Comments by "" (@GSBarlev) on "Fireship" channel.

  1. Let Jeff get that bag. Literally everything in this video can be implemented with completely open stacks. It's no different than SageMaker except that with NIM there are a few less middlemen between you and Jensen's jacket supplier.
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  2. ​ @XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX 💯. As long as OEMs ship with Windows included, Microsol market share won't see so much as a dent. Framework and System76 are extremely niche and likely will be for a while.
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  3.  @ber2996  buddy, I'm just here for the 🍿
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  4. I hear it ships with ffmpreg encoding
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  5. Hot take: this also looks a lot like a Mechanic Turk.
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  6.  @geroutathat  Not disputing! If you actually know erlang, your job security is excellent. I'm saying it's not a skill you want to use as resume-padding.
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  7. Me: GPU accelerated terminals are silly tries kitty Me: GPU accelerated terminals are everything
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  8. Or going for a team project analogy: - the GPU is the dropout stoner who just wants to play video games all day, except it turns out that their gamer skills translate really well into a bunch of profitable niches - the TPU is the crypto bro who swears he's going to revolutionize the world, even though in practice, the GPU does everything better or cheaper - the DPU is the contractor you brought in to do one specialized job who does it well and stays in their lane - the QPU is the "big ideas" guy who got you the funding for the project, but don't count on him to have anything ready when it's time to deliver - the CPU is the project manager who thought they'd just be managing the others but has to pull overtime to do the work the others won't do
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  9. On the contrary, I doubt it's really that high. The losses to the content creators media-owning conglomerates is in terms of sales they didn't make or ads they didn't serve. So every season of The Office pirated isn't equivalent to the sale of a $20 DVD box set, because only a small fraction of users who downloaded the show would have paid for it otherwise. Plus, pirating has actually helped some pieces of entertainment by keeping interest alive or by demonstrating a market in an unserved area. Take, for example, Top Gear, whose worldwide success is openly acknowledged as due to piracy, and Dexter's Laboratory, which just this year got DVD release despite the show having ended years before many of the kids watching it today were even born.
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  10. Bingo. I'm a huge mypy Stan, but even I am in favor of omitting type hints (in exchange for detailed docstrings) on a function where I would need to perform "gymnastics" to get the compiler not to complain. I also very much appreciate Python's use of Protocols and TypeAliases to allow you to have your cake and eat it too—that is, if type checking is important but would distract from the code flow, you can define a "DuckLike" Protocol in some file out of the way that articulates the exact way the parameter is supported to quack.
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  11. You know what's worse than Agile? Not Agile. Note that I'm not saying Scrum or (God Forbid) SAFe. But the whole point of Agile is that if it's not working for you, you need to do something different. And a kanban board + daily standups + occasional retros is good for pretty much everyone.
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  12. No surer way to make a mathematician cry than find a practical use for their work.
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  13. I realize his delivery is deadpan, but if you're struggling to pick up on Jeff's sarcasm you're going to have a bad time here.
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  14.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  Because I actually watched the video and read the CVE and postmortems. The code fully open source and has a thousand people poring over every bit. The only distros affected were Sid, Tumbleweed and Rawhide, which are used almost exclusively for testing.
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  15.  @allanwilmath8226  Nah, I don't hate Apple (though I do like to blow them a few razzberries from time to time). As you can see from the follow-up discussion, it sounds like macs weren't any more vulnerable to this attack than Arch, and Homebrew took the bold step of knocking xz all the way back to 5.4 rather than produce a clean 5.6 build, so major kudos. My point, if I have one, is that we're all in this together, and this isn't a case where the messaging is really "haha 🐧 nerds got pwned."
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  16.  @bluefrancis14  It's @AlbertaTech just as it says in OC's post.
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  17. If I had a nickel for every time the concept of computer modeling got rebranded in the last decade, I'd have two nickels.
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  18. It already exists. Global Stallions from Weatherbys.
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  19. Ooh, I hope there's a good port for Portal when I get my first BCI—the combination of precision movements, perfectly sloped learning curve and lack of timed challenges (aside from the last boss fight) made it perfect when I first learned WASD and then again when I learned to use my Steam Deck.
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  20.  @hetmanfoko  It's a de-Canonicalled Ubuntu though—no snaps, no ads in the MOTD. It's FOSS at its finest.
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  21. The captial of Sou Kore
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  22. I'm fairly convinced I'd be happier if I'd gone a different route in my career and knew what none of these words meant...
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  23. Anyone claiming that their devs write 💩 code, I challenge them to do one thing: install pre-commit and an auto-linter like black or Rustfmt. I've worked with quants for a decade. From my experience, 90% of the time all you need to turn their garbage code into beautiful code is a single button-push.
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  24. I'm relieved that, like a human, it can't write regex, and further, that unlike a human, it writes unit tests that shows it fails at life, whereas my regex tests always pass with flying colors... until it hits prod, but by then I'm onto the next job. In short: our jobs are safe, y'all!
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  25. Buddy, this isn't the "spend time in prison" route, this is the "run your criminal empire from prison" route.
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  26.  @brandon_wallace  Do a web search for Hernando Barragán.
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  27. PSA: that "HTML for Babies" book at 2:09 is very real.
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  28. I love how mypy is spearheaded by none other than Guido van Rossum
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  29. You really had me there for a minute, but 2:34 gave it away. Ain't nobody got their hands on a Raspberry Pi in 2023.
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  30. ​ @Mightydoggo SAO: Drake rejection meme SAOA: Drake Heck Yeah meme
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  31. Matt Berry.
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  32. I was definitely going to learn Rust this year, but that seeing that -$35 drop? No thanks. I could buy like three Chipotle burritos for that much.
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  33. ​ @DxBlack "GIMP is outdated" Hey, c'mon! GIMP 3 announced they were releasing the beginning of August! Wait...
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  34. That's one of the best concise explanations of quantum computing I've ever seen. And my undergraduate advisor was the guy who coined the term "qubit."
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  35. Anyone who's ever tried to do anything productive on SteamOS: ¿porque no los dos?
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  36. "You'll never leave me, will you ELIZA? ...ELIZA?" ELIZA: "And how would that make you feel?"
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  37. Pouring one out for your poor LCD. But respect for jumping right into the deep end—Arch isn't what I would recommend for a laptop unless you're pretty familiar with it already.
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  38.  @nikhilchouhan1802  Even then it might not have been affected if the Arch build script clones the repo (which of thought was SOP for PKGBUILDs) instead of downloading the release tarball.
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  39. I wasn't aware that anyone besides me remembered that show.
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  40. I hope he has the patience to wait until the supply shortage ends (or until competitor SBCs see the same level of Linux kernel support so we can start using the term "Pi" like we use "Arduino" now for any of a wide range of compatible board)
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  41. It's getting to the point where if Forbes offers to run a positive fluff piece about you, you're better off threatening them with a defamation suit.
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  42. numba is FOSS, has been out for years, sees similar performance gains and has support for GPGPU compute. It's also a library and not a separate language. Bottom line: I'd love to understand what mojo is bringing to he table that wasn't already there.
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  43. As a worker who decided to wrap up his day early because our company's Jupyter/dask server was pooping the bed, I look forward to having all new excuses to slack off from work!
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  44. ​ @personalbranddata You're misunderstanding. It's not me who's conflating the two, it's the managers who claim that their devs (more often quants) write garbage code when in actuality no one ever trained them in proper style conventions. Plus—and this is all from personal experience as both an autodidact developer and as a coach—well-formatted Python, especially, tends to naturally suggest better programming patterns, such as code modularization and functional paradigms.
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  45.  @TheRanguna  Yes, I'm aware. But Kim Dotcom isn't a name I have heard in a loong time.
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  46.  @ninobach7456  Don't go Arduino. Get a microPython / CircuitPython board instead (RP2040s are dirty cheap). When you're just starting out especially, having an interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) interface is a godsend that cuts out the frustration of having to recompile and re-flash your code for the bonk-zillionth time.
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  47.  @ExpensivePizza  Hot take: FORTRAN was such an influential language that anyone venturing out of the C family "learns" it in one form or another. Honestly, as a (primarily) python developer--especially one who has embraced type hunting with open arms--FORTRAN code is 10x more intuitively readable than C++ or Java.
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  48. Okay cool, we all agree that SD3M was Hella disappointing. I seriously got so fed up with it I just made my deepfake parody image in GIMP.
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  49. In the Lower Decks episode "Crisis Point II," the characters go off-script, and the holodeck stalls for time with filler words ("The meaning of life is... something important... that I will reveal..."). That's something I've seen LLMs do as well, especially as they try to run out the max_token limit.
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  50. Hence why mamba exists.
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