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by wcallahan 27d ago
From my experience, I suspect you'll need to be able to use both thinking modes (medium and xhigh). I did set the default at medium, but the xhigh still seems to be a big part of its benefits. I found it really easy to chat with it and
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Qwen 3.8 27B is a great open model(williamcallahan.com)
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by wcallahan 2mo ago
Hey @Daniel-Pan, I’m a big fan of your work with Seafile. It’s by far the best open source alternative to Google Drive and Google Docs! I love the idea of this as well. Do you plan to make it available as open source software also? I think
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by wcallahan 5mo ago
I just looked at Scaleway’s pricing for two popular open source models (gpt-oss-120b and qwen3.5-397b) and it’s meaningfully more expensive than alternatives (e.g., many you’d find on OpenRouter).
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by wcallahan 6mo ago
Openclaw
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by wcallahan 6mo ago
Isn’t that what Convex is doing?
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by wcallahan 6mo ago
Jooq with Kotlin for a back-end has been the best of both worlds for me. Much cleaner, shorter code and type safety with Postgres (my schema tends to be highly normalized too). And these days I’ve got it well integrated with Zod for type sa
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by wcallahan 7mo ago
American here who values individual liberties greatly. I know things are politically tense at the moment, but I’m not sure I understand this popular contemporary sentiment. I’ve always believed governments and companies should be regarded w
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by wcallahan 7mo ago
42 here, played a ton of Warcraft II, but my favorite to return to now is definitely Warcraft III (or AoE II).
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by wcallahan 8mo ago
I suspect the timing of this and comments is not coincidental. I pay for Docker licenses, even though not meeting the criteria for business size requiring it, as I wanted reliable image fetching for my self hosted container CI/CD pipel
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by wcallahan 8mo ago
I do a lot of maps API calls, and found I get better results (and can save money) by using multiple providers. So I use Apple Maps, Mapbox, OpenStreetMap, and Google Maps… sometimes to check the results with multiple providers, and sometime
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by wcallahan 9mo ago
Hope you enjoy tui4j and brief!
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by wcallahan 9mo ago
I made some tweaks to the Github releases config, you should be able to do this now as well: curl -L -o brief.zip https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief/releases/latest/download... unzip brief.zip cd brief-
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by wcallahan 9mo ago
Great ideas for both :) I wasn’t expecting the main topic of what I’ve been building to appear on the cover of hacker news today, so I was caught a bit unprepared, but they were definitely on the todo list next!
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by wcallahan 9mo ago
It just so happens that I’ve built one already: TUI4J (Terminal User Interface for Java). https://github.com/WilliamAGH/tui4j It combines a port of BubbleTea from Go, and Textual and other inspired rewrites of other fu
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by wcallahan 9mo ago
Great advice. Have you observed any other differences? I’ve been wondering if there are any specialized variants yet of GPT-OSS models yet that outperform on specific tasks (similar to the countless Llama 3 variants we’ve seen).
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by wcallahan 9mo ago
Yes to both comments. I said that to: 1. disclose my method was not quantifiably measurable as the not model, because that is not important to me, speed of action/development outcomes is more important to me, and because 2. I’ve observ
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by wcallahan 9mo ago
Yes, I run it locally on 3 different AMD Strix Halo machines (Framework Desktop and 2 GMKTec machines, 128gb x 2, 96gb x 1) and a Mac Studio M2 Ultra 128gb of unified memory. I’ve used several runtimes, including vLLM. Works great! Speedy.
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by wcallahan 9mo ago
I don’t do ‘evals’, but I do process billions of tokens every month, and I’ve found these small Nvidia models to be the best by far for their size currently. As someone else mentioned, the GPT-OSS models are also quite good (though I haven’
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by wcallahan 10mo ago
Instead of filtering them out, I’d imagine you’d want to establish their equivalency instead? Then they can be made available as equal/similar alternatives to the same article (i.e., from your outlet of choice).
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by wcallahan 10mo ago
Bad bot. ‘masterphai’ is evidence of how effective a good LLM and better prompt can be now at evading detection of AI authorship… but there’s no way this authors comments are written by a sane human. From the comment history it appears it h
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by wcallahan 10mo ago
I suspect I’m not alone in pausing around the statement: > "It’s not likely to be something you’ll ever have at home" I’m curious… what would need to be true to make this statement wrong?
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by wcallahan 1y ago
It would be great to have Convex Database support
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by wcallahan 1y ago
I just used GPT-OSS-120B on a cross Atlantic flight on my MacBook Pro (M4, 128GB RAM). A few things I noticed: - it’s only fast with with small context windows and small total token context; once more than ~10k tokens you’re basically queu
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by wcallahan 1y ago
Tried Gemini Codes yesterday, as well as anon-kode and anon-codex. Gemini Codes is already broken and appears to be rather brittle (she disclosures as much), and the other two appear to still need some prompt improvements or someone adding
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by wcallahan 2y ago
I wanted to watch the video, but the keyboard typing being the loudest part of the video made it rather hard to listen. I wonder if a tool exists to strip keyboard noise from YouTube videos?
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by wcallahan 2y ago
Just ordered one the UM690S after this comment - I had been looking for another machine like it and saw the sale. Thanks for sharing! I just deployed another System76 machine that I’m using for the same purpose — using both for redundant co
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by wcallahan 2y ago
Was thinking the same!
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by wcallahan 2y ago
Nice work. Would love a similar repository for Google cloud’s equivalent services! Or a PR on this that accomplishes the same, as @clemlesne mentioned.
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by wcallahan 2y ago
Aider is written in Python (they have a great Discord community, btw). My experience matches yours: for Python, aider/Sonnet seems to do much better than for Javascript so far. I strongly recommend aider despite LLM limitations at the

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