eyegor · HackerTrans

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

On prem beats the heck out of github post Microsoft though... At least you know how to get it working again when someone breaks it. These days with github you expect a weekly 500, a rainbow unicorn error, build failures due to unavailable errors, etc. Last I checked the third party tracker github services were barely pushing one 9 of reliability.

eyegor

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

"Chinese repos" is a very charitable interpretation of the Google drive links they used to distribute the os. It seemed like it was on the free plan too, it often didn't work because it tripped the maximum downloads per month limit.

eyegor

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

As nice as it looks, I have a lot of trouble believing the "we have magic money, it's free because that's good for business" logic.

    PDFgear is free of charge, and we don’t generate income through any hidden means. We Do NOT misuse or sell user data and we Do Not display ads. Here’s how we keep operations running: 
    We’ve secured investment to cover operational costs, including team expenses and technology like the ChatGPT API. We’re also experienced in optimizing technology usage to manage costs more effectively.

eyegor

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Plans for language bindings? Should be trivial to whip up simpler ones like python or dotnet but I didn't see any official bindings yet.

eyegor

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

> even a 1 minute compile time is dwarfed by the time it takes to write and reason about code, run tests, work with version control, etc.

You are far from the embedded world if you think 1 minute here or there is long. I have been involved with many projects that take hours to build, usually caused by hardware generation (fpga hdl builds) or poor cross compiling support (custom/complex toolchain requirements). These days I can keep most of the custom shenanigans in the 1hr ballpark by throwing more compute at a very heavy emulator (to fully emulate the architecture) but that's still pretty painful. One day I'll find a way to use the zig toolchain for cross compiles but it gets thrown off by some of the c macro or custom resource embedding nonsense.

Edit: missed some context on lazy first read so ignore the snark above.

eyegor

vor 11 Monatendiscuss

I've used them as a quick way to get rootless configured base images. Not sure if official repos provide those now, but it used to be a big hassle to get things like postgres images running without root in their containers. Although I often had to read through their dockerfiles to figure out the uid setup, where configs live, etc because they were not consistent between the various bitnami images.

eyegor

letztes Jahrdiscuss

Side note, if you're a lazygit fan, consider using gitui as an alternative. Feature wise they're pretty similar but gitui is much faster and I find it easier to use.

https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui

eyegor

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Sorting is pretty common in the numerics world because a lot of algorithms or techniques can be optimized heavily with sorted inputs. You either get to skip steps or bisect the dataset. Sort of like how most fast fft implementations will run 10-20% faster if you pad vectors to reach a power of 2 length. A typical "preprocess pipeline" would involve splitting vectors into power of 2 sizes or padding them to maximize cache lines, normalizing (and often mapping to an integer domain), and sorting.

eyegor

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Unfortunately this is not true in numerics. Lots of stupid heavy cfd/fea type workloads parellize well but aren't gpu accelerated. The reasons aren't clear to me, but a lot of the popular solvers are cpu only and involve mostly fp calcs. There are a few solvers that use gpus but they tend to be less accurate in exchange.

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