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by mannyv 6d ago
Only professionals and enthusiasts care about bokeh. And I say that as someone that shoots my 50mm 1.2 wide open. Previously the blur on iPhone was all software, apparently. I've set mine to do wide open with no bokeh, and i'll pu
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by mannyv 6d ago
I can see all these old models hanging out and bitching about the newfangled models that think they're so great. "Trillions of parameters? Trillion my ass. Back in my day we got by with millions. And now here we are, washed up has
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by mannyv 6d ago
How do the LLMs find these sort of tools? Google sesrch?
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by mannyv 6d ago
Better architecture. Apple went wide, not deep. I believe even the A series were wider than normal. Also that MMU overhead must be a killer for everyone else.
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by mannyv 7d ago
Agents are doing the lazy work that people aren't. In NZ there's a famous story about gold miners who were mining one side of a river, and didn't go to the other side because it was too much work. One miner's dog swam ov
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by mannyv 16d ago
Absolute opinions are simple and travel better on media. "The right tool for the job" is too complicated for a lot of people to understand. Tradeoffs? Tradeoffs require understanding. "XYZ is the best, just use it" is mu
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by mannyv 22d ago
There should be a double t in ‘enshittification.’
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by mannyv 25d ago
I think multiple people working on the same thing is great. Everyone comes at it from a different point of view, and some approaches work, some don't. And when people do this themselves they learn. Existing projects have their mistakes
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by mannyv 27d ago
I think Ikea is great. But my overall goal is to replace all of our Ikea furniture with better and/or self-made furniture. It's easier said than done.
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by mannyv 29d ago
I remember talking to the Cognito team about password reset and arguing with them that being able to set a password was a required feature. They were like "no, why would you never have to not go through the reset flow? That's a se
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by mannyv 1mo ago
This tool's existence is vaguely horrifying. Why wouldn't a database dump restore? Why wouldn't your dump command tell you it failed?
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by mannyv 1mo ago
One question the article doesn't answer is: why are they cacheing at all? If your cache is that big it isn't a cache. How much bigger is the dataset in question? There are 250 billion entries. Assuming 80/20, that implies 1.2
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by mannyv 1mo ago
There was a reason for that field, but that reason never panned out.
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by mannyv 1mo ago
Oh no, fetishized objects are being destroyed by EvilCorps! If you go to a goodwill outlet you'll see bins of books on their last stop before the landfill. There are tons and tons of books being disposed every day. And statistics show
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by mannyv 1mo ago
Fyi that model name to me reads Qwen3 4b params distilled/trained with fable 5
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by mannyv 1mo ago
I have books, but they are just objects. They're nice objects, but just objects. Fetishizing books isn't going to help. In fact, most of those "rare" books don't sell because nobody wants them. The AI companies are
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by mannyv 1mo ago
This is exactly why Europe needs the US. Europeans don't realize the world is a dangerous place because the US deals with it. Europeans don't have to get their hands dirty and they can continue to believe in their moral superiorit
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by mannyv 2mo ago
That the internet is anonymity-preserving is an artifact of where it was invented. In most other countries the state is mother and father.
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by mannyv 2mo ago
Just like the old rumors of Missile Command players being recruited for NORAD etc. Really, there are people that play ATC games for fun.
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by mannyv 2mo ago
FTA Modafinil et al work at a different level than these peptides do.
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by mannyv 2mo ago
I have a two panel system, and the panels are about 430 watts each. Given the current ToD rates for electric, it will take years to pay back. Microinverter: 400 Panels (used): 250 for both Cables: 50 I also picked up two LiFePo4 batteries a
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by mannyv 2mo ago
I was ready to hate on this article, but it's actually pretty good. Having implemented all of these, I have a few notes: Api gateway calls are limited to 30 seconds. This is obviously a problem if your processing takes longer than 30 s
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by mannyv 2mo ago
Small Caps were a thing when I was a typography fan. They aren't just smaller versions of caps, they were specifically designed for in-text use as opposed to display use. Fyi.
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by mannyv 2mo ago
Going to try this on my M1 Ultra 128gb. The point of these engineering tricks is to see the envelope of what's possible. You can use these tricks to both run a bigger model on smaller hardware or run a smaller model on smaller hardware
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by mannyv 2mo ago
The important thing you need to do is specify which Mikrotik version you're using; apparently the syntax for some things changed between 6 and 7. It does pretty well, but you need to iterate. I was trying to get it to disallow internet
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by mannyv 3mo ago
Modern decor has been this way since the bauhaus. Saying simplicity transcends interior design makes no sense; it is part of interior design. The repeating patterns on carpet are an artifact of mass production.
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by mannyv 3mo ago
Maintenance employees are the weakest link. They aren't paid much and don't believe anything is important. Be nice to them and they'll be nice to you back.
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by mannyv 3mo ago
I have a Studio 128gb, so it's not an issue.
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by mannyv 3mo ago
FYI token speed is somewhat irrelevant for agentic development. You let it run, then you come back. The whole point is that it's asynchronous. If it takes 4 hours, 8 hours, 16 hours...who cares?
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by mannyv 3mo ago
Using Pgsql for everything shows you've been drinking the internet kool-aid. And that site is like a creepy shrine saying pgsql is the alpha and omega. Like any tool, it works until it doesn't. And when it doesn't it takes a

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