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When the raspberry pi became more expensive than a used thinkpad on ebay, they've lost what made them great.

Here's how the last two books I ordered from amazon went: Book 1, low quality print barely readable code segments and the cover reads "Not for reprint outside of India". Book 2, over a month passes with no shipping update. I submit a cancellation request and it gets denied. I then contact customer support (extremely hard to do btw) and they also deny my request. Another week passes and it is randomly canceled and then the book arrives in the mail from a printing company with extremely bad binding.

Amazon has become the temu of books.

I assume a lot of people 50+ were exposed to a lot more lead and cigarette smoke than younger people.

I wonder if this could be adapted to the vtuber market. Saw a vtuber body tracker being marketed at $11k recently.

It seems so bizarre that we need a nearly 9gb model to do something you could do over 20 years ago with ~200mb.

This is "an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation".

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...

This is the STEM version of dog fighting.

There is only so much juice you can squeeze out of fuzzy probability word chains. We hit peak diminishing returns on LLM tech already.

Its a shame his LLC in C was just a launch board for his course.

Memory arenas should be taught to all programmers and become the default method of memory management.

Speaking of concurrency, whatever happened to that Parallella "super computer" project?