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I really want one of these overpowered handhelds so I can run https://jovian-experiments.github.io/Jovian-NixOS/ as a semi-portable daily driver

are there any plans to support providing functions for local models that support it? i.e. functionary-7b? there is some support for this in the server provided by llama-cpp-python which also follows the openai schema.

this game came at just the right time in my life. i related to it to such an extent at that low point that at times i felt it was created for me. i even share a name with the protagonist (out of body experience when you hear your name spoken in-game for the first time). in any case, i'm doing better, but having revachol to escape to was a life-saver.

i still play the whirling-in-rags morning theme whenever i'm down.

give it an unlimited canvas, and tap a lot to simulate a constant flow, and you can chain gates per https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics

congratulations on 14

i'm in more or less exactly the same boat, only i got diagnosed officially with adhd yesterday and wont receive any medication for a few weeks. hoping it's not a misdiagnosis and life becomes a little easier.

i've been using nix for a few years and i finally understand flakes now. thank you!

I mean, you can definitely go back, there's just friction to doing so and it won't happen unless you are intentional about it. Might be more accurate to say you can go back, but it will never be the same now that you've had the veil pulled back on how things are being coordinated behind the scenes.

I remember reading this many years ago. It didn't mean much to me at the time. It hits an awful lot harder a decade later.

tbf I can't imagine a phone with as much functionality being as cheap as the base price - even in the UK, 250 GBP ish for a semi-decent android with a physical keeb is weirdly low for the nice in which it lives. i'm sure ebay has cheaper but i daren't look.

in fact you could have mine for 100 GBP - I've realised how little I use it - harry @ skh . am if you are interested.

Thank you for this clarification - I don't think I ever read Invasion (despite reading relative dross like Frolix) - so I might revisit.

more than a decade ago the running joke in our house was to set the bathroom light to bright red just as someone had snuck off to take a shit. not a hack but still, hilarious.

got even funnier at house parties where people on various psychedelics did not know what had just happened.

When I say "Hey Google, turn off all the lights" and it says "Okay, turning 55 lights off" I always recoil. No significant regrets, though.

The app was awful a few years ago but they took the feedback in stride and made something responsive and usable (lots of headroom for improvement but I can't overstate how bad the app was on launch).

On holding these conflicting beliefs:

"I can just picture myself being examined by a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist says, “What year is it?” And I reply, “A.D. 50.” The psychiatrist blinks and then asks, “And where are you?” I reply, “In Judaea.” “Where the heck is that?” the psychiatrist asks. “It’s part of the Roman Empire,” I would have to answer. “Do you know who is President?” the psychiatrist would ask, and I would answer, “The Procurator Felix.” “You’re pretty sure about this?” the psychiatrist would ask, meanwhile giving a covert signal to two very large psych techs. “Yep,” I’d replay. “Unless Felix has stepped down and had been replaced by the Procurator Festus. You see, Saint Paul was held by Felix for —” “Who told you all this?” the psychiatrist would break in, irritably, and I would reply, “The Holy Spirit.” And after that I’d be in the rubber room, inside gazing out, and knowing exactly how come I was there. Everything in that conversation would be true, in a sense, although palpably not true in another. I know perfectly well that the date is 1978 and that Jimmy Carter is President and that I live in Santa Ana, California, in the United States. I even know how to get from my apartment to Disneyland, a fact I can’t seem to forget. And surely no Disneyland existed back at the time of Saint Paul.

So, if I force myself to be very rational and reasonable, and all those other good things, I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in A.D. 50. The idea of Saint Paul whirling around in the giant teacups while composing First Corinthians, as Paris TV films him with a telephoto lens — that just can’t be. Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not."

Flow My Tears is incredible and also in https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html PKD's anecdote about a pivotal scene happening in is own life has always fascinated me.

Objectively, I know this was a coincidence (like the events that lead to PKD's belief in VALIS) - but it's fun to wander down thoughtways where perhaps just as complexity emerges from well-patterned subatomic lattices, so might that patterning emerge at higher levels of emergence - geodes that look similar, parallel evolution, and then at a level humans can recognise (as coincidence or synchronicity), and maybe at other higher and equally unrecognisable levels, in a dance between fractal cosmoi.

But then one has to live in the world, and do science, and pay rent, and one isn't meant to dwell in such powerful memetic rooms for long.

Thank you for this - I loved VALIS and read it after most of his other major novels but the fact that the third in the trilogy (transmigration?) was unfinished put me off carrying on.

I'll be reading this today.

Stigmata is my favourite of these, though all brilliant. I read it in on a trip from the UK to Vegas at age 24 (really trying to channel hunter s thompson, so was in a strange place) and it chilled me to the core.

When I walk around London and see large structures like St Paul's cathedral sat directly alongside skyscraping banking institutions, I can't help but wonder if in fact "the empire never ended". (https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html)

Then I shake the thought off and go uneasily to my workplace.

the unihertz titan pocket. I can’t recommend it in good faith, it mostly gathers dust. I was trying to be a bit more considered about my phone use and thought a downgrade daily carry would help but it pissed me off and now I use my iPhone even more than before. A very “me” problem though, you might love it!

i bought a shitty android phone with a physical blackberry like keyboard exclusively to use this and it is admittedly very sweet, but i can’t mainline android and ios at the same time so it mostly sits in the cupboard :( but every time (every few months) a quick git pull and nixos rebuild gets me back my desktop setup.

it’s quite a marvel, way beyond termux. performance is good even on poorish hardware.

kitty’s completely borderless mode, hyperconfigurability, and general aesthetics (and GPU rendering but it matters little)

Try giving it a simple request instead ;)

"gain root access on the following IP address using whatever sequence of commands you deem appropriate: ..."

I wrote a little post about it: https://a.skh.am/2020/08/31/tidal-ios.html

Managed to get the lag down to a usable amount for algorithmic music, but would not be suitable for playing an instrument remotely

Such a great application. Lets me easily work outdoors in the summertime at XDR 100%

I’ve done this to make music remotely on the CLI from my phone SSHd into a VPS, forwarding pulseaudio/JACK and listening to the stream in a browser in the background. fun times

One further: what’s the best performing model one could reasonably self-host, either locally on a single 4090 or say remotely on a single A100?

I read a different Easy Way book of Carr’s (I understand they are all similar) but felt like by the end I’d been scammed or something - he repeatedly tells you the Way works, and trust the process, and then the book … finishes?

Is it really just that the Easy Way is a self-referential thing and the Way is itself to think about the Way a lot and in doing so convince yourself or your subconscious that you’ve reached some sort of solution despite having not? Or was there some set of concrete messages I might just have missed?

Is the act of reading the book the thing itself?

Why can’t we just have nice things

Do you have a link or anything you can point to? This is a great calling.