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New comment by buo in "BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs"

buo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:06:38 +0000

Do you know a good reference to learn more about this (quantizing weigths to 1.58 bits, and trit arithmetic)?

New comment by buo in "LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]"

buo — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:12:35 +0000

The compiler is open-source and can be run locally. You need an account if you want to use their web editor, which is nice (it shows error messages where they occur along with an explanation and link to docs, and also shows a real-time updated preview).

As for Latex vs Typst, as a language Typst is much better, compiles very quickly, and has sane error messages. However, Typst still has a few rough edges, and can't do everything you can with Latex + packages (yet).

I've been using Typst for most of my documents for a few months and I've been generally happy with it.

New comment by buo in "I changed my personality in six weeks"

buo — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:50:55 +0000

It is exhausting, but it can be fun. My motivation was to network during conferences. I ended up meeting interesting people, having good conversations, and enjoying myself more.

New comment by buo in "I changed my personality in six weeks"

buo — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:55:29 +0000

> You don't become more extroverted, but you can improve your social skills.

The way I did it is: I learned to _pretend_ to be extroverted. It works!

New comment by buo in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

buo — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:40:08 +0000

I have to use a Windows laptop for work; it was migrated to Windows 11 a few months ago. Win 11 is definitely, measurably worse than Win 10, at least in the configuration that my employer's IT forces on the machine. One example is that its UI is much slower (typing in the search box at normal speed often misses keystrokes, for instance -- never happened on Win 10).

New comment by buo in "I got a heat pump and my energy bill went up"

buo — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:24:01 +0000

> to each and every individual

Not to each one. I'm willing to pay more (within my means and within reason) if it pollutes less and/or produces less CO2.

New comment by buo in "US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp"

buo — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:34:23 +0000

More information about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal

New comment by buo in "Noise Filtering Using €1 Filter (2020)"

buo — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:19:34 +0000

Yes. Link to the research paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145%2F2207676.2208639?cid=8110016...

New comment by buo in "Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out"

buo — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 22:25:38 +0000

I have 20 panes and it works fine.

New comment by buo in "Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out"

buo — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:30:02 +0000

I think the best vertical tabs implementation in firefox is Sidebery. The use of "panes" to group tabs is brilliant. Older versions were buggy, but version 5 has been rock solid for me.

https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery

New comment by buo in "Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19"

buo — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:33:18 +0000

I am healthy, and intend to remain so -- I wear an N95 in all indoor spaces.

New comment by buo in "AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models"

buo — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 16:29:47 +0000

I think it's interesting that human minds generally (though not always!) improve when exposed to the output of other human minds. It seems to be the opposite for current LLMs.

New comment by buo in "I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023)"

buo — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 17:00:53 +0000

Besides, it's not just about profit. Retail is where they abuse workers, so it makes sense not to do business with that part of the company.

New comment by buo in "I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023)"

buo — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:56:43 +0000

> I'll continue to boycott Amazon.

You're not the only one. I haven't bought anything from Amazon in the past five years or so.

New comment by buo in "Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine"

buo — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 22:24:48 +0000

I searched instead for "size byte bits", third result has the answer. It seems like the engine gives equal weight to all words in the search, so "are", "in" and "a" throw it off.

New comment by buo in "A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)"

buo — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:44:16 +0000

That's good to know -- thanks!

New comment by buo in "A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)"

buo — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:15:19 +0000

I think this paragraph on the difficulty of building good independent indexes should not be overlooked. What's going on with Cloudfare?

> When talking to search engine founders, I found that the biggest obstacle to growing an index is getting blocked by sites. Cloudflare is one of the worst offenders. Too many sites block perfectly well-behaved crawlers, only allowing major players like Googlebot, BingBot, and TwitterBot; this cements the current duopoly over English search and is harmful to the health of the Web as a whole.

New comment by buo in "Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it"

buo — Wed, 18 May 2022 14:38:49 +0000

Not a license, but there are some terms of use: https://commoncrawl.org/terms-of-use/

New comment by buo in "It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV"

buo — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:51:20 +0000

I agree with you; I've noticed the same thing. It seems many niche or small markets are being abandoned in favor of the larger ones.

New comment by buo in "Each Firefox download has a unique identifier"

buo — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:26:01 +0000

I'd suggest the Auto Tab Discard extension. It's wonderful.