The full list of articles is at https://www.gilesthomas.com/llm-from-scratch for anyone who's interested but wants to start at the beginning.

I had fun with crypto ~12 years ago. I mined a tiny bit, and I built a little crypto trading bot. The bot was mildly profitable, and I had bigger plans for it. Then the exchange I was using declared they had been hacked and shut down, taking all of my profits and seed money with it.

I feel like I learned all I needed to know about crypto from that experience and haven't touched it since then.

I feel like anker combines mediocre quality control with pretty good customer service. A lot of the praise I hear from them includes something like "it died but they replaced it for free".

My home server / NAS is essentially just my old gaming desktop + some extra hard drives. It runs Unraid with Nextcloud, Plex, and a few other services. It's great, and generally pretty low maintenance.

I'll also point out that there are a lot of folks out there who don't have very large demands when it comes to computing, and would be served perfectly well by a 5-10 year old system. Even low-end gaming (Fortnight, GTA V, Minecraft, Roblox, etc.) can run perfectly fine on a computer built with $300-400 of used parts.

I could see it being a good feature. If there have been two versions published within the last week or two, then there are reasonable odds that the previous one had a bug.

some lib literally publish a new package at every PR merged, so multiple times a day.

I like having at least one or two stickers on my laptop, just so that I can easily tell which one is mine.

HN is currently linking to the start of the forum thread, but here is a direct link to the Rockstar employe's reply: https://gtaforums.com/topic/1004182-rockstar-games-alleged-u...

(And, the very next post is the forum admin confirming that the poster is indeed a rockstar employee.)

I think you meant to say "...I used to work on shifts..."

That, or maybe try a laxative.

(Man, if ever there was a time I wanted emoji support on HN, this is it!)

ah fuck, you're right, i mistyped. yeah i used to work on shifts. thank you for letting me know, i can't edit it anymore :(

No worries, I just thought you might get a chuckle out of it :)

i did :-D

I'd love to see them sponsor some of the individuals who are making the software better and/or building compatible hardware, but I don't know who that is specifically.

Pretty cool either way.

They say their mission is "to get Framework products in front of more people" but that's a lie, because if they really wanted more people to have access to a Framework device, they should ship worldwide, or partner with a retailer with a global reach, or at the very least, let people overseas buy them using parcel forwarders / overseas credit cards.

Because as of today, Framework is out of reach for ~90% of the world's population, which makes them irrelevant, at least in my books.

It sounds like you are disappointed by it's not "a lie": more ≠ all.

It's natural that entering markets takes time and that some markets may never be entered if the economics aren't good, even if a company would ideally like to.

They don't need to enter a market. All they need to do is partner with a retailler like Amazon/eBay - or even just allow other retailers to resell them.

Okay so even if they don't want to do that, all they need to do is not go out of their way to block parcel forwarders. They can just make us click on an agreement that voids warranty and absolves them of any risk, that way, it's not their problem. But no, they don't do that.

Meanwhile, smaller Linux notebook companies like StarLabs have been around for less than a decade, yet have no issues supping worldwide. In fact no other tech manufacturer has this issue, at least not to this extremes - how is that only Framework is in this situation?

My dad told me that one year his school held a contest over the summer to see who could get the longest dandelion root.