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girvo

13,371 karma · joined May 31, 2012

Principal front-end engineer in Brisbane, Australia

Email me at josh (at) jgirvin (dot) com

https://jgirvin.com for my blog

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girvo··on Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
I don’t think that’s true? I’ve been here quite a while now and it goes back a long long time in the startup world
girvo··on Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
The argument is that the scrutiny is in practice not sufficient, as usual in these cases.
girvo··on Fastmail offers EU data region
And you can’t tell anyone if you do, on pain of jail.
girvo··on Why some people mow a lawn better than others
Gardening is my stress reliever for this reason.

Though going to war with pests is… less stress relieving sometimes.

girvo··on That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
The one time an interviewer started describing fizzbuzz as a problem for me to solve, I said “oh FizzBuzz?” And he said “oh never mind then” haha.

Got the job offer too, though I didn’t take it

girvo··on Don't be a meat proxy
Fish rot from the head, as they say.
girvo··on Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300
Which some companies have done! Nvidia, I believe, among others.
girvo··on Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
I liked Nim’s take on checked exceptions personally, was quite lovely
girvo··on Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
I’ve always done that in my typescript code bases too, and I’ve never regretted it
girvo··on Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now
Vinegar etching helps heaps with that I’ve found :)
girvo··on Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now
The joy of working with a well seasoned carbon steel pan is similar, I find
girvo··on Google has abandoned Google News?
Such a great operating system. I miss it.
girvo··on Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s
> I doubt that you’d ever call them lazy to their face — why do it here?

What makes you so sure about that?

Posting LLM generated obviously un-reviewed slop and wasting people's time deserves scorn.

girvo··on Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved
God that belt and suspenders thing gives me a visceral physical reaction. Nauseating.
girvo··on MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH
VALORANT for me is the only game keeping my gaming desktop on Windows
girvo··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
If you want to talk about this century and human rights, then you better look inwards. You're obviously a nationalist yourself, accusation in a mirror as is typical.
girvo··on Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver
>You give up 200GB networking, but anyone 'daily driving' one of these things are probably not needing to cluster multiples of them at high speed..

I mean that's not as true as you'd think: in fact its the whole benefit IMO of the spark-alikes, and if you're not running TP=2 or above you're sort of wasting it's potential

girvo··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
Those don't have a lot of RAM though. Not like these 40, 80GB ones.
girvo··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
My DGX Spark-alike is currently selling in my country for nearly double what I paid for it too. We live in a silly, silly world.
girvo··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
We've not had cheap GPUs with this much VRAM before, though. Might be an interesting change, though I also doubt it personally.
girvo··on I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
Nah, it's fine! I just muted the tab, no big deal
girvo··on Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver
Although one of the ones it cannot do is have/address 128GB of video memory, so it depends on what you want to achieve.
girvo··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
It writes in a bunch of annoying too-short sentence fragments, so, yes?
girvo··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
Your definition means that any example I can bring up, you can dismiss as “non serious” as you haven’t provided your criteria.

This is a useless rubric and makes discussing this pointless.

girvo··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
Depends on the model; Step 3.7 Flash is surprisingly happy to chat about Chinese banned topics for example when run locally
girvo··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
I mean we shouldn’t pretend China isn’t run by a 1 party authoritarian state. It is. And it uses that absolute power how and when it pleases.
girvo··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
People absolutely use LLMs to research politically sensitive topics.

I wish they wouldn’t, but people use LLMs as their general search engines now.

girvo··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
As someone from neither the US nor China, neither are altruistic and both have horrible histories, both meddle in my country’s affairs, and neither have my interests at heart.

China’s got plenty of blood on its hands, pretending otherwise is silly. America does, too. It’s quite easy for me to condemn both their governments and trust neither.

girvo··on I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens
operatorsval.gg

Which is basically a fancy calendar and team management system for my Valorant Premier team haha

It’s on my GitHub as operators-premier-manager but note it is not great: it serves its purpose which is to wrangle my team to show up for practice and scrims

girvo··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
Microcontroller and sensor bugs owe me a lot of sleep that I will never get back, to add to your point.
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