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Comment · 6 days ago
Comment · 6 days ago
Best available does not mean “not actively misleading”, which it obviously is.

OpenRouter is not remotely close to a representative source for inference distribution.

Comment · 16 days ago
This is an interesting benchmark - I like that time is limited, as it often isn't in other benchmarks.

It would be interesting to see the reverse, how long does each model take to get >50% WR against bots of various tiers.

Comment · 17 days ago
Definitely would concede this, but I haven't had any issues so far. It's been able to make things look exactly as I've dictated them, even with relatively complex visualization of git branching. I get the sense that, with how capable Opus 5.5 is, "less capable" no longer means "not capable enough".
Comment · 17 days ago
If it is, it hasn't been a problem so far. I have been focused heavily on memoization, to what extent that's possible when fully vibe coding.

Fwiw, what it's trying to replace (GitKraken) is slow, clunky, and resource hungry, so it's not hard to beat.

Comment · 17 days ago
I would go one step farther - if you're vibe coding, skip Tauri altogether. I've been on-and-off vibecoding a GitKraken replacement using egui instead, and the memory footprint is very low. Otherwise can't tell the difference, as I'm not reading the code either way.
Comment · 23 days ago
Great parody - very "Focus, M"-esque. Often, it feels that we've lost sight of "If it's not fun, why bother".
Comment · 1 month ago
Well this reply is quite late, but in case you do end up seeing it - I’m not an expert on restoring them, but my understanding is the LEDs are generally the way, and if you’re capable, there’s a real premium paid for restored units.

The lights are generally not reliable on the 949 - particularly the radar display on the front-left (vumeter per channel, basically), so that’s also worth a service, if you can.

After that it’s the caps, as you probably know. The thing is with the quad ones, there’s literally two of everything in there.

Best of luck with restoring and selling it.

Comment · 1 month ago
This article would have been much better if it chose a specific game and cheat to illustrate - I’m not sure “everyone cheats at a hypothetical souls-like” is relatable enough to demonstrate the point the author is trying to make.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
> but getting those two men into the same room at the same time can approach impossibility.

Yeah, you said it. I've also got a QX-949, but luckily no vintage refrigerators.

As much as the over-built, last-a-lifetime quality is a big component of owning of these old appliances, I can imagine how that fades when it's an object that weighs 800 pounds instead of 80.

Comment · 1 month ago
Woah woah woah - don’t lump 1970s era stereo equipment in with that. If any of these friends have vintage Pioneer (SX-##50/80) that’s “junk” to them, I could take it off their hands ;)
Comment · 1 month ago
Gee Eddy_Viscosity2, how come your mom lets you have TWO big boxes of cables? I'm sure I have multiple VGA cables in mine, and I'm not sure a single device I own even has a VGA port on it anymore.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Along the way, it wrote 13 million lines of Lean and proved 29,500 intermediate theorems.

Pretty insane. I suppose it lends further credence to the idea that anything that can be shown to be correct can be done by a model.

Comment · 1 month ago
The review that "IBM Bob isn't just another autocomplete tool" tells you everything you need to know about this product. lol.

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