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Re:Testing AI and LLM on Rockchip RK3588 Using Mixtile Blade 3 SBC wit... on Sunday March 03, 2024 @04:49AM (#39579746)
I wonder how stable those libraries mentioned are, and how much RAM is needed, because I cannot run LLMs at all on my Pis.

Ask HN: How to Cope with Ageism?

Posted by ditados on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:02AM
from the ask-hn dept.

For the fourth or fifth time now, I've made it through an interview gauntlet (this time for a well-known, largely remote company) and got the dreaded "the team was looking for someone at an earlier stage in their career" euphemism in a (somewhat late) reply.I breezed through all the technical discussions (I am not a worldwide expert in the particular niche they were hiring for, but knew all the...

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Ask HN: Ageism in Tech and Career Moves

Posted by ditados on Saturday July 06, 2019 @06:27AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm pushing 50 (although I don't look or act like it) and I am trying to get out of the consulting/sales rat race and back into actual engineering after a long stint working with enterprise IT customers and trying to get them to move to modern devops/SRE/data services in the cloud -- it was gratifying in many regards, but intensely frustrating from a management/ownership standpoint, since...

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Re:How Satya Nadella revived Microsoft on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:06PM (#13618429)
You aren't at a subsidiary, obviously. As the tide shifts to pushing Azure, the sales people are going ballistic and circle customers like sharks, with insane targets.

I joined a short while ago and deeply regret it, since all we do is sales. Even OSS is treated as a pure sales play.

Re:A world without the Mac Pro on Saturday November 05, 2016 @12:50PM (#12880565)
macOS runs a BSD-like userland atop a Mach kernel. It's not Linux, but it is a damn sight more field-tested and reliable than the Windows kernel...

I'm actually surprised at the question, considering the number of devs who work on macOS (and I'm not talking about front-end folk).

Re:A world without the Mac Pro on Saturday November 05, 2016 @12:47PM (#12880540)
Some of the Mac people I follow seem to be begging Apple to build a PC-like box:

- https://chuqui.com/2016/10/how-apple-could-have-avoided-much...

- http://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2016/11/04/2230

- http://www.libertypages.com/clarktech/?p=751

Re:A world without the Mac Pro on Saturday November 05, 2016 @12:38PM (#12880480)
Marco does iOS development, and there are a number of features that simply won't run on a Hackintosh. Anything involving crypto is dicey, and stuff that relies on (for instance) having an official serial number (like iMessage) will also fail.

But that is irrelevant for a lot other use cases.

Re:A world without the Mac Pro on Saturday November 05, 2016 @12:36PM (#12880466)
Believe me, it's not. Even when the userland gets updated to 16.04, it's still heavily dependent on the Windows kernel, and the networking stack (for example) will not be the same.

The WSL will never replace a native Linux OS. Period. But it will be pretty useful for some lighter use cases. As a dev, I'm still not convinced it's good enough, given the recent issues with Ruby and Node.

Ask HN: Clueless recruiting tactics?

Posted by ditados on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:10AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've been bombarded with recruiter contacts for a number of positions lately, and I'd like to poll the hivemind about whether or not these are standard fare in Europe:- Not telling me who they're hiring for (from a recruiter that "specializes in relocation")- Not disclosing base salary (but asking for mine)- Asking me for a CV when they already have a complete LinkedIn profile (and an online...

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Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced on Thursday March 31, 2016 @03:58PM (#11400141)
Went ahead and downloaded Xamarin Studio for the Mac. Still has an "Enterprise Trial" button, and apparently I still have to login to activate it.

It annoys me to no end that I have to log in to Visual Studio as well (even Community) for it to even open a project, and I wish both Microsoft and Xamarin were more respectful of our privacy.

Re:Ink – Interface Kit on Monday July 29, 2013 @04:14PM (#6123589)
Yeah, well, that's a first world problem, clearly. That 1.5% isn't true for their target market.
Re:Ink – Interface Kit on Monday July 29, 2013 @04:13PM (#6123580)
It's not. It's a completely different codebase.
Re:Why Not Python - the GIL hinders concurrency on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @02:42PM (#5986634)
no mention of gevent, celery, etc. As someone who runs thousands of concurrent tasks in a mix of process/gevent (one UNIX process for each 100 greenlets across 48 cores on two boxes), I find the OP's toliling rather misguided.

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