ahknight

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by ahknight 6d ago
If I don't know what I'm reading about by the third or fourth phrase, I skip it. Empty language comes from empty minds and I don't have time for that.
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by ahknight 6d ago
An obliterated 30B model versus a 1T model without guardrails is like comparing an angry squirrel to a bear having a bad day. One hurts, the other hurts until it abruptly doesn't.
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by ahknight 6d ago
They should put a Summary section at the top with the raw prompt.
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by ahknight 7d ago
Feels like it's the opposite of what it should be. It's fine to impose the world on the compression side, but decompression should be optimized for low-end devices. This is where deflate and zstd get it.
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by ahknight 8d ago
The inverse is true, however. Especially the "almost" part.
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by ahknight 8d ago
Many of us were there when yada yada white wizard. Hell, my first paid job was writing Perl CGI scripts. Well, script. Monolithic MFing thing spread across 100 files and running a whole company on text files with zero format documentation a
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by ahknight 8d ago
This is also fair.
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by ahknight 8d ago
And direct access to system calls. And the uncanny ability to look like it's going to do what I want and then five minutes into a run wind up in a small town in Arkansas blind drunk and crying vaguely about fluffy red squirrels taking
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by ahknight 8d ago
Oh no.
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by ahknight 8d ago
Why would I want a service for this when I could easily run such a discovery service myself? Why not just release that tool to users? SyncThing offers its discovery server for self-hosting as an example. Oh, right, this is how we monetize i
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by ahknight 8d ago
Perl is just C with less type safety. And yes, for the most part. C++ as simple shorthand for struct-attached functions and automatic memory management (no, not smart pointers; RAAI) is good. Every single thing added after that is misery an
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by ahknight 8d ago
I say this about C every day.
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by ahknight 8d ago
I end my user CLAUDE.md files with: "- I'm not always going to read every word, so end each summary message with a TLDR of what you found, what you recommend, and what you need from me." It works really well. Sol doesn't
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by ahknight 8d ago
Back when the point of Pixel was to tell the world: THIS is what you can do with Android. Then Samsung got the message, ran with it, and Google went "Ehh, we're good now."
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by ahknight 21d ago
And in parallel we had FIDONet. Mustn't forget that magical place and source of many a late night and large phone bill.
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by ahknight 22d ago
My heavily-upgraded M1 Max came in slightly over that when I got it five years ago. (Still going very, very strong.) This new Studio? Can't find a config under $5k I'd bother with. But for the MBPs that number still mostly tracks
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by ahknight 22d ago
Because who hates themselves that much? It's the thing I touch and interact with. That's exactly the part that needs to be sturdy, smooth, and pretty. It's the facade to the beast at the other end.
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by ahknight 22d ago
Yeah, but how many years until 128GB+ is attainable by mere mortals again? My 2021 home server build was 64GB of RAM. My 2025 build was 32GB and zram. :/
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by ahknight 22d ago
I got used to the hub-and-spoke model at home (previously thin terminal, server-client, etc.). Big ole desktop/server and smaller devices that (ab)use it remotely. Roam around with a smaller computer/tablet/phone. Tailscale t
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by ahknight 2mo ago
Did you know you can create more than one email address?
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by ahknight 2mo ago
Now there's an entry for Fable. From the look of it, their ops team is having a really bad Friday.
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by ahknight 3mo ago
They made the guardrails tighter. Tight enough to capture more false positive requests, now. Yaaaaay.
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by ahknight 3mo ago
They won't. They're focusing on different areas for their models.
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by ahknight 3mo ago
I can vouch for Nebula. Just follow their recommendation to not get the 1x service if you want to use the data for medical reasons. The more passes they make, the more accurate the result. Downside: those files are HUUUUUGE. Have a good rea
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by ahknight 3mo ago
Streaming.
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by ahknight 3mo ago
Now if only Ubiquiti could solve the problem where everything is always out of stock.
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by ahknight 3mo ago
But the Internet nerds wish to blindly judge something they know nothing about so they can feel better with the assumption that they could have done better somehow. How will they be appeased if the document they will say they have read and
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by ahknight 3mo ago
That was on my short list, but I liked the look of the Seiko SBTM339 more (though it's a JDP model so I had to import it). Citizen has a model in that range as well. Then the Seiko Astron line has both radio time and GPS models if you&
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by ahknight 3mo ago
I love that there's not only the internals of a standard three-hand, but the automatic mechanism as well. If you're going pure mechanical, an automatic is the best way. As long as you actually move during the day the watch general
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by ahknight 3mo ago
Podman is on macOS, FWIW. Uses the existing container framework to run the machine already. Root-full or not.

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