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@eduzsh I think lot of problems around AI should be ripped away from AI researchers, we should put them deep into the cellar and let them work only on training at most ;-)

E.g., inference as an algorithm optimization exercise is more like comparable to a driver design than anything to do with machine learning. For me writing couple of inference engines from scratch has been mostly fun and I'm quickly becoming good at it despite I know almost nothing about training and machine learning. However, I think about e.g. CPU cache hierarchy almost every day (very first time was at high school while writing texture mappers for Pentium with its dual-integer pipeline plus additional simultaneous FPU 1/w op at best).

AI researcher can be considred like hardware designer or compiler writer they just have now overemphasized weight. Often e.g., a C++ compiler and successful programs written in C++ come from different carbon based entities :-)

@jwz 2002? Why, that’s only just out of being back in the 1900s!

(I recently had to work out when I stopped using a camcorder for video and it was… more recently than I expected)

@pseyfert Wago-Klemmen sind leider geil. Würde sie importieren ;)

Just had a bag of Scampi Fries for the first time in about 20 years.
The logo is Smiths which is utterly untrue since Smiths Crisps got bought out years ago.
I’m told by my daughter that Cheese Moments no longer exist but them and these and Bacon Fries are very different from other Smiths. Did someone have a Tesco Finest moment in their head and convince the board to go with it?
Back when the big player in pub snacks were KP who sold dry roasted peanuts on a card with a woman in a bikini on it.

Wir bedanken uns bei 229 Autor:innen, die für die Community 5000 Artikel geschrieben haben. Macht weiter so!

Well, here comes part II. #email

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/despite-the-warnings-i-tried-self-hosting-my-email

You can find the entire Omacon keynote here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMxskir7Rug

The Lexus LC500. One of the all-time great GTs.

One minute I’m writing code, then working on a blog post, and then the next thing I know I’ve downloaded the Rushmore screenplay to check something. I’m all over the place today.

since there seems to be disagreement on the definition of "linux phone", i'll start using the more accurate term "systemd phone"

Shoutout to my boy Mr Trash Wheel

Surround yourself with beautiful things that inspires you to reach for more. Then sweat the little details with the same zest. Not just because it makes for better products, but because it makes for a better you. Be someone who cares. About aesthetics, competence, all of it.

@mattnida Thanks for migrating! The crazy thing is we actually have special code that tries to clean up some of their HTML during import, but it’s not enough.

There's been some games that have provided a bit of relief for the lack of XCOM 3, but MENACE is the first that is actually good.

Chaos Gate was like OK game mechanics is good but I absolutely don't feel anything towards the franchise. When I was kid I enjoyed Franz Kafka; and hated Lord of the Rings. It is such a boring book...

And in Chaos Gat everything rots and is disgusting. There's nothing I enjoy in this story. Almost as bad as Star Wars (BTW, I'm a trekkie).

Phoenix Point look like a game that was never properly finished; i.e., money run out. I've played it hundreds of hours but never to the end because at some point there's too much going on. If the game had been a finished I think it could have been great so I'm waiting for the rumored sequel :-)

@chergert It's less about the CPU struggling to keep up and more about offloading the work to let the CPU idle and use less power. There's a reason all the phones have this hardware. And anyway, there is a measurable performance impact to FDE under some workloads that does go away if you use blk-crypto.

The best feature of hardware offloading like this, is that you can seal up the encryption keys such that the OS / RAM can never see them. That's a huuuuge benefit

@jani @grumpygamer I got pwnd: voted yes

now i'm waiting for the consequences with anxiety :-)