Finally learning docker. I feel like it's too good to be true.

Chat GPT is now responding like a stackoverflow user. Great.

I'm finetuning llama 3.1 8b locally on a 32gb 5090. It took weeks to learn enough to know where to start, hours to get my environment sane, and it's going to take 5.5 hours to finish training.

I started on my own model but the lack of data and acres of server farms led me down the finetuning path.

I honestly don't have any idea if any of it's going to be worth the time or CONSIDERABLE financial investment I made building my computer, but I refuse to stay ignorant.

The hoops you have to go through to summarize a document even using LLMs with 100s of billions of parameters is insane. Even when you get something that "works" with RAG, all you are really getting is a summary of the distilled version of the document, not a pure summary.

I've got a script that breaks down documents into manageable chunks with an overlap so the meaning isn't lost between paragraphs, and it works decently enough, especially when you add terms and definitions to the system prompt for things it has trouble with. But the context window is still a problem so you have to discard older entries, which means you can't correct previous items based on new entries.

Using vision models to OCR the image instead of reading in a text document seems to be working a bit better, but it relies on the image being the right size and you can't load in too many at a time.

I built an addon to the system that we've been using for almost 15 years now that uses the exact same config screen as we've always used.
And, just because the configs are being applied to a new concept, it's being treated like I abducted them with a flying saucer and are forcing them to learn Alienese. The config screen is exactly the same otherwise.

Been playing silksong. This game is a mix of some of the best and worst game design I have ever experienced.

Unfortunately, the true end of the game is locked behind some of the least fun, most unfair, tedious slogs I have ever encountered in a game, so I probably won't see it for myself. But if you like kaizo stuff, you'd probably like it.

16 hours getting a React Native app up to date and working on the current Android API and I just discovered I forgot about the signing key file so I can't publish it until tomorrow.

Literal 90 second facepalm moment.

Grok 4 is a beast by the way.

I now have 8 fans in my computer case. Before, even with an AIO, temps got up to 70C. Now they don't go past 50C. I don't even have to turn the fans up so it's even more quiet than it was before.

Getting your wisdom teeth out is no joke.

I feel like I ate a half a bowl of Captain Crunch.

Had my wisdom teeth removed today. Not feeling my entire jaw is a bit strange but I don't believe I had any other strange effects from the sedation and I've been assured that I didn't say anything embarrassing.

Not having those teeth there anymore feels weird. They grew in well, but one developed a cavity that was causing me a headache that has been getting worse for the last 6 weeks.

I now have 6 storage drives, ranging from 512GB SSds, to 2GB NVMEs. Out of almost exactly 6TB of storage space, I'm using about 60% of it.

Having so much data seems a bit obscene.

Tell me, how in God's name does opening jetbrains toolbox hard crash the VM it is being run inside?

If you are using fcgiwrap and nginx, if you don't set the root directive, DOCUMENT_ROOT will default to /usr/share/nginx/html/.

In hindsight, it's obvious to me now that there was no way the script could have known the root I wanted without it, but it just didn't occur to me at the time.

Good lord, fail2ban is not easy to get right.

I got a WordPress site's lighthouse score from 45 to 99. Feels good man.

Just recently discovered fcgiwrap.

It's a huge load off to be able to write a super simple script that can respond to a web request without having to deploy a whole application. I'm toying with the idea I could do that instead of using a whole GUI framework for local applications.

Video generation in comfy is 2x faster if you use sage attention. The install process is not for the faint of heart and if you can manage it, you will have earned your much faster AI slop generation machine.

This is the guide I used
https://reddit.com/r/...

If you use conda, deactivate it before doing the installation. It will cause conflicts.

A blackbox seo tool that was made by aliens we use says that a couple of our WordPress sites are loading very slowly, so I enable caching through nginx and increase the resources available to them through high capacity fpm pools. They scan again and almost nothing has changed with the page load score.

So I look in lighthouse, which I just learned about, and I find that several of the pages have several MB size images. So that means I'll have to mogrify the entire uploads directory to try to get the size down.

It also suggests I use avif to save a ton of data, which I'm torn on. I hate downloading an image and it not being a normal format that everything can open. But my sites are not image sharing sites, so it's a lot less annoying to the user since they will never realize they're getting an avif. That also means I will have to redo all the image links to point to the avif instead of the original, which sounds like the least fun activity ever.

Another thing that I keep seeing is that Elementor is just slow and slow page loads are part of the deal. If we have to scrap Elementor, that means I will have to be more involved in developing the WordPress sites and I really don't want to.

Finally got all the php errors fixed on my servers. Feels good man.

People really drive 90mph to get to work.

Just finished Expedition 33. GOTY material for sure. It's easily on my top 5 of all time.

I don't like Elementor for WordPress. The stuff it does for caching and performance sake causes hard to debug problems that the non-technical users it is marketed toward could almost certainly never figure out.

Not an ad, I swear

AI Pro is now part of the Jetbrains All Products Pack I've been subscribed to since I started my current job 11 years ago.

Although I haven't found tremendous value in AI for coding, it gets a B or B+ for serving the right documentation without having to trudge through Google to find it. And to ignore it would be foolish, so I'm at least going to be acquainted with it.

Man, am I glad my company pays for Excel. It is truly worth the hassle of it not working half the time.

Finally getting to really try out WSL2.

Something must have changed since I last tried it because it's working great running my Jetbrains IDEs graphically and I am able to run NGINX and MySQL no problem. I even have caja installed and it runs great too.

It feels so much snappier than VirtualBox, even though the GPU acceleration is still not really working.

I'm mixed on finally learning Docker. It's a kind of insidious evil that is damaging the industry in a hundred ways, but it is an industry staple so not learning it would be foolish.

Does anyone have any tips on how to organize notes for story writing?

I have a dump.txt that's almost 1000 lines long with story ideas and rules of the world sort of mingled together since the stories are where the rules are explored.

I've been writing an application that I can put in topics and tag them so I can see what I've made notes about with a quick search. It seems like a good idea, but the tags are ultimately quite subjective, as is to be expected, so I'm not terribly confident I won't forget to tag it correctly.

As I write my story, I'm thinking I should remove the story notes from the dump, so eventually I'll only have the rules of the world. And maybe I should write story notes in a dedicated story ideas dump.

It's just so much to keep track of.

Hot take but movement in Half Life 2 is quite janky.

That said, I still love it.

My favorite weapon is the pulse rifle by a long shot.

I've been vibe coding not knowing that it was called that until yesterday. I always give up before I reach anything interesting because I get about 4 or 5 good responses before it starts forgetting things and breaking already working code. And it's not even that complex of an idea.

There is no way people are coming up with whole applications with any level of complexity with these things.

I don't understand how having chickens or burning tires is against the law, but making industrial levels of noise at all times of day is perfectly acceptable.

I miss when software was written by programmers and not ideologues. I don't care what you believe, even if I believe it too. I just want tools that work.