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by znnajdla 3mo ago
> given the enormous costs The costs are enormous only in America. The actual cost is much lower. American technogy in general is ridiculously overpriced -- compare the cost for raw compute on AWS versus Hetzner for example.
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by znnajdla 3mo ago
> What's the incentive for the Chinese labs to continue releasing weights 5 years from now? Engineers love to build things (just look at the whole world of open source), and building an AI model is one of the most exciting things to
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by znnajdla 3mo ago
> AI models cost tens of millions to train. There are people that spend tens of millions of dollars on paintings and artwork. I can see plenty of reasons why organizations and individuals will continue to want to drop a few million on an
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by znnajdla 3mo ago
> I'm sort of baffled by what the entities that train the open-weights models get out of it though. Why is it so baffling that people want to build great things? There are plenty of people who are happy building things for a salary
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by znnajdla 3mo ago
I have a hunch that OpenAIs proprietary compaction endpoint actually does something similar on the backend.
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by znnajdla 3mo ago
Please update the blog post to clarify. “Claude” is not a model, and your writing makes no sense without specifying.
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Where Americans Thrive in Europe(palombo.substack.com)
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by znnajdla 3mo ago
If you think your codebase is your competitive advantage or trade secret, you're in for bad time. AI coding has made code cheap it's the least valuable part of the value add for most companies. Almost any software company can easi
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by znnajdla 3mo ago
My experience mirrors this: services like OpenRouter that promise “failover” are pretty much useless except for sandbox testing because models in production are not really interchangeable. Any production harness doing serious agentic work i
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by znnajdla 3mo ago
Not sure why you would think a focus on efficiency means less performance. Compression is intelligence. Higher efficiency enables higher performance.
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by znnajdla 3mo ago
It’s not for the AI inference, it’s for the tool calls and desktop GUI app workloads and browser. There aren’t any on-device models capable enough of real work that can run on lower end Mac Minis. But for running a few browsers and GUI apps
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by znnajdla 4mo ago
This was really thought provoking — it made me realize that Git just happens to use a filesystem for persistence, but doesn’t necessarily have to. A POSIX filesystem might not even be the best way to store a git repo. Makes me wonder: what
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by znnajdla 4mo ago
I wouldn’t call it gymnastics. The surprising part of the article was that Git itself is an object store that happens to use a filesystem for persistence, but an S3 bucket might actually be more suitable than a .git directory on POSIX.
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by znnajdla 4mo ago
Very timely as I just set up Forgejo yesterday. There were immediate unexpected benefits moving off GitHub. It’s hosted on an Orbstack VM on a Mac Mini M4 on my local Tailscale network and the UI is incredibly snappy and quick to browse. Be
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by znnajdla 4mo ago
For me personally: I sync OpenCode authentication tokens across all containers using Syncthing (will probably get a NAS at some point) and keep it signed it to Codex, DeepSeek, Kimi as well as a local Gemma 4 12B running on a MacMini. For f
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by znnajdla 4mo ago
Why are databases so hard?
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by znnajdla 4mo ago
DeepSeek V4 Flash is a very capable coding model that runs well on the hardware you described. Look up the optimized version specifically designed for local use.
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by znnajdla 4mo ago
Already been done. Look at the Forge project for local LLMs. It can bring 8b models up to Opus-like performance at tool calling.
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by znnajdla 4mo ago
This is exactly why I chose to build my AI startup outside of the United States. I knew that if I ever built anything of world-changing consequence, the US would seize it for its own use, because that is what desperate, flailing empires do.
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by znnajdla 4mo ago
It’s neither a matter of profits nor costs. It’s a matter of incentives. The basic principle of capitalism can’t work if the buyer doesn’t have a choice, if the buyer is not the one who usually pays, and if the payer has a way of avoiding r
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by znnajdla 4mo ago
That’s not clear at all from the docs. It shouldn’t be called “setup” then. Even after doing sem setup there should be a CLI flag to get the default diff output without unsetting up. Very annoying hijack.
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by znnajdla 4mo ago
Looks very useful, but incredibly obnoxious that it overrides default git diff. And the only way to get the regular git diff output is to uninstall it? There is no way I would ever want to do that.
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by znnajdla 5mo ago
Not just domain expertise. The hard part has always been marketing, distribution, risk appetite, motivation, grit, and patience. There are plenty of things which are "trivial" to produce with no moat and yet are still million doll
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by znnajdla 5mo ago
The Abrahamic religions have a natural safeguard against excessive wealth concentration: ban interest-based loans to private individuals (usury is shunned in the Bible and the Koran) and instead encourage a wealth tax on hoarding that direc
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by znnajdla 5mo ago
Instead of empty theorizing, we should have benchmarks for this. There is at least one benchmark which suggests that LLMs are better at writing Elixir than most other languages: see the AutoCodeBenchmark.
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by znnajdla 5mo ago
This kind of attitude is exactly why American-style capitalism is not wanted. As if money is the only thing that matters? Maybe there aren’t enough Dutch investors with deep enough pockets to match the American offer because the US prints t
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by znnajdla 5mo ago
Because very powerful private VCs and investment bankers want to ensure that governments stay impotent when compared to their capital. Welcome to the Western world.
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by znnajdla 5mo ago
Concerning for you, perhaps. I take the opposite lesson: this incentivizes and invites the exact kind of entrepreneurs you want to have in a country. You profit-driven Americans assume that all entrepreneurs build things to maximize profit
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by znnajdla 5mo ago
Did you read the article? They most certainly examine the magnitude and impact of the strikes. Russia has lost 40% of its oil production capacity for example, as well as air force coordination headquarters. Besides, pure quantity of weapons
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by znnajdla 5mo ago
I’m pretty sure they mean “long range” as in “not short range”, meaning the type of FPV drones used in close-combat. So all drone strikes against buildings in non-front line territory would be “long range”.

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