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- Comment on The decline of Intel.. 6 months ago:
2009 era was also when Intel leveraged their position in the compiler market to cripple all non-Intel processors. Nearly every benchmarking tool used that complier and put an enormous handicap on AMD processors by locking them to either no SSE or, later, back to SSE2.
My friends all thought I was crazy for buying AMD, but accusations had started circulating about the complier heavily favoring Intel at least as early as 2005, and they were finally ordered to stop in 2010 by the FTC... Though of course they have been caught cheating in several other ways since.
Everyone has this picture in their heads of AMD being the scrappy underdog and Intel being the professional choice, but Intel hasn't really worn the crown since the release of Athlon.
- Comment on Huh? It's not that big 6 months ago:
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
I host my own to avoid running into timeouts, fairly easy
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 6 months ago:
MRSA infection following hospital admittance for Pneumonia. That shit is serious and way more prevalent than people think, it's just that it usually kills people who are already terminally ill.
Unlikely to be an assassination. But not impossible. Either way, looks very bad.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 6 months ago:
The recommendation to shareholders from the independent advisor who proxies Boeing is to vote out several board members who are responsible for safety and QA. Crazy to see at a Fortune 100.
- Comment on Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me. 6 months ago:
I use FreshRSS. Can't say I love the interface, but with the open and standardized API, there are dozens of beautiful front ends to choose on any device.
- Comment on Traefik 3.0 GA Has Landed: Here's How to Migrate 6 months ago:
For real? Damn it that's going to be painful.
- Comment on Have We Reached Peak AI? 8 months ago:
Author doesn't seem to understand that executives everywhere are full of bullshit and marketing and journalism everywhere is perversely incentivized to inflate claims.
But that doesn't mean the technology behind that executive, marketing, and journalism isn't game changing.
Full disclosure, I'm both well informed and undoubtedly biased as someone in the industry, but I'll share my perspective. Also, I'll use AI here the way the author does, to represent the cutting edge of Machine Learning, Generative Self-Reenforcement Learning Algorithms, and Large Language Models. Yes, AI is a marketing catch-all. But most people better understand what "AI" means, so I'll use it.
AI is capable of revolutionizing important niches in nearly every industry. This isn't really in question. There have been dozens of scientific papers and case studies proving this in healthcare, fraud prevention, physics, mathematics, and many many more.
The problem right now is one of transparency, maturity, and economics.
The biggest companies are either notoriously tight-lipped about anything they think might give them a market advantage, or notoriously slow to adopt new technologies. We know AI has been deeply integrated in the Google Search stack and in other core lines of business, for example. But with pressure to resell this AI investment to their customers via the Gemini offering, we're very unlikely to see them publicly examine ROI anytime soon. The same story is playing out at nearly every company with the technical chops and cash to invest.
As far as maturity, AI is growing by astronomical leaps each year, as mathematicians and computer scientists discover better ways to do even the simplest steps in an AI. Hell, the groundbreaking papers that are literally the cornerstone of every single commercial AI right now are "Attention is All You Need" (2017) and
"Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge -Intensive NLP Tasks" (2020). Moving from a scientific paper to production generally takes more than a decade in most industries. The fact that we're publishing new techniques today and pushing to prod a scant few months later should give you an idea of the breakneck speed the industry is going at right now.And finally, economically, building, training, and running a new AI oriented towards either specific or general tasks is horrendously expensive. One of the biggest breakthroughs we've had with AI is realizing the accuracy plateau we hit in the early 2000s was largely limited by data scale and quality. Fixing these issues at a scale large enough to make a useful model uses insane amounts of hardware and energy, and if you find a better way to do things next week, you have to start all over. Further, you need specialized programmers, mathematicians, and operations folks to build and run the code.
Long story short, start-ups are struggling to come to market with AI outside of basic applications, and of course cut-throat silicon valley does it's thing and most of these companies are either priced out, acquired, or otherwise forced out of business before bringing something to the general market.Call the tech industry out for the slime is generally is, but the AI technology itself is extremely promising.
- Comment on Spam posts 8 months ago:
Yeah honestly no idea regarding moderation. But the codebase is maintained by a team.
- Comment on Spam posts 8 months ago:
There is a team, not a sole dev.
I'm not saying everything is roses and rainbows, but this is FUD messaging being spread openly by the mbin dev team.
- Comment on Thanks to OpenAI, it's never been clearer that Sundar Pichai is Google's Steve Ballmer 9 months ago:
They put ads in.
- Comment on Why the recent Mozilla news isn't actually a big deal 9 months ago:
But what if they don't need that many people working on Firefox? What if AI, VR, and Network programmers are fundamentally different in skills from a web browser programmer, and don't want to change their career trajectory?
Not every project makes 2x the money with 2x the people. It's the "Why can't 9 Mom's give birth in 1 month" problem. Hell most projects will slow down significantly with an influx like that.
Look, layoffs suck, but it's quid-pro-quo. Employees can leave at any time too. If a company isn't abusive or arbitrary with their layoff decisions, has decent layoff benefits, and doesn't refuse to give job recommendations, it's hard for me to hold it against the employer.
- Comment on What would happen if you moved at the speed of light? 9 months ago:
To actually reach the speed of light you'd be massless, so the only damage, would be from momentum transfer, at which point your particles would be reflected or absorbed like light.
But that aside, mostly I was referring to your statement:
'Speed of Light' compared to what?
Which is really not a concern. It's the speed of light for everyone with respect to everything, or it isn't the speed of light. Like, two beams of light going in two different directions don't see the other light beam going at 2x the speed of light, just at the speed of light with lots of time dialation.
- Comment on What would happen if you moved at the speed of light? 9 months ago:
That's the neat part of the speed of light. It's the speed of light for every reference frame, no matter who is looking at you or from where.
- Comment on Junior Dev VS Machine Learning 9 months ago:
Funny thing on that "subjectivity" is when you disagree with other people in this thread, you've plainly said they're just entirely wrong.
When someone disagrees with you, you hide behind "subjectivity".
I encourage you to introspect.
- Comment on Junior Dev VS Machine Learning 9 months ago:
You sincerely think you have a better grasp on coffee than James Hoffman?
Much more likely you haven't tried good decaf from a good roaster, tried a blind tasting, or your preparation is seriously flawed.
- Comment on Junior Dev VS Machine Learning 9 months ago:
Yeah, well for many of us it's decaf or no coffee due to health issues. You acting like it's a foolish, childish thing is just tribalism/elitism.
And for what it's worth, I'd put my decaf vs your coffee in a heartbeat. A good roaster with quality beans is great coffee, decaf or no. Just like Hoffman said.
- Comment on Second hand disks? 9 months ago:
I've had great experiences with exactly one vendor of second hand disks.
Currently running 8x14TB in a striped & mirrored zpool.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Really all I do is setup fail2ban on my very few external services, and then put all other access behind wireguard.
Logs are clean, I'm happy.
- Comment on Best Filesystem for NAS? 9 months ago:
Yeah, you should be scrubbing weekly or monthly, depending on how often you are using the data. Scrub basically touches each file and checks the checksums and fixes any errors it finds proactively. Basically preventative maintenance.
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man8/zpool-scrub.8.htmlSet that up in a cron job and check zpool status periodically.
No dedup is good. LZ4 compression is good. RAM to disk ratio is generous.
Check your disk's sector size and vdev ashift. On modern multi-TB HDDs you generally have a block size of 4k and want ashift=12. This being set improperly can lead to massive write amplification which will hurt throughput.
https://www.high-availability.com/docs/ZFS-Tuning-Guide/How about snapshots? Do you have a bunch of old ones? I highly recommend setting up a snapshot manager to prune snapshots to just a working set (monthly keep 1-2, weekly keep 4, daily keep 6 etc) https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid
And to parrot another insightful comment, I also recommend checking the disk health with SMART tests. In ZFS as a drive begins to fail the pool will get much slower as it constantly repairs the errors.
- Comment on Best Filesystem for NAS? 9 months ago:
ZFS is a very robust choice for a NAS. Meant people, myself included, as well as hundreds of businesses across the globe, have used ZFS at scale for over a decade.
Attack the problem. Check your system logs, htop, zpool status.
When was the last time you ran a zpool scrub? Is there a scrub, or other zfs operation in progress? How many snapshots do you have? How much RAM vs disk space? Are you using ZFS deduplication? Compression?
- Comment on What is going on with Kbin 10 months ago:
Development is happening in the dev's branches. Branches are generally kept local until submitted for a PR. You can easily see this in the origin branches and open PRs.
Honestly I'm not sure if you're trolling, don't understand git development, or if you really think that a project needs to iterate main multiple times per month to be your definition of "healthy open source", but I'm tired of shooting down such lazy attacks and won't be responding further.
Have a nice day.
- Comment on What is going on with Kbin 10 months ago:
What obscure location? Codeberg?
All the activity is open on Codeberg. You can see every member of that team actively merging and reviewing requests.
- Comment on What is going on with Kbin 10 months ago:
Why do you assume that? Why is your way of open source the right way?
All open source projects are run by a small team of people reviewing and accepting, rejecting, and prioritizing work. What part of this project's methodology bothers you?
- Comment on What is going on with Kbin 10 months ago:
He did though. And honestly the website has come very far in a short period of time, I really don't understand the concerns and whining in this thread...
From codeberg-
Core Team
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cooperaj
rideranton
AnonymousLlamahttps://codeberg.org/org/Kbin/teams
Design Team
cody - Comment on The Perfect Solution 10 months ago:
Rofl. I just imagine OP furiously updating LinkedIn with "AI Programmer".
- Comment on NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft 10 months ago:
In commercial airliners, nearly the entire flight is now closely monitored and controlled by redundant computer systems. And the pilots rarely use the front window, they mostly fly by instrument.
Cameras as the cockpit windows aren't really that crazy at this point. Really glass cockpits are a formality.
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 10 months ago:
Amazing how many products just don't.
- Comment on It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. 10 months ago:
Just chip a couple bucks to your local instance owner! Basically the same thing, without the glitz.
- Comment on radarr, docker & nvenc 10 months ago:
It can. Most people just use the filesystem watcher, but this looks nice. https://github.com/deathbybandaid/tdarr_inform