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Comment · 1 month ago
The thing that made me the most sad was that nobody cares about narrow screen phones like my iPhone SE
Comment · 4 months ago
I have an RTX 4060 12gb vram. Qwen3.6 35b. I stopped paying for Github Copilot. But I wouldn't say I replaced frontier models with a local one. I still have some dollars in my openrouter when I need to. Also to get interactive agentic coding speeds I need a high tps. So my quant is very small. And I would say a coding harness that is fully extensible is a must to create fully custom workflows tailored for low specs. I use pi (not perfect, still found some hard coded, non-extensible parts)
Comment · 7 months ago
> Did you even read it?

Did you? That is the issue we have. We can't know for sure that you even read your own article, since it has all the hallmarks of LLM generated content. It's embarrassing.

Comment · 7 months ago
It did more than clean it up. It stained it completely.
Comment · 7 months ago
It hasn't. TLS was not needed until recently. Non-TLS sites used to show up in search results. TLS was not mandatory at all. Also ISPs often provided users with a free webspace. So I could just send 1 html file to my host without much technical knowledge and I had a website that people could visit.
Comment · 7 months ago
I had to go check. You're right: https://gitclassic.com/golang/go Made me chuckle. Then when I click it it doesn't explain why it is declaring it unmaintained. Pretty insulting. Not a good user experience at all.
Comment · 7 months ago
Yeah, it's quite bad. Just some of the classics:

- "Why This Matters"

- "That's accurate, but it's only half the answer — and the less interesting half"

- "this isn't an edge case. It's routine."

I'm at the point, I would just rather read something somebody actually wrote even if it's not grammatically perfect and has lots of spelling mistakes.

Comment · 7 months ago
Not scaling and high latency sound like a skill issue, not a PHP issue.
Comment · 8 months ago
For me the number has been closer to 80% (my interestes/categories have been, foss, software dev, high tech specialization / academic work).

This is not surprising because I remember looking at the stats, females accounted for 2% of open source developers. And it was 7% female software devs (non-oss included, work etc). These stats are a few years old. I wonder if we can still find stats about cis-women in FOSS. Have the stats increased? Or is it too much of political hot potato to gather such stats?

How many males are naturally fascinated with computers? I know I was. Therefore it makes sense that if we see a female name, it is not just possible but likely that, that person is trans. Nowadays when I see a female name, I don't make the same happy assumptions I used to. That said, I welcome anybody interested in computers with open arms.

Comment · 8 months ago
Could the LLM rewrite it from scratch?
Comment · 8 months ago
That's crazy. I'm already barely willing to pay $10/month on Github Copilot. A product I love. Best value for money.

If they pump it up to $200 (or to $20). I'll simply use crappier local model. It won't be as good. But I already own my gaming PC that can run local models, and electricity is cheap.

Comment · 8 months ago
I'm paying 10 dollars per month on GitHub Copilot. Gives access to good enough models. Not best, but great value for money.
Comment · 8 months ago
So, asking an 2b parameter LLM if it is conscious and it answering yes, we have no choice but to believe it?

How about ELIZA?

Comment · 8 months ago
Slightly off topic. I had a hard time getting models to run with ollama, and I thought that my computer (32gm ram, GTX4070 12Gb vram) just couldn't do it. The I tried LM Studio and after fiddling with some settings, I got models running and quite fast. I didn't try GLM-4.7 flash but I did GLM-4.6v flash and it was amazing to see it be able to analyze all kinds of images (since it has vision support). I was simply stunned. I can't believe that a simple gaming machine can do many of the things I used cloud models for. It was absolutely strikingly good at guessing locations of photos. Even vague ones. Deducing landmarks, writings, types of traffic signs. I need to try 4.7 flash. Hopefully it can ran fast with my machine.

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