locknitpicker

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by locknitpicker 5d ago
> Whether it’s fraud depends heavily on how it’s sold. Only as far as new vs refurbished goes. But that's not the problem being addressed, is it? I mean, why can't I upgrade it myself?
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by locknitpicker 5d ago
> A reputable vendor resells a product they've modified as unmodified? I wouldn't mind buying a 16GB board even though the official models at most ship with 8gb. I'd even wouldn't mind buying the kit and taking a stab
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by locknitpicker 5d ago
> It absolutely is different. You just said the Mac Mini is upgradable but the Pi is still soldered on. I'm sorry, you seem to be confused. Soldering is not the problem. Locking up the hardware to have hardware provisioned tier limi
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by locknitpicker 5d ago
> The memory that they are placing in it has to be cheap enough to be worth their while. You're framing this as if no reputable vendor is willing or able to source cheaper parts. If they can get a better deal in more RAM, why can&#x
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by locknitpicker 5d ago
> The restriction is somewhat annoying to a small subset of enthusiasts but seems to catch genuine fraud. What fraud are you speaking of?
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by locknitpicker 5d ago
> There's always one of two of you rabble going "You dared defy the kernel community! No. It's very simple. 1) do QA and follow the release cycle, 2) act like a person when interacting with other developers. If you fail to
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by locknitpicker 5d ago
> they were suggesting that you take the agent out of the run time tool usage That only applies if you are talking about a well established recurrent workflow. That's not how MCPs are used to begin with.
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by locknitpicker 5d ago
> I can’t remember anyone earning the level of hostile treatment he did and getting kicked out. You don't seem to be following it very closely, as apparently you failed to come across the history of abuse and hostile behavior of bca
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by locknitpicker 5d ago
> Is there any chance bcachefs will be included again in the future? If a professional and mature developer who understands a release cycle is willing to step up as a maintainer, yes.
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by locknitpicker 5d ago
> If you can answer that question then the clankers can help you write a deterministic program for that same interaction and you only spend the tokens once. The MCP is the deterministic program. You need to take a step back and look at t
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by locknitpicker 5d ago
> Sure, there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown terminal agent (Claude Code, Codex, Meta Muse, OpenClaw etc) with unfettered internet access - just let it call APIs directly. I don't think this is a
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by locknitpicker 5d ago
> I'd like to point out that HN user koverstreet was involved in those threads, here. Yes, that's why those remarks on how it's a mystery how bcachefs was pulled from the kernel are perplexing. To me they sound like gaslig
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by locknitpicker 6d ago
> Seeing great results from bcachefs just makes me more sad that Kent and the other kernel devs couldn't come to an understanding to keep bcachefs in-tree. I think you are sugarcoating the shit show that was bcachefs's history
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by locknitpicker 6d ago
> There was never a clear statement on what the issue was. What you guys got in public was about as much as I got. If you are referring to why bcachefs was removed from the Linux kernel, here's a discussion on bcachefs being removed
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by locknitpicker 7d ago
> I think "Human brain evolved from two separate organs" would've been more accurate and sufficiently simple/short for a headline, but I guess it won't fly either due to political reasons. I don't agree. For
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by locknitpicker 7d ago
> But costs on the cloud are real too, especially now. I’ve been living in JVM land for a very long time, but now it’s especially clear how important lean services are. Especially now that the bar for writing lean code is so much lower:
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by locknitpicker 7d ago
> The problem statement is of applications using up expensive RAM. Incidentally, expensive RAM is just one of the problems we face in the computing space. You need to stop and think about the problem. Nowadays RAM is expensive because ma
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by locknitpicker 7d ago
> And its this obsession with shipping things as fast as possible quality be dammed (...) You seem confused. Allocating more memory than optimal levels is not a measure of quality. Similarly, a web page is not suddenly lower quality if a
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by locknitpicker 9d ago
> Were you complaining when Obama killed US citizens and kids with drone strikes? Your attempt to try to spin the morality of bombing innocent civilians as a mere domestic partisan issue is disconcerting. I mean, this site has a diverse
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by locknitpicker 9d ago
> Do you hear yourself? Have you ever in your life met someone this sadistic? This isn't necessarily driven by sadism. A sociopath following an amoral (immoral) decision process where they draft a plan to decapitate military leaders
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by locknitpicker 9d ago
> If you have formulas that actually match reality, what do you need the LLM for? That's the key question. I think LLMs allow people with no context or background or know-how to dive into projects and see some results being presente
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by locknitpicker 9d ago
> I think in principle you could clone your database in prod and at least test to see if your most difficult + common queries are indeed faster after running through the LLM optimizer? That is the responsibility of whoever thought it wou
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by locknitpicker 13d ago
> I'd say it probably depends on the kind of work you do - if the low level details are exciting then that's totally understandable. Even those who work with CRUD apps need to know things like computational complexity of standa
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by locknitpicker 13d ago
> Well, you have to either capture/eliminate/persist side effects and control the environment tightly, or it's limited in what it can do. You really need to read up on durable executions before commenting. Your comment rea
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by locknitpicker 13d ago
> Durable execution looks a bit like a buzzword in general. If your state is defined in the execution graph then it's just an umbrella term for a group of pre-existing algorithms and patterns. If you first approach a tool because of
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by locknitpicker 13d ago
> The very best outcomes involve us intentionally and collectively turning our attention away from this technology. Nowadays even small mom and pop restaurants use these models to generate their menus. Of course no one is going to stop u
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by locknitpicker 13d ago
> How much is China learning from open models? The last batch of open weight models releases by Chinese companies are on par with the performance of US-based frontier models, even though they are designed to run on pretty unimpressive ha
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by locknitpicker 16d ago
> One of the incredible powers of childlike imagination is the ability to differentiate between hitting a piñata and hitting an actual animal. People get arrested for hanging dolls on trees with nooses around their necks. Some are prosec
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by locknitpicker 16d ago
> This article doesn’t present much motivation for why you would do this. For those working with databases, it's easy to come up with a bunch of reasons. ORM is a necessary evil when working with RDBMS, as are things like schema mig

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