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by rubyn00bie 6d ago
Aye but at $45k you’re so deep already is that really worth the savings? It’s so much easier to manage a single system, and the performance will be in absolute terms better. Truly, I get your point, but $45k is obscene for a workstation (be
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by rubyn00bie 6d ago
There’s roughly 50% more memory bandwidth on an RTX 6000 pro versus the M5 Ultra. I imagine it really comes down to what you’re doing, I know my 5090 runs laps around the M5 Pro I have when it comes to local LLM performance (until it runs o
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by rubyn00bie 6d ago
Anyone know why they chose a consumer grade CPU on this? I’m a little surprised to see a 9950X as the top option. There’s not enough PCIe lanes available to run everything without bifurcation. I imagine the GPUs probably aren’t too bothered
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by rubyn00bie 27d ago
I don’t think raising rates like “Tall Paul” (Volcker) did would help in this situation. We are in a bit of a pickle. Raising rates would cause the servicing costs to become enormous and would likely just result in even more debt. The alter
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by rubyn00bie 1mo ago
Big same here with Claude but I’m on the $200 sub. I let Fable run for roughly 4 hours and still didn’t hit the session limit. I suppose if I was running more in parallel it would be easier to hit, but I’m not particularly good at focusing
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by rubyn00bie 1mo ago
In most coding harnesses you can just instruct the agent to do so. When using Fable, I often say things like: > Save your context. Always use a subagent (Opus 5 or GPT 5.6) for performing the implementation and then review the work yours
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by rubyn00bie 2mo ago
Can confirm. It was the first OS I ever pirated (technically it was the Data Center edition, I bought off of some dude on a forum via a money order I sent him[1], because my internet was so slow 28.8k). I was trying to get a system that wou
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by rubyn00bie 2mo ago
I signed up for Kagi earlier today, because I went to Google to search for any recent leaks or tidbits on the 2027 WRX—- I had selected Tools > Time > Past Week and the results were utter nonsense. Results from two months ago, a month
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by rubyn00bie 2mo ago
I’ll have to try this exact phrasing. I had a lot of trouble with GPT 5.5 more or less completely ignoring similar prompts and instructions and entering a sort of “doom loop” or just consistently trying to prematurely end the chat. I would
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by rubyn00bie 2mo ago
I think it depends on the problem space, and to a large extent the languages used. I have had the opposite experience with GPT. I have found GPT to be pretty awful at writing Elixir, and dealing with more open ended tasks. Opus is (for the
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by rubyn00bie 2mo ago
Granted this is just my personal spend, but Apple has lost out on something like $12k of hardware sales from me over the past six years because they don’t support gaming. I switched to Linux in 2020 because it meant I could have a proper de
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by rubyn00bie 2mo ago
I would not be surprised based on the post that the trademark will be given to some sort of non-profit foundation. The post itself made it seem pretty clear that the current reasons to have the PBC acquire it were: 1. An adversary attemptin
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by rubyn00bie 2mo ago
Tangential-ish ramblings—- but I don’t think it’s going to be unpleasant for most folks. Imagine you had superpowers, and there were people who were mean to you, kind to you, and/or indifferent… and then there were people who were your
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by rubyn00bie 2mo ago
It can be when you don’t have access to boiling water, bleach, iodine tablets, and/or the water you have access to is extremely contaminated with chemicals because of pollution.
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by rubyn00bie 2mo ago
> The widespread existence of secondary markets for SNAP benefits, which convert subsidized food for poor people into cash, carries this implication. I think “widespread secondary markets” is carrying a lot of implications… yes, people d
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
We'll likely see a transformation in how frontier models are trained as a result of a push towards local inference. While it seems unlikely now, given current pricing for RAM, in 10-15 years it's not unthinkable to assume we could
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
If we as individuals were sued it surely would be at least an order of magnitude difference between what is required from us vs Anthropic or OpenAI. That’s even completely ignoring the marginal utility of money. It is absolutely a subsidy.
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
I am confused by this comment. The root problem was the wrong abstraction was implemented. Then it was duplicated. Had there been no abstraction, it would not have been duplicated so readily? Am I missing something?
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
The same problem exists, and I think is unfathomably worse, when the wrong abstraction is used throughout a code base. Abstractions are a form of coupling, and coupling can be good, if the components are truly interdependent, and have a wel
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
It’s not at all. They’re wildly different substances. All the synthetic approximations of weed or imitations are categorically different substances. Comparing weed to “spice” is like comparing alcohol to Rohypnol. They’re materially differe
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
I’ve never seen someone stoned outta their mind get into a fight with strangers, friends, or beat their spouse. I have seen drunk people do that though. I’ve been attacked by drunks myself. I’ve never been attacked by someone who is high as
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
This is an absurd take since the referenced chips in the article are all desktop parts, and the power usage is dwarfed by any “modern” (within the last five years) GPU. There are many people, myself included who opt to use security features
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
That’s what I would do that personally. I hate wrappers around native SDKs. But I also learned them. A lot of folks assume mobile apps are “difficult” because of the underlying language. But it’s not the language that’s an issue, it’s the S
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
I’m not sure how I feel about the CSS integration. Nor the collocated JS that was somewhat recently released. On one hand, yes it is convenient, but on the other it could become a huge mess. It reminds me of Rails 2.x where it became almost
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
TLDR; LiveView is web only. There have been efforts to make LiveView native, but it’s extremely difficult to do so, and thus far (to my knowledge) all have failed. I was thinking about this the other day because carsandbids (Doug DeMuro’s c
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
While I think it’s outrageous to send invoices to folks who aren’t paying customers… I’m a little surprised the service even has a niche (I’m old). I guess, with ubiquity of containers in our modern workflows, it seems strange to pay a serv
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
Just outta curiosity, as I’ve never gotten a spend anywhere near that, what variant were you using? Like max context window and fast mode? Or was it just chugging along non stop for three days?
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
And here I thought it was going to be something to do with, at least in my experience, the much more memorable site: Astalavista. I will say, the linked site is nice for nostalgia and arguably more pleasant than being advertised donkey show
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
The sanctions only “prevent” them from directly buying NVidia’s latest and greatest in the sense that NVidia can’t sell directly to them. Essentially, there are companies now who are in a country without the sanctions, they buy from NVidia
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by rubyn00bie 3mo ago
Having a storied history, culture, and customs go beyond simple birthright citizenship and xenophobic behavior to enforce said culture and sense of identity. The US, for all its faults, exemplifies how unnecessary it is to rely solely on wh

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