Bellyache5 (u/Bellyache5)

Bellyache5 commented on 18F GitHub Repositories github.com/18f... · Posted by u/ronbenton

Wrong. They’re eliminating it because it’s a successful agency. Elon wants to steal your tax dollars. So he’s destroying the government so he can sell you something half as good for 10x the price.

Bellyache5 · 10 months ago

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world with a reported net worth of $359.4 billion[1]. Why does he want to steal our tax dollars? What indication is there that further self-enrichment is his goal?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/

Bellyache5 commented on Amazon spends another $2.7B on Anthropic cnbc.com/2024/03/27/amazo... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

VirusNewbie · 2 years ago

It's interesting that Anthropic also has gotten quite a large investment from Google, and uses Google for its training. I wonder if this is a good move from the standpoint of playing the two major cloud providers off each other.

Here it says they're going to use Amazon's chips for training and inference, but...Amazon doesn't have its own chips yet???

So I wonder how these deals are structured? Does amazon have to supply a custom AI chip that beats some benchmark? Would be pretty great if that part of the deal to use their chips involved beating TPUs, and if somehow Google's TPUs continue improving, they don't have to switch.

All in all, I'm very impressed with Anthropic as a company. I think they're the new OpenAI.

Bellyache5 · 2 years ago

No idea if it's any good or not, but Amazon has their own "Inferentia" chips.

https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/

Bellyache5 commented on Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021) sprocketfox.io/xssfox/202... · Posted by u/AndrewKemendo

davidy123 · 2 years ago

I haven't seen this config mentioned yet, but I have two displays; a LG SDQHD 28" 8:9 2560x2880 on the left, and a LG 49" 21:9 55120x2160 ultrawide curved on the right, with a slight angle joining them in a "hinge."

I use multiple virtual desktops, for dev I have a terminal on the left and the IDE on the right. This was the best config I could find where I had enough on the screens I didn't need to flip between panes frequently, yet it wasn't overwhelming and lets the actual window view behind the displays through, and I can comfortably focus on key areas and look around with craning my neck too much.

If the displays were backing a wall, I might try an 8k 65" display, but I would mainly use the comfortable part of it, and let the rest be ambient info. That could be magnificent with an OLED display. Though I think it would make sense to be curved and they aren't common anymore. Who knows, maybe a VR headset will be a better choice in a few years.

I've been working a lot on the idea of ambient info. I use KDE's html wallpaper feature to provide a dynamic graph view of my environment.

Bellyache5 · 2 years ago

I would love to see a picture of your setup.

Bellyache5 commented on Bitten by the black box of iCloud sixcolors.com/post/2023/1... · Posted by u/voisin

jazzyjackson · 2 years ago

I got skiddish about my data integrity when I tried updating the email address associated with my icloud; my notes stopped syncing from my iphone to my macbook etc so I decided I would export everything for a backup lest a "sync" operation decide to wipe my data from the blank device to the one with data.

I was frustrated for hours trying to find the export option in notes (there are some half-measures) but in the end I was pleased with the file format they give you when you download data from this page, equivelant to google Takeout:

https://privacy.apple.com/account

It does take a few days from the request to the zip download, but I got my 100GB of apple photos and 5,000 apple notes complete with pdf and url attachments

Bellyache5 · 2 years ago

Thank you for sharing this link. I had no idea it existed but it is exactly what I needed for backing up my photos en masse.

Bellyache5 commented on Doom for 16-bit DOS computers github.com/FrenkelS/Doom8... · Posted by u/elvis70

jezze · 2 years ago

One thing I remember was that DOOM did not run well on the 486SX. You needed the 486DX which had an FPU. Maybe there was a 486DX with 33mhz but most were 66mhz I think?

Bellyache5 · 2 years ago

I played Doom on my 486DX 33MHz.

Bellyache5 commented on The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) apenwarr.ca/log/20170810... · Posted by u/jnord

bragr · 2 years ago

>It's hard to imagine a network interface (except ppp0) without a 48-bit MAC address?

Not super common but there's Infiniband. Latter versions supported encapsulating ethernet frames (Ethernet over InfiniBand) but not all hardware supports it. Otherwise it's straight IP over IB. There must be other niche networking technology that does IP without Ethernet.

Bellyache5 · 2 years ago

Does networking over Thunderbolt work similarly?

Bellyache5 commented on Terraform best practices for reliability at any scale substrate.tools/blog/terr... · Posted by u/holoway

Illotus · 2 years ago

> Other than the fact it seems to be an industry standard so it's good for your job prospects, what are the benefits to Terraform over CloudFormation/CDK or whatever the equivalent is for your particular cloud provider?

For me the killer feature is that both plan and apply show the actual diff of changes vs running infrastructure. It makes understanding effects of changes much easier.

Bellyache5 · 2 years ago

Agreed, Terraform does a good job of this. But CloudFormation & CDK can also do this via Change Sets and CDK diff.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

https://blog.mikaeels.com/what-does-the-aws-cdk-diff-command...

Bellyache5 commented on NYC skyscrapers sit vacant bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mirthlessend

JumpCrisscross · 3 years ago

> plumbing work to convert office to residential would be so ridiculously expensive

If you require plumbing to every apartment. Dorm-style lay-out would sidestep this problem.

Bellyache5 · 3 years ago

Who would want to live in a dorm?

Bellyache5 commented on Pirate Weather pirateweather.net/en/late... · Posted by u/edward

hcarvalhoalves · 3 years ago

> Before going any farther, I wanted to add a link to sign up and support this project! Running this on AWS means that it scales beautifully and is much more reliable than if I was trying to host this, but also costs real money.

https://github.com/alexander0042/pirateweather/raw/main/docs...

That looks like a pretty complex architecture.

I wonder if instead of financial support, the author could use help figuring out a more cost-effective solution?

Bellyache5 · 3 years ago

It's not clear that this isn't the more cost-effective solution. Without diving into the pricing of each component shown, I suspect there may be some cost optimizations to make (for one example, I had a hard time discerning from the write-up what the EC2 instance was doing...something related to more weather data collection I think?) but this is approximately "cloud-native" in approach, and the way to minimize costs in the cloud is to design your application to be cloud-native and use managed services and provider-specific capabilities where they make sense (and also tend to offer very low/free per-use pricing). Does that increase vendor lock-in? Definitely. It's a trade-off that needs to be considered for each application. Using the cloud to run a bunch of static VMs is an anti-pattern and a big factor in driving costs through the roof. (If you need a single server, a VPS is a very good approach.)

The architecture is complex from the standpoint of having a lot of icons and arrows, but if it was running on a single server would it be _that_ much less complex? At this level of architectural diagram you probably condense most of these service icons down to one or two icons. But drill down further and you still have storage, cron jobs, an API endpoint with throttling/quota logic, CDN, a shared filesystem, the need to access the S3 buckets with weather data that AWS is providing from its Open Data Registry, plus (ideally) fine-grained permissions to lock everything down. Could you run all of this on a single server in a VPS? Yes! Could you run it on a vendor-agnostic K8s cluster? Yes! Would those options automatically be less expensive? Not necessarily.

Bellyache5 commented on Extremely Linear Git History westling.dev/b/extremely-... · Posted by u/zegl

kzrdude · 3 years ago

Yep. If you squint it's similar to bitcoin mining in that particular aspect

Bellyache5 · 3 years ago

And vanity Tor .onion addresses