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ahurmazda··on Musk ordered Nvidia to ship AI chips reserved for Tesla to X/xAI
TFA, “But emails written by Nvidia senior staff and widely shared inside the company suggest that Musk presented an exaggerated picture of Tesla’s procurement to shareholders.”

That’s a mighty accusation with substantial legal ramifications.

ahurmazda··on Ask HN: Are there any reliable benchmarks for Machine Learning Model Serving?
This might be relevant. It’s a consortium with members like Baidu, nvidia, arm etc

https://mlcommons.org/benchmarks/inference-datacenter/

ahurmazda··on Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
I use terminal … a lot. Alas! These days it’s the terminal bundled with my IDE (intellij). I have multiple projects open and never really found a good workflow around terminals and IDE because I absolutely must use both.
ahurmazda··on Klarna freezes hiring as chief bets AI can do the job instead
https://archive.ph/WS9vZ
ahurmazda··on Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages
If I understand it correctly, rip::pip as to what rattler::conda? Finally pixi brings them altogether as the pkg manager to rule them all. Lofty goal but I remain optimistic that something better (esp in python land) is just around the corner.
ahurmazda··on Java 21 makes me like Java again
My favorite go feature (not exclusive to go) is `implicit` interface. Once I drank from that cup there is no going back!
ahurmazda··on Arc Browser 1.0
Solid experience over the last 6+ months. Very few crashes if at all. Transparent weekly updates (yay Thursdays). Can’t get enough of my split views and spaces. Kudos to the team
ahurmazda··on A new chat feature has been released by You Search
Thanks Richard

Personally I’d pay for it but I’m sure monetization is far more complicated. Hopefully you will have a breakthrough app (or two).

ahurmazda··on A new chat feature has been released by You Search
For now, youdotcom is my daily driver. Clean interface and no spam. Search results have gotten better over the last year. But I worry that eventually it’s gonna succumb to those sweet ad dollars like the rest. And this from FAQ does very little to allay the concern

> We are currently focused on building the best possible search experience. We will explore monetization ideas in the future, and we look forward to your feedback in that process.

ahurmazda··on Elon Musk states he will resign as CEO
One has to pity the fool that takes the job of the CEO but will forever be beholden to that one technical manager who (checks notes) owns the company. Anyone recall the comical President Medvedev and PM Putin bit?
ahurmazda··on Getting Started with Tmux
Yes!! I've terrible memory ... these are my mnemonics instead

"|" -- for vertical split

"-" -- for horizontal split

ahurmazda··on Ask HN: How do you read articles and newsletters?
I have a slightly different issue. I feel a lot less productive when reading on monitor (laptop or otherwise) compared to say a paper copy. At the same time the amount of content I go thru is fairly large (lots of preprints). I have tried iPad but ends up being distracting. Never found a comfortable path to opening pdfs on kindle. Atm considering giving remarkable tablets a try.
ahurmazda··on George Hotz becomes a Twitter intern to fix search
He’s an intern much like someone humble-bragging about “going to college in Boston”.
ahurmazda··on Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?
Did anyone find the dang manual :D

Oh the memories!

ahurmazda··on Redfin cuts 13% of staff, shuts down home-flipping business
Likely means single family rental
ahurmazda··on Nord – An Arctic, north-bluish color palette
I love Nord theme but with a touch of color

https://github.com/EdenEast/nightfox.nvim#nordfox

ahurmazda··on Google Ad Disguising Itself as www.gimp.org
Also timely

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33383494

ahurmazda··on JetBrains – Addressing the New UI Comments
Thanks. Was not aware of the preview. Going by the single screenshot, I could have sworn it’s vscode! Not sure how I feel about it (after all it’s just a tool but sheesh some visual differentiation would be nice).
ahurmazda··on Poll: Is there a negative stigma toward articles written in Medium?
Don’t know about stigma. I’m sure Medium is a business like many others. They are selling things. And I don’t particularly want to “buy” their products. Consequently, I don’t go to that shop.
ahurmazda··on Timing of daily calorie loading affects appetite and hunger responses
Likewise. If I can make it past 9am, I know I can fast till 2 or 3pm without much trouble.

Related rant: I wish I could get my hands on one of those fancy continuous glucose monitors to correlate my findings. Damn hassle in the US with prescription and all.

ahurmazda··on Walking is good for health but walking faster is even better, study finds
Reminds me of zone 2 training [1]

My target (aka zone 2) is around 140 bpm which I can achieve by walking fairly briskly -- I can still hold a telephone conversation and breath through my nose.

I have tried running in the past but I kept injuring this or the other (not at all athletic). Doing "slow" 10k+ steps per day total did not help with my weight either. But just doing these 1-hr zone-2 sessions (3-4x per week) made all the difference. Ofc ymmv!

[1] https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/fitness/zone-2...

ahurmazda··on Brave Integration Deepens Support for Unstoppable Domains
> "... explore the Internet without sacrificing their privacy or their autonomy, ,” said Brendan Eich ...

My irony meter exploded

ahurmazda··on Ask HN: Seriously, how do you TDD?
Don’t have a solution to learning best practices other than watching good practitioners at work.

However, a big inflection point for me was getting hold of a good/capable IDE (intellij). It removes a lot of the drudgery.

You write test with yet-to-be defined functions. IDE let’s you run the single test (amongst many) with one shortcut. Fails ofc!. Then you use a shortcut to let IDE implement the function (takes you where it needs to be implemented, easy with python modules eg. YMMV). Rinse and repeat.

ahurmazda··on The Jupyter+Git problem is now solved
Thanks but a hard pass from me. The original sin was using goofy JSON as the file format (and no! I dont care for your pretty 5MB pngs polluting my git tree). This is the nth attempt at applying lipstick on the pig (n-1 being jupytext)
ahurmazda··on How to Exit Vim
Isn’t it a better use of our time figuring out why these poor souls keep accidentally opening vi/vim at the first place? Maybe defaults are not what they ought to be.

(But if it’s intentional then RTFQ — sincerely your local curmudgeon)

ahurmazda··on How to Boost Your Productivity with the Kanban Method
I personally use notion for task management. It’s straightforward to create a view that’s grouped by “status” (or anything) to mimic the kanban swim-lanes. Afterwards it’s a matter of good kanban hygiene (eg <= N active tasks at any given moment etc).
ahurmazda··on I have complicated feelings about TDD
My beef with TDD is most every resource merely parrots the steps (red,green,..). No one teaches it well from what I have found. Nor am I convinced it’s easy to teach. I have picked up what I can by watching (what I believe) good TDD practitioners.

I have a feeling this is where TDD loses out the most

ahurmazda··on FDA moves to make over-the-counter hearing aids available
That makes sense. Although I was under the impression that these monitors are fairly robust
ahurmazda··on FDA moves to make over-the-counter hearing aids available
Do we still need a prescription for continuous blood glucose monitor in the US?!! This one really boggles my mind
ahurmazda··on Should You Be Using Python’s Walrus Operator? (Yes. and Here’s Why)
Well said!

I know we dont get paid by LOC but this recent obsession with compressing everything into a single line is off-putting.

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