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by jwr 2mo ago
I think synchronized operations could really disrupt the grid — think thousands of inverters switching backfeeding to the grid on/off, causing waves and disruption. Or thousands of inverters having their grid sync disabled, simultaneou
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by jwr 2mo ago
Unfortunately, paying money to an economy of a country which started and still wages an unprovoked war against another country, killing civilians indiscriminately, is a choice. The only reason you can "focus on building great software&
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by jwr 2mo ago
Ghostel is fantastic for this. It is very fast, fully compatible, and you can quickly enter a copy-paste mode with C-c C-t. With ace-jump this makes for very efficient copying. Since I started using Ghostel, my Claude Code and Codex sessi
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by jwr 2mo ago
I have been using Emacs for 32 years now. It had its ups and downs: there was a period of very slow development, which led to the XEmacs fork, which I used for many years. These days I see a renaissance of sorts. First, the development prog
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by jwr 2mo ago
This is… not obvious. It's only easy if you want the simplistic approach of sorting lexicographically or numerically. But in more complex tables, you will often encounter cases where the data representation for sorting is different fro
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by jwr 2mo ago
Hmm, perhaps I should switch to an MLX version… problem is, it took quite a bit of work to get llama-server (with llama.cpp) to serve my model(s) and allow requests in non-thinking (default) and thinking modes. But 30-40 tokens/s would
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by jwr 2mo ago
> Eventually I used Gemini 3.5 Flash for pairwise evaluation But, but… wouldn't that be… (gasp) DISTILLATION? Fun project!
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by jwr 2mo ago
These are very good! I'm hoping for speed improvements because the only problem running the 27B model on my Macbook pro (M4 Max) is the speed: 20 tokens per second. I benchmarked and MTP actually makes things slower, so I disabled MTP
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by jwr 2mo ago
I would suggest careful benchmarking. I actually tested and benchmarked, and the new Qwen3.8-27B model is actually slower with MTP on my M4 Max. MTP only gains anything when generating long code sequences, which is very unlikely as the mo
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by jwr 2mo ago
The EU has been using a single mandatory tire-label system that has an "efficiency" category, among others, so that you can see the tradeoffs, since 2021. But of course, the EU is over-regulated, let's laugh at the EU :-)
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by jwr 2mo ago
Freedom -- that's what it is. There are now more and more cases where we don't have to ask for permission. Unfortunately, as I look around, I see most of the hardware vendors around me as gatekeepers. They prevent me from writing
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by jwr 2mo ago
> "gives site owners actionable performance data they would not otherwise have" As I understand, the next step will be to inject ads, to give CloudFlare actionable monetization strategies they would not otherwise have.
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by jwr 2mo ago
Here we go. First, get everyone on the internet to use a free service (nameservers and CDN caching, which BTW is mostly unnecessary for pretty much everyone out there). Then, inject analytics, to "give site owners actionable performanc
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by jwr 2mo ago
They are certainly much better than the competition. That said, do not believe the marketing hype. If you want to accept various kinds of payments, you will eventually run into the stupid limitations of the payment system, and Stripe APIs w
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by jwr 2mo ago
Yes, there definitely is vendor lock-in. I've been watching Stripe billing fees being raised slowly over the years, and thinking about exactly this. It is very difficult to migrate to a different subscription system.
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by jwr 2mo ago
This is a typical comment I get from people who don't use E-bikes. Also from people from the US, who get sold POWERFUL E-bikes that are not pedal-assist type. You click a button and you ride, like on a scooter. That's not what I m
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by jwr 2mo ago
Let's set aside how this statement does or does not make sense in a competitive environment. Look at this from a different angle: at the end of the day, would you rather have those hundreds/thousands of dollars, or not? Because if
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by jwr 2mo ago
SaaS owner here (solo founder). I have been calculating this manually on a regular basis, as I've been wondering if it makes sense to migrate from Braintree to Stripe and what the cost difference would be. I finally moved, in spite of
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by jwr 2mo ago
Biking does not have to equate to cardio! You can commute to work on an e-bike with your heart rate similar to walking quickly (what I do). And you can go exercise later. Not sure how these two things got tied together in the common culture
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by jwr 2mo ago
Once you try a (good!) electric bike, you don't really want to go back. Life is just so much better. For urban commuting, you no longer think about heat (getting sweaty), distance, inclines, wind, etc. Obviously I'm talking about
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by jwr 2mo ago
FWIW, Qwen 3.8 27B is actually slower with MTP enabled, unless you generate a lot of code with it (and even then it's not obvious, because you'll likely spend most time thinking).
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by jwr 2mo ago
What would be really interesting is if I could connect a cable to two ports on a Mac and have the Mac test the cable.
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by jwr 2mo ago
I have an M4 Max (unfortunately 64GB). I have been running the Qwen 35B A3B one for a while now, after testing and benchmarking a number of models. That one was consistently the best in class for tasks like despamming, E-mail classification
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by jwr 2mo ago
Me too. 35B A3B runs really fast on my MacBook Pro (M4 Max) and is suitable for real-time tasks like dictation post-processing. The dense model is not.
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by jwr 2mo ago
I've been doing a lot of benchmarking for a long time now with a number of local models for the purposes of spam filtering. The major observation is that there is a lot of variance in model performance. This should not be surprising, a
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by jwr 2mo ago
That seems like comparing apples to oranges. I switched to Mastodon in order to avoid the inevitable enshittification of every service that has anything to do with a corporate entity. I learned my lesson and I am not about to repeat it. And
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by jwr 2mo ago
I got used to doing this over many many years with the tcsh shell. I switched to Fish recently and I continue to be annoyed by its refusal to implement this feature. Yes, I tried using all the newfangled history-search thingamajigs. They al
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by jwr 2mo ago
This. Good stable foundations allow for quick software development. Even if you use AI for coding, working with Clojure as an experienced developer produces extremely good results quickly because of the great foundations. I love the express
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by jwr 2mo ago
Caveat: this kind-of-works. There are plenty of subtle bugs around this. For example, it's hard to have a default model, and clients need to select the model explicitly in every API request, which makes it difficult to work with severa
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by jwr 2mo ago
Does everything have to be "news"?

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