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nullpoint420on Zig: Build System Reworked

Wow that’s gnarly it’s using dynamic dispatch. I mean I get it, but I thought zig was some sort of performance demon.

nullpoint420on Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

Ok im supposed to assume that a model doesn’t know cars get washed at a car wash?

But then im supposed to give it access to write code in my repositories. Sorry, what are you trying to get at here?

nullpoint420on Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA

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nullpoint420on Is This Sustainable?

I built this at my work and it didn’t turn out too well.

It’s a distributed agentic system on Temporal where all inputs are signals to the workflow. And then each agent has its own GNOME desktop either in a K8S pod or KubeVirt VM.

The biggest problem was context and ownership. The more we kept steering the model the worse it got until eventually it couldn’t complete its task. And on the ownership side, no one clearly owned the outcomes so it was just there… generating slop.

nullpoint420on Evolving Webflow for the Agentic Web

Alternatively, can you explain why you believe this statement reduces bad feelings? Put yourself in the shoes of those who have been laid off.

Defend your position, I’m tired of, and will not play defense.

nullpoint420on Ferrari Luce

Man, I wish they sold this car in the states… I’d buy one instantly.

nullpoint420on Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP

Haha exactly - or 4 if we’re balling

nullpoint420on Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP

Take it down and replace it? Obviously I’d have HA setup between my nodes, with CSI replication.

If budget allowed, I’d even spin up another region with DB failover setup too.

All the same architecture applies, the only difference is it’s done with K8S yaml instead of the CDK

nullpoint420on Bun support is now limited and deprecated

I swear they did this as a marketing ploy. To set the precedent that these large refactors are okay to do, and ingrain it in the engineering zeitgeist.

nullpoint420on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

Agentic workflows and computer use. You still need regular servers for the agents to use.

nullpoint420on The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]

Then make a userspace server to do that. If you want to see how this works in practice, macOS and iOS are great “pragmatic” implementations of this pattern. They use a Mach/BSD hybrid

nullpoint420on Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP

Yeah I mean sunk cost fallacy, right? If you’ve already hit critical mass in AWS of course you’re going continue investing in it.

If I were to be CTO of a brand new company today, I’d probably just colocate my own servers with K8S. Much cheaper and much lower latency. 2x 1TB RAM servers with 3x 8TB high speed U.2/U.3 drives each would last years.

nullpoint420on Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service

As a Linux user… you have a good point

nullpoint420on Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

I’d be surprised if they had this amount of observability info.

nullpoint420on Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

Makes you wonder if certain parties were tipped off early

nullpoint420on You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Triangulation

iirc this was a register level exploit. no software in iOS or macOS touched the undisclosed register, but when the right secret key was entered, you got full read/write primitives on the silicon

nullpoint420on Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'

I just don’t understand how they haven’t figured this out yet. I genuinely want to know the corporate structure and politics that have lead to their inability to execute.

Is it leadership? Something else?

nullpoint420on You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings

Why crack it when you have silicon level backdoors?

nullpoint420on How to turn anything into a router

> but went back to a GUI as it turned out I wanted a pet and not start a farm.

This made me chuckle, I'm definitely going to quote this the next time our K8S cluster has issues

nullpoint420on Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed

I 100% agree when it comes to security issues. They would have to host it themselves on their intranet through AppleConnect.

I'm a bit removed from what software Apple uses nowadays. Back when I worked there ~2021 it was still a mix of native apps (Radar, Phantom) and self-hosted enterprise versions of popular development tools. (eg. GitHub)

nullpoint420on Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi

Wouldn’t this be an unreliable CI though? I assume i586 and i686 cycle accurate emulators are hard to come by?

nullpoint420on Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed

Sheesh, you see suggestions here all the time. Just trying to be helpful

nullpoint420on Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed

This is where a company that categorizes customer feedback like unwrap.ai or enterpret could help with volume and priority

nullpoint420on Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

That's exactly my point. I'd rather have those built outs to power entire cities.

nullpoint420on GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information

Wdym? The reason is that people would oppose the TX and UT laws harder in California. Everyone is calm now in CA because "oh it's just an age dropdown guys!!"

But once the infrastructure is built give it a few years it's not going to be a dropdown. And it will not be able to be bypassed in the same way you can't bypass permissions on iOS and Android today.

nullpoint420on ARM AGI CPU: Specs and SKUs

Damn, no wonder Ampere stopped releasing chips. They were churning them out and then just crickets.

nullpoint420on Miscellanea: The War in Iran

Yeah but at least the byproducts produce a solid that can last for years vs treating it as a consumable.

I'm fulling expecting someone will reply to me and say that making plastic wastes 75% of the oil or something during production, and that it's just as wasteful amortized across the lifespan of a wind turbine. I'm tired, man.

nullpoint420on Apple Can Create Smaller On-Device AI Models from Google's Gemini

I could 100% see this, and ironically it makes sense. I can totally envision an Apple exec announcing this at a keynote.

“We’re proud to announce that the iPhone 21 is our most performant iPhone yet - capable of running models of up to 20 billion parameters. That’s over 2x the amount on iPhone 20.”

Or something like that.

nullpoint420on GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information

Until CA matches the TX and UT laws. Boiling the frog

nullpoint420on The American Healthcare Conundrum

> while we laughed and discussed our stock options.

We? Sorry, I'm one of the "newer" engineers that joined the industry right before the AI bubble.

I didn't laugh or discuss my stock options. I accepted what jobs were available post-COVID crash.