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it's worth noting that the price of these monitors got cut in half due to this news -- great for the linux users out there
Re:Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:39AM (#48045797)
something worth mentioning here is that iSCSI is quite unhappy on congested networks or packet loss caused by incast traffic.

to make this actually work well, consider modifying your switches QoS settings to carve out a priority VLAN for iSCSI traffic

Re:Your hex editor should color-code bytes on Thursday April 23, 2026 @11:55AM (#47877307)
ImHex is amazing! It’s actively maintained, sponsored by FUTO, and is very hackable (both without recompiling, as well as modifying the grammars for others to take advantage of)
Re:Zotero 8 on Friday January 23, 2026 @02:01PM (#46736347)
Post Mendeley shutdown, zotero has been an awesome replacement (while not being controlled by Elsevier). Given the amount of PDF's that I see during researchy times in my life, it's been an absolute godsend. Highly reccommend!
these guys also have some really nice distributed systems explainer videos
I love this kind of research since it correctly identifies some issues with the way the public interacts with LLM’s. Thank you for the evening reading!

I’d love to see future work investigating - how does this compare to expert users (doctors/llm magicians using LLM’s to self diagnose)

- LLM’s often provide answers faster than doctors, and often with less hassle (what’s your insurance?), to what extent does latency impact healthcare outcomes

- do study participants exhibit similar follow on behavior (upcoding, seeking a second opinion, doctors) to others in the same professional discipline

I love the vibe of squishing formats together — like APE.

I’ve had this problem in the past (shudders in Bazel’s WORKSPACE file) and what eventually ended up saving my bacon was org-babel.

Yes, it does mean that emacs is a build-dependency, but honestly literate programming pretty excellent for untangling the complexities of a large build.

Re:Reinvent the Wheel on Sunday May 25, 2025 @05:28AM (#44086644)
fantastic — I’m sure folks who have poked binaries or written patches have all had the desire for something like this. Glad to see that it exists!

I’m definitely going to use this for solving some problems that i’m currently facing.

For anyone curious about what hare-brained scheme that one could hatch with this, i’d like the ability to do something like a PGO’d shared library —- watch the process run and exit, tracing all dlopen’s to create a new shared library with only the right functions from all the referenced libraries.

Hopefully this works, and if not, i’ll at least fail at something interesting :)

Re:Ink and Switch Constraint System (2023) on Friday April 18, 2025 @02:24PM (#43730608)
One of the cited references is Guillermo Webster — and while the article lists uncmin as the desired artifact, the project that uncmin was developed for takes the concept beyond layout to back solving for desired program outputs.

Carbide [0] is the project that encapsulated some of this in a workable demo. It’s really cool!

[0] https://alpha.trycarbide.com/

Re:Execution Units Are Often Pipelined on Monday December 30, 2024 @04:55PM (#42553990)
My favorite illustrations for the concepts discussed here (in an accessible form, not the processor optimization manuals) has long been [0].

For me, this really makes working with a modern microprocessor a science, as anyone who has written benchmarks knows -- it's difficult to reason about the complex behaviour and performance cliffs without testing.

Another excellent example of the weirdness has to be JVM anatomy quarks [1]

[0] https://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/

[1] https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/

Re:What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama? on Monday December 02, 2024 @07:20PM (#42301825)
Taking a further step back from LLM’s, this is called portfolio / ensemble techniques in the literature.

A common practice in more formal domains is to have a portfolio of solvers and race them, allowing for the first (provably correct) solver to “win”

In less formal domains, adding/removing nodes/trees in an online manner is part of the deployment process for random forests.

Re:Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes on Monday November 25, 2024 @11:52PM (#42242711)
+1 to miscommunication, but host_volume is indeed what I’ve used to allow host files into the chroot. Not all drivers support it, and there are some nomad config implications, but it otherwise works great for storing db’s or configurations.
Re:At the Mountains of Madness on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @02:56PM (#40930188)
I loved this post, and patchelf is a real gem of a utility.
Congrats Udayan on the launch!

It’s really neat to see the open-face nature of this product as compared to others doing EWOD with a second immiscible phase / a glass top plate that the droplet is squished under — makes it much easier to do IO to the chip.

Are the chips disposable, to accomodate contamination constraints, or is there some on-site surface reconditioning that we can do to refurb the chips?

Interesting to note that this is down-scaled from some of your older prototypes. What design tradeoffs made you go fron large open faced arrays to a set of smaller arrays?

They will if its cheaper
Re:How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale on Thursday March 14, 2024 @05:49PM (#39709371)
I believe physalia [0] explores this concept at production scale quite well.

[0] https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/03/04/millions-of-tiny-databas...

Re:A love letter to Apache Echarts on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:01AM (#39417426)
Hi! I have tried all the gantt chart libraries, and also ended up building my own. The library isn’t open source (yet) but does this, as well as some other stuff around optimizing for print. Email in profile
This is really cool! I spent the time a couple years back to build a windows sysroot, but having a macOS one was on my mind for a while. Will definitley use
Re:Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @12:56PM (#39016374)
Hi, PL-funded founder here.

This was one of the things that made IPFS a non-starter for us. We ended up grafting Hashicorp Vault into kubo (the go-ipfs implementation) so that we could use IPFS and have things like detetes and access revocation that actually work.

Re:“Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:52PM (#38677641)
This article is kinda silly, but very true. I have a LUT in my notes that is “VC says” “they actually mean”
Re:Ultorg, user interface for relational data, is released on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:34AM (#38342826)
I’ve been using ultorg for a couple years now, very happy to see it reach broader audiences

Its’s a game changer tool for me, providing an intuitive graphical query construction interface (via a simple stacked table header, very sum-product like) and cross-db joins. The multi-column report style layouting is also really useful for looking at wide queries with lots of data. I’ve shamelessly ripped of some of eirik’s ideas and wowed people from (especially) the financial world

IMO its one of the truest advancements in SQL clients that i’ve seen in a while.

YC startup founder here,

Mostly agree, except the market is not an optimistic place — it’s the market.

There are a multitude of reasons you lose your optimism, mostly because people take it away — your optimism is their money

Re:For chemists, the AI revolution has yet to happen on Monday May 22, 2023 @12:33AM (#36027491)
So this was Synthego’s OG thesis, but it didn’t validate in the market.

In the last 5 years, the industry has moved to using the LabCyte Echo in high-well-count plates for this kinda work.

Industry is broadly interested in this kinda thing, with efforts like [1] [2] (me)

[1] https://atomscience.org/

[2] https://radix.bio/

Re:The benefits of everything (in Emacs) being a buffer on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:26PM (#34588969)
since parent comment is about EXWM, it's pretty awesome to run JetBrains inside an emacs buffer.

IMO, it's strictly worse than JetBrains for refactoring/autocomplete since JB has really nailed that stuff.

However, it's really useful as a compliment, specifically for git interactions (magit) programmer notes + run configurations (org-mode) and all kinds of minor tools. TRAMP is very useful if you'd like to edit remote files, and I find undo-tree priceless when debugging things that have multiple possible failure modes.

Re:Dan's Tools on Saturday June 18, 2022 @10:45AM (#31790254)
GNU units
aosabook.org
Re:Tools for Better Thinking on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:23PM (#31711043)
emacs with org mode helps me run an org
A bunch of the database IO in it is JDBC based, so a web app probably isn’t going to happen.
- NXT-G, the coolest (simple) visual programming language

- Propellerheads Reason, a sweet DAW

- emacs, a text editor so elegant it’s a real OS

- Procreate, the nicest iOS drawing app

If you call Dell, they can make you a top of the line XPS or Precision that comes with linux from the factory.

I stick to the thin-n-light XPS 13/15/17 or the Precision 5570 or 5770. Rock solid build quality.

Note: if you call Dell they’ll give you a couple hundred bucks off the price on the website, and can do custom builds

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