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by simjnd 22d ago
No? The numbers I quoted were GPU numbers, sourced from this video [1]. Also I explicitly acknowledged in my first comment that real devices won't be able to draw that kind of power. But 4 watts is 4 watts whether it's in a test b
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by simjnd 23d ago
So tired of people on HN calling you out for being excited about tech. It gets M5-level numbers at 12-14W. It gets about 30% better perf than the A19 Pro at equal wattage on the whole 4W - 8W range. So no it's not worse power consumpti
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by simjnd 23d ago
Yeah it wasn't a dig a Xiaomi specifically. All Android devices have broken Vulkan drivers. We have to rely on alternative open-source drivers (e.g. Turnip for Snapdragon) for real compatibility and performance.
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by simjnd 23d ago
Geekerwan has an excellent video [1] where they run the new Spec 2026 benchmark on the development board they received. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCCJuOopLK8
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by simjnd 23d ago
Yeah I have an Ayn Thor with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, it's great being able to play fairly demanding Windows games on this tiny device. It's still PoP with the RAM stacked on top in a plastic casing so you need a pretty big fan to co
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by simjnd 23d ago
The GPU performance is insane too, approaches M5 results at ~20W. Of course it will be in Android phones so it will be throttle hard past 4W and will have terrible drivers. I wish phones moved to HPB packaging and active cooling so we could
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by simjnd 25d ago
I think you could argue for it both ways. Then you could claim ternaries are inconsistent too, shouldn't it be: resultA : resultB ? (evaluation) if we always put result first? I think the most important piece of if statements and terna
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by simjnd 26d ago
But the capture is conditional so it makes sense. if (evaluation) result = evaluation if (evaluation) |result| Although assignments as expressions in C are convenient, I don't think they make a ton of sense and find Zig's capture
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by simjnd 1mo ago
That's the thing I don't think it gets the provider the results they want for their benchmarks. It gets them what they want for their legal safety, but it actively harms the performance. Pi with its 300 words system prompt outperf
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by simjnd 1mo ago
22k characters of system prompt is crazy, and that is without the tool definitions.
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by simjnd 1mo ago
Why would anyone rely on the world knowledge built into a model when the harness can just let it search for current information? Intent understanding is a big point for sure, but world knowledge I'm not sure I see a use case for it.
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by simjnd 1mo ago
Deepseek V4 Flash 0731 was such a massive jump in capability for such a small model (and price), that I'm a bit disappointed by this release. I keep my agents on tight leashes, using them very interactively for bouncing off ideas, arch
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by simjnd 1mo ago
I read "coding" as literally the act of being in the text editor and writing the code, not the encapsulating job of defining requirements, desigining a solution, etc. which is definitely not a solo activity. But I agree with OP th
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by simjnd 1mo ago
You probably haven't read the article, but the software they build is a TUI, not a Desktop GUI (in fact a big chunk of the article is how they need to fight against Flatpak and AppImage because they are designed around the assumption o
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by simjnd 2mo ago
I guess Deepseek V4 is too now that it's out of preview.
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by simjnd 2mo ago
The comment I replied to didn't mention anything about being close to frontier, just a blanket statement about Chinese Labs models being slow and inefficient. People talk about frontier as if it's the only innovation worth pursuin
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by simjnd 2mo ago
> the Chinese models really are slow and token-inefficient This totally depends on the model. Deepseek V4 is very fast and efficient.
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by simjnd 2mo ago
A wrapper class if you want, a wrapper type with methods / dedicated functions. Still, seems pretty ergonomic to me. Yeah we went from one line to three, but the three lines guarantee safety whereas the one doesn't so? Also I&#x27
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by simjnd 2mo ago
Yeah since my whole point is about the technical merits of the rewrite article, I don't count that as justification. Why is just a wrapper type "less ergonomic"? Everybody does that all the time in every language. And then if
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by simjnd 2mo ago
Not about the things that matter. If you write a blog post about "I switched from X to Y", I expect the WHY: the pros and cons of X, of Y, and of the alternatives that were considered and dismissed before considering Y. This is mo
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by simjnd 2mo ago
I don't think Zig community is triggered, I think only Zig's creator is triggered because he is afraid of people interpreting this as "Zig is unsuitable for X". I think a lot of people will, but those who do probably wer
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by simjnd 2mo ago
I could point to the same examples this article refers to: the Bun blog post says "Having a rigid style guide [in Zig] with clear ownership expectations explicitly spelled out in the type system was a real option for Bun" and pres
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by simjnd 2mo ago
Thank you. I was left confused after people praised the Bun to Rust blog post eventhough it contained very actual technical substance. No clear evaluation of options, very biased report on impact, missing figures. It absolutely didn't
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by simjnd 3mo ago
Where have I claimed that it isn't worse, or that it is the same?
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by simjnd 3mo ago
It's far from the top shelf, and even then I can totally still compare. I would say the very concept of privacy (at least when it comes to digital presence) does not exist in China. There are no expectations of privacy and if you need
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by simjnd 3mo ago
The fact that (for now) there are no consequences has no connection to the original point about privacy. The fact that China acts punitively with the data they gather on their citizens, and the US does not (yet), doesn't change at all
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by simjnd 3mo ago
Counter-example to this would be 3rd-party app stores on iOS, which are only enabled in the EU, Japan and more recently in Brazil (maybe I'm missing some). Legislation in one market didn't impact the state of things in the others,
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by simjnd 3mo ago
Thank you. It doesn't make sense to me how much people trust our companies so much more than Chinese ones for no reason. This country has an abysmal track record when it comes to respecting its citizen's rights or privacy. Propaga
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by simjnd 3mo ago
Exactly this. Today I can get a physical copy at release date for ~10 EUR cheaper than on the Playstation Store, then resell it for 3/4 of the price, or lend it to a friend easily. Everything about digital-only is anti-consumer. Games

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