danuker
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Comment · 4 months ago
Really it should be a "report as spam" option
Comment · 10 months ago
> I should be running my own LLM
I approve of this, but in your place I'd wait for hardware to become cheaper when the bubble blows over. I have a i9-10900, and bought an M.2 SSD and 64GB of RAM in july for it, and get useful results with Qwen3-30B-A3B (some 4-bit quant from unsloth running on llama.cpp).
It's much slower than an online service (~5-10 t/s), and lower quality, but it still offers me value for my use cases (many small prototypes and tests).
In the mean time, check out LLM service prices on https://artificialanalysis.ai/ Open source ones are cheap! Lower on the homepage there's a Cost Efficiency section with a Cost vs Intelligence chart.
Comment · 10 months ago
Some services have the down thumb
Comment · 1 year ago
Placebo and nocebo are strong effects. Even when the people taking placebos knows it, they still work.
Comment · 1 year ago
Perhaps JetBrains should reconsider AppCode, since Xcode only got this crappy recently. Apparently they didn't get the market share they had hoped for.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/appcode/2022/12/appcode-2022-3-re...
Comment · 2 years ago
The consequence of efficiency is inflexibility.
Comment · 2 years ago
Bit of a tangent, but I recently learned of "quiet eye" and how it is studied to improve aiming in sports.
Comment · 2 years ago
Maybe Numbeo is more to your liking.
Comment · 2 years ago
> I sure as hell wouldn't go there.
Don't even go close:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/belarus-divert...
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't think they made up for it. They are training AIs off of personal data. The open stuff are a desperate red herring.
Comment · 2 years ago
> only the baggage a project needs
What projects need manual memory management? Those where the hardware costs are comparable to development/maintenance costs. That is much rarer than people think.
RAM is cheap, and few applications really need bespoke allocation. And it's not just a question of skill; even the most disciplined make mistakes. It's one of how much brainpower you want to allocate to... memory allocation.
Comment · 2 years ago
Do you also consider Bitcoin a pyramid scheme?
Comment · 2 years ago
That is when you realize "free market" means "our buddies at the top can charge whatever they want, and you may not compete". Same with healthcare, telecom, financial services...
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