linuxhansl

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by linuxhansl 4mo ago
I use Claude every day. Often for multiple hours a day. Basically doing my job not worrying how many tokens I spend (as in too many or too few). This is a pretty complex code base (database optimizer and related). Just looked at spent for t
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by linuxhansl 4mo ago
I am using Opus 4.x at work, and these "smaller" (20-80bn, 3-4bn active) models at home. Unfortunately there is no comparison, yet (IMHO anyway). With Opus I can work, trust its designs, architecture suggestions, and code changes,
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by linuxhansl 4mo ago
Please, not the SAT! My son is prepping for the SAT and I am helping him. I studied physics and computer science, and was a advanced math A+ student... IMHO: The SAT is useless, solving equations under artificial time constraints is somethi
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by linuxhansl 4mo ago
Good. Just naming things differently does not work in other countries. If it quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, and looks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
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by linuxhansl 5mo ago
Other countries paying $10,000's to educate people who then want to apply this knowledge in the US. US reaction: "Nah." Besides, we are talking about legal immigration here. I don't get it.
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by linuxhansl 5mo ago
Are we purposefully dumbing down the country now? Sure, some things are trade-secrets or national security issues or whatnot, but those are already not shared. More than militarily the US has always led with soft-power (science, culture, et
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by linuxhansl 5mo ago
> Wrong the way it would be wrong to predict that if you set your kitchen on fire, the result will be a renovation. This might be favorite metaphor ever, and one I'll quoting in the future! :) I think the author conflates social med
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by linuxhansl 5mo ago
I guess it all depends on what you use it for. I work on database optimizers and other database related stuff, and I can assure Claude Code - with all the highest settings - does make mistakes. It will generate a test that does not actually
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by linuxhansl 5mo ago
The size of the KV cache (context stored) is proportional to the number of layers of the model and number of "hidden dimensions". For a 400B model it could be 30-60GB for just an 8K context window (depends on the model, etc, just
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by linuxhansl 5mo ago
I am fascinated by this and similar research (RotorQuant, etc). It seem by next year we will be able to run this year's largest models on last year's hardware. :) Maybe we won't need as many data centers and as much power as
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by linuxhansl 6mo ago
Hmm... Sure, if you do not need a database then do not use a database. Don't use a sports-car to haul furniture or a garbage truck as an ambulance. For the use case and scale mentioned in the article it's obvious not to use a data
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by linuxhansl 6mo ago
So Cal.com favors security through obscurity. Open Source was always open to "many eyes" in theory exposing itself to zero-day vulnerabilities. But the "many eyes" go for the good and the bad actors. As far as I am conce
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by linuxhansl 6mo ago
Good. Now leave TikTok and Facebook as well. People who care will find out what you are up to, and people who don't won't see you on social media anyway. I left Twitter, Facebook, et al about a decade ago. And I can assure you: Yo
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by linuxhansl 7mo ago
How much many more wars over gas or oil do we need to finally just take the energy that (for the most part) is available locally and renewable?! The petrol era is coming to an end. Our current administration might desperately want to remain
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by linuxhansl 7mo ago
That's not entirely unreasonable. As long as there is a way to enable this in perpetuity for my device(s) and it works for all Android devices it's a compromise I could live with. Again, can we, please, stop call it side-loadi
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by linuxhansl 7mo ago
Hats off to Anthropic for not wavering here. Supply-chain risks means "the potential for adversaries to sabotage, subvert, or disrupt the integrity and delivery of defense systems, including software, hardware, and services, to degrade
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by linuxhansl 7mo ago
Fry's was mentioned in Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs". I loved that book and thoughts Fry's was cool even before I set foot in one. Years later I entered a store, and somehow it was already nostalgic then :) So wei
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by linuxhansl 8mo ago
Congressional Republicans let him do it. Congressional Republicans confirmed every single one of his cabinet members. So perhaps he demands it, but does not give congress a pass. At all. They chose to let him.
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by linuxhansl 8mo ago
> Android sideloading should be the same In fact we should not even call it "sideloading", as if we are sneaking anything in "from the side". It is simply installing something I like on a device that I own. My device
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by linuxhansl 8mo ago
+1000 I donated a few $100's to the petition. With 23,623 (as of today) signatures I doubt anybody really cares, and we'd all rather be cheeple doing the tech companies' bidding as long as we can flop on our couches and consu
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by linuxhansl 8mo ago
In this case it was distributed without our data centers (10k's machines or so at that time spread around the planet), but the code to generate ids was 100% under our control. Rather than inventing some distributed generation (or colli
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by linuxhansl 8mo ago
Finally some sanity. The administration has use laws about "national security" and other so call "emergencies" to impose tariffs. If everything is an emergency then nothing is, and that was clearly not congress' int
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by linuxhansl 8mo ago
Heh. I once had to make an argument that 256 bit randomly assigned identifiers are good enough without explicit collision checking. People wanted me to add complex and expensive collision checks. My argument was the 2^256 actually approache
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by linuxhansl 8mo ago
Couldn't we have done that four years ago? This is actually a serious question, why only now?
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by linuxhansl 8mo ago
First, seems like a good thing. I wouldn't have stopped at apparel, but it's a start. Second, in the short term this is going to lower profits for some companies. Third, hopefully in the long run it will lead to less waste. Is it
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by linuxhansl 8mo ago
What is going on? This will not/hardly save any money. And this was a source of US soft power (deciding which facts to list, how to report on them, etc, allowed to shape an opinion.)
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by linuxhansl 8mo ago
Curious how it stacks up to pg_duckdb. (pg_duckdb seems pretty clean, due to Postres' powerful extension mechanisms)
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by linuxhansl 8mo ago
The regulator must step in now and allow installing applications outside of the AppStore! We are witnessing in real-time what a monopoly and a walled garden leads to. I'm not betting the US to do this right now. But look at the EU... A
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by linuxhansl 8mo ago
Can we stop calling this "side loading" please. There is nothing sleazy happening "on the side", I am simply installing an application of my choosing on some hardware that I purchased. As long as it remains possible (wit
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by linuxhansl 9mo ago
Didn't they relabel DEI as "Didn't Earn It". That is amusingly applicable now.

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