Hacker News: thawkins

New comment by thawkins in "Korvus: Single-Query RAG with Postgres"

thawkins — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:47:38 +0000

What LLM system does it use to run models? Does it support ollama?

New comment by thawkins in "Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera"

thawkins — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 06:52:30 +0000

The Ulefone 18t just lanched with the same flir sensor, but android 12, 12gb ram, 256gb flash. 9000mha battery and endoscope accessory attachment, same durability specs, marginaly cheaper.

New comment by thawkins in "Ask HN: Are Linux HowTos dead? Why?"

thawkins — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 23:22:29 +0000

I have always used howtoforge

https://www.howtoforge.com/

New comment by thawkins in "Bill Jolitz has died"

thawkins — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 11:29:54 +0000

There are rumours that the mstcpip stack had large parts of the bsd stack in it. I cut my teeth in windows networking using Windows for workgroups, with a novell tcpip stack and a 64kb daemon Internet Internet connection over isdn. Having that network connection meant I could (1993) get some linux/freebsd setups, but I would have to leave the ftp connection running all night. I then diverted off full time into freebsd when I joined Yahoo.

New comment by thawkins in "Ask HN: How much money to realistically expect from a technical book?"

thawkins — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:22:15 +0000

I have authored 3 tech books and quite honestly I would not do it again, the shift to ebooks has allowed the publishers to cut the royalties paid on electronic deliveries, even though thier costs have been cut. I found that the majority of sales were ebooks, plus you often find your books sold onto platforms like O'Reily where you receive no royalty. It also appears that translations cut the author off from royalties, one ofmy books was translated to Korean and I stop getting any royalties on that set of sales.

New comment by thawkins in "Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust"

thawkins — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:30:26 +0000

what's the point of having a bunch of ram sitting around doing nothing, I would rather have a system that had zero free ram but managed its address space well, so that changing ram usage was painless. why pay good money to have hardware sitting idle?.

New comment by thawkins in "Hospitals still not fully complying with federal price-disclosure rules"

thawkins — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 05:22:49 +0000

In both Canada and the UK there is also private systems available that you can decide to avail yourself off, which like the US system will charge you into bankruptcy but will give you the immediacy you desire, then you get to have a choice, wait or debt.

New comment by thawkins in "Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?"

thawkins — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:44:29 +0000

That should possibly be something that is added directly to the licenses, you can take my product free of charge, but if you want changes you have to pay me at this rate. Put contact details and an expiry date on the deal so people can't get jacked up with very old prices on very old versions. That would also encourage people to keep thier 3rd party inclusions up to date. I don't think that would pass muster as an OSS license but maybe a built in support contract should be a feature of the licenses, one that earns people proper money that makes OSS a model that supports maintainers.

New comment by thawkins in "Show HN: I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts"

thawkins — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 01:45:05 +0000

https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/CNC_Pro_Shield_V...

New comment by thawkins in "Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility"

thawkins — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:17:07 +0000

is there not an opportunity to implement the posix filesystems interface on top of something other than a block device system. That would be fun.

New comment by thawkins in "Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility"

thawkins — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:15:07 +0000

But its a fun thing to do, and that's a good enough reason to do it. After all is that not exactly how Linux came into being anyway.

New comment by thawkins in "Facebook going down meant more than just a social network being unavailable"

thawkins — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 04:22:42 +0000

Absolutely, plus I have seen a bunch of people going mental about not being able to reach friends or family because WhatsApp is down, when WhatsApp uses the person's phone number as a means of addressing messages, just dial them and talk to them or send them a text... People can be a little dim sometimes and forget that the primary function of a phone IS communications, and not just a platform for running apps.

New comment by thawkins in "Harbormaster: Anti-Kubernetes for your personal server"

thawkins — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 21:09:30 +0000

I use kind with podman running rootless, it only works on systems with cgroup2 enabled. But it's very cool. Conventional k8s with docker has a number of security gotchas that stem from it effectivly running the containers as root. With rootless podman k8s, it is easy to provide all your devs with local k8s setups without handing them root/sudo access to run it. This is something that has only recently started working right as more container components and runtimes started to support cgroup2.

New comment by thawkins in "Myopia: A Modern yet Reversible Disease"

thawkins — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 00:13:01 +0000

I would advise getting your blood sugar levels checked, high blood sugar has a negative effect on eyesight, and given that during pandemic many people have cut exercise and may have started snacking more. There is a strong correlation between type 2 diabetes and vision problems.

New comment by thawkins in "Modern C++ Won't Save Us (2019)"

thawkins — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:34:15 +0000

Interestingly it's exactly what the PHP memory model does, each request is a shared nothing VM space, nothing survives the end of the request, even if allocated memory objects don't get free'd.

New comment by thawkins in "A 1000-processor chip powered by an AA battery (2016)"

thawkins — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:53:49 +0000

yep each transputer had 4 serial links, which could be connected in matrixes, and allow data to be moved across the array directly. They used a language called OCCAM, and there was an OS called TAOS that allowed you to run various transputer topologies.

New comment by thawkins in "Moving from Macbook to Linux"

thawkins — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 20:25:07 +0000

Becuase macosx containers run inside a Linux VM, not on the native host OS, same with Windows;

New comment by thawkins in "How old is too old to jump into software development?"

thawkins — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:32:53 +0000

Have you considered looking at med tech or web systems that support your current career. The best developers are ones that also have domain knowledge.

New comment by thawkins in "WSL2 – Installation Tutorial for Graphical Windows Subsystem on Linux"

thawkins — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 10:19:37 +0000

Do you know if docker and minikube work inside wsl2? I loaned my only windows machine to a colleague and won't get it back for a week or two, otherwise I would check it out myself.

New comment by thawkins in "WSL2 – Installation Tutorial for Graphical Windows Subsystem on Linux"

thawkins — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 10:14:51 +0000

Does it have an rc.local equiv that you can script those service starts into. Something like the docker entry-point would also work.