In-reply-to » Problem 2: Your SSD-backed database has a usage-pattern that rewards you with a 80% page-cache hit-rate (i.e. 80% of disk reads are served directly out of memory instead of going to the SSD). The median is 50 distinct disk pages for a query to gather its query results (e.g. InnoDB pages in MySQL). What is the expected average query time from your database?

  • Page size 1MB
  • Median 50 pages per query
  • 80% pages cached
  • 200us SSD reads
  • 100us Memory reads
  • Query time:
    • (50x0.80x100)+(50x0.20x200)‎ = 6,000
    • 6000us
    • 6ms

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In-reply-to » OpenAI Releases 'Smarter, Faster' ChatGPT - Plus $200-a-Month Subscriptions for 'Even-Smarter Mode' Wednesday OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced "12 Days of OpenAI," promising that "Each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo..." And sure enough, today he announced the launch of two things: - "o1, the smartest model in the world. Smarter, faster, and more features (e.g. ... ⌘ Read more

PhD level science questions? (+1)
niftydude an hour ago
A PhD level science question is a question that can only be answered by scientific research and experimentation.

And no, by “research”, I do not mean googling.

Literally the whole point of a scientific PhD is to perform experiments and study to answer a specific research question that no one has looked into yet.

Whilst ChatGPT can probably can answer “PhD-level science questions” with the same generation of plausible bullshit it answers all questions, I very much doubt ChatGPT can answer PhD-level science questions with any sort of accuracy.

It can’t do that without performing experiments (that in some cases might be complex enough to last years).

Just more of the marketing BS silicon valley seems to be full of these days. Remember when California was actually making products that benefited society as well as making money?

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OpenAI Releases ‘Smarter, Faster’ ChatGPT - Plus $200-a-Month Subscriptions for ‘Even-Smarter Mode’
Wednesday OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced “12 Days of OpenAI,” promising that “Each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo…” And sure enough, today he announced the launch of two things:
- “o1, the smartest model in the world. Smarter, faster, and more features (e.g. … ⌘ Read more

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No he jugado tanto el Pokemon TCG, más que en Game Boy y ahora en teléfono.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.pokemon.pokemontcgp

Es un juego que, al menos en la primera parte, está muy bien hecho, aunque al poco tiempo se acaba el factor ‘wow’.

Como vemos en ‘Leyendas y Videojuegos’, el juego móvil es más una demostración para una experiencia de como sería que colecciones las cartas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpAZCy8_-UI

Siento que mucha gente va a interesarse en coleccionarlas gracias a este ‘demo’.

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In-reply-to » Fuck me dead, what a giant piece of shit. On my Linux work laptop I have the problem that some unknown snakeoil "security" junk is dropping any IPv4 connections to ports 80 and 443. All other ports and IPv6 seem unaffected. I get an immediate "connection refused" when trying to estabslish a connection.

It just worked fine like nothing had ever happened when I booted my laptop this morning.

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In-reply-to » If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

I like to think of it like this. It takes approximately five months of power, relatively speaking to power, the human brain vs. multiple megawatts hell even multiple gigawatts of power to power even some of the most modest and yet surprisingly complex AI models.

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In-reply-to » If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

There is something about human intelligence that we don’t quite yet understand, and it isn’t in the complexity or increasing the number of parameters to the order of billions 🤣

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In-reply-to » If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

In other words, I don’t think we can realistically even come close to emulating, emotion, depth, and creativity

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In-reply-to » If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This random comment from another Slashdot article pretry much sums up my view on so-called “AI”:

Elevator music
Tony Isaac 20 minutes ago
If you derive your income from producing “elevator music” you might indeed be in danger of losing that income to AI. Also, bumper music–music used to fill otherwise silent gaps between segments of a podcast or radio show–might be a candidate for AI takeover.
But if you produce real music–music with depth and emotion–your job isn’t going anywhere.
How can I be so sure? I’ve seen the kind of code AI writes. I’ve seen the kind of prose AI writes. Both are amazing, for something computer-generated. But neither would be mistaken for the work of someone skilled or proficient in the art. Music won’t be any different.

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In-reply-to » Bitcoin Reaches and Surpasses $100k USD Bitcoin just broke $100,000 USD for the first time and reached as high as $104k, and is now sitting at $102,857 at the time of this writing. Slashdot was pretty early on Bitcoin. Thoughts, nocoiners?

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net da fuq?! Already?! 😱 Who’s pumping this shit?! 🤯

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In-reply-to » Ask Bruce Perens Your Questions About How He Hopes to Get Open Source Developers Paid Bruce Perens wrote the original Open Source definition back in 1997, and then co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond in 1998. But after resigning from the group in 2020, Perens is now diligently developing an alternative he calls "Post Open" to "meet goals that Open Source fails at today" ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net why are so many banging on against Bruce Perens in the comments of this Slashdot article? 🤔 what has he done?

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Ask Bruce Perens Your Questions About How He Hopes to Get Open Source Developers Paid
Bruce Perens wrote the original Open Source definition back in 1997, and then co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond in 1998. But after resigning from the group in 2020, Perens is now diligently developing an alternative he calls “Post Open” to “meet goals that Open Source fails at today” … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de tried translating that and it said Art lover/enthusiast, that could be correct since that despise of the artificial stems out of “Love for the Actual real Art” although that’s a subjective statement in itself; xD duckduckgo’s translation thing spat out “künstliche-Kunsthasser”

/me wantis to learn german so bad!

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In-reply-to » Fuck me dead, what a giant piece of shit. On my Linux work laptop I have the problem that some unknown snakeoil "security" junk is dropping any IPv4 connections to ports 80 and 443. All other ports and IPv6 seem unaffected. I get an immediate "connection refused" when trying to estabslish a connection.

Thank you, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! Luckily, I can disable it. I also tried it, no luck, though. But the problem is, I don’t really know how much snakeoil actually runs on my machine. There is definitely a ClownStrike infestation, I stopped the falcon sensor. But there might be even more, I’ve no idea. From the vague answers I got last time, it feels like even the UHD/IT guys don’t know what is in use. O_o

Yeah, it is definitely something on my laptop that rejects connections to IPv4 ports 80 and 443. All other devices here can access the stuff without issue, only this work machine is unable to. The “Connection refused” happens within a few milliseconds.

Unfortunately, I do not have the slightest idea how it works. But maybe I can look into that tomorrow. Kernel modules are a very good hint, thank you! <3

You’re right, it might be some sort of fail-safe mechanism. But then, why just block IPv4 and not also IPv6? But maybe because the VPN and company servers require IPv4, there is zero IPv6 support. (Yeah, don’t ask, I don’t understand it either.)

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Fuck me dead, what a giant piece of shit. On my Linux work laptop I have the problem that some unknown snakeoil “security” junk is dropping any IPv4 connections to ports 80 and 443. All other ports and IPv6 seem unaffected. I get an immediate “connection refused” when trying to estabslish a connection.

I had this problem four weeks ago on Friday morning the very first time at home. On Thursday evening, everything was perfectly fine. Eventually, I plugged in the LAN cable in the office and everything got automatically fixed. Nobody can explain what’s happening.

Then, last week Friday morning out of the blue, the same issue was back. So, I went to the office yesterday and it got fixed again by plugging in the network cable. This evening, I have exactly the same bloody problem again.

What the hell is going on? Does anyone have any ideas? I’m certainly not an expert, but I don’t see anything suspicious in iptables or nft rules. I also do not see anything showing up in /var/log/kern.log. Even tried to stop firewalld, flush the iptables and nft rules, but that didn’t result in any changes.

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In-reply-to » If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de hahahahahaha! I will try to incorporate that one when I complain about AI imagery. Like, “Stop fucking using that AI shit, mon, I am an Kunstliebhaber!

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AAEON Integrates Intel Arc GPU with High-Performance Computing in Edge PC
The MXM-ACMA-PUC is an industrial edge computing system from AAEON that combines 13th Generation Intel Core processors with an embedded Intel Arc GPU. It is designed for machine learning and AI workloads, with applications in smart city infrastructure and industrial workstation management. The system supports a range of Intel Core processors, with the default configuration […] ⌘ Read more

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If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

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In-reply-to » What the hell is happening in South Korea?

@prologic@twtxt.net the South Korean president is facing impeachment. The president declared martial law to protect the country from North Korea and eliminate anti-state elements. However, the declaration was seen as a response to domestic pressure and scandals. MPs blocked the declaration and forced the president to reverse his decision. The president’s defense minister resigned and the president is now facing impeachment proceedings.

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Problem 2: Your SSD-backed database has a usage-pattern that rewards you with a 80% page-cache hit-rate (i.e. 80% of disk reads are served directly out of memory instead of going to the SSD). The median is 50 distinct disk pages for a query to gather its query results (e.g. InnoDB pages in MySQL). What is the expected average query time from your database?

Share your solution via Twtxt and how you arrived at it and I’ll share my solution tomorrow!

#napkin-math

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In-reply-to » @bender Well, so far, I’m using the standard web client. Haven’t found a great client yet. 🫤 Mastodon/Fediverse is also very different from twtxt, there are way more images/videos that I’d like to see – a TUI client like toot wouldn’t work for me.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com ah, yes! The thing is, I have too many broken pieces already. 🤭

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In-reply-to » @bender Well, so far, I’m using the standard web client. Haven’t found a great client yet. 🫤 Mastodon/Fediverse is also very different from twtxt, there are way more images/videos that I’d like to see – a TUI client like toot wouldn’t work for me.

@bender@twtxt.net there’s Pub too but is still experimental I think …

Warning: pub is still in development, if it breaks, you can keep the pieces.

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In-reply-to » @bender Well, so far, I’m using the standard web client. Haven’t found a great client yet. 🫤 Mastodon/Fediverse is also very different from twtxt, there are way more images/videos that I’d like to see – a TUI client like toot wouldn’t work for me.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Mastodon offers the “deluxe” experience, but it is a resource hungry beast, that can also be feeble as hell. I miss it, a lot, but am running GoToSocial instead because of its simplicity, and nimbleness.

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I think it’s time I set up jenny for this feed… been echo-ing my twits manually and there came times when it made me feel like a dork xD Plus I don’t have my vim’s :set spell to catch up with the typos

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I think it’s time I set up jenny for this feed… been echo-ing my twits manually and there came times when it made me feel like a dork xD Plus I don’t have my vim’s :set spell to catch up with the typos

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NVK Achieves Day-Zero Support for Vulkan 1.4
The Khronos Group recently announced the release of the Vulkan 1.4 specification, and NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware, has achieved day-zero conformance with the latest API. This support has been integrated into Mesa and will be available in the upcoming Mesa 25.0 release, scheduled for early 2025. This development highlights Mesa’s ongoing […] ⌘ Read more

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Low-Cost ESP32-PICO-D4 Board with LoRa, Wi-Fi, and BLE Connectivity
The LILYGO T3 V3.0 TCXO is a development board based on the ESP32 microcontroller, offering integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth V4.2 + BLE connectivity. It features multiple GPIOs, QWIIC connectors, and LiPo battery support, making it suitable for portable applications. Unlike other LILYGO products with LoRa support, such as the T5 E-Paper S3 Pro, the T3 […] ⌘ Read more

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