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robbintt··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
I do this same thing with 1 server. How fo you handle requests? I used a lambda to fire up an ec2 instance but just moved to locally served.
robbintt··on Show HN: A hash array-mapped trie implementation in C
That's cool! I recently had GPT-4 write me a HAMT in C++, and it somewhat works, a lot of the basics are there. I ran out of time but am planning on fixing it up with instruct. It missed a lot of stuff and its tests run but they aren't very good.
robbintt··on I stopped buying new laptops (2020)
If you're trading it in then it's going to see more life, refurbished.
robbintt··on GPT-4 API General Availability
Use a 2nd email and google voice phone number
robbintt··on First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
The US has this as well :)
robbintt··on Fast machines, slow machines
Google tracks eveything in their ecosystem this way and it's so anti-customer.
robbintt··on Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them
Don't forget wattage requirements. Compute per watt is by far the most important factor. I would be curious if resoldering many phone CPU chips to make some sort of computer is power competitive with relatively modern cPUs.
robbintt··on Giving LLM’s a <Backspace> Token
The loops is also quite large right now. Put a lot in, get a lot out, put a little in, get a lot out. I suppose there is some work from OpenAI to have a well formed response in a certain number of tokens or something, I am not sure how the "document size" part of their chat completion works.
robbintt··on Jellyfin: Free software media system
It's open source, so, go take action.
robbintt··on IKEA-Oriented Development
You could also put it in the trunk of your car or take it on the train.
robbintt··on Plain text journaling in Vim
Adding a layer on top would defeat the simplicity.
robbintt··on Plain text journaling in Vim
I will take a look -- however, since I only use a single file, it may not be needed.
robbintt··on KDE Plasma 6 Has Reached the Point of Being “Fairly Livable”
I use s3 to share with my friends. I wrote a bash script to upload to a s3 bucket. The bucket has a policy to auto delete after X days.

There is a little buffer, 100GB egress free per month. After that, I would be paying $0.09 per GB egress.

With micro costs like these, I wonder if there is a future in self-paying hosting costs.

robbintt··on KDE Plasma 6 Has Reached the Point of Being “Fairly Livable”
As with MacOS, I find kde5/plasma5 quite habitable. I try to be my own devil's advocate about my opinions and wants, and how much those matter to moving the needle on my big goals.
robbintt··on Plain text journaling in Vim
I have been plain text journalling in vim for 18 months. I use a single file. Each day, at the bottom of the file, I put the date, then content. I use this system at work.

I do actually use the same concept of putting `TODO` `WIP` or `DONE` at the beginning of each task line, and I am usually using a task list with subheadings on any given day.

robbintt··on Open source Diablo 1 engine – DevilutionX 1.5.0 released
There are several dragonrealms clients, but most use Genie 3, and that's now been open-sourced.
robbintt··on Board Changes at Signal
I don't buy that this really matters, I'm an avid signal user and never even heard of this.
robbintt··on Board Changes at Signal
Does it matter if it is growing or shrinking? The users are getting usage, and the maintainers are providing a service. Is there a profit motive being unfulfilled?
robbintt··on Cormac McCarthy has died
It is also related to the judge's quest to name all things. The relationship is measurement, a fundamentally human activity... or perhaps fundamental to the way our civilization is doing human.
robbintt··on Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl”
You have to include more answers to the anticipated five whys: "why why why why why" for your response to be useful.
robbintt··on Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS
Is it recommended to run my own proxy then, and is there any boilerplate project out there? I could also use OpenVPN, but seems like I just want to proxy ipfs, not my whole connection.
robbintt··on OpenAI Employee: GPT-4 has been static since March
What is your hypothesis for the layout/diagram of models feeding the gpt-4 output for chatgpt/gpt-4 vs api/gpt-4?
robbintt··on Using ChatGPT to generate a GPT project end-to-end
It seems like there is some sort of "viral singularity" that is quite likely. Still a "paperclip maximizer" where paperclip is something unexpected. In a sense life, and humanity, are types of paperclip maximizers.
robbintt··on Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
It's two adjectives on the noun.
robbintt··on I’ve been single all my life
It's all about tradeoffs. Sometime soon you should plan really far then take those requirements back to hit whatever soft deadlines (although there are few or no hard deadlines, so don't sweat it).
robbintt··on Midjourney AI Guide
So everyone but some archivists are using it? Hack the system my friend
robbintt··on Carbon nanotube recognition by human Siglec-14 provokes inflammation
Wouldn't an aromatic loop have a high affinity for anything with some relatively large / low density (amenable to moving around) electron field?
robbintt··on Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)
I collected all my meetings into "meeting thursday". A dump day - typically from 9-2, sometimes 9-5. Sometimes I cancel or reschedule everything if another "dump cluster" forms.
robbintt··on Thinking hard makes the brain tired
This. Use a metronome on your phone. And do high rep weight training (leg machines) and crosstrain on a bike.
robbintt··on Retrieval in LangChain
What is the aws cli stuff? I was thinking about writing a terraform agent tool.
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