albrewer

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by albrewer 12d ago
I have a hook that auto-denies when it sees 'python -c "', ' awk ', ' sed ', and '&&'
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by albrewer 13d ago
> the cost is included in your electricity bill Acting like an extra $20 on my electric bill is equivalent to a $200/mo subscription is... a take.
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by albrewer 13d ago
A series of hot takes: Benchmarks are useful but only on a log2 basis. One model performing at 50% and another at 75% is just as impressive as one model performing at 78% and another at 90%. Confoundingly, a benchmark becomes useless once a
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by albrewer 13d ago
If I get a better Gemma 26b-a4b MoE model out of it I'm all for it. Really wishing Qwen 3.8 would release a MoE variant of their 27b model size, but I wont complain if google beats them to it.
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by albrewer 19d ago
I think it'd be pretty easy to fix, too. Have a point on the line that represents "10 seconds from now" and orient your camera along the line between that and the point representation of your car, with slow, smooth panning so
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by albrewer 22d ago
Because I spent $15k in AI costs last month doing real work at my day job; I'd like to do the same thing for myself but I don't like lighting cash on fire.
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by albrewer 1mo ago
It it has less than 64gb then probably not
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by albrewer 1mo ago
The dream. Or a qwen-3.8-coder model.
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by albrewer 2mo ago
Not OP, but your math is a bit off - I have solar panels :)
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by albrewer 2mo ago
What problems are you running into? Ive been running multiple qwen coder next agents locally and it works fine.
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by albrewer 5mo ago
> the battery often dies around the time most people would consider upgrading anyway Most people I know would prefer to just use the same phone they're familiar with until its physically not possible. They don't want to learn n
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by albrewer 1y ago
Define a protocol[0] that declares it implements `__getitem__` and type annotate with that protocol. Whatever properties are needed inside the function can be described in other protocols. These are similar to interfaces in C# or traits in
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by albrewer 1y ago
My AI experience has varied wildly depending on the problem I'm working on. For web apps in Python, they're fantastic. For hacking on old engineering calculation code written in C/C++, it's an unmitigated disaster and an
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by albrewer 1y ago
> Because in the software engineering world there is very little engineering involved. I can count on one hand the number of times I've been given the time to do a planning period for something less than a "major" feature
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by albrewer 1y ago
Don't be ridiculous. It's a set of solenoids typing into a punch card machine.
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by albrewer 1y ago
I've housed two sibling that were labeled as "mentally unstable"(raised by mentally abusive narcissists) and "lazy"(has narcolepsy), respectively. Both situations were pretty bad before they landed in our home, but
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by albrewer 1y ago
> This made them useful for astronomers because their light was easily filtered The wavelength is so specific that it can have all kinds of cool applications: https://youtu.be/UQuIVsNzqDk?si=R4VUDCfC6zcHd4XC
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by albrewer 1y ago
> but norepinephrine is actually the common thread among all ADHD medications Anecdata, but my ADHD (and depression!) didn't significantly improve until I was on both lisdexamfetamine and buproprion. Both drugs lift production of bo
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by albrewer 1y ago
> People who have been doing this their whole lives can probably aim with a precision of a Marine Corp Sniper but to us I bought these sprayers for my house when people lost their minds hoarding toilet paper during the initial COVID lock
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by albrewer 1y ago
> LLMs can reliably solve the problem of a blank-page. This has been the biggest boost for me. The number of choices available when facing a blank page is staggering. Even a bad/wrong implementation helps collapse those possibilitie
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by albrewer 1y ago
There a company awhile back that did almost exactly this called CoinHive
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by albrewer 1y ago
I worked for a foundry that had been at the same location for 120 years. GE ran it into the ground and closed it 2 years after acquiring it.
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by albrewer 1y ago
Even if it did, wouldn't the development of the wrong genitials for their preferred sex make an edit like this meaningless? The existence of XX AMAB and XY AFAB people goes to show that it's more about what happens in utero than w
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by albrewer 1y ago
I had a similar experience but had an opposite takeaway. I learned that my car, in dry, daylight conditions, could comfortably go 20±5 mph faster around curves than those signs suggest.
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by albrewer 1y ago
I was thinking more like "Ear" and "Car" or "till" and "tilt"
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by albrewer 1y ago
> often Often being about 30% of the time in my experience
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by albrewer 1y ago
> It’s deporting illegal aliens. There are multiple news stories of them deporting US citizens and legal residents. Here's one[0]. If citizens don't have due process, then nobody does. All it takes is the government to declare
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by albrewer 2y ago
Google learning this the hard way with the recent chromecast outage[0] [0]: https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Streaming/Regarding-a...
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by albrewer 2y ago
For the same reason Python is so popular. It's not the best at anything (besides being really easy to use), but it's top 5 at all the things that matter. When your use case outgrows Excel, then yeah, invest in a specialized system
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by albrewer 2y ago
> creat[e] a graph where each permutation is a vertex and every permutation is connected by an edge. Each edge has a weight associated with it; the weight is calculated by seeing how many characters can be added to the end of one permuta

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