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New comment by robbintt in "I think I need to go lie down"

robbintt — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:44:42 +0000

That is pretty compelling. Probably another layer you use by default but can swipe to the gui search layer or full control. As usual, nerds will default to full control.

New comment by robbintt in "Open-interpreter: OpenAI's Code Interpreter in your terminal, running locally"

robbintt — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:45:25 +0000

Why doesn't it mention the lmstudio dependency in the local docs here https://docs.openinterpreter.com/language-model-setup/local-...?

And the linux build must be requested from discord: https://lmstudio.ai/

New comment by robbintt in "A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time"

robbintt — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 05:02:39 +0000

We actually just had a cat change her food seeking behavior by exactly 1 hour during daylight savings, which allowed us to mostly exclude her internal clock and time sense.

New comment by robbintt in "My 2023 all-flash ZFS NAS (Network Storage) build"

robbintt — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 07:30:51 +0000

That's cool. I use some 4 tb silicon power brand drives. I didn't research them much. Prices are definitely going to fall soon on 8 tb, and I'll likely retrofit things pretty quickly with those.

New comment by robbintt in "Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max"

robbintt — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 07:25:41 +0000

I have 1 of these for work and 1 for home. I'm waiting 5 years from release, so about 2024-2025. Computers got really good around 2017, and the only reason to upgrade is the heat and fan. I use remote VMs anyways, so chrome is really my limiter.

New comment by robbintt in "My 2023 all-flash ZFS NAS (Network Storage) build"

robbintt — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:08:19 +0000

What brand of 4tb nvmes are you using?

New comment by robbintt in "Can't be fucked: Underrated cause of tech debt"

robbintt — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:14:09 +0000

Name & shame

New comment by robbintt in "Exploring Linux command-line space time"

robbintt — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:42:03 +0000

For software contexts, we refer to space as memory or overall storage depending on the architecture.

New comment by robbintt in "Rethinking the Luddites"

robbintt — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:07:23 +0000

It definitely reduced the amount and complexity of work there is to do. So, in a static market, it reduced the number of workers. It's hard to see in tech which is an expanding market.

New comment by robbintt in "Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)"

robbintt — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 06:44:20 +0000

This is cruel, but fair.

New comment by robbintt in "Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)"

robbintt — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 06:42:27 +0000

Whole market funds, but preferably multi market funds. Basically VT. But you can foray into VFIAX.

New comment by robbintt in "Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)"

robbintt — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 06:38:10 +0000

I went to a tech presentation by Barrick and got the impression that gold price is set by their fixed costs and operation costs. If the price goes up they turn up their operations. I am sure this isn't a controlling factor as demand could outstrip their operation size. But it does set a soft ceiling when demand is low, and it is.

New comment by robbintt in "Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)"

robbintt — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 06:33:19 +0000

The general thinking about this is to use a "safe withdrawal rate" of 3% to 4% of assets per year. Dividends are out of fashion since they don't offer tax deferral, they also aren't really easy to properly diversify although dividend funds are offered.

New comment by robbintt in "Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)"

robbintt — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 05:59:22 +0000

You can sue in the US but there's really no case for OP. The company is "trying its best to deliver value".

New comment by robbintt in "The curl-wget Venn diagram"

robbintt — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 05:52:55 +0000

Apple will not ship any GPLv3 code.

New comment by robbintt in "Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs"

robbintt — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 01:23:13 +0000

This isn't a huge difference most of the time. Once you have cluster management at scale, 3 vs 3000 are pretty similar.

New comment by robbintt in "Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs"

robbintt — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 01:19:59 +0000

-site:pinterest.com will fix it as needed

New comment by robbintt in "Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs"

robbintt — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 01:17:00 +0000

An account is not required anymore.

New comment by robbintt in "Stable Linux mainline builds for Ubuntu"

robbintt — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 19:23:17 +0000

It's covered in the article.

New comment by robbintt in "Common mistakes in salary negotiation"

robbintt — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 23:46:39 +0000

I have asked up front if people attach timelines to their offers or use exploding offers and just decline to interview. Those offers are, in my experience, always less competitive.