michaelbuckbee

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by michaelbuckbee 4mo ago
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is kind of like that for the architecture and period it covers. There's an interesting small YT channel that did a series on ACB + History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hebq-fObdhY
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by michaelbuckbee 4mo ago
That's a a lot less than I expected. Is it difficult to get coverage?
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by michaelbuckbee 4mo ago
We're already seeing other states struggling with soaring house insurance rates (California and Florida) and a pattern of spikes in rates leading government mandated caps on rates leading to insurers pulling out of the states. I'v
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
I was curious just how much of a difference there was, so ran a quick eval comparing them and fwiw DeepSeek is considerably slower but much much ~5x cheaper than Haiku and fwiw ~35x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7. https://07ytscmyb
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
It it reminds me of a lot of friends who wanted to "start blogging" and their first step was writing a new static site system from scratch.
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
I was trying to get a better sense of the time cost quality matrix of these, so I threw together a quick eval of Sonnet 4.6, Mistral's dev model, and Opus 4.7 (figuring it's what you'd use if you were on Max). The results for
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
My plan was to just see if anyone wanted to actually use it first. That if I couldn't give it away I'd not invest the time in selling or open sourcing it. I'd sort of designed it for my own needs first and hadn't thought
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
I'd be curious to know if you consider a Lego store a "toy store". There's one that opened in my city fairly recently and is in an area of smaller boutique shops (kind of like what you described).
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
I made a B2C AI app that's fully local (and free) to do AI based contextual file renaming. So if you give it a bunch of screenshots it will try and intelligently name them based upon what is in the screenshot. Same for videos, PDFs, et
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
That's fair and fwiw something I'm in firm agreement with you, but also just not what I took from your comment.
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
Search ads do seem like the one ad type that kind of flips that though. Where it's not based on some general set of interests, but literally the thing you're searching for at that moment.
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
All of the cradle-to-grave studies I've seen about greenhouse gas emissions for renewables versus coal/oil still indicate massive improvements. This government meta study of 3,000 such studies puts PV solar at roughly 20x less emi
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
I took this a different way which was that to google railway is their customer and out of a variety of professional and security considerations want the communications to come from their customer and not them.
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
Something that the Overcast podcast player does (and probably others) is silence removal, which in some ways is even better than the raw speedup.
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
Exactly. The larger the organization the less percentage time devs actually are doing dev work and the less direct benefit there is from AI assisted coding tools.
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
Slightly different slice into this a very similar situation (local vs OpenRouter AI inference). But in _every_ metric other than privacy it was better to run via OpenRouter than a local model, and not by a small amount. Direct link to the c
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
This sounds an awful lot like the early how to get on to the internet highway classes that existed. I don't think the classes had a lot of worth in the strict educational sense of like "here's how you do X Y & Z" but
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
The relevancy here is that he's denied the git history, versioning, branches, implicit documentation that even bad source control practices would have given him.
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
I have a friend that just picked up a new consulting job resurrecting an ancient Windows desktop application. No source control, no tests. And it's spread out over a dozen different folders with names like "_old", "_new&
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
Old person here. I think it's really hard to convey the extent to which smoke literally permeated everything. It's not just the immediate air quality aspects of it, but there was just a residue on all the surfaces, every cushion a
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
To be clear, I tried to install it and it was a shitshow.
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
For years the family joke has been that when we take a family picture we need to take 5 because I will inevitably have my eyes closed in the first 4. So I made an IOS app just for us that does face detection and won't take the actual p
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
I know a few people that are more or less prototyping little agents with it that monitor stuff for them and make some kind of discernment/decision about alerting them. Nothing mission critical in any sense of it.
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
I ran a fairly large production test of this and on _every_ measure except for privacy it was worse than a free tier server hosted LLM. Not happy about that as I would like to see more local models but that's the current state of thing
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
She's 50 years old has a doctorate in pharmacy and has worked as a hospital pharmacist for two decades. I don't say this as a "gotcha", but more that even with all that experience she still finds it beneficial and helpfu
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
Good catch, there was an issue with the second hardest thing in programming (caching). Here's an updated eval with the proper models https://a3bmfqfom3.evvl.io/
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
My sister in law is a pharmacist and the heaviest non-dev ChatGPT user I know and her main use case is writing professionally polite messages to doctors on how the drugs they prescribed to a patient would have killed them had she not caught
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
I did a quick eval comparing Grok 4.3, Opus 4.7 and GPT 4.1 and they actually seem pretty similar: https://ofw640g9re.evvl.io/ They all did pretty well at a more "formal" tone, but GPT4.1 was the only one that did
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
This feels like a restating of the idea that for any given endeavor AI raises the floor of quality but doesn't push the ceiling.
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by michaelbuckbee 5mo ago
Fwiw - I did a fairly large comparison of Gemini Nano (the in browser ai model) vs a comparable free hosted model of Gemma (from OpenRouter) and the hosted model absolutely trashed the local model on every aspect of speed, reliability, avai

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