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by smcleod 1y ago
Yeah totally agree, I see so many systems perform badly only to find out they're using an older generation mode and simply updating to the current mode fixes many of their issues.
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by smcleod 1y ago
I definitely would not recommend llama models, they were mostly outdated by the time they released, but the likes of Qwen, deepseek etc are much more useful.
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by smcleod 1y ago
> Local Setup > Prerequisites > OpenAI API Key This does not seem to be local and additionally appears to be tied to one SaaS LLM provider?
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by smcleod 1y ago
Have you considered integrating it with the likes of llama.cpp?
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by smcleod 1y ago
All these hyped up doom titles are homogenising our thoughts. There's some truth to this but it's much more nuanced than presented here.
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by smcleod 1y ago
This is a bit confusing, I sort of expected it to be a bit like Kiln https://github.com/Kiln-AI/Kiln to generate datasets for AI, but it looks like the outputs are more just data / files than datasets?
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by smcleod 1y ago
I've got to say when I come across an open source project and realise it's in rust I flinch a bit know how incredibly slow the build process is. It's certainly been one of the deterrents to learning it.
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by smcleod 1y ago
RTX is nice, but it's memory limited and requires to have a full desktop machine to run it in. I'd take slower inference (as long as it's not less than 15tk/s) for more memory any day!
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by smcleod 1y ago
I really like LM Studio but their license / terms of use are very hostile. You're in breach if you use it for anything work related - so just be careful folks!
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by smcleod 1y ago
A lot of discourse about Microsoft that paints them in a less than positive light gets downvoted without reason, I read a blog post a while back about their "brand reputation farm" that follows social media posts and tries to de-r
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by smcleod 1y ago
Microsoft just did a rug pull by introducing dramatically reduced rate limits on copilot requests for paying customers too. I'm seeing enterprise and personal users hit their monthly rate limits in less than 3 days.
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by smcleod 1y ago
Seems to be region locked? "Not available in your country" in Australia.
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by smcleod 1y ago
I'd argue that a huge portion of the working population have for a long time exhibited an inability to think - probably in part due to the meaningless, widget churning work they're tasked with - I don't think that'll cha
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by smcleod 1y ago
Ah well that's not as bad I guess, I saw in their readme they're recommending people use 3.10, which when I see it is often a bit of a red flag that the project in question may not be well maintained, but I agree I do see quite a
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by smcleod 1y ago
Yikes those a both very old. Python pre 3.12 had some serious performance issues. You should be aiming to run the current stable version which will contain any number of stability and interoperability fixes. The bundled OS python versions a
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by smcleod 1y ago
Quite a nice interface, it reminds me of the static sites that Perplexity builds in Labs mode. Is it open source?
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by smcleod 1y ago
Out of interest, why does it depend on or at least recommend such an old version of Python? (3.10)
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by smcleod 1y ago
Wow the 787s look so dated compared inside compared to even a320 neos!
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by smcleod 1y ago
Sorry, reading that back I could have worded that better. I think sometimes security groups also have a vested interest in making their findings sound complex or at least as accomplished as plausible as a showcase for their work (understand
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by smcleod 1y ago
This reads like it was written to make it sound a lot more complicated than the security failings actually are. Microsoft have been doing a poor job of security and privacy - but a great job of making their failings sound like no one could
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by smcleod 1y ago
Good, I mean docker as an open source project was a good step up from LXC, but docker as a VC funded pivot to try and make money from their electron desktop app was in dire need of replacement and Colima just didn't cut it.
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by smcleod 1y ago
One of the first things I do on app with transparent interfaces is disable transparency as it usually impacts battery life / performance and results in very low contrast UI hinting.
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by smcleod 1y ago
There is certainly a difference, however Anthropic did really well with 3.5 - far, far better than any other provider could do, so the steps from there been more incremental while other providers have been playing catch up (for example Goog
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by smcleod 1y ago
Or you could just use Cline / Roo Code which are better for agentic coding and open source anyway...
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by smcleod 1y ago
Cline was agent based from day one and doesn't try to do copilot style tab completes at all. It's been our go to agentic coding app across the majority of our large clients since mid-late 2024. Cursor has been trying to play catch
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by smcleod 1y ago
I don't really see why people still use Cursor over tools like Cline / Roo Code. I'm guessing it's as they clearly have a larger viral marketing department than engineers, as the application itself doesn't perform n
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by smcleod 1y ago
Nice work, I currently use Markdownload ( https://github.com/deathau/markdownload ) for this but will certainly give this a good shake out. Kudos for making it a Firefox and not just Google extension as well.
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by smcleod 1y ago
$155AUD? You serious?
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by smcleod 1y ago
I've been looking for something open source / locally hostable for this if anyone has any recommendations!
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by smcleod 1y ago
Honestly Cline and Roo Code are so far ahead of the vendors native tools (and cursor etc) too.

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