This is how you know Musk is a fraud. This far into his career and he’s leading teams into rookie mistakes.

Or, he knows this will break it and that’s the goal. I’m just not sure how he avoids the blame.

I am absolutely in awe of the skill of these people, reverse engineering Apple hardware in their free time.

Straight up just defunding schools.

I love this because these are literally my two primary personal computing devices. It’s a kind of yin / yang dualism that I really enjoy.

Absolutely classic music player. The iTunes 1.0 UI pattern, which was pre-enshittification. To my eyes, I still don’t think I’ve ever seen a more overall efficient and descriptive way of browsing a local music library.

I don’t know what the conditions are inside, but I’m assuming that people need light in there to work, and that if it’s designed to be disaster or attack resistant, there would be a need for climate control, ventilation and flooding mitigation. I get that the venue is chosen because it should keep everything frozen and preserved, it just depends how fragile / robust they’ve built it.

But I wondered because I can see light coming from inside and it looks like there’s a fancy light show on it.

I wonder what the power source for that vault is.

I use passkeys through 1Password and it’s vastly less irritating to me than anything involving passwords, especially 2fa. I really don’t like having to wait for email to arrive or copying down digits from a text message, which seems to be how 2fa typically works 90% of the time.

When people are free to choose the best editor for them, we ALL win.

Emacs

(ducks)

I pretty much just want a functioning vanilla Gnome desktop, remap caps lock to control, and I’m happy.

Yes indeed. Well: 0x0007.

I’m on trixie, since recent Mesa has many fixes for very old Radeon GPUs, and it appears to be on by default! At least, I didn’t intentionally turn it on and it’s on.

I think I did go with LZ4 after looking at benchmarks; I figured on a weak CPU speed would be more valuable than another few percent of compression. I’ll have to look into the RAM page read-ahead.

Did you need to compile a kernel to enable it? I’ve just done the project of installing Debian on a 20 year old iMac with 2.5 GB of RAM, and while zram definitely seems to help, I’d love to try this as well.

Probably to run Minecraft, I’m guessing.

A bold statement. Never been there, so I’ll have to try it!

I think what he means is that the unique identifier for a database record is a composite of two fields: SSN + birth date. That doesn’t mean that SSN to birth date is a one-to-many relation.

This is making me realize that I don’t fully understand the relationship between “instruction-tuned” and “pre-trained”. I thought instruction tuning was a form of fine-tuning, and that fine-tuning comes after the primary training of the model.

“Never get involved in a land war in Asia.”