Over the holiday break I was looking at one of my old projects, µLinux. Turns out I did a fine job realy and have decided to revive the project 🥳 – Just getting the build/tests woring on my Mac Studio (Apple Silicon). Check it out! 👌 #µLinux

Was just catching up on all the LinkedIN garbage that is well umm garbage 🗑️ One was from a candidate I interviewed, so I had to reply to that 😅 – Anyway…. Saw this random post in my “notifications”:

How do land that job with a Unicorn

First off, you’ll have to define what da fuq a “Unicorn” is! 🤣 My understanding a Unicorn is a mythical creature with a horn on its head and wings 🪽 🤦‍♂️

@bender@twtxt.net Already planning on going back to the same place again next year 🤣

Poo holiday is over 😢

@bender@twtxt.net I reviewed my solution and it’s pretty much spot on! 🤣 the order of magnitude performance is anywhere between 1-10ms

@bender@twtxt.net I currently use the mixstral and codeastral models. Both open source and run just fine on my personal machines.

Bye bye Angsana! See you again next year hopefully 🤞

@bender@twtxt.net are one of my assumptions off?

@sorenpeter@darch.dk@darch.dk It is actually allowed though 🤣

http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%84%ED%82%A4%EB%B0%B1%EA%B3%BC:%EB%8C%80%EB%AC%B8

@johanbove@johanbove.info You are also welcome to use and/or borrow from twtxt2html 👌

• 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

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?

@johanbove@johanbove.info Congrats! 🥳 I think it’s only 4 years for me 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Haha! No! Golf biggie 🤣

Nice view from up on the mountain side 😎

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.

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 🤣

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

@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.

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

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

@bender@twtxt.net Ahh yeah that’ll do it 🤣 I couldn’t find a reason for the martial law myself 🤦‍♂️

@bender@twtxt.net What do you mean?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de there is no appeal.

@bender@twtxt.net Facing impeachment over what?

Today we got to explore the Imperial City of Hue amongst other places.

What the hell is happening in South Korea?

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

@skinshafi@thunix.net That would be cool! Lemme know how that goes!

Or https://git.mills.io/prologic/static

https://pkg.go.dev/go.mills.io/static

@bender@twtxt.net zs integrates my static server yes 👌

Btw, zs supports CGI

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ok 👌

@bender@twtxt.net LOL 🤣valet’s merge 🤝

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s because Luke the “others”, it’s designed to be a “fast socials media” 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Looks like Irish was created around 7 years ago too 🤔

Also interesting:

edit_hash: When a message is edited, a new message is created– this field holds the hash of the modified message. The client follows the chain of edit hashes to end up at the final, edited message to display. This lets us keep an “undo” history (not yet implemented) and is a marker so the client can display a marker that the message has been edited.

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks! Also very interesting rid bits here 🤣

The author, parent hash, timestamp, and message values go into the hash. (see Message Hash for details)

LOL the rest of it appears undocumented 🤦‍♂️

Messages

Message Hash

Bad Hashes

Edit Chain

Deleted Messages

Topic List

Replies

License

GPLv2

@skinshafi@thunix.net Cool!

Iris leans heavily on convention. Iris’ security and message authentication is provided by filesystem permissions and message hashing.

@skinshafi@thunix.net Oh! interesting hmmm 🤔

@bmallred@staystrong.run Man that’s such a decent pace 😱

@bender@twtxt.net Ahh I see 🤔

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Hah! 🤣

New name for a new political party:

Country
Uniting
Nationally
Together

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Are CGI scripts possible? 🤔

I’m considering becoming a gold or platinum sponsor of the ladybird project

My solution to:

How much will the storage of logs cost for a standard, monolithic 100,000 RPS web application?

• 512 bytes logged per request
  
• 100,000 RPS
  
• ~50MB/s
  
  • ~4TB/day
    
• $0.02/GB Blob Storage
  
  • $0 ingress
    
• 90 days retention
  
  • ~400TB
    
  • $8k Blob Storage
    
• Costs:
  
  • ~$88/day
    
  • ~$2.6k/month
    
  • ~$32k/year

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com i’m more after general feedback on how to improve the search facilities so that I can also improve the global search engine as well. 🤣

on that particular pubnix that is

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com PJP is the only really viable scripting language for websites, right?

@bender@twtxt.net what kind of game is this? What do you play it on?

So how has the experience been so far?

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yup! I re-read that yarn 🤣

I understand why I a swarch for this tag didn’t actually work, but I’m curious what the expectations of users are here?

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Hmm the tags search here doesn’t pick that Twt up, but I think this search will? https://twtxt.net/search?q=_id:44kqz4q

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Oh! So you are also @skinshafi@thunix.net ? 🤔

Why is my @ mention is all over the place?

Just the way yarnd (my client) behaves, which I’m also refactoring and improving the way mentions are expanded and auto-completed.

@skinshafi@thunix.net Hey 👋

A reminder of the problem:

How much will the storage of logs cost for a standard, monolithic 100,000 RPS web application?

Anyone had a chance to have a go at this problem yet? 🤔I’ll post my solution in a few hours…

@thunix.net@thunix.net Hello! 👋

@bender@twtxt.net oh, I’m pretty sure they’re in my photo archive on my phone. I just picked the best looking rats nest 🤣 yo show!

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Bahahahahahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣

@bender@twtxt.net HahahahahH but honestly the people here are really lovely (-the scammers of course)

@bender@twtxt.net are you being sarcastically for reals? I can’t tell from the photo I just took. 🤣

It’s hilarious seeing rats nest like this 🤣 in Vietnam’s Hoi An! 🤣 Thailand has very similar, not sure which is worse 😅

@bender@twtxt.net We went to Hoi An today and bought tickets to see the “old town”. We lasted about 2 hours before we’d had enough of the hustle, bustle, scammers, pollution, constant beeping and all manner of over capitalized nonsense! 🤣 We ate nothing! 😅

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Just a long term hunch 😅

Just the same view, ocean and sand! 🤣

Share your solution and how you arrived at it on Twtxt and tomorrow, I’ll share mine! 👌

Problem 1: How much will the storage of logs cost for a standard, monolithic 100,000 RPS web application?

#napkin-math

The beach itself is very nicely maintained on a daily basis however, unfortunately the sea is full of plastic and rubbish 😢

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Nope love you!! “Scroll” has a finite end 🤣 And a predictable one at that 😅

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Embrace, Extend; Extinguish? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de that looks like something straight out of a movie scene 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de We never really formalized such a thing 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ahhh the feed is still there but the account got nuked on my pod for some reason hmmm when I get home I’ll check if this was legit 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hmm that feed appears to be 404 😢

@eapl.mx@eapl.mx That would be good👌

But look at the number of times it crashes back down again something chronic 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Proof (close) 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m gonna be very late to the party I’m afraid 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s nearing $100k USD lol but yea in general 🤦‍♂️

This whole bitcoin thing is just fucking crazy right? 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net It’s hard to beat iant it 😅

@bender@twtxt.net This ☝️ Especially:

It would be much more constructive to have skilled experts define what a safe social media environment for kids looks like, and implement that environment instead.

@sorenpeter@darch.dk@darch.dk What was the nature of the chats? 🤔

Thank you for spinning this up 🙇‍♂️

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Nice! 👌 I’ll try this in VirtualBox when I get home 🤞

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com is it full screen zoom though like on macOS where the zoomed area follows the mouse cursor?

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I might consider reviving it after perfecting the twtxt search engine 🤔

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com So it all just worked?

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ahh awesome thank you! The reason for Conpiz is that I remember it having good full screen Zoom for the vision impaired like me.

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt that’s truly amazing and unsurprisingly shocking! 😱 anyone that has an X account should immediately reconsider 🤣

@fredg@galusik.fr Sounds legit! 👌

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com You know I tried to build my own generic web search engine and crawler a few years back. 😅

@xuu@txt.sour.is I mean by the time you’ve read this book you’ll have completed all of Advent of Code 🤣

Can someone try Alpine Linux with XFCE and Compiz please? Show me how the full screen zoom works in 2024/2025 🙏