elikoga

136 karma · joined March 21, 2021

Working on Thymis.io (IoT fleet management with NixOS, OSS + SaaS). Background: systems engineering, infra-as-code, reproducible builds. Into Nix, Linux, IoT, distributed systems. Student @ UPB.

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elikoga··on The Dhall Configuration Language

Tried to use it and it didn't fit my usecase: Recursive Types are a bit difficult

Looks great otherwise

elikoga··on FiveThirtyEight 2022 Election Forecast

A minority did vote for trump though

elikoga··on Redactle–Wordle for Wikipedia

Wow this is fun!

elikoga··on Rpath, or why lld doesn’t work on NixOS

Wow, great investigation article

elikoga··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

CORS apparently breaks the site for me

elikoga··on Github Copilot Wants to Play Chess Instead of Code

A GPT-3 product exposing GPT-3 outputs by design hardly is "breaking"

elikoga··on Do large language models understand us?

The "Wǒ bù huì[...]" part means "I negate/not can[...]"

It means precisely the opposite.

elikoga··on Rough.js – Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance

This looks like a wonderful library! I'm wondering how a handwritten font could fit into this api, a font like in https://github.com/timqian/chart.xkcd

elikoga··on Is Protonmail logging my email content?

This seems to me very worth looking into

elikoga··on Favorite self-rendering Markdown tool in JavaScript??

I think https://github.com/markedjs/marked would be one of the more popular libraries in this category

elikoga··on Creating personalised data stories with GPT-3

I agree, that also looks like a great use case. I'm sure there are many more to come.

One thing I love about GPT-3 is that it uses the same common language for the "data people" and the "non-data" people. The same description works for both.

This makes it so easy to explain what you are doing. I think that is a huge advantage over existing text generation methods.

elikoga··on Deaf Man Who Couldn't Hear Police Commands Was Tased and Spent 4 Months in Jail

> He hasn't cracked a skull or kneed a chest in an entire year of service.

What a powerful sentence.

elikoga··on So, this whole “Collatz Conjecture” thing

This just reads like "I can't find a counterexample and can't think of a way to find a counterexample so there must be no way to construct a counterexample so there are no counterexamples" and there are two points where you can go wrong with that kind of argument

elikoga··on Ask HN: Who's Using NixOps in Production?

> Ask HN: Who's Using NixOps in Production?

> 8 points by lambdaba *23 hours ago*

Ouch...

I've been looking into provisioning with nix integration for a bit and it looks like Terraform with https://github.com/tweag/terraform-nixos and/or https://github.com/andrewchambers/terraform-provider-nix might just be a comprehensive solution to the problem that NixOps aims to solve (I think)

I haven't evaluated it though yet

elikoga··on Tinder Experiment: Gini coefficient is 0.58 – worse than 95% of global economies

The article uses men/women *and* male/female in their respective appropiate contexts

I won't go into how you think of the ethicality of the "study" which is little more than a cursory glance at avaliable data bringing some insightful results

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