Hacker News: girvo

New comment by girvo in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

girvo — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:22:26 +0000

And you can’t tell anyone if you do, on pain of jail.

New comment by girvo in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

girvo — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:55:19 +0000

Gardening is my stress reliever for this reason.

Though going to war with pests is… less stress relieving sometimes.

New comment by girvo in "That time when I failed the Microsoft interview"

girvo — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:05:44 +0000

The one time an interviewer started describing fizzbuzz as a problem for me to solve, I said “oh FizzBuzz?” And he said “oh never mind then” haha.

Got the job offer too, though I didn’t take it

New comment by girvo in "Don't be a meat proxy"

girvo — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:28:36 +0000

Fish rot from the head, as they say.

New comment by girvo in "Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300"

girvo — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:12:00 +0000

Which some companies have done! Nvidia, I believe, among others.

New comment by girvo in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

girvo — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:59:54 +0000

I liked Nim’s take on checked exceptions personally, was quite lovely

New comment by girvo in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

girvo — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:49:01 +0000

I’ve always done that in my typescript code bases too, and I’ve never regretted it

New comment by girvo in "Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now"

girvo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:43:20 +0000

Vinegar etching helps heaps with that I’ve found :)

New comment by girvo in "Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now"

girvo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:00:37 +0000

The joy of working with a well seasoned carbon steel pan is similar, I find

New comment by girvo in "Google has abandoned Google News?"

girvo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:42:47 +0000

Such a great operating system. I miss it.

New comment by girvo in "Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s"

girvo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:55:07 +0000

> I doubt that you’d ever call them lazy to their face — why do it here?

What makes you so sure about that?

Posting LLM generated obviously un-reviewed slop and wasting people's time deserves scorn.

New comment by girvo in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved"

girvo — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:17:24 +0000

God that belt and suspenders thing gives me a visceral physical reaction. Nauseating.

New comment by girvo in "MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH"

girvo — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:57:01 +0000

VALORANT for me is the only game keeping my gaming desktop on Windows

New comment by girvo in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

girvo — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:02:40 +0000

If you want to talk about this century and human rights, then you better look inwards. You're obviously a nationalist yourself, accusation in a mirror as is typical.

New comment by girvo in "Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver"

girvo — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:01:32 +0000

>You give up 200GB networking, but anyone 'daily driving' one of these things are probably not needing to cluster multiples of them at high speed..

I mean that's not as true as you'd think: in fact its the whole benefit IMO of the spark-alikes, and if you're not running TP=2 or above you're sort of wasting it's potential

New comment by girvo in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

girvo — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:24 +0000

Those don't have a lot of RAM though. Not like these 40, 80GB ones.

New comment by girvo in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

girvo — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:55:27 +0000

My DGX Spark-alike is currently selling in my country for nearly double what I paid for it too. We live in a silly, silly world.

New comment by girvo in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

girvo — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:51:50 +0000

We've not had cheap GPUs with this much VRAM before, though. Might be an interesting change, though I also doubt it personally.

New comment by girvo in "I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation"

girvo — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:43:21 +0000

Nah, it's fine! I just muted the tab, no big deal

New comment by girvo in "Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver"

girvo — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:25:42 +0000

Although one of the ones it cannot do is have/address 128GB of video memory, so it depends on what you want to achieve.