Hacker News: skirmish

New comment by skirmish in "Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU"

skirmish — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:28:41 +0000

Did you have complete hardware lockups when VRAM is exceeded? I had quite a few on my 7900XTX with llama.cpp (Arch Linux, various driver versions). Once I dial in the quant and context size that never exceed VRAM, it is stable; before that I swear a lot and keep pressing the hardware reset button.

New comment by skirmish in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

skirmish — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:15:02 +0000

Cory Doctorow's "The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI" [1] agrees with you:

"<...> a reverse centaur is machine head on a human body, a person who is serving as a squishy meat appendage for an uncaring machine."

[1] https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-12-05...

New comment by skirmish in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

skirmish — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:18:17 +0000

Probably [1], [2]

[1] https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

New comment by skirmish in "FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms"

skirmish — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:53:30 +0000

Your German girlfriend will not be happy about it. Give her "halbe Pfannkuchen"!

New comment by skirmish in "FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms"

skirmish — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:49:48 +0000

Should be obvious: lots of money in that. Corporations are amoral psychopaths.

New comment by skirmish in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

skirmish — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:48:08 +0000

Don't be simplistic. Mold on old bread grows and is natural, yet you should not eat it all day.

New comment by skirmish in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

skirmish — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:30:36 +0000

Indeed, I was buying a laptop for my wife, and she was viscerally against "Ryzen AI": I don't want a CPU with builtin AI to spy on my screen all the time!

New comment by skirmish in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

skirmish — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:26:15 +0000

I had a recent encounter with a guy in a coffee shop who approached me and wanted to discuss recent sportsball games in great detail. I had no idea what he was talking about, I don't even know the local teams, after living here 30 years. He had no other topics.

New comment by skirmish in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

skirmish — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:29:57 +0000

Basically the plot of "City" (1952) by Clifford D. Simak. Bloodthirsty humans are succeeded by a pacifist dog civilization.

New comment by skirmish in "Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking"

skirmish — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:56:35 +0000

Without any clue, they mess with air conditioning system and get all baked. No happy end here.

New comment by skirmish in "The three year myth"

skirmish — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:49:16 +0000

It used to be that a referral from a current employee was a big plus and would allow the applicant to get directly to onsite interviews. Not sure how it works now.

New comment by skirmish in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

skirmish — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:53:29 +0000

Nothing new under sun, set unethical KPIs and you will see 30-50% humans do unethical things to achieve them.

New comment by skirmish in "LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review"

skirmish — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:38:35 +0000

Keep in mind that normal OLEDs are quite bad for typical development tasks: lots of text with high contrast. Here is an example that would be unbearable for me: [1]. For text, IPS rules so far. For video and games, definitely OLED.

[1] https://www.savanozin.com/projects/qod

New comment by skirmish in "STFU"

skirmish — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:54:15 +0000

Be prepared to counter with Norwegian black metal!

New comment by skirmish in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

skirmish — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 06:00:32 +0000

> before your rolled oats are cooked

I enjoy rolled oats uncooked in a bowl with milk and various berries sprinkled on top. Try it, for me they are more delicious uncooked!

New comment by skirmish in "A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela"

skirmish — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:49:30 +0000

They may not be able to decrypt it now, but it is well known that most of encrypted Internet traffic is permanently stored in NSA data centers [1] with hopes of decrypting it soon once quantum computing can do it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

New comment by skirmish in "Eat Real Food"

skirmish — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:39:09 +0000

You may be calling it "quark" then? From a quick search:

"The two most common translations of tvorog are cottage cheese (common in the US) and quark (common in Germany). The process of making these different cheeses is quite similar: you take fermented, acidized or sour milk, and separate the curds from the whey. For cottage cheese, cream is added to the curds before they’re packaged, and for quark, the curds are not overly dried so the curds come out quite soft and creamy. Tvorog, on the other hand, is most often packaged as dry grainy pieces of curd."

New comment by skirmish in "Eat Real Food"

skirmish — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:28:08 +0000

Food pyramid used to say: "Eat plenty, 6-11 servings of: bread, cereals, pasta".

New comment by skirmish in "Eat Real Food"

skirmish — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:12:11 +0000

(I am from Eastern Europe). "Tvorog" / "Творог" is almost identical to commonly available cottage cheese. I buy the latter in big tubs from Costco and eat it almost every day for breakfast (with whatever fruits are on hand, or with raisins and nuts in the worst case).

New comment by skirmish in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

skirmish — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 02:25:11 +0000

It happened to me several times for real. Credit cards not accepted for charges below $15; cash in my wallet $4.05. Next I spend 30 minutes trying to install my bank app with a horrible cell connection so that I can use Zelle to send that $6 payment for coffee. The barista thinks I am a bum.