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robbintt··on I think I need to go lie down
That is pretty compelling. Probably another layer you use by default but can swipe to the gui search layer or full control. As usual, nerds will default to full control.
robbintt··on Open-interpreter: OpenAI's Code Interpreter in your terminal, running locally
Why doesn't it mention the lmstudio dependency in the local docs here https://docs.openinterpreter.com/language-model-setup/local-...?

And the linux build must be requested from discord: https://lmstudio.ai/

robbintt··on A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time
We actually just had a cat change her food seeking behavior by exactly 1 hour during daylight savings, which allowed us to mostly exclude her internal clock and time sense.
robbintt··on My 2023 all-flash ZFS NAS (Network Storage) build
That's cool. I use some 4 tb silicon power brand drives. I didn't research them much. Prices are definitely going to fall soon on 8 tb, and I'll likely retrofit things pretty quickly with those.
robbintt··on Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
I have 1 of these for work and 1 for home. I'm waiting 5 years from release, so about 2024-2025. Computers got really good around 2017, and the only reason to upgrade is the heat and fan. I use remote VMs anyways, so chrome is really my limiter.
robbintt··on My 2023 all-flash ZFS NAS (Network Storage) build
What brand of 4tb nvmes are you using?
robbintt··on Can't be fucked: Underrated cause of tech debt
Name & shame
robbintt··on Exploring Linux command-line space time
For software contexts, we refer to space as memory or overall storage depending on the architecture.
robbintt··on Rethinking the Luddites
It definitely reduced the amount and complexity of work there is to do. So, in a static market, it reduced the number of workers. It's hard to see in tech which is an expanding market.
robbintt··on Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
This is cruel, but fair.
robbintt··on Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
Whole market funds, but preferably multi market funds. Basically VT. But you can foray into VFIAX.
robbintt··on Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
I went to a tech presentation by Barrick and got the impression that gold price is set by their fixed costs and operation costs. If the price goes up they turn up their operations. I am sure this isn't a controlling factor as demand could outstrip their operation size. But it does set a soft ceiling when demand is low, and it is.
robbintt··on Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
The general thinking about this is to use a "safe withdrawal rate" of 3% to 4% of assets per year. Dividends are out of fashion since they don't offer tax deferral, they also aren't really easy to properly diversify although dividend funds are offered.
robbintt··on Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
You can sue in the US but there's really no case for OP. The company is "trying its best to deliver value".
robbintt··on The curl-wget Venn diagram
Apple will not ship any GPLv3 code.
robbintt··on Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
This isn't a huge difference most of the time. Once you have cluster management at scale, 3 vs 3000 are pretty similar.
robbintt··on Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
-site:pinterest.com will fix it as needed
robbintt··on Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
An account is not required anymore.
robbintt··on Stable Linux mainline builds for Ubuntu
It's covered in the article.
robbintt··on Common mistakes in salary negotiation
I have asked up front if people attach timelines to their offers or use exploding offers and just decline to interview. Those offers are, in my experience, always less competitive.
robbintt··on A protein that disrupts cells’ energy centers may be a culprit in CFS/ME
It's not negligible, BECAUSE you are seeing dozens of patients a day. When you're a doctor, factoring the odds into your diagnosis will screw up your diagnosis BECAUSE you are exposed to the whole probability spectrum, not a quanta of it.

Using "chance of occurrence" is a major logical fallacy for diagnosis identification and can ruin the whole practice.

robbintt··on The OpenTF Manifesto
I completely agree that it has problems. I use terraform a lot. Compared to nothing, I love terraform. However, it's so overwrought that it has to be hidden from anyone not in infra for a living.

1. IaC description should be format agnostic and transformable (eg definable in yaml, json, whatever).

2. Something about provider interfaces here, but it's already super messy and not sure if it's an improvement or just a shift

3. State files were wild west last time I checked. And there should be a default database interface provider at minimum. Maybe there is now?

4. Forcing the apply->statefile cycle as the default requires all of compute, interface, and a human. This should have been an abstraction on a raw interface for automated use.

robbintt··on The OpenTF Manifesto
For now you can pin your version and cache your sources.
robbintt··on The OpenTF Manifesto
It will affect categories of business users (programmers) who currently embrace terraform: amazon, google, microsoft, oracle, alibaba cloud.

Like it or not, cohorts of engineering organizations like the above (cloud providers) have a very outsized weight and already have contender products they can choose to vigorously fund tomorrow.

From the article:

The license does not allow you to use Terraform if you meet both of the following conditions: You are building a product that is competitive with HashiCorp. You embed or host Terraform in your product.

My $0.02: the management of hashicorp is following a stupid trend and should have thought about their customers more.

It will come out to what lawyers think, I guess. Lawyers usually say no to things with poorly established precedent.

robbintt··on Vim Boss
Home row is jkl;
robbintt··on Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world
Is this battery savings from using podman instead of docker for mac or using docker for max with M1/M2?
robbintt··on A room-temperature superconductor? New developments
FWIW strip mining operations till materials for ~6 PPM gold.
robbintt··on “It works on my machine” turns to “it works in my container” (2019)
To use the apt analogy further up in the thread, `sudo apt install git` is repeatable in your dockerfile, but often not reproducible. Later on you will get a different build. Across say 500 packages and 1,000,000 containers (or say 1000 container images if you are deploying images) over even a week this becomes extremely... varied...
robbintt··on I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach
This can cause all doctors to require it, and this has happened across industries, for example, software and internet platform "terms of service". It is a very bad idea.
robbintt··on Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
Can you speak to how much you and your peers think early depth of exposure matters compared to confidence in the basics?
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