Roark66

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by Roark66 3mo ago
2bits is a joke for serious work. You'd be better with Qwen3.6 under 30G probably. But there are EU only providers for GLM5.2. For example tensorx. Depending on your definition of "secure" it may be acceptable.
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by Roark66 3mo ago
Has anyone compared the costs between maxing out a Claude Max x5 subscription (one for €120 euro a month) and same amount of work on GLM5.2 via API at a cost of $4 per mln token out? I have a feeling Anthropic may still come out cheeper (ma
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by Roark66 4mo ago
It was surprising to see incidence of death by cesarean is almost 13 per 100k. It is commonly thought as the safest way and half of all births in my country are via cesarean.
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by Roark66 4mo ago
They will be hiring frantically next year. These companies seem to be led by mind bogglingly short sighted people. Maybe they should be replaced by AI. It can't possibly get any worse than now, right?
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by Roark66 4mo ago
Did you know human overies contain neurons? I suppose memories are not stored there :-) but still the fact is rather surprising.
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by Roark66 4mo ago
> Eventually, when all your savings are burned through, when you might need to sell your house, you really wonder if that's what they wanted and if all that was worth it. I will never accept a country where things like this happen r
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by Roark66 4mo ago
There are ways to implement this without affecting anyone's privacy. For example here in Poland everyone has an ID and everyone that wants to use egov services, file taxes, or check their prescriptions online has a cryptographic identi
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by Roark66 4mo ago
Here in Poland people will start caring when this verification will be anything other that charge your (debit) card some amount. No one will accept using their official electronic ID with Facebook etc If that is how they implement it I expe
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by Roark66 4mo ago
No. I've tried all the OS models up to Qwen 480B and Kimi (the biggest models). None come even close to Claude. I do mostly scripting, devops, data processing and systems stuff (ansible playbooks, managing network devices, deploying ne
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by Roark66 4mo ago
This is so funny, especially that in the current "Big Co" I'm working at we get constant pressure on "Every team must use agents" for no reason at all despite repeatedly telling the "decision makers" many
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by Roark66 4mo ago
I improved a similar issue by writing custom instructions for copilot that give it enough context to do PR reviews that are only 30% BS. I asked other team members to run my custom instructions to perform a review with copilot before they s
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by Roark66 4mo ago
This is a sign of things to come. First they sabotage your perfectly legal ML dicking around in your homelab. Next they will be sabotaging anything that competes with them. Oh you are working on OpenCode codebase? Sorry Dave I can't al
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by Roark66 5mo ago
>Nordstream was privately funded, half by Gazprom, half by a consortium of privately owned large utilities And do you also believe what Merkel said that "it's purely a commercial venture"? Who chairs those "privately
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by Roark66 5mo ago
And that is why I'll not be buying a vw ever again despite being a fan of the brand so far.
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by Roark66 5mo ago
I've found empirically calling various models "a stupid c*nt" and berating them otherwise consistently produces better output. Mainly in response to genuine errors. Although OpenAI and google models are much more responsive t
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by Roark66 5mo ago
A very good reason. I refuse to use paper straws. They are disgusting (it feels like sucking on a piece of printer paper). Don't get me wrong. I try to remove plastics in all areas of my life as well (because of microplastics), but can
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by Roark66 5mo ago
Depends on the product. I'd never guarantee 3 nines (a bit under 9h of downtime per year) to my customers of any product with moderate complexity without multicloud(except for a cloud provider issues that affect entire region). On the
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by Roark66 5mo ago
Tell that to my Fortune 200 client that I've spent last 3 years migrating dozens of SaaS apps from AWS to GKE for.
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by Roark66 5mo ago
Anyone who thinks one cloud provider will provide them full resilience is fooling themselves. You need multicloud for true high availability. But then you want to use the same stack across providers and all the proprietary technologies (eve
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by Roark66 5mo ago
Believe me, in some EU countries (like my country Poland) people are very sensitive for this kind of bullshit. Last two times they tried to push other censorship/tracking laws (claiming as always "we have to, EU is making us"
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by Roark66 5mo ago
At least in my country (Poland) you should be able to make a pretty bug fuss and resulting in them fixing it, if indeed one of ego services made you leak all your data to Google. People do care about such things. I hope the same is true in
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by Roark66 5mo ago
In the current "big co" I'm working for it's a bit ridiculous. While AI tools have been provided pretty quickly (over a year ago, I initially used gemini cli, then copilot once it added anthropic models) the management i
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by Roark66 5mo ago
While it is possible to overdo everything and being "too jolly" can come across as insincere, despite being raised in a culture where almost no one talks to strangers I was never annoyed by this. Not even once. I don't doubt
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by Roark66 6mo ago
I think many vendors think security is synonymous with "hard to clone". This us why they require signed images and so on.
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by Roark66 6mo ago
Back in the day I couldn't even dream of a PC. They were way too expensive. It took my extended family chipping in (~15 people) to buy me a C64 with tape storage. Still it was great fun. It made me learn programming in BASIC and Englis
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by Roark66 6mo ago
Definitely not a US only issue Central EU here. We order a bunch of switches. A "starter pack" of sorts. We try them and then choose the favourite. Physical shops rarely stock keyboards with removable switches.
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by Roark66 8mo ago
After 2 years of using all of these tools (Claude C, Gemini cli, opencode with all models available) I can tell you it is a huge enabler, but you have to provide these "expert guardrails" by monitoring every single deliverable. Fo
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by Roark66 8mo ago
Similar to my favourite OVH servers, but I have unlimited traffic at 0.5Gb/s 64gb ram and dual mics. Similar price (with vat in Poland). If you wanted to run same workloads on Aws it would cost you few hundred euro a month. I see a si
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by Roark66 8mo ago
>What makes it manipulation? Their size and the effect on the market they have >×If 5 companies want to buy a quadrilion ram chips to build datacenters, why is this manipulation moreso than a million companies each wanting to buy 100
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by Roark66 8mo ago
This excuse "we need to raise prices because we have more demand" is BS. They should be truthful and say "we can increase prices and people will pay it because they want to be EU based" To be honest for anything more ser

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