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by axegon_ 2mo ago
Called it! He was bound to squeal after the release of QWEN 3.8 in one way or another and here it is. I wasn't even a teenager but I'm getting so much Jobs/Ballmer flashbacks with internet explorer and microsoft office. Edit:
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by axegon_ 2mo ago
I prefer hectic work and impossible deadlines at 3am over the flat-but-not-really hierarchy and the constant dick-measuring contests.
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by axegon_ 2mo ago
Quality? Calling those "quality" is a bit of a stretch. Installing was and still is a gamble and so is every tiny system update. That hasn't changed a bit. And I'm saying that as someone who was first introduced to Linux
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by axegon_ 2mo ago
My dad used to say "It's easy to be generous and kind when things are going well for you. You can only tell what a man is worth during hard times". Nvidia is at it's high financially. When shit hits the fan, things will
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by axegon_ 2mo ago
I've worked long enough at large tech giants to know how things really are. Also a large part of the reason why I'd never join one again, no matter what they have to offer. Meta, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Openai, anthropic, oracle,
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by axegon_ 2mo ago
That's simply not true. The reason why llama is open source is simply because it got leaked, then llama.cpp was the real game changer which was built from the ground up in depressingly short amount of time. Meta had no choice but to ta
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by axegon_ 2mo ago
Yup... And in 2021(5 years ago now) I got 64gb ddr4 for 120 bucks, second hand with a 6 month warranty. I felt like I hit the jackpot then, now that price seems like literal peanuts. I can't wait for the AI bubble to burst.
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by axegon_ 3mo ago
Annoyingly search was at large solved just a few years ago and sadly someone has to reinvent the wheel soon. Lately I've completely switched to ecosia. It gives really decent results for the time being, hoping it'd improve with th
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by axegon_ 3mo ago
Hopefully soon. Not for personal or altruistic reasons, I just find great pleasure in seeing cults burn(which is what AI has become).
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by axegon_ 3mo ago
Carl Wheezer from Temu, what a clown...
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by axegon_ 3mo ago
They are relying on the same tactics Apple and Tesla used - loyal, fanatical fanbase drowning every legitimate criticism. Their fanatical fanbase is doing the real heavy lifting, not some joint-statement: "I haven't written any co
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by axegon_ 3mo ago
I wish that were the case. Unfortunately I know plenty of people who truly believe that anyone that isn't using AI and paying hundreds of bucks for slop subscriptions will be so irrelevant in 2 months and will be begging for food and s
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by axegon_ 3mo ago
And every time some points all of this out, they are "denier", "left behind" and all the other everything-ai fanatics can come up with. As for the imminent crash - I'm all for it. There's a whole generation tha
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by axegon_ 3mo ago
There are a number of points I completely agree with in this blog post. Security implications, handing out all your data to anthropic/openai/google, allowing a slop machine to execute arbitrary code on your machine and having full
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by axegon_ 3mo ago
The key difference: Heavy users: "this (works)|(doesn't work)|(is there)|(isn't there) and I have no idea why" 0 or near 0 usage: "this (works)|(doesn't work)|(is there)|(isn't there) and I know exactly wh
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by axegon_ 3mo ago
I would argue that it does but not exactly as you describe it. Languages have a lot of subtle, underlying characteristics which aren't obvious at first glance. I speak 3 languages(all European but from different families), 2 of which a
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by axegon_ 3mo ago
I might be biased here but drones in general, though the barrier isn't necessarily low. Learning how to fly one on a simulator is a question of 10-hours of crashing behind a screen(you gotta push through, a few hours into it, everythin
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
It's somewhat ironic coming from someone that openly states they use AI all day, everyday. Regardless, the message is correct. I don't think that people have become dumber over the last 15 years. At large, they were always dumb. P
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
Good start. Nowhere nearly enough but a good start nonetheless.
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
It's a bit more subtle than that, I'm afraid. In many instances lately, physically owning a product no longer means that you own it: the fact that BMW tried to introduce subscriptions for heated seats, VW blocking out Graphene use
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
I use duckdb HEAVILY at work and it's been a game changer. I'm sifting through terabytes of data multiple times a day, mixing, matching, updating, filtering, DuckDB is second to none. For anyone that hasn't used it: you are m
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
Not everyone but most. And I've been having this discussion with people around me a lot lately and everyone that has the ability to think more than half a step ahead sees it(and frankly we are fed up). I previously discussed how a frie
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
Oh, that's a breath of fresh air. And they are on codeberg. Nice! Thank you! Edit: After further inspection, I think I'm jumping ship before it's too late. And I'll look, see if there's a way to lend a hand or two w
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
I'll probably get more hate for saying this but fine: I use Zed 50% of the time (the other 50% dedicated to vim) for two reasons: 1. It is fast and snappy. Nothing comes even close besides vim (and I don't mind going full time to
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
Glad to see there are people recognizing it! Thank you!
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
Thoughts on the modern trend of "AI tokens used" as a metric for performance, growth and efficiency by both startups and multi-national giants alike?
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
I mean, this is hardly surprising. Who takes the most points is an accumulative score from subjective opinions(judges, audience, etc.). We didn't win the one in Amsterdam but got second: Around 50 teams began, 20 managed to deliver som
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
True. And it has the same safety implications as in software and security but more obvious since the slop creeps it's way into the physical world: One of my main hobbies is drones. Lately less flying cause of a long track record of cra
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
It's what I call "speed running towards watering plants with Gatorade".
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by axegon_ 4mo ago
Makes perfect sense, all things considered. I've only joined a handful of hackathons. My best experience was in Amsterdam in like 2022, where half our team went to sleep and me and another guy spent the entire night locked up in a venu

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