DanielHB

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by DanielHB 1mo ago
I am from Brazil and highschool was hell because of college entrance exams. Everything we did was geared towards optimizing delivery time for exam knowledge/practice. We didn't even have PE after first year. I was very lucky to be
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
Problem with dealing with binary files with git (or source control in general) is that you want to be able to see diffs, which is very dependent on the type of binary file you have. I think you can create git plugins to show diffs in differ
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
I am not into the Ruby on Rails world, but I find LLMs much more effective with powerful type systems like Typescript. Especially if you nudge it to keep things strict and (statically) eliminate invalid states. Do they use similar systems (
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
somewhat related: I have had to do a last-minute fix on a build because a developer added emojis to success messages a fire emoji on software for handling industrial machinery that can explode our QA department was not happy about that let
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
The reason is simple: the package manager works well. Helps if the package manager is standardized and there is a "default" registry for open source projects. I remember the days where I had to manually put the Spring .jar files i
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
To be honest I am not even bothering learning to use these harnesses much less tweaking the bare minimum configs. I fully expect I will be switching every couple of years to a new one. And even if I don't, they will be very different t
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
It is kinda weird, because you feel so much more tired all the time. Yet at the same time you have so much more motivation to do _everything_. It is like I feel 50% more tired, yet 200% more engaged with everything I do. It really makes you
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
It is funny there is no similar treatment about TBE (tick disease) which is predominantly an European disease and very dangerous and much more common than Malaria is in most (all?) South American countries... https://en.wikipedia
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
I have a german last name, do you know how often people outside Brazil act weird when they learn I am Brazilian? My grandparents came to Brazil right after WW1 way before the Nazis came to power. High ranking Nazis fled to south america bec
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
Just to dispel some Brazil myths: 1) +95% of the population live on the coast very far away from the Amazon. Most of the population has not been there. Most of the coast has a very different jungle biome called Mata Atlantica and the countr
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
I varies widely on piece, but even some (not all) of the cheapest wood stuff they have are pretty remarkable quality (or maybe I should say durability, the design side is still super simple for flat-packing optimizations). The non-entry-lev
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
I believe the power gains from apple stuff mostly come from CPU and memory interconnect, unrelated to consumer-grade PC GPUs. Server-grade GPUs have different memory interconnect architecture which I assume already has similar power efficie
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
Like I said, just feels I have from the consumer-hardware space. For several generations of GPU now most improvements come from packing more transistors into a larger die than packing more transistors closer to each other. GPUs have been ge
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
I run qwen3.5-9B on an RTX 3080 with 10GB of vram. It runs at ~77tk/s with around 50k context size. As soon as I switch to a model that doesn't fully fit into vram it tanks to <10tk/s which makes it unusable for me for mos
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
From my experience if it doesn't fit on vram it is rarely worth to bother except for a few narrow tasks. For example make an essay about something where you don't actively engage with the LLM after the initial prompt. So mostly on
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
Is the hardware really getting better? It feels performance per watt is not getting better at all which is the metric that will matter eventually when supply-demand stabilizes. As it is, it seems the improvements are about making the hardwa
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
I am very much a beginner to local LLM stuff and I find it incredibly hard to figure out how to run models optimally with the correct settings for my hardware. The number of different variations of the same model and how each quant work is
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
I live in Sweden now, so yes I have seen some IKEA furniture around.
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
IKEA sells spare parts and for small items (like bolts and fittings) will send them for free.
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
I disagree with this sentiment, IKEA furniture is much more sustainable than artisanal furniture. Most of the "back in the day" furniture came from tearing down virgin woods. Sorting + shredding-recycling + making new "cheap
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
Yeah, the analogy is more applicable to reusable software that used to be hand-crafted. For example many enterprise systems like ERPs, CRMs, CMSs, etc. Even in that space there is still plenty of hand-crafted solutions or customization to t
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
English Wikipedia is around 25GB compressed
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
I wonder how much more effective LLMs would be at general knowledge if you just download wikipedia and set up an MCP for it.
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
What kind of things you only get with a larger model?
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by DanielHB 1mo ago
wait what? I know nothing about this.
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by DanielHB 2mo ago
Oh god my company just switched to .io and that was a huge PITA. I hope we don't go .ai...
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by DanielHB 2mo ago
I used briefly some 8 years ago, it is very good for getting full-native (including native UI toolkit) cross-platform desktop apps. It can build self contained binaries that just work. My use-case was building a simple USB-stick-portable ap
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by DanielHB 2mo ago
I don't think so, I think most LLM content is bot generated and amending bots to remove watermarkers would be trivial if the bypass is trivial. You are just pointing out the very visible single cases. But the mass of low-visible conten
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by DanielHB 2mo ago
It seems like it would be so low effort to bypass, especially when you can just train a system (maybe even another LLM) using the watermarker validation from Anthropic themselves. It seems it would get as simple as: outputText = promptL
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by DanielHB 2mo ago
But what prevents someone from using Anthropic own detection system to train a watermark-scrubber? Seems like this would only catch the most unsophisticated cases.

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