Balinares

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by Balinares 4mo ago
I can't help wondering what kind of models we'll see coming out of China once it gets its own chip fabs up and running. Right now it sounds like the US's export ban is not slowing them down a whole lot.
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by Balinares 4mo ago
Presumably they're from one of the happy countries that you believe don't exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report
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by Balinares 4mo ago
In the original implementation, SREs have the authority to block further releases until the SLOs are green again -- and, if it comes to that, to hand the pager back to SWE until such a time the product can pass a production readiness review
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by Balinares 4mo ago
After using i3 for a heck of a long time, I'm finding myself liking KDE quite a lot. The amount of obvious care and polish that went into it is delightful. I just wish it had support for tabbed window layout!
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by Balinares 4mo ago
Whenever someone wants "small government" I assume they mean "a government that does not prevent me from shackling you" and hoo boy does that end up correct a lot.
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by Balinares 4mo ago
Given that the "proprietary" model is built on stolen work at an unprecedented scale, it's at the very least hypocritical to a degree that would not be possible without a fundamentally amoral mindset.
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by Balinares 4mo ago
AdGuard MV3 works fine. Still switch to FF if you can, more diversity in the ecosystem benefits everyone.
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by Balinares 4mo ago
> code is just a means to an end? Exactly. Which is the reason why code that increases maintenance friction and costs, or decreases the product's operability or fitness for purpose, does not properly serve the end of advancing the b
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by Balinares 4mo ago
Meanwhile down here in the real world the US double-tapped a primary school.
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by Balinares 4mo ago
They (correctly IMO) seem to think that the hard thing in sourcing the top candidates by the sort of metric they care about, is getting them to even know about you as a potential employer. That means figuring out where those candidates migh
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by Balinares 5mo ago
We're a GitLab shop. The GitLab UI lets you read a PR commit by commit.
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by Balinares 5mo ago
Overheard recently: "Thanks to AI we're producing more code and more MRs, faster than ever, but the milestones aren't getting hit any sooner. Actually the opposite, if anything." I wonder how widespread that phenomenon i
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by Balinares 5mo ago
So one of the prominent LLM advocates known for testing every model shared a prompt intended to exhibit Opus 4.7 capabilities, and Qwen 3.6 sorted it out okay? Interesting. Not saying they're equivalent, local models still decohere muc
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by Balinares 5mo ago
Some do, but we should not be level-setting at mediocrity.
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by Balinares 5mo ago
What dataset? (Honest question! What's in it?)
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by Balinares 5mo ago
Possibly contributing to making it a worse career decision is not strategically optimal.
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by Balinares 5mo ago
Yeah, trivial. Only difference my teammates see is that my commits are much tidier and scoped in a way that's easy to review and think about.
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by Balinares 5mo ago
A series of piecemeal self-contained changes is much easier to wrap your brain around comprehensively enough to detect logic issues. I started doing exactly this and it's been invaluable.
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by Balinares 5mo ago
One under-discussed phenomenon here, I think: The hardest thing in software engineering is solving the right problem. The ability to identify the right problem to solve, is IMO, what distinguishes the top senior engineers. And we could have
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by Balinares 5mo ago
I do not use JS and certainly was not doing anything JS-related, and I do very much not expect my tooling to silently run code from insecure Internet sources on my machine. Which does not seem like an outlandish position to me? If you consi
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by Balinares 5mo ago
Wait, how do you arrive at the thought that Zed is more secure? The one time I gave it a try, it tried to silently run npm -- yes, THIS[1] npm -- in the background without telling me, and I noped the heck out. Did I miss something? [1] htt
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by Balinares 5mo ago
Yes, that's in fact precisely the desired behavior when a model doesn't know the answer.
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by Balinares 5mo ago
Ah, sad, but not surprising. The hard part of getting a game going is assembling and sustaining a community.
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by Balinares 5mo ago
Man, I love that there are still people writing new MOO servers in 2026. Any game out there already running on mooR?
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by Balinares 5mo ago
Forgejo is fantastic! Just wish there was an easier way to implement CI/CD pipeline runners.
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by Balinares 5mo ago
Do you encounter looping issues at such low quants? How do you deal with those?
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by Balinares 6mo ago
> providers are profitably providing Kimi K2.6 for $4/1Mtok out. Do you perchance have a source for this? Is the profitability assessment comprehensive, including hardware amortization? I've found it hard to track down actual h
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by Balinares 6mo ago
> Why are you assuming that they are given a choice? Because self-determination was the defining component of every agile deployment I've ever been involved in or personally driven. I don't think I can really picture what somet
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by Balinares 6mo ago
My pleasure! FWIW I used git for just as long as you, and after a few months with jj I feel more proficient with it than I ever was with git. Somehow it clicked in a way the git commands and options never quite did. But git is not going a
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by Balinares 6mo ago
I would normally agree with you about time pressure, but Outer Wilds worked for me even so. In Outer Wilds I found the time loop liberating. By construction, nothing in the game is far away. You're only limited by how much you've

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