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by MuffinFlavored 7mo ago
The world doesn't need a dozen JS runtimes. The world doesn't need a dozen JS engines. The world doesn't need many dozens of Linux distros. The world doesn't need a handful of BSD distros. The world doesn't need man
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by MuffinFlavored 7mo ago
> What’s next for Deno? Who cares? Why does the world need so many fringe tools/runtimes? So much fragmentation. Why does every project have to be a long-term success? Put some stuff out if its misery. Don't waste the time of t
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by MuffinFlavored 8mo ago
any reason why you did const { rows } = client.query( "select id, name, last_modified from tbl where id = $1", [42], ); instead of const { rows } = client.query( "select id, name, last_mod
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by MuffinFlavored 8mo ago
Is trading even a real thing? Is there really a job title "trader"? Entities really think they can outperform DCA SPY?
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by MuffinFlavored 8mo ago
> Your machine runs a little slower, your bandwidth gets a little thinner, and someone halfway around the world is routing traffic through your home IP. I wish in 2026 the default on new computers (Windows + Mac) was not only "inbou
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by MuffinFlavored 8mo ago
I always wondered this, is this true/does the math come out to be really that bad? 6x? Is the writing on the wall for $100-$200/mo users that, it's basically known-subsidized for now and $400/mo+ is coming sooner than we
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by MuffinFlavored 8mo ago
> Imagine if Siri could genuinely file your taxes I do not like reading things like this. It makes me feel very disconnected from the AI community. I defensively do not believe there exist people who would let AI do their taxes.
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by MuffinFlavored 8mo ago
Thank you. Could you give a tl;dr on "the full model needs ____ this much VRAM and if you do _____ the most common quantization method it will run in ____ this much VRAM" rough estimate please?
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by MuffinFlavored 8mo ago
> You can shrink the model to a fraction of its "full" size and get 92-95% same performance, with less VRAM use. Are there a lot of options how "how far" do you quantize? How much VRAM does it take to get the 92-95% y
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by MuffinFlavored 8mo ago
Did you eventually move to a $20/mo Claude plan, $100/mo Claude plan, $200/mo, or API based? if API based, how much are you averaging a month?
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by MuffinFlavored 8mo ago
and it has proven to not be a great hedge against inflation (lately, short term) the digital gold narrative falls apart when non-digital gold outperforms it and nobody wants it for its digital properties (payments, blockchain, etc.)
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by MuffinFlavored 8mo ago
Why does the news matter? Sincerely, Somebody on "Hacker" News
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by MuffinFlavored 9mo ago
I had a conversation (prompts) with Claude about this article because I didn't feel I could as succinctly describe my point alone.
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by MuffinFlavored 9mo ago
Worth noting that the implied volatility extracted here is largely a function of how far OTM the strike is relative to current spot, not some market-specific view on $100. If NVDA were trading at $250 today, the options chain would reprice
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by MuffinFlavored 9mo ago
Trivial to build something that is opinionated and custom to you?
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by MuffinFlavored 9mo ago
> the point is validating and advertising Polymarket on national news outlets will have ugly consequences. Coinbase Robinhood DraftKings FanDuel
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by MuffinFlavored 9mo ago
How did Rhianna look him in the eyes and say "yes babe, good album, release it, this is what the people wanted after 7 years, it is pleasing to listen to and enjoyable"?
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by MuffinFlavored 9mo ago
Is this the answer for citizens of countries other than America? I don't think it is.
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by MuffinFlavored 9mo ago
I am surprised that... if they have a session ID of some sort for your chat that they make you re-send the entire message history each time? Not a single kind of cache or stateful proxy/buffering mechanism? Guessing that extra cost in
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by MuffinFlavored 9mo ago
> He consistently communicated with shareholders of Berkshire in a straight-forward and transparent way in his letters and annual reports. How often did he ever deliver "bad news"?
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by MuffinFlavored 9mo ago
As in, you can now craft your own "update" and sign the bootloader/entire package and it will flash? edit: > You still won't get a jailbroken PlayStation 5 with this leak, but it will make it easier for hackers to com
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by MuffinFlavored 9mo ago
I respect the work the Dolphin team (and any/every team for that matter) does. I don't quite get, with 100,000+ video games to play across so many different platforms, why people choose to play specific ones in niche ways.
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by MuffinFlavored 9mo ago
> OpenBSD uses 0xdb to fill newly allocated memory and 0xdf to fill memory upon being freed. This helps developers catch "use-before-initialization" (seeing 0xdb) and "use-after-free" (seeing 0xdf) bugs quickly. Looks
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by MuffinFlavored 10mo ago
What % of effectiveness would you say is gained from these because... I am a pretty regular user of Claude Code in VS Code with no special goodies and I routinely hit "compacting" after 5-6 prompts in a single session. Then I need
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by MuffinFlavored 10mo ago
What if I said "I don't use any of those and I think AI is very good at coding". I'd be more interested in an article from you on how to go from "I use Claude Code out of the box" as a baseline and then how eac
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by MuffinFlavored 10mo ago
> We discovered that on reconnect, Postgres would start reading the replication slot’s WAL from the restart_lsn—effectively the beginning—rather than from the last processed position. For workloads with long-running, large, or interleave
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by MuffinFlavored 10mo ago
> How would the use of sub-libraries help with anything? * Clearer boundaries - Enforced API contracts between modules prevent the "everything depends on everything" problem that large monolithic codebases develop. * LLM-friend
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by MuffinFlavored 10mo ago
> You’ve got your CLAUDE.md, Skills, Agents, MCP, slash commands, and so much more. How many people use none of this?
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by MuffinFlavored 10mo ago
I'm not so sure. > Some of them can barely use a mouse. How/why are they employed for that position then?
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by MuffinFlavored 10mo ago
> libcurl is now a little over 149,000 lines. The command line tool has 25,800 lines. Does it have to be? Should it be? Were sub-libraries or some kind of splitting ever considered?

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