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by ericd 11mo ago
Eesh thanks for that detail, didn’t realize it was so crushingly high.
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by ericd 11mo ago
Also, Germany was a great power seriously challenging the greatest power of the time, the British Empire. They fell a lot further than those other examples.
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by ericd 11mo ago
Yes, and it was fine, but sure, I typically burn wood.
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by ericd 11mo ago
Eh my understanding was more that they had to cover fiscal deficits with printing, because they had heavy WW1 war reps (only payable in gold, so they couldn’t inflate it away). There are times when it’s politically infeasible to defend the
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by ericd 11mo ago
Have you ever read about people burning piles of German currency because it was better than using it to buy firewood with? Not to say we would get there, but allowing inflation to run is not kinder.
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by ericd 11mo ago
How are downloads bottlenecked by drives? A normal nvme drive does >20 gbit.
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by ericd 11mo ago
Wonder if you could train a neural net to take camera recordings and basically reconstitute the original. For a given setup, the distortions should be pretty consistent.
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by ericd 11mo ago
Right, do you want a King Tiger or 20 Shermans?
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by ericd 11mo ago
When comparing, are you using the normal token cost, or cached? I find that the vast majority of my token usage is in the 90% off cached bucket, and the costs aren’t terrible.
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by ericd 11mo ago
To be clear, no one in this thread said this is replacing all senior engineers. But it is still amazing to see it work, and it’s very clear why the hype is so strong. But you’re right that you can quickly run into problems as it gets bigger
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by ericd 11mo ago
Whisper.cpp/Faster-whisper are a good bit faster than OpenAI's implementation. I've found the larger whisper models to be surprisingly good in terms of transcription quality, even with our young children, but I'm sure it
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by ericd 11mo ago
Agreed, and it's actually how I've been thinking about it, but it's also straight from the article, so can't claim credit. But it was fun to see it put into words by someone else. And yeah, the LLM does so much of the li
463.
by ericd 11mo ago
A lot of it is just from HN osmosis, but /r/LocalLLaMA/ is a good place to hear about the latest open weight models, if that's interesting. gpt-oss 120b is an open weight model that OpenAI released a while back, and Cere
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by ericd 11mo ago
I remember seeing that, though iirc it was a lot more surgery than I wanted to do on my blinds (which already had a shaky wife-acceptance-factor due to spotty zigbee connections). Thanks for the reminder, though.
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by ericd 11mo ago
Ooh thanks for the heads up!
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by ericd 11mo ago
I'd agree, except one of the main reasons I bought them was to wake up to natural light, not to wake up to WHIIIRRRRRRRRR.
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by ericd 11mo ago
Absolutely, especially the part about just rolling your own alternative to Claude Code - build your own lightsaber. Having your coding agent improve itself is a pretty magical experience. And then you can trivially swap in whatever model yo
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by ericd 11mo ago
I hope they make them quieter this time!
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by ericd 11mo ago
OT, but leaving the zeros on those gigabit numbers makes this a lot less work to understand, at first I thought maybe you were in mbps throughout.
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by ericd 11mo ago
>They can't be treated like bicycles because they're too fast but aren't nearly as dangerous as motorcycles. As a former rider, why? Cars were the most dangerous part, in my experience. Something that stuck with me from my
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by ericd 1y ago
It was an allusion to the tech industry's disrespect for users, when they don't give an option to say no, and please stop asking me, because the company really really wants you to say yes, and what they care about is more importan
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by ericd 1y ago
The "Yes"/"Maybe Later" school of governance.
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by ericd 1y ago
You can just set up your own cloud on leased machines, and pocket the huge difference in cost. Devops languages are pretty easy to learn, IME, and the infra stuff takes less maintenance than the AWS proponents seem to think. I guess it depe
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by ericd 1y ago
Something nonobvious to consider, 10G copper/RJ45 SFP modules run hot , to the point where our Mikrotik switch's manual mentioned that we could use them, but they strongly recommended only populating every other port, if we did.
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by ericd 1y ago
I did a few rooms with fiber and copper for 10G, you don't need EMT, I found the blue flexible smurf tube perfect for this.
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by ericd 1y ago
Later, they say “lithium ion batteries only have 4 to 6 hours of capacity”, which again, what? But maybe that implies that the actual capacity rating is their “capacity” x 4-6.
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by ericd 1y ago
$3+/watt installed is pretty normal in the US for residential, so that system would be ~$30,000 USD/2.6M Rupees (26 lakh?).
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by ericd 1y ago
Heh fair, but point was more that you'd need other components that add to the cost, and for Americans, they probably want to stick with UL listed bits installed by an electrician. But yeah, for someone off-grid or otherwise not subject
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by ericd 1y ago
Heat pumps can make the room 90 degrees if I want. But the point is that you can make the room 72 degrees with 80 degree air running constantly rather than 20 minutes of 100 degree air per hour.
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by ericd 1y ago
I guess, but single full size panels generally put out 30-50v, and efficient batteries are usually 48V, so you’d need transformers at least, and the strings coming to our house are generally 350-500V. Newer high voltage battery packs operat

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