I used to work 5 days a week, 9 am to 2pm. I quite liked it, but my employer would often call or ask for "urgent" stuff to be down after my hours, which meant I could not be fully present for family or whatever I had planned. I have now switched to a 3 days workweek at another job, and I find it much easier to set effective boundaries. If I'm not there I'm not there and that's it. I don't think I could ever go back to working 40 hour weeks to be honest. When do you get anything personal done?
I'm a complete beginner regarding this stuff, so if I may ask, how would I go about downloading the relevant model (e.g. wizardcoder-python-34b-v1.0.Q4_K_S.gguf) I checked on Hugging face but all I got was a bunch of .bin files...
https://jfoucher.com/
My blog since 2004 with a variety of subjects, some technical some less so. I rarely blog anymore so most of the content is pretty out of date.
I used to be a naval architect, and I completely agree with you. This type of design is extremely inefficient for cargo delivery. I think it is unrealistic to expect to be able to even remotely compete with diesel cargo ships. As another commenter said, the crew are in fact paying passengers (I have not verified this) which means this is actually a cruise ship, which makes a lot more sense. It must be a great experience.
In my mind, the only way sailing ships can come back as work boats is if a way is found to make them nearly automatic and space efficient. In my mind this means large steel ships, not dissimilar to regular cargo ships, but with automated kite sails (e.g. https://skysails-marine.com/) as they do not tend to tip the ship over like regular sails do.
In my case it’s because interfacing to the CPU bus is much simpler, and the code to drive it way smaller. SD card pretty much require a separate interface such as a 6522 VIA.
My car was behaving strangely recently. Sometimes when I gave it the beans it would pop up a flurry of scary error messages about the engine, that I had to take it to the mechanic to have it checked out and so on.
500 € later and the mechanic could not fix the issue.
Other times, just turning on the engine it would complain that some filter was almost full. And once, on a longer than usual trip, it gave up on me in a pretty steep incline and I had to stop on the side of the road, let it cool down a while, and turn it on again and it worked mostly fine if I didn't accelerate too much.
Then a few weeks ago it did not start at all. So I measured the battery and it turned out it was toast. I had a friend bring me to buy a new one and swapped it in.
The car started fine. But incredibly, it never again displayed any error messages and seems to be completely fixed!
Not really phone related, but yeah, sometimes it can be (surprisingly) just the battery...
Hi, I just wanted to show my latest project to you fine folks. It's an emulator / simulator (I'm never quite sure which one is correct) for the MOS KIM-1 microcomputer [1]
It runs on iOS devices (from version 9.0 up) and on macOS (from version 10.15 only unfortunately)
You can have the basic interface of a hexadecimal keypad and 6 led digits, but I have also added a serial terminal to it.
From the serial interface, you can load paper tapes (one of the media the KIM-1 used to save data). It's a fairly easy format to work with and is detailed in the original KIM-1 manual. Basically you just type L when in serial mode, and choose a file to import with the button just below the "screen"
I have also added some help which hopefully will get you going if you don't have experience with the KIM-1. I basically reproduced the start of the original manual, modified in a similar style where necessary.
The mac version works, but it's only an automatic "translation' of the iOS versions, and as such it has a few quirks.
The mac version is available as a release in the github repo, but since I don't have an Apple developper account at the moment, you will have to build the iOS app yourselves with Xcode :( Also, I'm not sure if Apple would approve that sort of application.
Anyway, I hope someone likes it and I'm all ears for your feedback.
I tried signing up and I got a collection of most useless error messages, such as Unauthorized, Forbidden, Email is in use and so on. The Email is in use one does not seem so useless, but it really is if you get it when you try again with the same email address after getting one of the other messages...