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by soganess 19d ago
Agreed! I hate the start of a project with an LLM. The code it writes is always expletive , and wrangling it with rules, hooks, plans, and what have you is just a series of half measures. I'm basically in a fistfight with a cheerful d
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by soganess 21d ago
Yeah, but there was a time when running Linux on a laptop was one of the most complex ways of running Linux. Now I just expect everything to work, especially if I buy from Lenovo, Dell, or HP. There was a time when Wi-Fi, or Wayland, or XCo
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by soganess 3mo ago
Was anyone else bracing to read about a local ordnance that reclassified a data centers as a type of park (...for the AI to play in, duh)? My brain officially only understands "up" as "down"...
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by soganess 3mo ago
Is "release the Mythos" the new "Snyder cut" chant? And also, chant is a lovely name that was skipped over. Especially for the models that won't stop sounding like a broken record.
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by soganess 3mo ago
Yup, the name is a bit of a misnomer at this point: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/enhanced-h264... What you really do is disallow everything save vp9...
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by soganess 3mo ago
I figured, but all I knew for certain was that it did not advertise it. Maybe it was silently presented in silco but lacked the software bits. It's a pretty big omission considering the Pi5's release date.
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by soganess 3mo ago
I believe h264-ify still does. And many of the fancy "remake YouTube to not suck" extensions do as well.
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by soganess 3mo ago
You are 100% right! My mistake. It is too late for me to edit my previous comment. But I appreciate the correction.
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by soganess 3mo ago
There are fairly mainstream devices with decent Vulkan support but poor hardware decode coverage for the codecs people actually get on the web. Polaris era Radeons have H.264 and HEVC decode, but VP9 support is absent (or not exposed in man
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by soganess 4mo ago
1.5 Billion? Less than that 1.776B slush fund.
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by soganess 4mo ago
Since we out here doing ad hominems: if you don't think the code you wrote a few months ago is shit, you're already cooked, and judging by that comment, I'm betting you're crispy. Even the best code I've ever writte
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by soganess 4mo ago
I do believe we call that a pilot program. If it is legal for 50, why not 5 million?
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by soganess 4mo ago
If this works out then 2027 might actually be the year of desktop Linux... but like in the saddest way possible.
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by soganess 4mo ago
The GamersNexus arc is such a YouTube success story: from a dude uploading videos, to superbly rigorous methodology in top tier hardware reviews, to occasional news summaries, to journalistic longforms, to straight up advocacy, and somehow
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by soganess 4mo ago
Getting so close to good! I consider Gemma 4 31B (dense / no MoE), the new baseline for local models. It's obviously worse than the frontier models, but it feels less like a science experiment than any previous local model I’ve ru
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by soganess 4mo ago
I'm sure Andreessen thinks about your well-being just as often as you think about his! I agree poking fun at someone's appearance is low (and this is particularly savage), but it is hard to have sympathy for Andreessen, and I&#x27
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by soganess 5mo ago
That is your problem right there. Instead of PCI compliance you needed that sweet, sweet IBM MCA compliance. Rookie mistake by your AI; otherwise it did a flawless job, and the glaze it's been giving you is 100% accurate. You are the b
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by soganess 5mo ago
Everyone seems to be objecting to the arithmetic error, but what’s more interesting is the underlying assumption: that “Sergey Brin owes $50B” is so morally dispositive that it would end the argument. Brin is not a sympathetic marginal case
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by soganess 5mo ago
A country is not a house. Conflating the legal framework of a nation-state with the etiquette of a private living room is a category error. As John Locke demonstrated when refuting the patriarchal theory of government, political power is fu
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by soganess 5mo ago
Yeah, because the American ideal of our forefathers was FAFO? This is embarrassing to admit, but I miss the halcyon days when folks were still nominally pretending to be free speech warriors.
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by soganess 6mo ago
And I'm 100% sure they will stop there... Yup! No evidence to believe the contrary.
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by soganess 6mo ago
Is this panel (Gould/Clinton, Nguyen/Obama, and Bennett/Trump) a standard pull for the ninth? Considering how many judges are in the ninth: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeal
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by soganess 7mo ago
During the 8th gen they made an i7-8086... Hopefully Intel hasn't fired that person.
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by soganess 8mo ago
Are launch costs really 10x!? Could I get a source for that? In the back on my head this all seemed astronomically far-fetched, but 5.5 million to get 8 GPUs in space... wild. That isn't even a single TB of VRAM. Are you maybe factorin
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by soganess 8mo ago
1. It's a moral good (free as in freedom). Wider Linux adoption makes software more free for everyone and creates a feedback loop: more users means more engineering effort, which improves the many many projects we colloquially call Lin
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by soganess 8mo ago
Can someone tell me what I am missing here? This seems to suffer from a finite-size effect. Wolfram's machines have a tiny state space (s ≤ 4, k ≤ 3). For some class of NP problems, this will be insufficient to encode complex algorithm
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by soganess 8mo ago
I am so confused wrt what you are attempting to do. I literally do not care what the policy says. Must I say it that way? The policy (1) is logically incoherent (2) is not policed in an equitable way (3) is used to launder a world
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by soganess 8mo ago
Do you honestly think I have not read that before? I don't even know where that is posted, I just see folks quote it all the time. I obviously don't abide, those were written at a different time on a different internet with a diff
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by soganess 8mo ago
I consider myself extremely confrontational on here (especially compared to myself in meatworld), but in my 13 years on HN I have had only one direct disagreement with dang, and it was about the definition of the hazelnut spread Nutella. I
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by soganess 8mo ago
> “so desperate to contend” The only thing desperate is people plugging their ears and lalala-ing “HN is not for politics.” The tech talk here is embarrassingly shallow. Depth is now the rare exception. If I want deep dives, I’ll

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