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by hedgehog 5d ago
ADHD creates the founders that create the returns that pay for the operations of the site we are reading.
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by hedgehog 5d ago
The primary failure I've observed in washing machines that get a lot of use is the drain pumps which are probably similarly (un)reliable across designs (we only have front loaders so not sure).
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by hedgehog 5d ago
It's not really 10x the cost though, with the low cost of cached read it's more like maybe 1.2x the cost.
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by hedgehog 8d ago
I'm not even elderly but I would really like an e-mail client with a stable UI. I used to like Apple Mail but it's been a buggy mess since Catalina. It doesn't even sort or search mail reliably any more. It's basically a
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by hedgehog 8d ago
RSI saves you from RSI
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by hedgehog 9d ago
I didn't know this so I looked up the number for farm chickens, according to University of Kentucky (seems appropriate) they have a body temperature of "between 105°F and 107°F (40.6° and 41.7°C) ... Smaller chicken breeds have a
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by hedgehog 10d ago
I wouldn't be very excited about adding a 4B param model to my database deployment, but using this kind of approach while testing an app to identify query plans where Postgres is leaving performance on the table seems valuable without
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by hedgehog 10d ago
In my experience the details matter a lot. Too rigid a plan and the agents get stuck and then thrash endlessly on work they manufacture for themselves, too little they get lost, the integration strategy is in part forced by cost (e.g. using
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by hedgehog 11d ago
Ah! Thanks. For anyone else following this is documented along side the replication and failover behavior here: https://celld.dev/docs/guarantees/
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by hedgehog 11d ago
Does anyone here have experience using some of the newer S3 family API features like locking with any of the self-hostable options? After reading about celld's Litestream + locking on S3 approach ( https://github.com/den
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by hedgehog 11d ago
Have you quantified the performance on any particular benchmark?
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by hedgehog 11d ago
There are a lot of ways to slice the problem of getting the agents to complete a goal without getting lost, and the right solutions are somewhat problem-specific. For the projects I've done 35B Qwen is about the smallest that seems to
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by hedgehog 11d ago
128GB on a Ryzen 395 is enough but not by a lot. Around 90GB for weights plus 10GB to 20GB for KV cache and checkpoints. I don't know about 64GB of VRAM for less than around $2500 by itself.
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by hedgehog 11d ago
What would you build? Flash Next on 128GB works ok, 3.8 27B might technicially work on less but it's just too slow at least on current APU style chips. I'm curious about the non-NVIDIA 32GB discrete GPU options but I haven't
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HuggingFace/tau: A Python port of Pi's minimalist coding agent(github.com)
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by hedgehog 12d ago
Thanks, I hadn't seen OpenViking before. I do everything in Claude Code right now due to the cost advantage but between the advances in local models (especially Qwen family) and models like Gemini 3.8 Flash it may be worth revisiting.
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by hedgehog 12d ago
3.8 Next Flash seems like it is the first model usable unattended coding on a single desktop PC. The context window issue I think is a non-issue, at least to the extent that I already run Opus and Fable with auto-compact at 200k tokens. Eve
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by hedgehog 12d ago
This situation has improved quite a bit recently, Qwen Flash Next will run on a $4000 PC and can reliably implement small features on its own (feels comparable to Opus 4.5). It's a bit slow but pretty effective.
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by hedgehog 12d ago
In concrete terms if your app has functions that do very little work but run for hours or days at a time blocking on external resources, and it is acceptable to add 100+ms latency + a serialization boundary to every function call, it is acc
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by hedgehog 12d ago
For any car there will also be the periodic service bulletin so every once in a while you'll likely want to go in and deal with those too.
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by hedgehog 12d ago
That would be very interesting to read, other systems like Plan 9 get talked about a lot but I didn't know almost anything about Sprite until today.
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by hedgehog 13d ago
I think you underestimate how intensive it is to scroll LinkedIn in Edge while a YouTube video, Outlook, Adobe's updaters, antivirus, device management, and whatever incidental malware the user has picked up run in the background. That
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by hedgehog 13d ago
How did you organize the atlas? I've tried a few things including embeddings and clustering files based on how often they change in the same commits, haven't yet found anything I want to bake into my tooling.
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by hedgehog 14d ago
I've gotten good usage out of a structured search tool (not mine, by someone else here) called Tilth: https://github.com/jahala/tilth It combines search with tree sitter grammars so the results can annotate usage
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by hedgehog 15d ago
I haven't looked closely enough at his autoresearch stuff to know how similar it is. From what I have seen the quality of output is directly tied to the quality of the request, a human can only read and understand some finite amount of
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by hedgehog 15d ago
It's useful for search type problems where the result is relatively compact and verifiable in isolation. I haven't found a way to build production quality software that way in general but for certain kinds of reverse engineering o
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by hedgehog 16d ago
There is some research suggesting that a prefix from a stronger model will tend to elicit better completions from a smaller one. I am doing some experiments to see if I can replicate this in a practically useful way, e.g. Fable + 4B Qwen, o
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by hedgehog 17d ago
They confused "smaller" with "budget" though, if the good camera was available in the smaller size I would have bought it.
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by hedgehog 18d ago
That's a good reference for what orthographic rendering is, but if you look at the rendered scene it's definitely not orthographic. Parallel lines in the model converge towards the camera when the model is viewed from an angle.
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by hedgehog 18d ago
The one you linked here in the comments.

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