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by vardalab 3mo ago
It had a tough time updating today. Or this evening. It just wouldn't update. It actually just freaking disappeared from my MacBook. It took some googling and downloading and multiple tries to get it back and working. Because they also
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by vardalab 3mo ago
Fable was refusing to patch vllm for me when trying to get mtp to work on r9700 gpus. Kept on bumping down to opus. Tried to really sanitize my prompts and everything but it seemed intrinsically prohibited from doing this sort of work. I g
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by vardalab 3mo ago
Had it happen to my PBS backups running on ZFS without ECC just the other day. Turned out to be heat related, memory was fine but during long backups heat was causing bit flips.
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by vardalab 3mo ago
That's what I did after my 15 year old Synology DS1010+ built in USB DOM failed. Put a network booted debian on it via netboot.xyz with zfs and now i get to reuse those 15 year old 2TB still chugging along disks. Fully open source, pr
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by vardalab 3mo ago
https://github.com/SeraphimSerapis/tool-eval-bench Trying to run this stuff really triggers it. Freaking frustrating. I have it set up some local inference and then I'm struggling to get the MTP working and it jus
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by vardalab 3mo ago
Making hay was not an easy task. A lot of work and stress as well.
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by vardalab 3mo ago
The stickers are because somebody got hurt. That's the only reason why they're there. And hopefully it helps somebody. It doesn't hurt anything to have the sticker, lol.
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by vardalab 3mo ago
Scene is in Boston Public Garden
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by vardalab 3mo ago
Which country do you live in that you have such a positive outlook about redistribution of wealth?
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by vardalab 4mo ago
better prompt processing like 1.5x+ and more kv but tg most likely lower like 0.8x or so but I am just going by memory for Qwen3.5 without mtp.
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by vardalab 4mo ago
Because it's a tax I think on second properties.
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by vardalab 4mo ago
You forgot to include the actual living costs if you invest. You're not gonna be able to contribute $2,500 a month. You would be able to contribute not that much , around here rents are $2,500 a month.
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by vardalab 4mo ago
Exactly. Here I am sitting talking to my freaking computer, arguing with it, whatnot. And people just dismiss it as if it's not a science fiction. We were not there two, three years ago. Now we are. It's amazing and scary, scary m
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by vardalab 4mo ago
Not all workers will fare equally. As an illustration, Reuters cited a union source estimating that someone in the memory chip unit earning an 80-million-won base salary could take home roughly 626 million won in total bonuses this year. By
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by vardalab 4mo ago
Exactly, the whole point of having a laptop is that you can close it at some point. Once you move to these newfangled workflows it is all gone. That is why I have been slow on uptake with all these new apps they are releasing like Codex GUI
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by vardalab 4mo ago
But I did.
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by vardalab 4mo ago
Instead of discussing Kierkegaard or universality of human condition we are discussing em-dashes. Peak HN.
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by vardalab 4mo ago
Yeah, this all sounds good in theory, but there's a lot of edge cases. For example, for me switching between Mac and Linux what often happens is that Linux just for some reason the it turns off the monitor port and it's black unti
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by vardalab 4mo ago
It flakes out in less than 24 hrs. I tried leaving a session open on remote control mode in a VM but it inevitably stopped with some token auth error.
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by vardalab 5mo ago
Why would you prefer less coherent article? If article has a utility, I will read it, no matter what the source is.
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by vardalab 5mo ago
I disagree. The rigidity of YAML and stuff like that is what actually makes LLMs work better. I have strict linting rules and file size limits and it imposes discipline on LLMs. That's why it worked even last year. Even before Opus 4.0
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by vardalab 5mo ago
I like the forums of the old way better than what we have now, Discord and reddit suck I mean, even back button on reddit does not work 50% of the time, lol. Hacker News is the only thing that we have left that's similar to what we had
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by vardalab 5mo ago
I think it's as simple as Citizens United and wealth inequality exploding.
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by vardalab 5mo ago
Yeah, but I have Claude Code or Codex do this Ansible stuff and they do just fine with all this and then there's a gazillion of examples that they can lean on and once the patterns are established, it's pretty smooth. Opus 4.5 was
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by vardalab 5mo ago
Not sure if the writing style is deliberate, but it was confusing to parse. Needs some editing by chat jippity.
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by vardalab 5mo ago
What culture are those? Scandinavian? Those often just say nothing.
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by vardalab 6mo ago
Farming might feel rewarding while watching someone else do the hard work. I watched and had to help my grandparents do it and went through my own decade of "farming" and it never gets easier and you only get older.
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by vardalab 6mo ago
What makes you think that progress has stopped? Anecdotally I personally seem to think that it's accelerated, I am having conversations with ambitious non tech people and they now seem to be excited and are staying up late learning ab
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by vardalab 6mo ago
just use openrouter or google ai playground for the first week till bugs are ironed out. You still learn the nuances of the model and then yuu can switch to local. In addition you might pickup enough nuance to see if quantization is havi
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by vardalab 6mo ago
Yes, exactly. I like this analogy. I am surprised the level of pearl clutching in these discussions on Hacker News. Everybody wants to be an attention sharecropper, lol.

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