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by znnajdla 7mo ago
That would be a double whammy for America then: a devalued dollar and higher oil prices. Both cause inflation. China doesn’t seem to be squeezed when they seem to have a deal with Iran to buy in yuan.
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by znnajdla 7mo ago
This supports my hunch that the current Iran war creates a lethal trifecta that could potentially cause a dollar collapse. 1. Massive military overspend. 2. Petrodollar squeeze (Strait of Hormuz). 3. Allies pulling out: Europe and the Gulf
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by znnajdla 7mo ago
No one seems to discuss the worst case scenario for this war. In the best/average case the world takes an economic hit. But I can think of one really big black swan event which no one seems to even consider (except Nassim Taleb). This
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by znnajdla 7mo ago
No. I'm not willing to put a cost on: freedom, sovereignty, or life, and I'm not willing to consider "tradeoffs" to these things. These are simply things I'd rather die than live without, no matter the cost. And enc
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by znnajdla 7mo ago
Nope, this is bullshit. Some things you simply cannot put a price on, and therefore are not amenable to cost benefit analysis. What’s the cost of a human life? The cost of sovereignty and freedom and independence? The cost of wanting to liv
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by znnajdla 7mo ago
> This is equivalent to investing capital at a negative interest rate, so it’s not done anymore. Stupidity of financializing everything. There’s no amount of money in the world that can quantify the safety of having critical items like f
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
Entrepreneurship, obviously.
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
One massive risk that I don’t hear anyone in the West talking about is the risk of giving Sunni populist rage over Gaza the spark it needs to overthrow US-aligned partners all over the Middle East. This could backfire really badly for Israe
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
> The entire point of LLMs is that you don't have to spend money training them for each specific case. I don’t agree. I would say the entire point of LLMs is to be able to solve a certain class of non-deterministic problems that can
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
I’ve tried those tiny LLMs and they don’t seem useful to me for real world tasks. They are toys for super simple autocomplete.
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
Super useful exercise. My gut tells me that someone will soon figure out how to build micro-LLMs for specialized tasks that have real-world value, and then training LLMs won’t just be for billion dollar companies. Imagine, for example, a hy
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
What other device would you suggest as a home server that a non tech person can set up themselves and has enough power to run several Chrome tabs? Access to iMessage is a plus. Small beeline Windows devices could also work but it’s Windows
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
Easy enough for average Joe to set up. Can run several Chrome tabs. pi cannot
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
Can a Raspberry Pi run several browser tabs?
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
No they’re buying them as a home server. You can’t message your claw if your laptop lid is closed.
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
This kind of research is underrated. I have a strong feeling that these kinds of harness improvements will lead to solving whole classes of problems reliably, and matter just as much as model training.
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
I don’t think so. The harness matters a lot for the task at hand, and some harnesses are much better than others for some kinds of problems.
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
How do you give it tasks? As GitHub issues?
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
Which harness? Gemini CLI or OpenCode?
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
Yes, except for one HAProxy server. The setup I described isn't fully in production yet, but my testing confirms it works. We've been running for years on one single baremetal server on Hetzner/OVH though. And macOS makes sen
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
> The difference between EU and US is that it's possible to make all components in the US, using US equipment False. ASML is in the EU.
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
Yeah but even with managed database services you don't know if your provider has invested into proper testing of their recovery so you have to test it anyway. Major services like DigitalOcean have been known to shit the bed with your b
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
No not yet. Planning to. But Qwen3 Coder Next 4bit runs decently well with LM Studio on my M3 Max with 96 GB RAM (50 tok/s at low context).
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
You can setup a Mac without an Apple ID. To be honest iCloud is garbage. Almost all Mac App Store apps are available without the App Store.
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
Gigabit fiber with static IP for about 40 EUR per month. I plan to make it redundant with a second gigabit fiber connection from a different provider but haven’t done that yet.
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
Got lucky that we have a good personal relationship with our small local ISP and I trust they handle that for us. In the future I want to make it redundant by getting a second gigabit fibre connection.
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
I’m not anti American, that’s not the main point of my setup. The main point is I want to own it, not rent it. Apple doesn’t control my production setup after it’s in my hands. Macs from 10 years ago still work.
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
Presumably you have a home where you live? That's your physical office. And no you don't need a presence in every jurisdiction you serve. Visa payment network serves the world from the US.
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
For now we still use Cloudflare. Considering bunny.net after reading this OPs post.
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by znnajdla 8mo ago
I've designed our app so that there are only two stateful services that matter: Database and Disk. Everything else is cattle, you can shut down or spin up new instances and the load balancer redirects requests with no impact. Making Po

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