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Re:Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite on Thursday September 25, 2025 @02:02PM (#45376486)
LLM Model versioning really makes me perplex those days...
Re:Num2words PyPI Package Compromised on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @08:09AM (#44722284)
New maintainers never bothered to change the range.. History num2words is based on an old library, pynum2word, created by Taro Ogawa in 2003. Unfortunately, the library stopped being maintained and the author can't be reached. There was another developer, Marius Grigaitis, who in 2011 added Lithuanian support, but didn't take over maintenance of the project.

I am thus basing myself on Marius Grigaitis' improvements and re-publishing pynum2word as num2words.

Virgil Dupras, Savoir-faire Linux

Interesting to see ppl caring about marshalling overhead when working with LLMs
Re:Pyobd - a free and open source program for car diagnostics on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:01AM (#37519068)
A shame it doesn't use udsoncan as a backend. Udsoncan is pretty well done and indirectly support doip which is going to be ubiquitous in those new software defined vehicles..
Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot on Saturday November 05, 2022 @08:18PM (#33487369)
MIT is not a gift. It still requires attribution, notice and license term.

This lawsuit is even not about copy left.

Re:The open source paradox (2020) on Monday August 15, 2022 @08:30AM (#32468824)
Another key reason to me that open source can be very good quality is when the developer is the key user.

If the developer has strong knowledge of the business while designing a product, it always ends up with better qa as they are writing the right product on first draft.

You hardly get that when you hire someone to do something for you. That is valid in other domain than programming.

Re:Show HN: Google Cloud Compute Engine Comparison on Monday April 11, 2022 @04:59AM (#30986292)
cool. It was hard to find. :)

looks like only a100 accelerator is documented.

cannot find any info about P4, T4 or P100

Re:Show HN: Google Cloud Compute Engine Comparison on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:58PM (#30959608)
Very helpful! Thanks!

What could be missing is the GPU aspect. Not sure if the data is available, but it is very unclear to me which GPU is available on which machine type. and also how many, so that I have some chance to get one.

Re:Show HN: A simple Wordle clone in 60 lines, using Hyperscript on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:22PM (#30089499)
Wordle will become the new todolist
Re:MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @11:19AM (#29715067)
Looks like QuickTransit was a jit engine which was the base of Rosetta 1. Rosetta 2 is AOT translation.
Re:Build an Elixir Redis Server that’s faster than HTTP on Saturday November 13, 2021 @03:52AM (#29208418)
It looks like websocket+msgpack would have similar overhead once the initial initial overheard is passed.

But you won't miss all the http reverse proxy ecosystem.

Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019) on Saturday October 02, 2021 @07:15AM (#28727675)
Good ol times when front page videos were 40k views max...
Re:Element raises $30M to boost Matrix on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:45AM (#27980950)
Can you elaborate? This does not make sense to me
Python ambee is a simple client library for a proprietary sass iot service. I guess they want to control exactly how their users are using their service.
Re:Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018) on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:24AM (#27482377)
I wonder why they didn't just make two separate routines without any branch except for loop. Then you would just make another safety offset to assume for the last loop iteration prediction.
Re:M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @02:00PM (#27293912)
Ah! I'm not sure he would really like the comparison with geohot.
Re:Avoid Git LFS if possible on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:11AM (#27139653)
You can easily mirror LFS objects by just using

git lfs fetch --all

every modern git hosting servers now have support for LFS directly inside the git server (gitlab, github, gerrit to my knowledge)

This solve the authentication issue nicely so make it easy for developers.

git lfs starts to be adopted by vendors and becomes usable. It solves real problem when you are tired of having to double your git server CPUs every 6 months as your git upload packs are taking huge time trying to recompress those big files over and over.

In my experience npm just works promise brakes as soon as the repo is 1 2 years old.
Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana on Monday April 12, 2021 @05:06PM (#26785195)
There is also https://www.opensearchserver.com/ which is the first result when your search "opensearch docker".
Re:“username or password incorrect” is bullshit on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:58PM (#26495407)
Well.. Could be there right password but the account is misspelled...
Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:37PM (#25837797)
So what happens with https://sematext.com/ ? Outside of AWS, they use open-distro and do compete with elastic.co. Will they just go out of business by not being able to upgrade elastic?
Closing duplicated issues looks okay to me. The author not interested in fixing this issue himself looks okay to me. Is he refusing fix proposals about it?
Re:Why is America stuck with bad headlights? on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:36AM (#24047610)
For non mid west born ppl,

A dragstrip is a facility for conducting automobile and motorcycle acceleration events such as drag racing.

Although a quarter mile (1320 feet, 402 m) is the best known measure for a drag track, many tracks are eighth mile (201 m) tracks, and the premiere classes will run 1,000 foot (304.8m) races

What I didn't get in the article is how this produce constant negative voltage. From what I understand with my low amateur electronic skills, this would produce a scare signal with -5V/0V, at whatever quick pace.

That would average at -2.5V if we put a low pass filter.

This would work for me with 2 charge pumps, but I only see one large capacitor

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