gymbeaux

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by gymbeaux 1mo ago
My understanding is both USB 4 and TB use PCIe tunneling. Surely at this price point we’re looking at a USB 4 device. Thunderbolt has historically cost more due to licensing, which is now free I believe, but there’s still specialized hardwa
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by gymbeaux 1mo ago
It’s an incredibly dumb implementation and it feels like yet another case of “AI startup gettin’ while the gettin’s good”. It’s the dotcom bubble all over again. Do anything with AI and people will buy what you’re selling. The RX 9060 has a
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by gymbeaux 1mo ago
What would happen to Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, if tomorrow someone released an open weights model on HuggingFace that matched performance and accuracy of Opus 5 running locally on an RTX 5070? That won’t happen tomorrow, but it will likely
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by gymbeaux 1mo ago
We’re in the phase of society where we will just build something like this ourselves using an LLM and it will be built exactly how we want it and we don’t have to worry about malicious code or forking it and hoping the owner will merge our
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by gymbeaux 1mo ago
But they’re slower (and benchmark worse) than Opus, GPT, et al. Why?
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by gymbeaux 1mo ago
Kimi and DeepSeek are impressive for their size but still run slow on any hardware you or I would have. If you’re proposing we run those via a cloud service, I don’t see a reason to do that when it’s an inferior model and I still have to pa
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by gymbeaux 1mo ago
When I see new software now, my first thought is an LLM wrote it and it makes me not want to use it. I also assume there are bugs and it’s not particularly feature-rich.
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by gymbeaux 1mo ago
I look at all the “role model” esque people in my life - they’ve all been fired from a job at least once. There are also plenty of people I know who I wouldn’t consider role model esque who are simply lousy employees (and probably get fired
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by gymbeaux 1mo ago
Stigma meaning others judging you for being fired. High level “no one” wants to hire someone who was fired from their last job. I’m just saying in my experience everyone gets fired sooner or later, regardless of their abilities, job perform
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by gymbeaux 1mo ago
LLMs are incredibly inefficient and can never be “100% accurate” so we have effectively seen what they can and can’t do already. If LLMs haven’t taken your job by now, they aren’t taking your job.
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by gymbeaux 1mo ago
Everyone who could be considered a role model in my life has been “laid off” (fired) at least once. These are successful people. They’re all millionaires (not just the retired ones). We need to get over the fear and stigma of getting fired.
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by gymbeaux 1mo ago
But what if all your coworkers are doing it, so by taking the time to understand and review LLM output you’re painting a target on your back? Anyway I’m not getting burned- the company is.
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by gymbeaux 2mo ago
This made me think of how we have to manually block certain devices (usually smart TVs) so they don’t “phone home” and show us ads and so forth. I see your switch being banned as a sort of mixed blessing. It’s liberating in a way. I wonder
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by gymbeaux 2mo ago
I often use LLMs to build locally running web apps and console apps that I otherwise never would have built, because the value-add wouldn’t be worth, say, 40 hours of my free time.
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by gymbeaux 2mo ago
I just sold an RTX 3090 (released in 2020) for $1000. It should have been more like $200. I don’t see a point in running local LLMs with it but plenty of other people disagree, or want to “play around”. It’s so old that I can’t imagine a sc
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by gymbeaux 2mo ago
I would imagine Anthropic et al. are largely leasing land/buildings, so as the other commenter said… must be the server racks that are acting as collateral (if anything). Generally enterprise hardware depreciates very harshly. I’m used
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by gymbeaux 2mo ago
He was an established prodigy before he needed in-home nursing care. I suspect he’d have been taken care of regardless of access to socialized healthcare.
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by gymbeaux 2mo ago
You’re assuming supply and demand is logical or efficient but like the stock market it’s often irrational and driven by some C Suite who doesn’t know what he’s doing. FAANG blew billions over hiring software engineers in 2021-2022 and often
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by gymbeaux 2mo ago
Oh wow. Are they just repackaging official Windows patches or are they patching vulnerabilities themselves?
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by gymbeaux 2mo ago
Yes, I’ve found my coworkers won’t admit they had AI write their code in any sort of group setting yet they’ve all admitted it in private. The implication seems to be if AI is writing your code you’re lazy/incompetent/bad/not
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by gymbeaux 2mo ago
The quality of the output is so variable. It depends on the model, “effort level”, prompting, probably even the programming language/app functionality, and libraries involved. For example, I find LLMs are best at making simple web apps
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by gymbeaux 2mo ago
I didn’t start using Claude Code until late 2025. Prior to that I would use ChatGPT to give me snippets of code but I was still doing most of the actual code writing. Coworkers told me in late 2025 about how they hadn’t written a line of co
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by gymbeaux 3mo ago
It’s easier to open an app on my phone, and I believe wholeheartedly that Robinhood works hard to make their UI/UX as “fun” (dopamine-releasing) as possible. One area where Robinhood would be easier than any web app is biometric authen
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by gymbeaux 3mo ago
Both are console-sized x86 based computers that can run Windows or Linux. Both even lack a 3.5mm headphone jack (maybe that’s too old for a 2026 computer though). Both have a low TDP that means they will never compete with a traditional gam
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by gymbeaux 3mo ago
If you have an options strategy that works 99% of the time, then you’re a millionaire, and if you’re a millionaire I have to ask what you’re doing here replying to people about options trading.
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by gymbeaux 3mo ago
I mean unfortunately, as with the rest of the constitution, it’s up to the courts (ultimately the Supreme Court) to interpret, and the majority will never condone revolution, no matter how corrupt or ineffective the government becomes. I th
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by gymbeaux 3mo ago
Most brokerages don’t have an app that encourages reckless trading by exploiting dopamine. This becomes that age-old argument about where the corporation’s responsibility ends and the individual’s responsibility begins. I guarantee it’s a l
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by gymbeaux 3mo ago
It’s harder to do on Fidelity. Robinhood plays on human psychology to make their money.
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by gymbeaux 3mo ago
The plan is simply for insiders to offload their bags (overvalued shares) to retail investors, like the folk who frequent the wallstreetbets subreddit and do all their “investing” on Robinhood. This speaks to the larger trend of the lower a
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by gymbeaux 3mo ago
The Steam Machine makes sense if it costs the same or less than a current-gen console, but a whole grand for this feels icky. I paid around $300 for the original Steam Machine (Alienware Alpha) in 2014. It played Fallout 4 better than the P

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