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New comment by abirch in "Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models"

abirch — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:18:59 +0000

Jev does it more efficiently because it doesn't use an LLM https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-j...

New comment by abirch in "Platform-independent SIMD in Go"

abirch — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:41:10 +0000

Yes: https://www.mathworks.com/help/fixedpoint/ref/half.fma.html

I'm grateful that Go a non-proprietary language offers these features.

New comment by abirch in "Platform-independent SIMD in Go"

abirch — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:45:37 +0000

Vectorizing computations has been Matlabs secret sauce.

New comment by abirch in "Tokens too cheap to meter"

abirch — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:53:26 +0000

Too Cheap to Meter reminds me of the promise of Nuclear Power in 1954

"It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter,..." Lewis Strauss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter#Origins

Oddly enough my power bill was metered and big.

New comment by abirch in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

abirch — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:43:49 +0000

works great until they raise prices.

New comment by abirch in "Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent"

abirch — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:54:22 +0000

Do you take into account the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder discount for GEICO, Home, and Umbrella insurance?

Edit: I edited this for clarity.

New comment by abirch in "Transformers Explained Visually"

abirch — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:13:53 +0000

I'm a huge 3Blue 1Brown fan and his series on this was great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M

New comment by abirch in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

abirch — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:02:43 +0000

In my experience, the most difficult part of a software project is getting the specifications correct. To abuse Harold Abelson famously quote: "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

"A Project must have proper tests and specs, and only incidentally for a working program that executes"

New comment by abirch in "Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain"

abirch — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:42:20 +0000

Maybe they should be forced to advertise "Careless People"

New comment by abirch in "Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side"

abirch — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:05:48 +0000

What I love about DRY is you have to repeat yourself by explaining DRY means "Don't repeat yourself"

New comment by abirch in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

abirch — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:47:06 +0000

It sucks that Disney+ cancelled Bobba Fett and other great Star Wars series. One month at a time makes sense especially with the lack of new content that I want.

New comment by abirch in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

abirch — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:26:58 +0000

Trump has normalized the government taking equity stakes in corporations. Something that AOC or Bernie may find useful

New comment by abirch in "Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023"

abirch — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:47:16 +0000

If people are trading bitcoin on margin or if Strategy is forced to sell a large percentage of its holdings.

New comment by abirch in "Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023"

abirch — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:13:57 +0000

Bitcoin's supposed to be "liquid" but I'm wondering what happens when there's a forced liquidity event.

New comment by abirch in "Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres"

abirch — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:07:39 +0000

Like this scene from Pirates of Silicon Valley between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBri-xgYvHQ Bill was saying that Steve was stealing from Xerox so it's okay if Bill stole from Xerox first.

New comment by abirch in "America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster"

abirch — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:59:42 +0000

What I would love to know is who is selling my info. I get texts from all kinds of politicians but I didn't know who sold them my number. Seems like selling someone's property without their approval should be illegal. It'd be great if I could request who sold them my data, then go to that entity tell them to stop selling (rinse and repeat)

New comment by abirch in "CSS-Tricks in Limbo"

abirch — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:41:51 +0000

Oddly enough if the scraping is good, AI can find the CSS tricks in the wild. Not as applicable with other technologies but scrapable web is readable for AI much like how some of us old people learned html/css by looking at source of quality websites.

New comment by abirch in "Leaving Linux"

abirch — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:43:28 +0000

I use Claude and Gemini to customize things for me all the time. If something doesn't work the way that I want it, I let AI fix it (I do back up and maintain scripts to revert back to its current stage).

New comment by abirch in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

abirch — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:59:37 +0000

"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it." Linus Torvalds

New comment by abirch in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

abirch — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:47:34 +0000

or mastodon...