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New comment by BetterThanSober in "DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models"

BetterThanSober — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:20:33 +0000

> That's strategic sabotage to say the least.

It is clear from the beginning that the Chinese Open Model are a proxy for economic warfare. Anyway their singular goal is to dethrone US monopoly on SOTA model and burn all the economic hype and investments. If this strat works, which we will see after Anthropic/OAI IPO, we'll be in for an interesting ride

New comment by BetterThanSober in "DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine"

BetterThanSober — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:27:32 +0000

Accounting for initial acquisition cost and typical depreciation/failure rate? I assume they already consider colo price, electricity, etc

New comment by BetterThanSober in "Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier"

BetterThanSober — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:44:45 +0000

Depends on the speed and agility, at minimum 70kg body weight before accounting for the drones mean it's quite a heavy aircraft, not necessarily agile without burning the battery

New comment by BetterThanSober in "U.S. Supreme Court to review 1868 federal ban on home distilling of liquor"

BetterThanSober — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:54:33 +0000

Addicts won't have the time to glue in the time to distill, unless they're addicted to making the liquor and not necessarily consuming alcohol

New comment by BetterThanSober in "Tesla Roadster"

BetterThanSober — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:48:13 +0000

Engineers is not a good marketers, more news at five

New comment by BetterThanSober in "Backups Aren't Simple"

BetterThanSober — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:54:22 +0000

> backup services and cloud solutions

online backup should not be your primary method of backup, you're one billing, identity theft, financial issue, or health issue away from getting your backup nuked

do you have PBS clout? if not good luck https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/08/pbs-s...

New comment by BetterThanSober in "Backups Aren't Simple"

BetterThanSober — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:49:21 +0000

Backups isn't real until it's restored

don't be like me folks

New comment by BetterThanSober in "The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing?"

BetterThanSober — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:28:04 +0000

I read both both my fiction is almost exclusively Japanese and my non-fiction Western/Europe science/history-adjacent

New comment by BetterThanSober in "You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules"

BetterThanSober — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:48:43 +0000

The natural state of being is freedom, it up to society to restrict what they deemed necessary and punish the offenders. Unless the body of water or reservoir are claimed by the government then it is free for anyone to use, quality notwithstanding. Safe, clean water implies certain amount of processing and I agree that unless it is explicitly written then it is up to the users to sanitize that water

New comment by BetterThanSober in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

BetterThanSober — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:01:10 +0000

That's a cheap shed, what's the provider and spec?

New comment by BetterThanSober in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

BetterThanSober — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:53:46 +0000

Yep, even with something like NextCloud or ownCloud it gets tiring pretty fast. I do get the appeal of handling everything on your own, but it also brings any of the downside of handling everything by myself. I just need a working cloud storage with sync, redundancy, and availability. Can I get it up to spec? Definitely but it will cost more both in time and money than getting OOTB solution.

I gave up sync and availability for sensitive data to at-rest encryption. Mundane photos/documents can stay on Google Drive, for now. I wish there's a better solution.

New comment by BetterThanSober in "Fastpotify"

BetterThanSober — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:30:08 +0000

Probably due to business/commercial licensing, I'm sure they have separate account for playing music in a public space

New comment by BetterThanSober in "Show HN: ssh ssh.place"

BetterThanSober — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:44:08 +0000

Parked means the storage is kept, right?

New comment by BetterThanSober in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

BetterThanSober — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:29:48 +0000

The models are good even by skeptics standard, it's just that evangelists are overselling the capabilities. If you understand the limits of LLMs not using them as a business is shooting yourself in the foot.

However, they are not at the point where they can effectively train themselves, nor did they are capable of researching their own method of learning. SWEs in mid-corps on my country are right now relegated to reviews and sanity check, basically babysitting the LLMs and making sure they're not spouting nonsense. If you think about it, that's basically QA and can also be delegated to another AI. If Bun's rust rewrite that they tout as fully LLM-led can pass the test of time in a year or so I think that's it.

I believe all that is now constrained by compute and capital, not tech.

New comment by BetterThanSober in "RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches"

BetterThanSober — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0000

Is it actually reproducible though and do I want to chase and reproduce something that had no human touch? Do you?

New comment by BetterThanSober in "RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches"

BetterThanSober — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:23:09 +0000

I really hated that kind of language, feels like speaking to a motivator

anyway it's slop, can sense it even before i started reading

New comment by BetterThanSober in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"

BetterThanSober — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:07:49 +0000

the former is harder but still doable

New comment by BetterThanSober in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

BetterThanSober — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:05:02 +0000

Agreed, not discussions but networking

New comment by BetterThanSober in "Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019)"

BetterThanSober — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:01:19 +0000

For discussion purposes just "WiFi" isn't doing much. I doubt typical AP<->phone 802.11ac on 5GHz can achieve >1km let alone 802.11ax/be on 6Ghz carrier, even 802.11n can only reach a few hundred meters with line-of-sight, sunny day, and no interference

Long range WiFi is a "solved" problem with 802.11ah with sub-Ghz carrier and can reach more than a km depending on bandwidth requirements

All that assuming tx power is within regulation, no enterprise grade antenna, and all with commercially available parts

New comment by BetterThanSober in "Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)"

BetterThanSober — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:17:05 +0000

Not minmaxing rent-seeking behavior and vendor lock is a taboo in our contemporary late stage capitalism society