I love stuff like this. I had a behind the scenes album from inside a turbine that was down for maintenance at the Hoover dam, but my laptop was stolen right around that time and I had no backups (before the cloud). Very spooky watching water drip into the turbine housing (which you could nearly stand up in) knowing an enormous lake was directly above you.
We've had universal adapters for ages. You can run a DeWalt battery on a Milwaukee, Makita on DeWalt, etc. I even have an adapter to run my Milwaukee M18 batteries on my Dyson vacuum.
You can run a wire to the pos/neg leads on the battery and use it standalone. I use it to power temporary reverse off-road lights on my truck. I see no reason to do this sort of thing. More oppressive regulation from the EU that no one actually wants. Fortunately Milwaukee is a US company as well as a dominant player in the market and will likely not participate in this whatsoever.
Damn. I grew up in Glendale and used to visit this store all the time. I’d take the bus if my parents couldn’t take me. Which was actually 3 buses and probably 4 hours of travel to get there and back. My dad worked at Lockheed Martin and the credit union was right across the street so that was always an excuse to drop-in after a bank visit.
Got my first WRT54G there, my first managed switch, power supplies, misc parts for RC building (heat shrink, soldering accessories). Was always fun to visit “the pit” with all the motherboards and processors unboxed and on full display. Felt like the NYSE with people lined up to look at the board and grab a processor. It was always so active like a bee hive. Visiting more recently it was just a shell of its former self.
It’s still my favorite store with the alien attack vibes and all the army jeeps.
You can, it’s just suboptimal in my experience and incurs troubleshooting time. I’ve been meaning to put a bounty on S3 compatible support via a fork (maintainers are not interested and believe posix file system is preferable), just haven’t had the time. Hopefully soon!
Desired pipeline is “Ingest->MusicBrainz->Object Storage (music bucket, write once read many)->Serve to various clients from middleware server (Jellyfin).”
I admire that the homepage for the ISP - https://washftth.com/ - is literally the default Debian Apache/httpd welcome page with new content inserted. The #CD214F color is the giveaway.
Model fatigue is a real thing - Particularly with their billing model that is wildly different from model to model and gives you more headroom as you spend more. We spend a lot of time and effort running tests across many models to balance for that cost/performance ratio. When you can run 300k tokens per min on a shittier model, or 10k tokens per min on a better model - you want to use the cheaper model but if the performance isn't there then you gotta pivot. Can I use tools here? Can I use function calling here? Do I use the chat API, the chat completions API, or the responses API? Do either of those work with the model I want to use, or only with other models?
I almost wonder if this is intentional ... because when you create a quagmire of insane inter-dependent billing scenarios you end up with a product like AWS that can generate substantial amounts of revenue from sheer ignorance or confusion. Then you can hire special consultants to come in and offer solutions to your customers in order to wade through the muck on your behalf.
Dealing with OpenAI's API's is a straight up nightmare.
I've wanted something like this for a long time, going to take it for a spin. Looks like there is a lot of help wanted on certain underlying implementations so that would be fun to help out with too.
I think there is tremendous value in having these functions that appear stateless and run in "stateless" environments like aws lambda, but on each invocation they are handed the previous state and are able to augment it and return (to persist) or do nothing.
There’s definitely a lot of inspiration from Erlang. We’re far from the first actor-ish framework, but we’re hoping ActorCore sticks by working seamlessly with existing tools, instead of forcing people to learn a new paradigm.
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Listening to October 1989 right now. Loving it! I'm going to download every single .ogg file and create a radio station that I can just tune into while working. Surprisingly effective for the flow state - even with the random product announcements.
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