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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Sure we don't play the most abusively unoptimized AAA games like RDR2. Wait, RDR2 is badly optimized? When I played it on my Intel Arc B580 and Ryzen 7 5800X, it seemed to work pretty well! Way better than almost any UE5 title, li
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by KronisLV 1y ago
A ThinkPad might have also been an excellent choice, but hope the MacBook serves him well! Note: this isn't a critique of his choice, just a mention of something others might find useful. Source: I had a T480, P51, X1 Carbon and now P1
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Anyway, we’re moving to Mattermost. This experience has taught us that owning your data is incredibly important, and if you’re a small business especially, then I’d advise you move away too. Sounds about right, sad to hear that it caus
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I'm not sure why we never got around to more human in the loop with 2FA when it comes to this sort of stuff: "Oh, you want to publish a new package? Okay, confirm it on this app on your device/phone to make sure." Surely
815.
by KronisLV 1y ago
That attitude also gave us the Titanic and Hindenburg. I feel like your assumptions are horrible - because surely there’s a middle ground where you make progress, but without being so irresponsible that man’s ego and desire for grandeur res
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by KronisLV 1y ago
See: multi MB downloads to display a few forms in a browser. Software that can’t work well with literal GBs of memory (some of it being a full browser runtime for some desktop forms). Games that run bad thanks to UE5 coming preloaded with f
817.
by KronisLV 1y ago
I once wrote a blog post called “Never update anything” about how updates suck, but even so I would just deal with it, because you probably want the security fixes.
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I feel like one could imagine some hypothetical Linux distro that works out of the box, has some baseline level of coherency and polish without you having to get your hands dirty, and also hasn’t been enshittified. I have no idea what distr
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> The comment you are responding to is just trying to explain their own situation and say the person who wrote the article might want to investigate a similar experience compared to their own. I appreciate their perspective. I might want
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Generally, in a thunderstorm, airships remained over land, where it was easier to keep one’s bearings: There were landmarks and, at night, illuminated areas for guidance. In the event that the worst happened, being over land helped fac
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Is this fundamentally different from them copy pasting code from StackOverflow or random blog posts, without understanding it? You know, aside from AI making it super easy and fast to generate this tech debt in whatever amounts they desire?
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> The Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct performs comparably to our flagship model Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, and shows clear advantages in tasks requiring ultra-long context (up to 256K tokens). This is pretty impressive and a bit like how
823.
by KronisLV 1y ago
> It sounds like the company is doing it as a community service. It doesn't make 'business sense' except perhaps by improving the company's image. Companies also donate to charities etc. I applaud this kinda thing. In
824.
by KronisLV 1y ago
I’d very much prefer a phone that’s shaped like a slab (smooth back), no weird camera plateaus and no sad excuse for a battery, but something that can last days.
825.
by KronisLV 1y ago
Or you can at least look for viable alternatives: https://www.pcmag.com/news/german-province-ditches-microsoft... That way, if/when you decide to switch to the MS offering, at least you can bring up that they’re n
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Oh great, can't wait until this is used as something to back up other justifications to strong arm employees into quite often meaningless commute that doesn't increase their quality of life, nor their productivity for many.
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by KronisLV 1y ago
The GPT-OSS-120B release was pretty decent and you could run it on vLLM, Ollama and a bunch of other stuff on day one, despite MXFP4, are you not entertained? I mean, it's even close to GPT-5 mini in some benchmarks: https:/&#x2F
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by KronisLV 1y ago
If you are in circumstances where the answers to those questions are a resounding "No" then you should just set up the tooling to format the code on save / commit and perhaps to make the CI complain if anyone skips that and l
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Just FYI Google runs their data centers at 85 degrees F (about 30 degrees C). I think Google probably knows more about how to run Intel CPUs for longest life and lowest cost per CPU cycle. After all they are the #5 computer maker on ea
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> I also double-checked if the CPU temperature of about 100 degrees celsius is too high, but no: this Tom’s Hardware article shows even higher temperatures, and Intel specifies a maximum of 110 degrees. So, running at “only” 100 degrees
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by KronisLV 1y ago
At that point, just give me 2025-09-07T11:30:31.304[Europe/Riga] the machine can figure out the current offset and GMT itself because in any given time in the year I have no idea without looking it up.
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> No, it's because reading code is slower than writing it. This feels wrong to me, unless we qualify the statement with: "...if you want the exact same level of understanding of it." Otherwise, the bottleneck in developmen
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I wish that Cerebras had a direct pay per use API option instead of pushing you towards OpenRouter and HuggingFace (the former sometimes throws 429, so either the speed is great, or there is no speed): https://www.cerebras.ai&#x2
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by KronisLV 1y ago
This is really cool and should work well with something like RooCode as well. Usually I keep going back to either Claude Sonnet or Gemini 2.5 Pro (also tried out GPT-5, was quite unimpressed) but both of those are relatively expensive. I&#x
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> I get better results from Qwen 3 coder 30b a3b locally than I get from Qwen 3 Coder 480b through open router. I'm really concerned that some of the providers are using quantized versions of the models so they can run more models p
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Translating from one syntax to another is one of the best use cases for an LLM in my opinion. Have a look at https://kompose.io/ as well.
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> With all due respect, with a response like "What AI coding tools/models have you been using?" to a complaint that AI tools just don't seem to be effective, what difference does a reply to that even make? "Damn,
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> My manager told me that the time to deliver my latest project was cut to 20% of the original estimate because we are "an AI-first company". This sounds incredibly stupid. It’s going to take as long as it will and if they’re n
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Nobody mentioned it yet, so I really liked mdbook: https://wofwca.github.io/mdBook/cli/init.html The output is just a bundle of files for your web server of your choice, supports good navigation with the sidebar,
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Amazon is exploring ways to allow for more "location-flexible" roles, the document added. If only the technology existed to do work remotely, what a shame.

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