Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1456925974919004165
Hacker News thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29128998
November 6, 2021
jnp.device_put(1) is deceptively simple to write in JAX. But on a TPU, what actually happens? How does a tensor containing the value 1 actually get onto a TPU?
Turns out, the answer is "C++", and a lot of it.
This tutorial is dated Oct 2021, if it's much further on than that this information might be out of date.
This is a guide on setting up a static HTTPS website on your raspberry pi using docker and nginx. The aim is to have this running on the raspberry pi and to be able to access it from a host computer on the same local network. You should already be able to ssh into your pi from your host computer and have raspberry pi OS set up.
September 2022:
This has spread to a far wider audience than I had anticipated - probably my fault for using a title that is in hindsight catnip for link aggregators. I wrote this back in 2021 just as a bunch of personal thoughts of my experiences using Rust over the years (not always well thought through), and don't intend on trying to push them further, outside of personal experiments and projects.
Managing a living language is challenging and difficult work, and I am grateful for all the hard work that the Rust community and contributors put in given the difficult constraints they work within. Many of the things I listed below are not new, and there's been plenty of difficult discussions about many of them over the years, and some are being worked on or postponed, or rejected for various good reasons. For more thoughts, please see my comment below.
I have been wondering for a long time why IRC networks have multiple servers. Wouldn't it be simpler just to use a single server?
One of the problems of having multiple servers is that netsplits can occur. Anybody who has been on IRC for a while will have witnessed one. Hundreds of people suddenly ripped out of the chat. This can also screw up channel and user modes, and 'some people' have been known to wait for netsplits in order to takeover channels or enter password protected channels.
So lets compare situation (A) a single IRC server everyone connects to with the current setup people use (B) multiple servers. Let's say you run an IRC network with u = 40,000 users and n = 20 server nodes that people connect to via round robin DNS (meaning that when people resolve the DNS it gives them a random server from the set of 20 to connect to). These are vaguely realistic numbers modelled after libera.chat.
So in (B) you have roughly u/n = 2000 clients connected
Whenever the topic of Bitcoin's energy usage comes up, there's always a flood of hastily-constructed comments by people claiming that their favourite cryptocurrency isn't like Bitcoin, that their favourite cryptocurrency is energy-efficient and scalable and whatnot.
They're wrong, and are quite possibly trying to scam you. Let's look at why.
There are plenty of intricate and complex articles trying to convince you that cryptocurrencies are the future. They usually heavily use jargon and vague terms, make vague promises, and generally give you a sense that there must be something there, but you always come away from them more confused than you were before.
| name: Update Dependencies | |
| on: | |
| schedule: | |
| # https://crontab.guru/#0_0_*_*_WED,SAT | |
| # Run every Wednesday and Saturday at 00:00 | |
| # 0 0 * * WED,SAT | |
| - cron: '0 0 * * WED,SAT' | |
| jobs: | |
| dependabot: |
This project is a tiny compiler for a very simple language consisting of boolean expression.
The language has two constants: 1 for true and 0 for false, and 4 logic gates:
! (not), & (and), | (or), and ^ (xor).
It can also use parentheses to manage priorities.
Here is its grammar in BNF format:
expr ::= "0" | "1"
| #!/bin/env bash | |
| set -o pipefail | |
| read -r -d '' HELP <<-'HELPDOC' | |
| ts-ip-by-hostname — returns the Tailscale IP address of a connected | |
| device by the hostname. | |
| Usage: |
this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples
GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?
Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to
This post was adapted from an earlier Twitter thread.
It's incredible how many collective developer hours have been wasted on pushing through the turd that is ES Modules (often mistakenly called "ES6 Modules"). Causing a big ecosystem divide and massive tooling support issues, for... well, no reason, really. There are no actual advantages to it. At all.
It looks shiny and new and some libraries use it in their documentation without any explanation, so people assume that it's the new thing that must be used. And then I end up having to explain to them why, unlike CommonJS, it doesn't actually work everywhere yet, and may never do so. For example, you can't import ESM modules from a CommonJS file! (Update: I've released a module that works around this issue.)
And then there's Rollup, which apparently requires ESM to be u