You're probably right, but that's not the usual wording you hear. Of course, when grieving, proper proofreading may not be (nor should it be) at the top of anyone's list.
You went from BSON to your own and skipped CBOR and Protobuf? … I wonder if you would have made different decisions without Claude vibing you in a direction?
it's not really possible to stay human readable and get the compression levels and random access properties I was going for. But it is as human tooling friendly as possible given the constraints.
I find it obvious that your first attempt failed. Try again, you have not even remotely failed enough if you are making the argument that this is kinda readable. Yes, ascii words are easy to pick out, you didn’t do that, you did the part that makes it all harder.
Very similar to bittorrent’s bencode. That has the benefit that it has a canonical encoding which this doesn’t (because of the different compression options). I wouldn’t be put off by how it looks as text.
It is also a format that can be read as-is without any preprocessing. In some cases base64 can do that, and this format does make heavy use of base64 varints.
Sure, you can encode as JSON, then compress with gzip and then base64 encode. You'll probably end up with something smaller than rx and be extremely safe to copy-paste. But your consumers are going to consume orders of magnitude more CPU reading data from this document.
RX is usable as-is, is compressed, and is copy-pasteable. It's the unique combination of properties that makes it interesting.
>It is also a format that can be read as-is without any preprocessing.
>Q^mSat,3^b:d+s+E,4Fri,3^u:h+k+u,6Thu,3^P:j+
My man… no. I have no doubt you could kind of figure out what that sample is hot off the heels of writing this, and likely not in six months. And to consider that anyone else would fill their brain with the rules to decipher that, Nah 2.0.
I meant computers can read it without any preprocessing. It's random access. You don't need to parse it, you don't need to decompress it. You just start at the end and follow pointers till you get to the desired value.
Even a trivial doc like this is challenging for me to read as a human.
> You (people) loved him before he went in for Trump.
The inflection point for the public was Musk calling the cave diver, who helped orchestrate the rescue of a dozen trapped kids, a "pedo guy" and then doubling down on it, again, twice in front of his audience of millions.
The inflection point for anyone in tech with two eyes and a brain was Musk insisting his companies produce products that do more than they are, still to this day, capable of.
First was around 2018, the latter was ~2016, although anyone who was familiar with machine learning knew models were not as capable as Musk was insisting they were, and that the hyperloop was a scam.
Before he went in for Trump he created an obviously fake, insanely expensive system that could never work in practice (Hyperloop) just to slow down California rail projects
Before he went in for Trump he was running a factory with an alarmingly high injury rate, where employees were regularly called the N-word, and union busting. People who liked him then weren't paying attention at all.
For what it's worth, I hated him well before he had anything to do with Trump. Most concretely when he called the cave diver a pedo for not wanting to use his stupid submarine, but I remember thinking that the Hyperloop thing he was proposing was pretty stupid too.
Oh, and when he lied about taking Tesla private so he could quickly boost the price of the stock. That sucks too. He's always sucked.
> Do not put swap on an SSD you care about at all.
This.
Many people rediscovering what the purpose of swap files are, but will still find a way to abuse it without knowing that they are actually destroying their SSD.
You can of course monitor SMART wearout indicators to check whether this is happening. Casual use of swap for non LLM-use is actually fine since "cold" ephemeral data will be swapped out first and that will never get written to; KV cache is mostly fine since it's similarly append-only so writes are tolerably small; but yes, more general LLM inference totally breaks that limited-writes pattern and will wear out/kill your media.
EU has had a lot of time to recognize the situation they have been in regarding energy.
Sorry, but this will never not be not amusing. Where Trump being a stopped clock warns the UN about relying on foreign energy and the German delegation laughs as they were shutting down their nuclear and increasing reliance on Russia for energy.
> EU has had a lot of time to recognize the situation they have been in regarding energy.
There is no case of they just needed to pay attention earlier. The problem is known. There is just no good solution. Drastically scaling back energy consumption isn't going to happen any time soon and would harm the economy. So we can choose between Russia, the Middle East and the USA. Best would be of course to reduce fossil use, but that is orthogonal.
Trump? The same Trump that threatened Greenland while the EU is relying on US LNG? Indeed the EU should not rely on US energy.
Trump is completely inconsistent anyway. First he blamed the EU for wanting to continue the Ukraine war. Then he periodically floats lifting Russia sanctions. But if the EU were to lift Russia sanctions, that of course would lead to severe repercussions.
Trump is about economic suppression of the EU.
If you say "nuclear energy". The US has imported Russian uranium to at least 2025.
Yes, but now I’m like, super suspicious.
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