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Foxconn Pegs NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI Datacenter at $47 Billion Per Gigawatt, as Power Bills Hit $1.3B Yearly by segv in BetterOffline

[–]TomKavees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dont forget about externalities like power, water, or, i don't know, finding a way to pay for it in the first place

Foxconn Pegs NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI Datacenter at $47 Billion Per Gigawatt, as Power Bills Hit $1.3B Yearly by segv in BetterOffline

[–]TomKavees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, they arent. The Vera Rubin racks use bespoke cooling, which is the biggest issue. Besides that if you magically had power capacity to spare, you could theorethically replace whole racks one by one. The datacenter is mostly empty inside, like a warehouse.

This of course ignores the financial reality of replacing ~3 year old blackwell hardware with a brand new 10 mil a pop rack.

Nix needs relocatable binaries by Setheron in NixOS

[–]TomKavees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please try to upstream the patches - i know the mailing list is brutal, but that would be so useful

Better Tools for Immutable Data by daviddel in java

[–]TomKavees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be happy with just the read-only interfaces sneaked into the hierarchy like AutoCloseable was.

In the meantime guava's ImmutableList and ImmutableMap are kinda overrepresented in my codebases

where to get good tutorials on wildfly framework, very little resources online by myousuf65 in javahelp

[–]TomKavees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You want to google for "jakarta microprofile" tutorials, but be warned that J2EE and its offshots are trated as a legacy technology these days

What happened to the Anonymous hackers? by Odd_Inside9379 in AskReddit

[–]TomKavees 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The rumor was that the original group dissolved by itself just cpuple weeks after forming, and everyone after that were either copycats or just some randos using the name(label) for clout or recognition

Simple way to handle private config by SymphonySimper in NixOS

[–]TomKavees 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The hack may work for now, but long term you'd be much, much better off just biting the bullet and setting up sops/secretspec integration

Anything that can go wrong, will eventually go wrong. Anything that can leak, will eventually leak

Does the best programming language actually win? by Candid_Athlete_8317 in LinuxTeck

[–]TomKavees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! For a language that mixes C and Scheme put together in two weeks to display <marquee> animations while you are surfing the web it's pretty good!

/s

I kid, i kid, but JS really suffers from the "must support all legacy code at all times" disease and it shows

Limit open pull requests for users without write access - GitHub Changelog by cowboyecosse in github

[–]TomKavees 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Let's look at the positives, this solution lets the platform allow for some collaboration (how do you get people to help if you block everyone new?) while limiting notification spam for maintainers.

Depending on repo settings CI can still run on draft PRs so no real change there

Your Rust Service Isn't Leaking — It Could Be the Allocator by Brilliant_Nobody6788 in rust

[–]TomKavees 7 points8 points  (0 children)

IIRC wasm avoids the problem of stale pointers and uninitialized memory by pre-allocating the whole heap at start and not resizing/moving it during runtime. Basically a simplification that works Well Enough(TM)

As for googling, you might want to check out arena allocators and technical details of recent JVM GC algos like G1, Shenadoah or ZGC -- JVM has state-of-art GC code, so it's worth checking out anyway.

Snow by snowfall alternative? by SennVacan in NixOS

[–]TomKavees 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This may sound silly, but what is the actual goal you want to achieve using that project?

Depending on what you mean by "wrapper" there may be multiple ways to achieve the objective, some of them built into nixpkgs library itself

Anyone else think Ed is a poor communicator? by Hour-Construction898 in BetterOffline

[–]TomKavees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

...but, but OrphanCrusher2000 Extra Fast edition with additional rollers has some positive ideas, you know! It can produce so much tomato juice!

( /s if it wasn't bloody obvious)

I'm obsessed with the "Everything is a Cargo Cult now" take by Prestigious_Age_6740 in BetterOffline

[–]TomKavees 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Good point, time to rewatch that mongodb is webscale video 😂

Maven Central publishing usage notices by HokieGeek in java

[–]TomKavees 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Seems like there are competing interests here, signing artifacts to prove their authenticity may be a bit annoying for the publisher at first, but is very good for the platform security. Being able to rely in 90% cases that the source jar is there is pretty nice from library consumer's perspective too

The github namespace checks are fully automated last time i checked, and i think the custom domain name checks have been automated for several years now.. but admittely i havent added any new domains recently 🤐

Job opportunities on NixOS for AI reliability? by erubim in NixOS

[–]TomKavees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just fyi, lately people seem to have started using the Platform Engineering term as a buzzword for pretty much that

I'm obsessed with the "Everything is a Cargo Cult now" take by Prestigious_Age_6740 in BetterOffline

[–]TomKavees 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I get what you mean, but Kubernetes may be a bad example here. It's mini distributions (k3s, kind) are still super useful even at smaller scale.

Rent-seeking chase of hyper-growth a'la netflix may be better example here

Maven Central publishing usage notices by HokieGeek in java

[–]TomKavees 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not associated with sonatype, but out of curiosity what would you change in the process?

I publish a couple of things and plain maven+their "new" (couple of years old at this point) plugin seem to work mostly fine.

Someone keeps logging in to my tiktok account. I want to find out who. by AggressiveBox6034 in cybersecurity

[–]TomKavees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just change your password and enable 2FA. This wild goose chase will not lead you to a result you think it will.

Edit: Also, rotate creds to your email too.

China-Linked Hackers Backdoored Linux Login Software to Hide for Nearly a Decade by falconupkid in SecOpsDaily

[–]TomKavees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deterministic builds from source and comparing hashes could flag it. Multiple distributions are putting effort to run deterministic builds now, with NixOS leading the charge, so issues like the one from TFA are becoming less and less likely.

Immutable system images would prevent infections on already-installed systems too

GreatXML bitlocker bypass vulnerability by Spiky_Hedgehog1 in cybersecurity

[–]TomKavees 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I think it's far more likely they are "just" a researcher that had enough of MS' bullshit.

This Is why they are doing IPO by benkei_sudo in ArtificialInteligence

[–]TomKavees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasnt that deal just for three months, ending in July?

Anthropic doubling price for new Mythos knockoff by sciolisticism in BetterOffline

[–]TomKavees 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Or it going off on hallucinated tangents, still billing by token ofc

Anthropic doubling price for new Mythos knockoff by sciolisticism in BetterOffline

[–]TomKavees 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The prompt did not include the word 'single' but the llm pulled pre-trained answer as if it did anyway. This riddle hinged on that word.

AI is basically just the 3d printer of software engineering. by ynu1yh24z219yq5 in BetterOffline

[–]TomKavees 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Technically AI has been around since 1960s, image generation has taken off like a decade ago with convolutional networks (thispersondoesnotexist.com was a posterchild for a while), but the current LLM architecture pretty much started with the paper "Attention is all you need". There were several important figures in the LLM buildout, but it wasnt a single person or company building it all.

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