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cyfex··on AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens
"GPU compute powering crypto for the last decade..."

I keep hearing this lately. Also, that GPU compute has been re-purposed from crypto to AI.

I had the impression that crypto was powered by ASICs for the last... many years. And that was why GPU mining (let alone CPU mining) was not profitable

cyfex··on EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
> Greek being the only Hellenic one

Are there really any other Hellenic languages besides Greek?

cyfex··on OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt
Not USB, but there exist SFP DSL modems, like the Proscend 180-T.

They are pricey and difficult to come by, but with something like a Turris Omnia as a host, you _can_ have a single-device modem/router/WiFi AP

cyfex··on Automated integer hash function discovery
He's also the author of elfeed [0] "An Emacs web feeds client". I've found his minimalist implementation very inspiring.

[0] https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed

cyfex··on Tell HN: GitHub broke feeds for individual commits
It appears you can still make it return an Atom feed if you pass the 'Accept: application/xml' header.

This is not to say that what they did was right.

cyfex··on Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
We have 30k year old statues?

This is news to me, do you have a reference you can share?

cyfex··on Clean mount lists in Linux
I have been using `duf` [1] for a while, as a "cleaner" alternative to `df`.

[1] https://github.com/muesli/duf

cyfex··on Qalculate – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator
It's a really great calculator for all sorts of stuff.

I use many of the following almost daily:

- currency conversion: `x USD to EUR` or `BTC to USD`

- time calculations: `now - 27 hours`

- unix epoch conversion: `timestamp(now - 3 days)`, also `stamptodate()`

- unit conversion: `34 oC to oF`

and more.

Works really nicely with https://github.com/svenstaro/rofi-calc

cyfex··on Qalculate – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator
I have `$mod+c` bound to rofi-calc [1] which I find even more convenient.

1. https://github.com/svenstaro/rofi-calc

cyfex··on Ask HN: How do you monitor your systemd services?
> Sending myself emails feels a bit wrong but has so far been the best solution.

Why does email feel wrong? I find it a pretty viable solution.

cyfex··on Heat Pumps – The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs
I have never really understood the difference between a heat pump and an A/C myself.

Any expert care to explain it in layman's terms?

cyfex··on Migrate from Linux to FreeBSD
Is hibernation (is it called suspend-to-disk nowadays?) working with *BSD yet?

For me, it is a prerequisite for using *BSD as a desktop OS, and what stopped me from migrating from Linux to *BSD last time.

Edit: Formatting

cyfex··on New(ish) command line tools
I have found https://github.com/denisidoro/navi very useful for remembering nifty one-liners.

It's like a bookmark manager for commands.

Also good for sharing them with the rest of your team, via a git repo.

cyfex··on My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated
I always found the hurdle with self-hosting to be maintaining, not the initial setup. Things like upgrading, in order to keep getting security fixes, and verifying everything works after the upgrade, are what has taken the most effort and time in the past for me.

This looks like a great setup by the author, but difficult to maintain in the long run without significant time investment.

cyfex··on Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools
What kind of issues does "xeyes" help you troubleshoot?
cyfex··on Ask HN: Best things in your bash_profile/aliases?
You can also delete old (older than 90 days) undo files with the following in your .vimrc:

  let s:undos = split(globpath(&undodir, '*'), "\n")
  call filter(s:undos, 'getftime(v:val) < localtime() - (60 * 60 * 24 * 90)')
  call map(s:undos, 'delete(v:val)')