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New comment by ashirviskas in "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"

ashirviskas — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:39:04 +0000

> Without hardware documentation, you're looking at decades of reverse engineering effort just to get somewhere half as far as an engineer with hardware documentation can get in a weekend.

I'm not sure this is true anymore and it is becoming less true with each new LLM release.

> No one cares about spending a decade reverse engineering the hardware on a Google Pixel or Samsung Galaxy.

Actually, this might a cool idea - just get a few super cheap smartphones, connect them all to a PC, give LLM access and tell it "make linux gud like android pls" and just give it a weekend.

New comment by ashirviskas in "Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms"

ashirviskas — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:52:27 +0000

I'm 30, I am trying to achieve what the other person described. I'm not there yet, but I feel like I might be in 8-36 months timeframe. Ask me then, you'll get at least one more data point that's not just survivorship bias.

New comment by ashirviskas in "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs"

ashirviskas — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:05:43 +0000

I've been doing that since before reasoning was a thing baked into the models, it always performs better this way. Except for some providers/models where you just can't easily turn it off, now I just avoid them. This way I save tokens and have full control of the reasoning.

New comment by ashirviskas in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

ashirviskas — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:15:10 +0000

Thank you for putting this here. While I do believe in climate change, I could not finish reading the article as it seemed like the authors opinions are led more by emotions rather than facts. And gourds.

New comment by ashirviskas in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

ashirviskas — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:59:36 +0000

How many euros or kilograms is it?

New comment by ashirviskas in "Meta Down"

ashirviskas — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:50:38 +0000

Better, take a look around. No random mobile focused redesigns to hit a random KPI.

Text only design also invites to focus on the discussion itself. It also has proper moderation.

New comment by ashirviskas in "Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims"

ashirviskas — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:45:37 +0000

I created this sheet to get proper model accuracy using the the lenz data, check it out.

Note: It may still not be perfectly accurate representation of truth as it uses user submitted data. I also used AI to build the sheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSnZlURmyYX3...

New comment by ashirviskas in "Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims"

ashirviskas — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:42:04 +0000

I used AI to scrape the website and help build "Accuracy" comparison that everyone wants, thanks for this link!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSnZlURmyYX3...

New comment by ashirviskas in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

ashirviskas — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:57:56 +0000

> It's almost guaranteed with agents you could do the same job with less than half of 100k lines.

That's great, non-test code is only ~47k lines of code.

New comment by ashirviskas in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

ashirviskas — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:32:50 +0000

Gemini 2.0 Flash: $19

New comment by ashirviskas in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

ashirviskas — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:26:37 +0000

don't forget Gemini 2.0 flash at $0.10/$0.40

New comment by ashirviskas in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

ashirviskas — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:21:28 +0000

What does Malta manufacture?

New comment by ashirviskas in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

ashirviskas — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:18:15 +0000

What region is UK?

New comment by ashirviskas in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

ashirviskas — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:17:29 +0000

That's so interesting. Kind of explains company directions - quality vs quantity.

New comment by ashirviskas in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

ashirviskas — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:16:02 +0000

And what should we do about it? Only allow comments about top X world countries?

New comment by ashirviskas in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

ashirviskas — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:47:30 +0000

To me it is Relative Strenght Index

New comment by ashirviskas in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

ashirviskas — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:37:18 +0000

>For things requiring Play Integrity, I picked up a $20 burner carrier-locked Motorola phone at Walmart for $30.`

So it's a $30 burner phone, not $20?

New comment by ashirviskas in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

ashirviskas — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:11:43 +0000

What? Training is not inference. Reading books is not the same as writing.

New comment by ashirviskas in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

ashirviskas — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:48:55 +0000

Does it matter what size the cup is? Usually you get the same amount of coffee water + additional water/milk/whatever.

New comment by ashirviskas in "Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers"

ashirviskas — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:13:54 +0000

I've been burned on openrouter getting routed through terrible quants with equally terrible quality. While paying maybe 15% less.

Nearly a year ago it was impossible to avoid it due to silly openrouter routing algorithm and the api. You had to set multiple things just right to make it work.

Similar to their other api quirks. You want valid json format response? sure, set response_format to "json" just like our documentation suggests. Oh, it only works some of the time? How silly, why would you expect it to work all of the time? If you want it to work more often, set require_params to true. We may still use other providers that don't offer it, but you want that, right? You don't? Well, then set our "very_require_params" to "very_true". And then switch a few toggles in the frontend. Oh and also add these 7 lines just so your other config options don't break. Oh wait they will break, how silly of us Is there any way to make it work as advertised? Of course no!

Sorry for the semi-offtopic rant. I still use them every day though, but not for open models anymore.