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New comment by Schlagbohrer in "OpenSCAD Skill for 3D Modeling"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:38:33 +0000

This looks promising!

I didn't have much luck with Qwen3.6-35B getting it to do good 3D modelling. It could very slowly model something that was a blunt approximation of what I wanted. In one case, recreating a rectangular device from photos, in another instance trying to model a human walking on stairs. But it will be super interesting to see where the industry goes with AI usage in mechanical / 3D design fields.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:32:13 +0000

Likewise with PDF editing via AI. Way nicer than having to pay Adobe or some other shady software vendor for PDF editing ability.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:45:15 +0000

Probably vibe coded right?

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:42:12 +0000

How is it possible that Notepad++ still has no Markdown support? Only a few imperfect plugins exist for it and those of us without admin rights on a corporate computer can't install those. Even though Markdown has become an extremely dominant filetype due to AI.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:41:02 +0000

I think these days even the frontier labs are using large amounts of synthetic data too, which must be worth it even though it seems like an Ouroborous.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:39:37 +0000

I am still very surprised how absent India is from the LLM game.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:39:24 +0000

It is surprising given how many parameters it has that it scores so low. But, hopefully this will build up domestic talent and understanding and let Europe compete on the world stage with this.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:14:30 +0000

250k tokens is awfully small for a frontier context window, I haven't pushed the frontier models in a long time but i assumed they all had 1M token windows as advertised practically a year ago.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Improving our alignment and security efforts"

Schlagbohrer — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:39:36 +0000

Don't be surprised since getting the benefits of 1000+ frontier agents operating at top speed makes it impossible for a human to be in the execution loop.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history"

Schlagbohrer — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:32:43 +0000

kremlinology is an old pre-1989 term for people trying to observe and interpret the workings of a tightly sealed institution. Could be used for Vatican rumors and news, too, for example, or North Korea, etc.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor"

Schlagbohrer — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:30:57 +0000

Has anyone tried having a local agent (like Qwen) use this? I wonder how good the API is for programmatic / CLI usage.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally"

Schlagbohrer — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:20:16 +0000

I have found the Pi agent harness, running in a docker container, with Qwen3.8-27B in back in LM Studio, to be amazing and i use it daily. Just last weekend I used it to do PDF editing which previously would have required me to download really shady software online to do.

I have never tried OpenClaw so maybe I am missing out but considering how much my agent can modify the Pi environment to work better, I am happy with the workflow I have established.

Does anyone have a good pro vs con for Pi vs OpenClaw? I have never tried using a cloud model via a local agentic harness.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "“I just chose words carefully”"

Schlagbohrer — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:12:05 +0000

One more example of the utopian idea that, because there are so many dedicated nerds out there for any possible thing imaginable, if we gave people more free time there would always be someone who would volunteer to do xyz task if it was needed and if they had a community who supported them.

That's what comes to my mind anytime I see some huge labor of love like that guy rewriting 17k words to fit nicely.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "AI Image Generation on an RP2350 Microcontroller"

Schlagbohrer — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:38:36 +0000

Achieving generation time of just 5s is pretty impressive on this hardware.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws"

Schlagbohrer — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:07:09 +0000

Government beauracracy, which provides things like democratic oversight, environmental protection, enforcing power grid standards and interoperability, construction regulations, etc? Would you rather we just didn't have those things?

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws"

Schlagbohrer — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:06:08 +0000

Both of whom could happily sit together on a corporate board. It's just capitalism!

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again"

Schlagbohrer — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:03:27 +0000

This is so weird because AI should be good at updating the docs.

And yet, I often think this about things which still suck even though AI is good at them. Like why is Siri so bad still. Why do so many basic things in windows 11 not work, like folder search? Why does Altium or anything by Xilinx always have outdated docs that refer to menus that dont exist anymore?

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"

Schlagbohrer — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:37:36 +0000

"more suited to what modern life requires from us." This part scares me because I would prefer that we rearrange our economic and social world so that people can have more free time, more vacation, more relaxation, and way more social time too.

I have known many people in my personal life in the united states who have an extremely stressful and depressing life due to external stressors (job, debt) and in response are on powerful psichiatric meds with the sometimes-severe withdrawal problems mentioned in this thread.

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"

Schlagbohrer — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:30:44 +0000

There's a medicine named escalate-o-pram?

New comment by Schlagbohrer in "The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead"

Schlagbohrer — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:22:15 +0000

The total, complete lack of culpability for the 2008 economic crash and malfeasance that led up to it has set a very very bad precedent for holding powerful, wealthy corporations and their executives responsible for crimes done by the org, or in this case by software created by the org.