What LLM system does it use to run models? Does it support ollama?
Readit Newsthawkins commented on Korvus: Single-Query RAG with Postgres github.com/postgresml/kor... · Posted by u/levkk
thawkins commented on Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera catphones.com/en-us/cat-s... · Posted by u/thebetatester
The Ulefone 18t just lanched with the same flir sensor, but android 12, 12gb ram, 256gb flash. 9000mha battery and endoscope accessory attachment, same durability specs, marginaly cheaper.
I have always used howtoforge
For many years the BSD tcp/ip stack was by far the best. Linux lacked viable networks far into its infancy. So I too expected BSD to reign Supreme.
For the life of me I cannot explain it, because the rise of distro carried Linux up the foodchain to mainframes and down to replace vxworks and ultimately dominate phones to spaceships.
Maybe it was people more than software?
There are rumours that the mstcpip stack had large parts of the bsd stack in it. I cut my teeth in windows networking using Windows for workgroups, with a novell tcpip stack and a 64kb daemon Internet Internet connection over isdn. Having that network connection meant I could (1993) get some linux/freebsd setups, but I would have to leave the ftp connection running all night. I then diverted off full time into freebsd when I joined Yahoo.
thawkins commented on Ask HN: How much money to realistically expect from a technical book? · Posted by u/aparsons
I have real experience in this. I wrote and published two "big" technical books which were released through a major technical publisher. Both books were "mass market" in that you could find them on any bookstore computer shelf, they were translated into multiple languages, and used as course curriculum at several colleges. My caveat is that unfortunately my real world experience was a while ago. 20 years, which is a long time in this space. Distribution, self-publishing, and better online resources mean that YMMV.
I made a decent royalty, with a bunch of other terms which included buy-backs (e.g. returns) and other ways for the publisher to ensure they maximized their profit over mine. Over the course of 5 years I made roughly $35-40k, but that was spending a full year of 25/hrs a week on top of my day job, it works out to about ~$30/hr. I think if I were to quit my day job, continue cranking out 2-3 books a year, and collecting residual revenue, it would still be less than a 6 figure income (this was circa 2000 so $100k was +/-$160k equivalent) - certainly quite livable but also not stellar given that you have to be at the top of your field and on top of technologies all the time. My salary and my "side gig" contract rate were both hire at the time.
So...
Did I make much money? Not really.
Do I regret writing two books? Nope.
Am I proud of those books? Hell yes.
Would I do it again? Hell no. Way to much work.
I have authored 3 tech books and quite honestly I would not do it again, the shift to ebooks has allowed the publishers to cut the royalties paid on electronic deliveries, even though thier costs have been cut. I found that the majority of sales were ebooks, plus you often find your books sold onto platforms like O'Reily where you receive no royalty. It also appears that translations cut the author off from royalties, one ofmy books was translated to Korean and I stop getting any royalties on that set of sales.
thawkins commented on Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust tauri.studio/en/... · Posted by u/WolfOliver
I do, because your program isn't the only thing running on my system. Low free RAM means paging, and generalized slowdowns when something else RAM-hungry, like a game or a web browser, is invoked.
Memory is a limited resource to be used judiciously, not an all-you-can-eat buffet.
what's the point of having a bunch of ram sitting around doing nothing, I would rather have a system that had zero free ram but managed its address space well, so that changing ram usage was painless. why pay good money to have hardware sitting idle?.
As a Canadian my mom waited 16 months for a hip transplant. She could barely get around her house, but she was deemed “lower priority”.
While my coworker in the Bay Area got her a choice of surgery slots less than a month out.
There are trade offs.
In both Canada and the UK there is also private systems available that you can decide to avail yourself off, which like the US system will charge you into bankruptcy but will give you the immediacy you desire, then you get to have a choice, wait or debt.
thawkins commented on Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore? gavinhoward.com/2021/12/i... · Posted by u/gavinhoward
Ironically the maintainers can always say "fuck you, pay me", but they don't, because they know blaming is a good thing.
That should possibly be something that is added directly to the licenses, you can take my product free of charge, but if you want changes you have to pay me at this rate. Put contact details and an expiry date on the deal so people can't get jacked up with very old prices on very old versions. That would also encourage people to keep thier 3rd party inclusions up to date. I don't think that would pass muster as an OSS license but maybe a built in support contract should be a feature of the licenses, one that earns people proper money that makes OSS a model that supports maintainers.
thawkins commented on Show HN: I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts github.com/maxvfischer/DI... · Posted by u/mfi
The CNC Shield is a blessing, shame the Gerber files aren't being published for newer versions.
thawkins commented on Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility github.com/nuta/kerla... · Posted by u/Klasiaster
A minimal interactive demo running busybox is here:
ssh root@kerla-demo.seiya.meis there not an opportunity to implement the posix filesystems interface on top of something other than a block device system. That would be fun.