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by astrostl 4d ago
The benchmark page itself asserts that it used Gemini CLI as a harness. I came to the comments just because I noticed the error. For my part — using agy — I found Gemini 3.8 Flash mid.
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by astrostl 4d ago
"If you're so worried about acceleration, why don't you accelerationmaxx?" — OP
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by astrostl 3mo ago
> MacBook Pro M5 128GB RAM 614 GB/s of memory bandwidth > MacMini M4 with 64GB of RAM 273 GB/s of memory bandwidth (also only currently available with 48GB) When it comes to inference speed, you want your model to fit in mem
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by astrostl 4mo ago
Updated https://github.com/astrostl/surplies to scan for it too
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by astrostl 6mo ago
FWIW I vibe coded https://github.com/astrostl/surplies to detect evidence of the Axios and LiteLLM malware, using StepSecurity's writeups as a data source.
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by astrostl 6mo ago
FWIW I vibe coded https://github.com/astrostl/surplies to detect evidence of the Axios and LiteLLM malware, using StepSecurity's writeups as a data source.
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by astrostl 6mo ago
Disagree. We all are — or should be — Linux kernel developers. What's more, we should align to a specific and singular VCS worldview informed by BitKeeper, which no longer exists, whether or not we used it. Therefore Git. Thank you for
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by astrostl 6mo ago
Huge enabler for the mini keyboards for me: Fn + L/R for Home/End, Fn + U/D for PgUp/PgDn.
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by astrostl 7mo ago
I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm going to fire somebody tomorrow for using a struct just to prove a point to the author.
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by astrostl 7mo ago
Browser automation: chrome-devtools-mcp, playwright-mcp, etc.
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by astrostl 7mo ago
The quality of the ChatGPT Mac app is a major driver for me to keep a subscription. Hotkeys work, app feels slick and native. The Claude Mac app I found so poor that I'd never reach for it, and ended up uninstalling it — despite using
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by astrostl 7mo ago
Yep. Consumer Reports' "Find a Car" page has sorting options for Overall Score, Road Test Score, Predicted Reliability, and Predicted Owner Satisfaction. I think they're a tremendous pro-consumer non-profit, and that a $
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by astrostl 8mo ago
> That doesn't seem like enough to entirely shape worldwide discourse around nutrition and sugar. IDK, see the "BLOTS ON A FIELD?" by Science ("A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzhe
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by astrostl 8mo ago
Same. CMD-F, 'sqlite', no hits, skip and go straight to comments.
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by astrostl 9mo ago
It's such an amazing business model: - create a platform to host content others create - get employees to ask for company-provided access - almost none of these employees really use it - collect subscription revenue indefinitely
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by astrostl 9mo ago
This is why I use Go as much as reasonably possible with vibe coding: types, plus great quality-checking ecosystem, plus adequate training data, plus great distribution story. Even when something has stuff like JS and Python SDKs, I tend to
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by astrostl 9mo ago
> The information to properly land the plane is in the manual Look, I already liked the nerdy blog post! I don't need even more reasons to like it.
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by astrostl 9mo ago
Most recently (yesterday), vibe coding a better interface for Roblox screen time: https://github.com/astrostl/blockblox . Claude Code crushes, and I'm preferring Go for everything I can to take advantage of typing
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by astrostl 9mo ago
The OP confirmed that it isn't: "is this using RDMA?" "No. It will be faster with that in the next release" [1] 1: https://x.com/awnihannun/status/2000243131779023329
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by astrostl 10mo ago
Having been through cycles of manual writing with '#' and having it do it itself, it seems to have been a push on efficacy while spending less effort and getting less frustrated. Hard to quantify except to say that I've had g
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by astrostl 10mo ago
I have Claude itself write CLAUDE.md. Once it is informed of its context (e.g., "README.md is for users, CLAUDE.md is for you") you can say things like, "update readme and claudemd" and it will do it. I find this especia
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by astrostl 10mo ago
> Instead of software thermal control, I could add an actively cooled heatsink with PWM fan control. This might achieve similar temperature stability while using less power overall. Love this (honestly). Interesting article!
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by astrostl 11mo ago
I haven't seen convincing evidence that vitamin D supplementation is materially useful for anything but rickets. I get the impression that naturally high serum levels are an effect rather than a cause of other positive things, and that
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by astrostl 11mo ago
> In Germany, there’s a popular nonprofit which tests consumer goods for safety and publishes the results. In the USA too: https://www.consumerreports.org/about-us/what-we-do/
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by astrostl 1y ago
To this day the single most-impressive tech demo experience I've ever had.
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by astrostl 1y ago
With aggressive Claude Code use I didn't find Sonnet better than Opus but I did find it faster while consuming far fewer tokens. Once I switched to the $100 Max plan and configured CC to exclusively use Sonnet I haven't run in
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by astrostl 1y ago
I got so dang sick of SD and enclosure fan failures on rPis. Adore my $159-in-2024 Beelink S12 (N100/16GB/512GB).
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by astrostl 1y ago
Time Machine can do that. Whether they're automatic or manual backups, you can boot your system in recovery mode and restore from a backup to fully revert to a previous snapshot. It will require a reboot and the speed of execution will
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by astrostl 1y ago
Since Catalina the OS itself is in a read-only volume and everything else is separate - by default, respectively "Macintosh HD" and "Data" as exposed in Disk Utility. Strictly speaking, I think programs cannot change t
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by astrostl 1y ago
> GoBack was designed by Wild File, Inc., a company located in Plymouth, Minnesota. The software was shown at COMDEX in November 1998 and released in December 1998. > GHOST (an acronym for general hardware-oriented system transfer), n

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