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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> Yeah it's just a semantic pet peeve. I'm not sure. Microsoft calls Phi-4 a small language model, so the distinction is considered meaningful to some people working in the space. My own view is that the term "LLM" im
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
"Local inference is rarely cheaper if you’re being honest with yourself about how much you actually use it." Sorry, but this is not even close to "being honest", it's bad math. That calculation assumes you do nothin
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
Heavy debt is a part of the US culture. You can probably imagine the responses folks would have when they found out I was 40, a tenured professor with a family, and didn't own a house. Nobody had a heart attack but I'm sure some w
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
React wouldn't be an improvement. But adding max-width: 1200px; margin: auto; to the body sure would.
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> Do you think businesses are allowed to just take your money, laugh, and refuse service for no reason? > People spend large sums of money for this tool. They can't just delete your balance because they feel like it. Unfortunatel
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
Zed is a great editor. I think they have done an excellent job and hope they are successful. That said, I do not feel compelled to switch to it. For a pure text editing experience, I've always felt most comfortable with Geany. When I w
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
That's my point. They made those decisions without any consideration for the long run, which would have required them to project the cost of AI services years into the future. Obviously management didn't do that and had no way to
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> Sure, you can make it do something but certainly nothing useful or substantial. It works great for me. But I like to review the code and understand what it's doing, which doesn't appear to be how people do "useful or sub
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
GPT 4.1 had a multiplier of 0.
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
I'm happy I invested in local solutions and cutting context to the bone for API providers. Claims about AI being able to fully replace programmers never took into account the long-run equilibrium price of inference.
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
I expect AI to become more like the news, where every country has their own news services, rather than the global monopoly Sam Altman had envisioned. We even see it with Meta, a company that doesn't sell AI. They'd rather build th
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
> Benchmarks are toys, real world use is vastly different...Why should anyone waste time on poorer results? I'd rather pay my $200/mo because my time matters. This kind of rhetoric is not helpful. If you want to make a point, t
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AI data center backlash threatens Pennsylvania GOP incumbents in 2026 election(cnbc.com)
4 points by bachmeier 6mo ago|0 comments
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
Just go to a popular YouTube retirement channel and check the comments on a new video. For instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awtflo0cU4o Most of the creators delete those comments, but if you get in early, you'
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
If only Google had access to an AI service. That sounds like a snarky comment, but given how easy it would be for Google to use AI to zap those, I can only think there's something preventing them from using it.
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
> a retirement vehicle that doesn't let you withdraw until age 59.5. If you're referring to US retirement accounts, that's not accurate. The early withdrawal penalty is 10% - the same as jumping from the 12% to 22% tax bra
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
Seems obvious to me that China would not want to give the AI market to US companies. You don't even need anything like an attempt to "sabotage the West". If I were them (the companies or the government) I'd be very hesit
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
I've always enjoyed using Clojure. Unfortunately, most of the things I do require interacting with the C world, so it has never been a real option as my primary language.
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
Some feedback: It would be useful to explain what you do differently on your website.
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Minimal Viable Programs (2014)(joearms.github.io)
46 points by bachmeier 6mo ago|7 comments
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
You can avoid the overhead of working with the database. If you want to work with json data and prefer the advantages of text files, this solution will be better when you're starting out. I'm not going to argue in favor of a parti
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
Based on what's in the article, it wouldn't take much to move these files to SQLite or any other database in the future. Edit: I just submitted a link to Joe Armstrong's Minimum Viable Programs article from 2014. If the respo
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
I'd say having your house fall to a third of its value while your electricity bill triples is a perfectly rational argument for opposing a data center. If the data center is that valuable, pay the residents current market value for the
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
I honestly don't understand Microsoft's AI strategy. It seems to be built around automating the writing process. If you ask MS 365 Copilot (as opposed to the many other Copilots) what it can do, it's deeply disappointing: &qu
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
Probably true. Also probably true: people have read enough of the things he listed and concluded that they wasted their time. I remember trying Linux in the RTFM days, and let me tell you, those were some terrible documents even when they d
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
Without any insider knowledge on the economics of these companies, I suspect it's that the amount of infrastructure you have to build is determined by peak usage rather than average usage. If peak usage is much higher for a small part
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
> It should be illegal to change the terms of the subscription mid-period Unfortunately, at least for those of us in the US, there isn't legally much that can be done. It's simply not possible to make a contract that would obli
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
> Do you think that companies will keep giving away valuable assets for free forever If China is forced to choose between giving the entire AI market to the US or releasing free models, they'll be releasing free models as long as it
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
Thanks for posting here. This information is helpful. I strongly encourage you to provide that information on the page asking for donations. Even if it's just one sentence with a link and even if it doesn't fit with Mozilla's
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by bachmeier 6mo ago
I just tried Zed with Gemma 4 to see how it does with local models. Impressive speed and quality for the small model with thinking off (E4B). Very slow for the big model with thinking turned on. We'll see if this is better than my curr

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