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by evilduck 1y ago
>But for matrix multiplication, isn't compute more important, as there are N³ multiplications but just N² numbers in a matrix? Being able to quickly calculate a dumb or unreliable result because you're VRAM starved is not very
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by evilduck 1y ago
Their memory bandwidth is the problem. 256 GB/s is really, really slow for LLMs. Seems like at the consumer hardware level you just have to pick your poison or what one factor you care about most. Macs with a Max or Ultra chip can have
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by evilduck 1y ago
Absolutely nothing new has been said about Electron since like 2015, it's boring as hell to downvote and scroll past.
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by evilduck 1y ago
I wouldn't hold my breath. Decorators landing in standard JS "soon" has been the claim for about a decade running.
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by evilduck 1y ago
There have been many that have hit the front page over the years. If you're not aware of a technology's shortcomings then you're a bad proponent of said technology. They're also almost the antithesis of what the HTMX cro
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by evilduck 1y ago
They're normal vegetables, but not normal pizza toppings. Just look at the menu offerings of any big US chain pizza place, deviating from that without warning is going to cause disappointment.
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by evilduck 1y ago
> Next.js tightly couples your front-end and back-end, no question. I'd question that statement, since it's wrong. There's no requirement to connect your NextJS server to your backend databases, you can have it only intera
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by evilduck 1y ago
Webdevs aren't the ones making that decision unless they happen to own the whole company, product managers and marketing demand those popups. Also, unfortunately, they do tend to work better than other options like passively showing si
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by evilduck 1y ago
It feels to me like it could replace ChatGPT 3.5 from the perspective of comparing it to their web chat interface if you were just asking about programming things two years ago, but the world moved on and you can do a lot more than just tal
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by evilduck 1y ago
For all but one of my personal use cases, Tailscale + Caddy have even automated away the setup steps and autorenewal of SSL with LetsEncrypt. Just toggle on the SSL features with `tailscale cert`, maybe point Caddy at the Tailscale socket
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by evilduck 1y ago
Isn't the 20 year RV loan for folks who make them their permanent residence? I think they would view it analogous to paying rent for an apartment instead of paying on a depreciating asset.
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by evilduck 1y ago
Reliability and consistency? Humans have bad days. Humans have needs and can't be available 24/7/365 for years on end. OF creators burn out or grow up or lose interest or cash out and retire. It's not like the "real
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by evilduck 1y ago
Financially motivated to not prioritize security. It's hard to sell what your product specifically can't do, while your competitors are spending their time building out what they can do. Beloved products can make a whole lot of se
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by evilduck 1y ago
I think you could both be right at the same time. We will see a large number of VC funded AI startup companies and feature clones vanish soon, and we will also see current or future LLMs continue to make inroads into existing business proc
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by evilduck 1y ago
Sure. The US isn't morally any better on this though. VC backed companies and the "get users, figure out profitability later" strategy that have made outside countries unable to compete have been enabled by the US government
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by evilduck 1y ago
Meta seems to have now stepped out of the running despite being the local LLM catalyst. Anthropic has done nothing. IBM's Granite and Microsoft's Phi are both very far behind. AWS doesn't even attempt to compete. Grok failed
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by evilduck 1y ago
You also learned about your shoe needs over the course of a lifetime. A caregiver gave you your first pair and you were expected to toddle around at most with them. You outgrew and replaced shoes as a child, were placed into new scenarios r
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by evilduck 1y ago
Llama.cpp is not really that easy unless you're supported by their prebuilt binaries. Go to the llama.cpp GitHub page and find a prebuilt CUDA enabled release for a Fedora based linux distro. Oh there isn't one you say? Welcome to
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by evilduck 1y ago
> I think it's pretty different from buying shoes. Shoe shopping is pretty complex, more so than trialing an AI model in my opinion. Are you a construction worker, a banker, a cashier or a driver? Are you walking 5 miles everyday or
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by evilduck 1y ago
You're right of course, consistency is safer and more sustainable but ego is a bitch and nobody is ever bragging or impressed about an average adult being able to walk their dog daily, or doing ten 50kg squats twice a week, or even jog
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by evilduck 1y ago
I think the Steam Deck’s touch screen is also one of its worst features. I will type a message or an email on a phone (Android or iOS) but I loathe even typing my username into the Steam Deck via touch.
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by evilduck 1y ago
Empirically prove it.
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by evilduck 1y ago
Ostensibly the CIA continues to exist through your elected congressional leadership as an agency created by the National Security Act of 1947. Voters don't have to vote consistently and can choose to have one branch of government ideol
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by evilduck 1y ago
You're pointing out the emperor's new clothes worn by the entrepreneurial developer niche and the investor class, on a website created by and for them. Consider the flagging a measure of success.
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by evilduck 1y ago
The Steamdeck is a general purpose computing hardware device shipping with SteamOS, it's just an x86 APU with a handheld form factor and SteamOS is just a customized linux distro (but not a proprietary one). Install Windows on it if yo
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by evilduck 1y ago
The FTC have no say in choosing to exist or not exist, or what laws are passed that they are supposed to enforce. In some cases, an agency intentionally choosing to not carry out their duties would even be breaking the law and subject to pe
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by evilduck 1y ago
As a longtime user of NPM but overall fan of JS and TS and even its runtimes, NPM is a dumpster fire and forcing end users to use it is brittle, lazy, and hostile. A small set of dependencies will easily result in thousands (if not tens of
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by evilduck 1y ago
Planting and harvesting are managed activities to protect the local ecosystem but there are permits available for both activities. You are also free to go hiking and camping within the rules (distance requirements from roads and trails, wil
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by evilduck 1y ago
So you're just here to be an AI curmudgeon with no valuable input to the debugger conversation topic whatsoever, with no experience with Zed and no intent to ever even try it? Thanks for all the relevant and useful hot takes I guess.
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by evilduck 1y ago
The native apps for my phone aren't really reliable enough at letting me know about delays or gate changes, I don't expect a web push notification to be any better at something that's already untrustworthy, especially on a sy

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