Bnjoroge
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Comment · 8 days ago
vz limits how much you can control the guest memory(doesnt expose a way to do free-page-reporting), has pretty terrible dis/virtiofs performance, and i've had issue with high host cpu usage. that said, iirc colima can switch to a krunkit backend so it can avoid most of these. ymmv but on benchmarks vz was 2-5x worse on a bunch of different ops
Comment · 8 days ago
even better with vms that are built on hvf directly like smolvm or microsandbox. much lighter, and more elastic.
Comment · 12 days ago
Forgejo, and Gitea are decent alternatives if you want to fully move off Github! If you are hoping to move away from only Github Actions, I've been working on a ~drop-in replacement for their control-plane + runner for the past few months. Each each job runs in a cross-platform vm so you can run your ci locally and update your checks. It's still beta, so I certainly wouldnt use it in prod just yet, but it's great if you want to run some of your CI locally. it allows me to extend it where possible to introduce some new features like JIT pipelines, improve performance or security. https://github.com/preloopdev/preloop if anyone's curious!
Comment · 19 days ago
Congrats on the launch! Can you speak on how you are able to keep the cost really low?
Comment · 19 days ago
even better, run it locally and automatically update your github checks.
Comment · 22 days ago
Right, but I'm not sure that was because they were subsidizing it, or because they ran into capacity issues and needed to offload some users.
Comment · 22 days ago
+1 on smolvm! I provision a smolvm per job in preloop, a local/self-hosted github actions( https://github.com/preloopdev/preloop).
iirc there was also some work to add a deny-cidr option as well which would give you more flexibility. But the egress filter captures most of what you need so it works great nonetheless.
Comment · 26 days ago
Great, well-written read.
Comment · 27 days ago
iirc there was a sectionin Qwen’s paper where they talked anout how they post-trained flash or 3.8 to work just as well regardless of the harness or eval used. I think that used to be true but not sure if it is any longer
Comment · 2 months ago
Precisely this.
Comment · 2 months ago
I have no clue why you are mentioning OPT. Almost no one uses it during their school years because it makes no sense to and reduces your post-grad time. That’s what CPT is for. They’re requiring programs to have mandatory internships which most dont and probably wont require it. You obviously have to be enrolled to get CPT, you just cant use it to work full-time during the school terms.
Comment · 2 months ago
I didn’t mention anything about OPT? It effectively makes it near impossible because most programs dont require an internship. And I’m definitely familiar with the process