markjgsmith

2023/11/16 #

• Veloceraptors - The worste thing about the world that they don't tell you is that absolutely everyone turns out to be a veloceraptor. Occasionally you meet a koala or a giraffe, but every bloody time it's a veloceraptor in a koala or giraffe costume.

  And they fucking hate being told they are veloceraptors. What do you mean? I can't believe you just called me a veloceraptor. How dare you? You are literally the worste person in the universe.

  And then they draw a middle finger on the window with their breath, open the door, and run off into the jungle leaving enormous foot prints everywhere. #

Today’s links:

• Microsoft is finally making custom chips -- and they’re all about AI - There are two chips. The Azure Maia 100 competes with Nvidia's very popular H100 GPU, primarily used for AI. They have been developing them with input from OpenAI, optimising everything down to the silicon. The other called Cobalt 100 is an ARM based CPU aimed at data centre cloud workloads. It has the ability to "control performance and power consumption per core and on every single virtual machine". They are 40% faster than current chips in their data centres. www.theverge.com #

• git rebase: what can go wrong? - I used to use rebase -i a lot more than I do now. I tended to only use it on local feature branches before pushing to remote. It's very useful for combining lots of small commits into bigger commits that make more logical sense. I think the UI makes quite a lot of difference. In vim it's very straight forward most of the time, not so much in my current editor. Anyway the article gets very technical but worth a quick read to get a better sense for the pitfalls, and for which use cases it's safe. jvns.ca #