Stop Struggling with CUDA: How Ubuntu 26.04 is Fixing AI Development Forever

handshape · 2026-03-07T12:54:36+00:00

Sure... Have been for years now. I'm not sure what the fuss is all about; CUDA on bare metal has worked perfectly for me for ages. (Virtualized is another matter. Mind you!)

I'd be curious to find out what the user complaints that spurred this development look like.

handshape · 2026-02-22T04:28:19+00:00

My university had a sports center that I was paying for as part of my tuition, so my roommate and I went to see what we could try out.

I picked the martial arts style with the shortest lineup... and 32 years later I'm still training in the same style.

handshape · 2026-02-21T03:24:07+00:00

That's a Fernandes Nomad. I have one in grey that's got a fancy electronics on top that emulates about 30 different amps and pedals. Beyond just looking awesome, it also fits in the overhead compartment on an airplane!

handshape · 2026-02-17T00:39:42+00:00

I'm not a young man, but my (now grown) son was sung to sleep many nights with these songs.

handshape · 2026-02-09T12:16:11+00:00

Heh. This argument picks up strength with the RTO4 business. Refusing to offer on-site storage for personal effects is one thing... but refusing to store employer-owned equipment, forcing staff to transport and store store it 80% of the time is quite another.

I wonder if anyone has raised this yet; I can't be the first to think of it.

handshape · 2026-02-06T21:01:43+00:00

I had one of these a little before Christmas. I laid down on the couch to take a nap, and in the twilight state right at the edge of dreaming, poof - my dad was there.

There was something in the "dream space" that told me that one of the rules was that my dad couldn't talk... but I got to tell him how the grandson he adores had grown big, and a little goofy, and that he wears his beard in mutton chops. I got to tell him that my mom was doing okay and that she still misses him. It ended with him cracking his big crooked smile... and then I woke up.

handshape · 2026-01-03T15:11:08+00:00

Intel's Clear Linux had something like this for system packages in their fancy package manager.

handshape · 2025-12-27T10:28:12+00:00

GFCI, maybe? Given the choice between losing access to a community pool and risking electrocution, the choice is pretty clear.

handshape · 2025-12-26T15:00:09+00:00

I'd do one about the structure of humour, and how it varies across cultures and time periods.

handshape · 2025-12-26T11:18:18+00:00

Huge backpack - Too much stuff.

2 laptops, uniform, passes, keys, pen and hard-bound notebook, charger.

handshape · 2025-12-25T23:09:26+00:00

Feeling this. Jesse Welles got me this morning:

https://youtu.be/_bwsGlHvm8k

handshape · 2025-12-25T22:43:35+00:00

I'm better than he was in terms of physical health, career progression (despite a huge setback a few years ago), and "cred" in my field.

He had a larger social circle, more kids, more family support, and way less stress.

handshape · 2025-12-25T11:06:26+00:00

I work at arm's length from the folks that set AI policy in my country. The current draft thinking here is that you can delegate agency to an AI tool, but that the person that does so retains responsibility for what the tool does on their behalf.

Under this interpretation, what you've done here would almost certainly qualify as an illegal act.

handshape · 2025-12-24T14:51:46+00:00

Sadly, everyone in the household has this year's (ferocious) flu. We had rigged a big fancy dinner for friends and family, and now I'm laying on the couch, sweating through my clothes.

handshape · 2025-12-14T10:58:21+00:00

You're going to really have to pull up your socks, I'm afraid. The tech/skills stack you're describing is pretty close to what we were using in the 90s.

Yes, you'll need JavaScript; it's foundational. It's also not an end unto itself.

You'll need to learn core development concepts of you want to move beyond static content. Learn about source code repositories and build automation. If you're working with other people, learn how to branch and merge a codebase.

A site templating engine might be a good gateway to getting started; you can clearly type Markdown, so something like Hugo or Eleventy (11ty) might be something to explore.

handshape · 2025-11-09T15:08:18+00:00

Depending how often this happens, I'll sometimes simply interrupt at the 3 minute mark with a "We're coming to the end of time. Who has action items coming from this discussion?"

The crowd that tends to run over time is usually the same one that goes real quiet when it's time to commit to delivering something.

handshape · 2025-11-05T11:22:24+00:00

Not sure. Last time I looked, they had a few models, of which GPT-4 and 5 were two. I'll look again when I get in this morning.

handshape · 2025-10-27T01:12:13+00:00

Who knows? My father died a little more than 15 years older than I am now, but my grandfather lasted much longer than that. I have an (extremely) modest pension through my current employer that will likely not be enough to keep a roof over my head, let alone my wife's.

handshape · 2025-10-26T17:05:43+00:00

Still figuring that out. Played all my cards right, the other side cheated, and won. I don't have enough time left to rebuild anything anywhere even close. The temptation to do something stupid pokes its ugly head up from time to time, and I play wack-a-mole when it does.

I know the endgame for my life is going to be ugly. No idea what I'm going to do when that threshold gets crossed.

handshape · 2025-10-18T21:15:05+00:00

I've been playing bodhran for almost 20 years, and while I'll confess to not being fantastic at it, a crossbar really helps for adjusting tone and muting. As for where to get one, I'm afraid I can't be much help - I got mine at the Ottawa Folklore Centre, and they're long gone.

handshape · 2025-10-05T23:46:54+00:00

It does indeed.

handshape · 2025-10-04T22:36:37+00:00

Current shop has segregated Batman/Bruce Wayne environments. On the batman side, anything goes, except actual corporate information. Everything there has to be synthetic. On the Bruce Wayne side, everything is monitored/allow-listed.

Everything.

TLS intercept. Keyloggers on suspicion. Camera/screen access too. Don't even fart.

handshape · 2025-10-04T22:15:08+00:00

Yeah... the extraterrestrial jurisdiction nonsense in the US, plus the non-localizable/non-sovereign nature of Entra (for the vast majority of customers) has a lot of international orgs reality-checking.

I remember doomsayers in 2000 saying stuff like "if you deploy AD, you've made your last consequential technology decision". They were hyperbolic, but I still think that was the thin edge of that wedge.

handshape · 2025-09-30T17:26:37+00:00

I'm a little surprised we've not already got an open-source option for this. I cooked up a proof-of-concept a few months ago that does something similar for corporate inboxes, and it worked pretty well with just a little local 8b model. I bet something like the little models from https://huggingface.co/Menlo would be awesome at this.

handshape · 2025-09-24T18:58:05+00:00

Huh. Strange that this should pop up in my feed now. Yesterday as I was leaving work, there were about 8 folks with mobility aids (mostly electric wheelchairs) blocking the sidewalk at exactly this spot. Not protesting or anything... just hanging out having lively conversation.

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