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israrkhan commented on M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025   macrumors.com/2025/07/10/... · Posted by u/behnamoh
kingkongjaffa · 23 days ago
Yeah I’m on an M1 and it’s still outstanding.

The only motivation to upgrade is battery degradation or getting more RAM to run larger LLM models locally.

israrkhan · 23 days ago
I upgraded only for large memory (upgraded from 16G M1 to 48G M4). Battery life was still outstainding when i upgraded.
israrkhan commented on Native Sparse Attention   aclanthology.org/2025.acl... · Posted by u/CalmStorm
israrkhan · a month ago
Well deserved
israrkhan commented on Dumb Pipe   dumbpipe.dev/... · Posted by u/udev4096
gosub100 · a month ago
10 years ago I made an "encrypted voice channel" by chaining the following 3 commands together (I dont remember exactly how it looked, this is just a sketch):

    arecord - | openssl aes-128-cbc -pass:'secretstring' - | nc <dest ip> <dest port>
on the receiving end

    nc -l <dest port> | openssl aes-128-cbc -pass:'secretstring' | aplay -
I don't remember exactly which audio device I used back then. It worked okay-ish, but there was definitely lag from somewhere. Just kind of neat that you can build something so useful without a bloated app, just chaining a few commands together.

israrkhan · a month ago
This is cool
israrkhan commented on My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)   simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/simonw
RALaBarge · a month ago
Ask it a series of the same questions after you train that you posed before training started. Is the quality lower?
israrkhan · a month ago
That series of questions will measure only a particular area. I am concerned about destorying model capabilities in some other area that that I do not pay attention to, and have no way of knowing.
israrkhan commented on My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)   simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/simonw
qcnguy · a month ago
LLM fine tuning tends to destroy the model's capabilities if you aren't very careful. It's not as easy or effective as with image generation.
israrkhan · a month ago
do you have a suggestion or a way to measure if model capabilities are getting destroyed? how do one measure it objectively?
israrkhan commented on Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal   neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/bundie
chasil · a month ago
As I hear stories of Apple, Google, and Microsoft revoking valuable access, I remember this article...

"Don’t build your castle in other people’s kingdoms."

https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/11/01/dont-build-your-cast...

israrkhan · a month ago
In this day and age, it is almost impossible for certain businesses not to build on someone's else kingdom.

Facebook, instagram, uber, lyft, doordash, instacart, and hundreds of unicorn businesses are literally built on top of ecosystems that are controlled by 2 or 3 companies.

israrkhan commented on Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)   tim.dierks.org/2014/05/se... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
jedberg · 3 months ago
Curious, when you tell someone they need to access a website securely (or any other case where you might use the term TLS or SSL), do you:

1. Say SSL or TLS?

2. How old are you (or did you start working before 1999?)

I'll reply with my answer too.

israrkhan · 3 months ago
I think most people call it SSL because they use OpenSSL library to deal with secure communication have SSL in their names. Openssl being the most dominant one). Other libraries are BoringSSL, LibreSSL, wolfSSL etc.

Libraries with TLS in their names are less frequently used

GnuTLS, mbedTLS, s2n-tls and RustTLS.

israrkhan commented on Waymo's market share in San Francisco exceeds Lyft's   underscoresf.com/in-san-f... · Posted by u/namanyayg
fasthands9 · 3 months ago
I wouldn't touch Uber stock, but the PE ratio is only 15. My guess is the market is expecting them to be able to still grow in the next few years even if they eventually face tough competition.

I think there's also the fact that if self-driving cars take off and price goes down, people will ultimately rely on taxis/delivery more than ever. Maybe there is a place for Uber to be the platform for that still, maybe not.

israrkhan · 3 months ago
Uber also has a delivery business. Uber Eats and Uber direct.
israrkhan commented on AI Isn't Magic, It's Maths   zerofluff.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/squircle
israrkhan · 3 months ago
A computer (or a phone) is not magic, its just billions of transistors.

or perhaps we can further simplify and call it just sand?

or maybe atoms?

israrkhan commented on Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git   danielsada.tech/blog/carr... · Posted by u/dshacker
MBCook · 3 months ago
Could someone explain the ideas of forward integration and reverse integration in Source Depot?

I’d never heard of Source Depot before today.

israrkhan · 3 months ago
source depot is (was?) essentially a fork of perforce.

u/israrkhan

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