learn how to type an emdash on a Mac keyboard…

Good

Cerebras is truly one of the maddest technical accomplishments that Silicon Valley has produced in the last decade or so. I met Andy seven or eight years ago and I thought they must have been smoking something - a dinner plate sized chip with six tons of clamping force? They made it real, and in retrospect what they did was incredibly prescient

Beans dude. Beans are absolutely delicious. They grow in the ground by accident. A good bean burger is way more appetizing than a biosludge patty. Unfortunately nobody is getting rich selling beans. But they are all we need here

Bulleted lists literally do not work in Microsoft word so… good

Sama clocked this way back. He has used this exact analogy - that new GPT models will feel like incremental new iPhone releases c.f. the first iPhone/GPT-3.

This good article contains a photograph of a million quid nailed to a wall. Since burnt by scoundrels

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~johol/KLF/Money.html

> no way out but through

Is exactly the philosophical dead end that Nick Land and Curtis and maybe Mark Fisher arrived at. Accelerationism is like the FedEx arrow in that it’s both an unforgettable idea and easy enough that anyone can grasp it, some of the dumbest politicians of our time are ardent believers.

It’s fun to think about the possibility that belief in this conclusion was premature two decades ago when CCRU and NRx people were banging on about it but now maybe it actually isn’t premature. Which would annoyingly be a pretty compelling instance of hyperstitional time war

I heard a story that these guys built one of the only high performing opensource Bluetooth stacks, and that it is a dependency for various SFW orgs… can anyone substantiate

Drawing has to come back. Drawing is severely underrated right now IMO

Where else could you simultaneously purchase through-hole transistors, a gaming motherboard, a 19" rack, a leafblower, a loudspeaker disguised as a plastic rock, pornography, a taser, a sandwich and a decent cup of coffee while surrounded by fiberglass cowboys and aliens... sad to see

Right now there are thousands of apps getting built with AI that are going to work surprisingly well, will get embedded into all sorts of fundamental processes — and will start to perform unacceptably badly in two or three years. God knows what we do with this information but it seems clear we are setting up for a tsunami of horrible performance regressions

This is cool! I have been really enjoying using Meshtastic and LoRa lately. It feels like a blessed relief from the toxic swamp of the regular internet. I love pinging stupid radio messages across the bay without depending on any third-party infrastructure. Maybe in addition to the literal rubble of a life threatening disaster we can use tools like this to dig ourselves out from the psychological rubble of the information superfund site we have built for ourselves

Come on man just do duck typing. You are killing me with this stuff.

It all reads so technical and long and mathematically academic but it’s just a bit mask.

I absolutely hate writing python now because I have to reason about a “list of list of errors” type defined by a teenager and they get mad at me if I don’t then define a new “list of list of errors, or none” type when I manipulate it. You guys are now employed by VSCode to make those hints look beautiful. VSCode is your boss now and your job is to make VSCode happy

I predict that in five years we will retvrn to duck typing in the same way that we are now retvrning to server side rendering and running on bare metal. Looking forward to the viral “you don’t need compound types” post on here. “Amazing - you can write code which does normal business tasks without learning or ever thinking about homotopy type theory”

Yes I get it if we are writing embedded code or navigation systems or graphics or whatever, please help yourself from the types bucket. Go ahead and define a dictionary of lists where one list can contain strings but all the other lists either contain 8-bit integers or None. But the academic cachet of insanely complex composable type systems bleeds through into a web server that renders a little more than “hello world” and it ruins my life

Dude I have three thousand dollars net total in my bank account. I don't own a car or a house, don't have kids etc. I literally used to co-own 97 camry with bees in the trunk. I paid about $2500 for it. Hence why I say it costs the about the same as the spectrometer on eBay. $2500 is about $3000. However you and I both know that there are people all over this board who buy their kids macbooks for christmas

Good point. You have to ask yourself — would you rather have a '97 Camry or a raman spectrometer and a pushbike ;)

That said this is getting into Christmas present territory:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/167319991806?_skw=handheld+raman+sp...

It has been possible to buy pretty nice handheld Raman spectrometers for a while now:

https://www.bruker.com/en/products-and-solutions/infrared-an...

This paper is obviously trying to go much further. But if you just want to buy a tricorder, you can

Fun fact the main WSGI server for prod AWS console has been running out of a detached tmux process since 2018. We are just really careful not to press Ctrl-D

Reminds me of the incident where npm was 2X slower than it should have been because of the fancy terminal progress bar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10974929

I liked it when they made all the lines wiggly

A classic. What's old is new again

I don't know that for sure but 630nm is much more common. Look at the wavelength column here, it's all ~630nm:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/led-indication-di...

Given that I'd be very surprised if my crappy little head torch is 670nm.

If you can use a soldering iron I think it would be relatively straightforward to modify an off-the-shelf headlamp and swap out the diode.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/led-indication-di...

Cool

Here is the recipe. Don't skip any steps

- Your room must be cold. If you stand around in the room you should feel kind of chilly

- Your room should be quiet. If you have loud A/C which turns on and off that's a problem c.f. step 1 -- think hard about how to meet both requirements given your personal situation/constraints

- Your room must be dark. Not necessarily pitch black but dark. No blinking LEDs.

- A couple hours before bed, remind your brain that it is soon time to sleep

- Your phone must not be in the room with you. Your phone sleeps in the kitchen. I cannot emphasize this enough. It's OK you are going to have a nice book to read instead

- You need a real physical book. Books are cheap and make you more sexy and smarter. No Kindle

- Here's the book I'm reading: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/gormenghast/

- This is the headlamp I use: https://www.pelican.com/us/en/product/flashlights/headlamp/2...

- There's nothing special about that headtorch -- there are hundreds of head torches you can buy with a red ~630nm LED. it's the standard red color LED. It would be interesting to swap it out for the 670nm wavelength described in the article though!

- Actually that model is pretty heavy and just happens to be the one I bought for camping -- you could do a lot better/smaller/lighter e.g. Nitecore NU25, Black Diamond Spot 350

- You will feel like a clown when you put the headtorch on. That's okay -- you read books and sleep well, making you very attractive in the daytime. It's OK to look like a clown at nighttime

- You are going to sleep on your back. You can do this, I believe in you. You are going to sleep positioned like Tutankhamun and for nearly as long

- You need a reasonably firm pillow and you need to set it up right. It needs to support your neck and stop you rolling on your side. None of this foam bullshit it needs to have feathers in it. You are a human being not a cellphone. You don't sleep on plastic

- OK let's get this bread. You lie down you turn off all the lights and you turn on your cool little headtorch. You get your head very well positioned on the pillow. You are about to sleep like a boss, you're going to sleep like Genghis Khan. You better get those covers tight because it's fucking cold in your room. Then you start reading. Hell yeah this book is so good. It feels so natural and rewarding and you remember that people used to write in ways that are outside our grasp today, no LLM or modern author can touch it. Within a couple of pages your eyes are shut. You find yourself holding the book with your eyes closed, barely awake. At that moment boom you put down the book, ideally switch off the headtorch, and disappear

I like to read book in the dark with the red LED on my headtorch (so as not to bother gf) before I go to sleep. It’s prob 630nm not 670 but I get about two pages in and fall instantly asleep. Can recommend

This is a solved problem, ChatGPT uses a python prompt to do arithmetic now. Just like you would… all good. You Can Just Check Your Own Claims