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by jjice 2mo ago
How is thunderbird these days? I haven't used it for about six years, but I've seen their redesign and recent work in passing here on HN. I'd like to get back to having a desktop email and calendar client over using a browser
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by jjice 2mo ago
Where do you see that? From what I can see on Open Router, Qwen 3.6 27B (the closest dense equivalent to Gemma 31) is $0.28/m. Am I missing something? https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.6-27b
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by jjice 2mo ago
Am I correct in understanding that this is just 730B-ish parameters as an MOE? That sounds like incredible performance per parameter. The new Deepseek was also very impressive with its 280B or so. Plus the most recent 30B-ish Qwen and Muse.
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by jjice 2mo ago
I think there's a middle ground where we can appreciate the great things we have while also striving to continue to get better and not lock ourselves into either constant animosity for "the system" or constant self loathing f
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by jjice 2mo ago
I've never thought about hedonic adaptation as a positive, but that's a good point that it has some real value in the case of societal adaptations and driving further innovation. We usually view it through the lens of an individua
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by jjice 2mo ago
> Clearly this is an attempt to prevent similar patents from being weaponised against them in the US. Why do we assume that Mistral is a "good guy" protecting themselves? I'm not sure they necessarily are. Could just be tr
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by jjice 2mo ago
I was at a much smaller YC company when I found that AWS root credentials were checked into the repo, purely for S3 file uploads for logos. When other engineers and I brought it to the CEO (he required infrastructure stuff get brought up to
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by jjice 2mo ago
I'd also argue this is the case for any company releasing open weights. They're not righteous, they're marketing. That's not necessarily a bad thing! They're releasing some great stuff for free and we benefit from t
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by jjice 2mo ago
My understanding was that they had to legally destroy the books after they processed them for whatever copyright strangeness was involved.
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by jjice 2mo ago
While I do like pgrust's license, I do feel like it's kind of wrong to port in such a direct way and change the license. I guess this isn't a fork, but it kind of is? It looks like according to this post [0], they did a Claud
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by jjice 2mo ago
Is there any way to view our consistent destruction of green energy products in the last few years as anything other than hostile towards the majority of people purely to have a handful of people profit on cost of gas?
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by jjice 2mo ago
Mitchell Hashimoto had a blog post a few months ago talking about him moving off of GitHub: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github This is a man who's spent a significant portion of every day for the
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by jjice 2mo ago
Qwen Max is their large model - over a trillion params. Similar to Kimi K3 in size. Qwen 3.8 27B is going to be more accessible to your own hardware. I'd say that Qwen Max is not approachable for the majority of people and companies to
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by jjice 2mo ago
On other occasions, I'd take this as a time to have a walk because I'm blocked. Unfortunately, I need to get some stuff out for a customer quickly. Can't do anything about that though. GitHub is the only product in it's
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by jjice 2mo ago
While I won't take their limited benchmarks with much salt, if it actually is this close to opus, but at a third the cost, that's pretty solid. Now, Terra is pretty damn affordable too and you're right that it's suspicio
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by jjice 2mo ago
Just like the last Oxide post, I just have to say how excited I am for their product as a concept. I really hope to see them continue to do well! Selfishly of course so I can make sure there are more episodes of Oxide and Friends for years
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by jjice 2mo ago
One consideration I have on every purchase I make is that I own it, like actually own it (with exceptions where necessary, of course). Internet access in something that shouldn't need internet access is a downside. It's a way to m
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by jjice 2mo ago
Kimi K3 is about the same
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by jjice 2mo ago
Totally agree. Selfishly, I was always the "regular expression" guy because they were a bit hobby space of mine (engine implementation and such), so seeing LLMs rip them is a bid of a bummer. Half the reason it's a bummer is
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by jjice 2mo ago
Saw this at work yesterday. Absolute insanity to do something as user hostile as removing the cost of the service. There's no way to attempt to brand this as anything but negative for the user, and positive for the company. Gotta justi
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by jjice 2mo ago
Grok 4.5 is them as well now I guess since they're owned by spacex now. I'd consider grok 4.5 the sonnet and composer the haiku (both capable, fast models).
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by jjice 2mo ago
What's the point of not releasing it? Let people play with it and get some experience with it for a price.
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by jjice 3mo ago
LLMs come up a good bit on the Oxide and Friends podcast. I'd recommend giving it a listen. They have very reasonable takes on LLM usage. I think the idea of being all in on LLMs or being 100% anti-LLM are both positions that miss oppo
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by jjice 3mo ago
This is probably just a personal lifestyle thing, but I'd rather have a cheaper, not as good thing that I own outright rather than lease (not own) a nicer, better thing. Cars, phones, computers, whatever it is. I don't like the id
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by jjice 3mo ago
FWIW Apple has had some of the best device support lifetimes of any smartphone. Google started guaranteeing their 7 years of updates sometime around the Pixel 6 or so I want to say. This is all a relative scale though. But if we're loo
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by jjice 3mo ago
For transport you're right. I think the parent your referring to was specifically saying there's no alternative way to power a plane. That's my assumption at least.
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by jjice 3mo ago
Agreed that it's absurd. Consumers continue to purchase cars that do this though. BMW doing this, having proprietary bolt heads, and the subscription heated seats fiasco from nearly a decade ago have made it clear that BMW is a make th
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by jjice 3mo ago
Free for individuals, but paid if you're the business it seems from what I've found? If that's the case, it seems to be the same as a card in the US and I wouldn't be surprised if some businesses try to pass it on like t
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by jjice 3mo ago
From the first paragraph: >The goal is not to replace the current mail system, heaven forbid!, but to learn, have fun and discover current technologies to swap out every element: sending, receiving, gateway, keys, and so on. It's al
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by jjice 3mo ago
I totally agree with the premise. I do agree with the parent that this wouldn't be a "mainstream" price. The mainstream is a $15 hoodie. I also try to own fewer, nicer things while keeping the overall cost comparable (if not

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