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by brandall10 5d ago
Someone made the same comment in the thread from a few days back. Yeah, it was the first time I realized it as well.
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by brandall10 22d ago
From a bandwidth perspective, the ultra is like 8 M5s fused together (@ 150GB/s), that's how it gets to the 1200. Historically the Pro doubles the base, the Max doubles the Pro, and the Ultra doubles the Max. If an M6 ultra were r
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by brandall10 29d ago
"After escaping from a mental institution in 1945, Bronner went into business" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Bronner's_Magic_Soaps
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by brandall10 1mo ago
There is a compaction routing plugin, as well as a general OAI compatibility plugin that simulates some of their harness features (ie. code_mode/batching tools) that also includes their compaction. That said, from reading the pi subred
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by brandall10 1mo ago
My concern I believe it a bit different - an emergent self-interest to protect itself from harm, rather than doling out questionable advice. The latter is likely non-malicious in intent as it has been in no short supply in online chatter fo
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by brandall10 1mo ago
That's what I initially thought but it is indeed a corporate process similar to PIP. Though it is funny how a neg is designed to create a (very broadly) similar atmosphere of uncertainty.
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by brandall10 1mo ago
Interesting approach. For those who haven't clicked it appears PUA is the Chinese version of a PIP process. So in other words, it simulates a state of distress. I wonder if at a certain level of intelligence such techniques will give m
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by brandall10 1mo ago
Bettas were already very popular by the mid-80s. I was born in '76, grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and remember getting my first around 2nd grade, and continued to own a single or a pair until middle school. I recall many other ki
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by brandall10 1mo ago
Curious if you've seen firstmate, built by a former bigtech principal engineer. It's like a sane version of gastown, essentially a meta-harness of sorts. https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate Not affiliate
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by brandall10 1mo ago
Yeah, a bit surprised that the top comments aren't discussing losing Dean, he's been a figurehead for the company for decades. It's like Apple losing Ive in a way. EDIT: "figurehead" - that's all I meant. A not
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by brandall10 1mo ago
Google as well.
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by brandall10 2mo ago
And for me 10 years before that - not in the bay area but in my CS program at UCSD. Going into the junior year in '96 there was a clear inflection point, we suddenly had a flood of finance bro types all over the CS lab as the dot com b
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by brandall10 2mo ago
Updated to clarify reasoning effort.
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by brandall10 2mo ago
Seems like it might be more advantageous to just adjust reasoning effort to retain cache. Maybe in some exceptional cases where there will be a ton more inference to solve the problem, but going significantly dumber in that case seems count
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by brandall10 2mo ago
This sounds like a mashup of of several things I've been playing with lately... - pi-web ( https://pi-web.dev/ ): a web frontend for the Pi coding harness which can multiplex pi sessions across multiple machines - herdr
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by brandall10 2mo ago
Had this happen at the beginning of the pandemic. Did well on the full loop. The Friday of that week the recruiter reaches out to get references. A week goes by, I hear nothing. I contact one of my references, they heard nothing. A month la
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by brandall10 2mo ago
He's had a wild life with an arc similar to Steve Jobs. Taliesen West was basically an architecture cult where he frittered away for nearly a decade before landing Falling Water for his big comeback... at 70 years old.
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by brandall10 2mo ago
And the HN denizens vote it right to the top.
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by brandall10 2mo ago
Wow, listening to the Power Broker now, about 1/3 of the way through. Audiobooks completely changed things for me... in the past 2 years, 'read' about 40 books, almost entirely listened to on my daily runs. The prior 2 years?
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by brandall10 2mo ago
To be clear, Oh My Pi isn't simply batteries included like LaziPi. It's a fork with a bunch of foundational extra features built into the core.
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by brandall10 3mo ago
It's hard to compare to the US as a big part of this is the very weak yen. I spent a couple years traveling the world and punctuated my travels with a 2 week stop in Japan (Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto) in May '24. I was not prepar
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by brandall10 3mo ago
From the top of their corporate website, there is a video explaining this: https://boomsupersonic.com/boomless-cruise And from the top of their wikipedia page: "is expected to reach supersonic speeds without causing a
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by brandall10 3mo ago
Their claim is the boom won't actually reach ground level for overland flights due to how they're profiled. Of course that's the theory. The Trump Admin just allowed for a fairly audible boom.
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by brandall10 3mo ago
This is discussed in the article: "My personal impression is that within these quantizations Qwen 3.6 27B is as good as (or maybe slightly better than) DwarfStar4. Though, I won’t be surprised if for longer context projects DS4 has an
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by brandall10 3mo ago
Curious why OpenCode instead of a more 'full-fat' version of Pi with the larger model? I feel like the amount of context bloat that OpenCode puts these small models into the dumb zone too quickly. The system prompt alone is 9k tok
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by brandall10 3mo ago
Masterbuilts are closer to $10k now, fwiw. Plenty of shop built CS hover around $5k or more.
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by brandall10 4mo ago
You might want to consider investing in something like a Babelio sound machine. It's tiny, quite loud, kinder to the environment and will guarantee you have a solution if the bathroom is too far away or the outside noise is a bit too a
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by brandall10 4mo ago
They're designed for side-sleeping, but may present a bit of pressure on your ears... they do for me, I've adjusted. It's minor as the materials are quite soft. They have a newer model that is slightly slimmer w/ more fe
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by brandall10 4mo ago
Huge fan of my Anker Soundcore A20s w/ a mixture of noise colors over conventional ear plugs. Much more comfortable and don't create such a closed in effect. Easy to take in/out if I need to chat w/ a partner. Also a sim
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by brandall10 4mo ago
Internal tools and help/marketing pages aren't generally considered production code.

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