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by jwr 2mo ago
Removing spam from email, extracting attachments (invoices) from emails, and otherwise managing E-mail. Those are my use cases, although I suspect this model will be too small for that. I currently use 27-35B models (MoE mostly).
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by jwr 2mo ago
Now could you please sell this to all airlines to replace those terrible, terrible in-flight maps that they show?
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by jwr 2mo ago
> and I imagine Claude did the v4 rewrite HN detectives, hard at work. I wish there was a way to automatically hide all the comments saying "but I think LLM was involved in this software". These days it seems like most of the c
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by jwr 2mo ago
I have been using SuperDuper for the last 20 years. It works. It does its job. It doesn't pester me with popups. It didn't get bloated. It didn't get rewritten using Electron to support New Enterprise Features. It didn't
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by jwr 2mo ago
The worrying thing here is that so many people accepted outsourcing the decision on who can see their website to a large company (Cloudflare). If the company decides that a certain user should not see the website, the user will not see the
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by jwr 2mo ago
Yes, they should function like gas stations and be regulated similarly. When I approach a gas station, I see the prices usually on large signs. If not, I always see the price I am actually paying displayed on a screen. None of these things
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by jwr 2mo ago
Thank you for Pandoc! I used it for many things over the years, and it was always there as a good option. I mostly use it for Markdown->Typst these days and it does this job very well.
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by jwr 2mo ago
No. And it's not the number of charging stations, it's the general shittiness of those. You never know how much you will pay per kWh, there are apps, networks, roaming agreements, cards, getting through this mess and starting to c
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by jwr 2mo ago
I hear so much about people running into token limits and using bajillions of tokens. Am I doing something wrong? I'm finding it hard to run into the limits of a Claude Max (20x) account. Well, perhaps the 50% Fable limit is something
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by jwr 2mo ago
What is the point of doing this? Why do people do this sort of thing? I'm genuinely puzzled.
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by jwr 2mo ago
I think the bigger problem here is not AI, but the increasing tendency for designers and designers-groups to look at one another's work and copy it. It almost seems like every designer has an inferiority complex where they look at othe
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by jwr 2mo ago
I test Qwen models regularly. They are very good for English and I'm guessing Chinese, but much worse for non-English (specifically, Polish).
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by jwr 2mo ago
In defense of this model, Gemma is actually a very good general-purpose model that can work with multiple languages. I use it for spam classification and for processing dictation, which means that I hold the entire model in memory all of th
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by jwr 3mo ago
I really think we should be solving a much bigger problem of the major email providers not providing an automated way of handling abuse and not caring about abuse reports at all. Most of my spam comes from the three major email providers an
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by jwr 3mo ago
Incidentally, I've been testing a lot of dictation apps and models. I am on macOS Sequoia and intend to skip Tahoe altogether, so newer Apple models were not an option. I also dictate in multiple languages. I mostly use the MacWhisper
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by jwr 3mo ago
I find it unsettling that we are willingly outsourcing the decision on who can access our sites to an increasingly dominant corporate entity. The reasoning behind this is also flawed: blocking "bots" and "AI" means that
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by jwr 3mo ago
Those auto memories are also annoying because by default they are not version controlled and land in a secret location. I much prefer storing stuff in a version controlled `CLAUDE.md` file.
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by jwr 3mo ago
VW ID.4, and it's unlikely I can spare the time for making a video without a really good reason…
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by jwr 3mo ago
I have the same impression when I use things that are around me every day. Everything is broken and seemingly nobody cares. It seems that the teams developing software never use it themselves and do not care about bugs and terrible usabilit
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by jwr 3mo ago
This sounds a little bit like ADHD, but the common advice of getting medication isn't always applicable. Yes, it is definitely worth finding out if you have ADHD and diagnosing it, because if you do, it will help you understand yoursel
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by jwr 3mo ago
Poland, while not entirely corruption-free, has managed very well after the transition from Russian-dominated communism. For reasons I still do not understand, organized crime was rooted out in the 90s, and gambling restricted to almost not
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by jwr 3mo ago
Sigh. This kind of whataboutism derails all discussions online. First, there is no requirement for "consistency". Every person chooses where to draw their moral line. The world is not black and white, but the unprovoked invasion o
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by jwr 3mo ago
That is a modern BBS! I love the idea. Though I guess most people these days don't know what a BBS is, if you don't, look it up.
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by jwr 3mo ago
Yes, please do. Your support of Russia is the only reason why I stopped using Kagi and paying for Kagi. I really want to like you and use your product.
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by jwr 3mo ago
Well it's a good thing they killed Aperture, then. Makes perfect sense. (I was badly affected by that and decided not to trust them to maintain anything over the long term anymore) Update: I now re-read the job posting and also realize
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by jwr 3mo ago
How is it better than, say, LM Studio? And does it run MTP models (which from what I understand are GGUF)?
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by jwr 3mo ago
The word "frontier" is like "load-bearing" at this point (Claude Code users will know what I mean). I wish we could stop using it. Especially as this does not, in fact, run the leading/top models locally on your Mac
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by jwr 3mo ago
If you are developing something significant, you don't want your competitors to be able to later say "build me something like THAT over there". I haven't measured the percentage of users, so I wouldn't venture an op
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by jwr 3mo ago
Well, there is the small issue of privacy policy: Kimi will train their models on your interactions if you use their subscriptions, and only with direct API usage (billed at API prices) they say they won't. Whether you trust that is
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by jwr 3mo ago
As someone who has used both kinds over many, many years: it really doesn't matter.

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