matt_heimer

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by matt_heimer 12d ago
It's subjective but I think only gpt-5.6-sol XHIGH is comparable to gpt-6-astra LOW in quality. And it's 24.11 cents vs 9.55 for astra low.
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by matt_heimer 17d ago
It was a very reasonable decision when it was made around 2008. Do you really expect a US based company to go to legal war with the US government over something like this? Because there would 100% be repercussions it they did.
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by matt_heimer 17d ago
See https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/what-geogr...
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by matt_heimer 17d ago
This isn't really on Google. Countries disagree on how things should be named. Google sources the US centric view from the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Blame the person causing the GNIS updates.
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by matt_heimer 20d ago
It's wildly inconsistent. Surgeries, hospitalizations and specialists are mostly ridiculous. You can find affordable general/nurse practitioners if you know where to look and what to ask for. Call around and ask "What is your
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by matt_heimer 1mo ago
Ozempic == GLP-1 which the first visible paragraph is discussing.
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by matt_heimer 2mo ago
Not exactly the same but I'm building a NAS box with old parts. Most of my spare RAM sticks are laptop DDR4 SODIMMs. There are SODIMM -> desktop DIMM adapters... it did not go well. The system would boot 1 out of 5 times. No adjustm
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by matt_heimer 2mo ago
I'd have a better portfolio right now if I invested in RAM instead of equities.
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by matt_heimer 4mo ago
That's the traffic after rate limiting controls and bot fight mode. It's 3-4 million requests per day without bot fight mode and just rate limits. And as I said it's not a smooth distribution. Plus the requests are almost nev
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by matt_heimer 4mo ago
It might depend on the tech stack. I run a small niche website but it has PHP and a database (MediaWiki/PHPBB) and without Cloudflare I'd estimate I'd need to spend several hundred dollars a month to handle the traffic. Traff
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by matt_heimer 4mo ago
Sure, depends on how accessibly to people you want it to be. Most legit search engines are going to honor robots.txt and you can disallow access. Next level would be using something like rate limiting controls and/or Cloudflare's
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by matt_heimer 4mo ago
What is the positioning for this and how does it work? A comparison to SBE might be nice. I understand the issue about using Layout and MemorySegment being verbose but the reason I'm using those things it to develop high performance so
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by matt_heimer 5mo ago
It's perfect for toddlers (I mean that in a good way), it's the infinite answer to the infinite "What's that?" series of questions they can generate. Make everything a hyperlink and it's almost like a LLM mind
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by matt_heimer 5mo ago
I guess that's true but I find Google's models better than their public tooling. The Pro subscription includes "Gemini Code Assist and Gemini CLI" but the Gemini Code Assist plugin for IntelliJ which is my daily driver i
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by matt_heimer 5mo ago
I was a bit worried when I saw the title of the article because I have one of these accounts but geez he made some bad choices. Deleting all phone numbers and the recovery and swapping to a new authentication method and then accessing from
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by matt_heimer 5mo ago
That's only good for the web based UI. If you want Gemini API access which is what this article is about then you must go the AIStudio route and pricing is API usage based. It does have a free usage tier and new signups can get $300 in
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by matt_heimer 5mo ago
If you use Google's tooling but not if you need API access. API access is not in the subscriptions and uses token based pricing. For development I find that the Gemini IDE plugins that have good free usage and are included in the subsc
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
I shipped with signature verification to the buyers address. The buyer claimed they didn't receive the item and eBay still sided with them and refunded their money. I will never sell anything on eBay again.
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
isn't an issue ONLY with macbook keyboards. It is absolutely an issue that shouldn't exist.
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
Funny, I just bought Start11 from Stardock for side taskbar placement. It was the oddest choice to remove that feature. On an ultrawide monitor it just makes so much sense.
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
Yes, it's not surprising that warnings and complexity increased at a higher rate when paired with increased velocity. Increased velocity == increased lines of code. Does the study normalize velocity between the groups by adjusting the
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
In some places I'm using https://github.com/aeron-io/agrona Strangely this is one of the areas where I want to use project panama so I might re-implement some of the ring buffers constructs. You allocate off heap
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
Software HFT? I see people call Python code HFT sometimes so I understand what you mean. It's more in-line with low latency trading than today's true HFT. I don't work for a firm so don't get to play with FPGAs. I'm
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
Probably the same thing that makes most developers choice a language for a project, it's the language they know best. It wasn't a matter of choosing Java for HFT, it was a matter of selecting a project that was a good fit for Java
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
You program differently for this niche in any language. The hot path (number crunching) thread doesn't share objects with gateway (IO) threads. Passing data between them is off heap, you avoid object creation after warm up. There is no
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
You can achieve optimized C/C++ speeds, you just can't program the same way you always have. Step 1, switch your data layout from Array of Structures to Structure of Arrays. Step 2, after initial startup switch to (near) zero obje
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
I've been using several. LM Studio and any of the open weight models that can fit my GPU's RAM (24GB) are not great in this area. The Claude models are slightly better but not worth they extra cost most of the time since I typical
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
I'm building a Java HFT engine and the amount of things AI gets wrong is eye opening. If I didn't benchmark everything I'd end up with much less optimized solution. Examples: AI really wants to use Project Panama (FFM) and wh
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
Except in another linked page https://www.notebookcheck.net/M5-Max-with-inconsistent-perfo... they also mention a thermal issue. Either way, this article is almost entirely about a symptom without root cause analysis.
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by matt_heimer 6mo ago
If I remember correctly a previous MacBook air could have improved thermal dissipation by adding some thermal tape and turning the case into a heatsink.

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