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girishso

528 karma · joined December 21, 2012

Polyglot developer. elm/rails/react/go. www.cuberoot.in
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girishso··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
AFAIK these don't have to be CPUs. ASICS are well suited for this purpose. This will be the most cost effective way to run LLMs.
girishso··on Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
Didn't they dump old Windows 95 kernel in XP and switched to Windows NT kernel in XP?
girishso··on Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks
Any suggestions for copying files from the old CD or DVD?
girishso··on Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site
Slightly off topic, I use KeePassXC on Mac and browser integration almost never works for me. It never picks up the usernames, passwords for me, even if the entry has the url in it.
girishso··on Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM
Interesting, what tools did you use for email hosting?

I’m scared of self hosting a mailbox.

girishso··on CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models
Came across a similar tool replicad. https://replicad.xyz/

Anyone has used it?

girishso··on Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
Why do we call this company "Meta"? It's the same old "Facebook".
girishso··on PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug
If it had a female usb c connector at the other end, we could daisy chain those or connect other device on the same port (like mcu in the middle).
girishso··on Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go
Great tool, only thing I miss is it doesn't show SAMBA names.
girishso··on 3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup
and will help reduce e-waste
girishso··on Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
With latest OS update - Apple watch series 7 decreased battery life, Siri started acting weird (sometimes I have to keep pressing crown till I finish the command, sometimes not). It stopped showing battery percentage while charging long back.

Apple is not an environment friendly company.

girishso··on The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network
Imagine people in 1890s or so, hearing about this almost instant transfer of messages, news to any part of the world - would be nothing short of magical modern technology.
girishso··on Unifi Travel Router
> though Android phones can

Interesting, as someone who has always used iPhones, wouldn't mind getting an Android phone for this.

Is there some app?

girishso··on FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter
> the basic human right of being allowed to return arrays from functions

While working in C, can’t count number of times I wanted to return an array

girishso··on My dad could still be alive, but he's not
Which machine? Defibrillator or EKG?
girishso··on I hacked my clock to control my focus
There’s similar app for Mac OS, Focus Bar https://apps.apple.com/us/app/focusbar/id443439127?mt=12
girishso··on "Awful": Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
Does DNS blocking work with Apps (e.g. YouTube android) using Certificate pinning?
girishso··on We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Concurrency Bug at Netflix
Not much familiar with Elixir OTP, but isn’t the approach OP took similar to Let It Crash philosophy of OTP?
girishso··on OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
Just reporting in some plain text format so I can manually delete the duplicates, or create some script to delete.

I can't have like 10 external HDDs attached at the same time, so the tool needs to dump details (hashes?) somewhere on Mac HDD, and compare against those to find the duplicates.

girishso··on OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
Off topic, any tool to deduplicate files across different external Hard disks?

Over the years I made multiple copies of my laptop HDD to different external HDDs, ended up with lots of duplicate copies of files.

girishso··on Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
I play different wav files when compile fails or succeeds, so I don’t need to switch to terminal from the editor. This in addition to Anybar(1) red/green icons.

1. https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar

girishso··on Is Gmail still the go-to email provider for generic email addresses?
Anyone has used hey.com?
girishso··on Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
That is me, I have `/home/delme` since forever!
girishso··on Ask HN: Resources to Get Started with RaspberryPi?
Checkout DietPi, simplifies configuration, logging, software install and much more.

https://dietpi.com/

girishso··on How to prolong lithium based batteries
1. It’s ok to keep laptop plugged in, even at 100% battery

2. Keep temperature as low as possible, maintain airflow

3. Avoid fast chargers

girishso··on Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS
The only thing missing from raycast clipboard is ability to paste previous 'copy's with a keyboard shortcut.
girishso··on Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
I use OTP Auth both iOS and Mac apps available. Pro upgrade is dirt cheap.
girishso··on Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
Righto, looks like impossible to fix then.
girishso··on MapSCII – A Braille and ASCII world map renderer for the console
This reminded me of a quine by a member of the Ruby core team - Yusuke Endoh.

Spinning globe in the terminal!

https://gist.github.com/shime/f0ebe84ca42c33b51d42

girishso··on Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
I did create a self signed root cert, it works as expected when accessing net from my Mac. But mobile devices refuse to work, zero network requests succeed. I did trust the root cert on both mac and mobile. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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