QuercusMax

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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
If i'm gonna shave a yak, I'd prefer to do it with a set of powered clippers, not a pair of embroidery scissors.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
I'm also of this opinion, but also that it doesn't have to be Apple (but they are well positioned). What I've seen with running local models on my 48GB M4 MBP is really impressive - it's not the same level as hosted st
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
What about all those fishing boats the US has been blowing up?
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
What difference does that make? A blockade is a blockade, and oil is fungible, so it doesn't matter whose flag it is. Run a blockade, get blown up. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Remember, the US blew up an UNARMED Iranian ship
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
Running a blockade is a risky proposition; it's not something that happens by accident. A lot of these "neutral" countries either host US military bases, US companies, or are otherwise aligned generally with the US.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
If that's the goal then the US and Israel are doing their best to stop it from happening. Iran is responding to provocations. Stop provoking them, no more blown up ships.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
For more reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
A minute or two a DAY??? I get pissed off that the microwave in my kitchen loses a minute a week!
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
You'd know the bad guys are Eastasia. Or is it Eurasia?
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
On the Home Assistant and Jellyfin reddits you'll see tons of vibecoded dashboards and plugins people are putting together - and those are just the ones people are sharing. I personally have been building a bunch of little personal app
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
I'm using pi-coder with just the free-tier models I can get on openrouter / opencode / kilocode. When I run out of quota on one model I often switch to another model in the same session , and it generally works just fine.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
As long as LLMs don't understand the different between regurgitating facts and making up stories, they're going to necessarily be limited.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
Phenylephrine only works as a nasal spray. It doesn't do anything when taken orally, because it is broken down in the digestive tract.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
It's the same people who just googled a couple keywords and used that as a citation without reading the link, pre-AI.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
So in essence, if you EVER think you might need to disassemble something, you shouldn't use Philips.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
Or even better: the footprint of doing something like farming corn for ethanol
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
So... fluff.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
This appears to be a basically content-free slideshow with very shallow thinking...
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
Belt and suspenders. What if you make a manual code edit? What if your harness hook malfunctions?
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
(I think you forgot a "not": home smart speakers a NOT being used for warrantless mass surveillance)
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how GUIs must necessarily work. There should be no possibility of race conditions if you understand the threading model. The visual representation updating (greying out button) is a result of disa
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
This is literally the type of thing that caused the THERAC-25 disaster ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 ). Experienced users hitting keys faster than the app could process them, resulting in safety features bein
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
Probably would be good to write up a TTRPG adventure, though!
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
That was basically the conclusion I came to after I spent a couple hours trying to puzzle my way through opencode's settings - extremely opaque and hard to tell what's happening. Pi is simpler, and i figure if I really need a bett
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
I've been using pi-coder the couple days with Qwen, and its minimal prompt works MUCH better than OpenCode's bloated prompt.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
I've been using OpenCode for hosted models, but pi-coder works better with the locally hosted models. I'm thinking of trying pi-coder in general because OpenCode doesn't handle retries as well as it could. Big Pickle is real
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
I worked for most of a decade on an a high profile deep learning project and I sat next to people who trained models used for very complicated and interesting things involved in medicine. I built tons of application code around the models
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
Yeah, it's been fun for me running models (mostly Qwen 3.6 27B) on my 48GB M4 MacBook Pro. When i'm using it to run models, it's basically unusable for anything else - I actually do the work on my Macbook Neo. Took me a while
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by QuercusMax 4mo ago
Bigotry is obviously real, what are you smoking? Plenty of bigots out there.
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by QuercusMax 4mo ago
ugh, half the repos at work use main and half use master. Such a pain.

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