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New comment by bakies in "Cursor is now a part of SpaceX"

bakies — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:49:06 +0000

Using grok at work and gpt at home, it's not better. Must be Elon fanboys and bots. It's what Elon does best. Subpar products with guerilla marketing campaigns.

New comment by bakies in "How Compaction Works in Pi"

bakies — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:25:33 +0000

What's helpful about that?

New comment by bakies in "Grok 4.6"

bakies — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:21:32 +0000

We're not China no, but where's Snowden right now?

Free speech doesn't make the government not authoritarian. It's not binary either.

New comment by bakies in "Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations"

bakies — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:11:27 +0000

Oxide has an API on top that gets you services. The whole pitch is AWS with purchased hardware, no? That's cloud

New comment by bakies in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:41:48 +0000

I mean you're right, but what about a different tokenizer and some guardrails... trained on compiled code... I just learned that gpt-5.6 will talk to you in base64 without tool calls so maybe it's possible.

New comment by bakies in "Grok 4.6"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:33:26 +0000

okay now that i've spent a workday with it... yeah not amazing as everyone says. It's waaay slower than 4.5, used a lot more tokens. I don't mind either of those things but 4.5 was really fast and that was the benefit. If it got it right quickly great, but now it's slow and doesnt really feel much smarter. I had to switch to Opus to explain something to me after telling grok to do something a bunch of times and not seeing the result. It did it correctly but didnt tell me why it did things.

New comment by bakies in "Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:58:51 +0000

you can do that on k8s

New comment by bakies in "Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:53:19 +0000

What's a cloud? K8s is a cloud imo, so is what oxide is providing afaict

New comment by bakies in "Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:14:50 +0000

Yeah me too. Like I kinda compare oxide to coreweave and coreweave is built on top of k8s afaik. I'm wondering what the underlying tech oxide leans on. If I was doing this I would be using talos and k8s on baremetal and building on top of that. Container first rather than VM first seems like a big advantage imo. Most workloads will be containers.

New comment by bakies in "Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:11:02 +0000

fwiw, I am very satisfied with talos and k8s at home.

New comment by bakies in "Grok 4.6"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:51:48 +0000

Laughable thinking they aren't

New comment by bakies in "Elevated Errors on Claude"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:44:51 +0000

github and claude both made me move because of uptime

New comment by bakies in "Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:32:36 +0000

Luckily the Montreal protocol was implemented and CFCs were banned. Something like that should be considered for more green house gasses. Maybe Paris?

New comment by bakies in "Grok 4.6"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:11:20 +0000

Wow that comment history is the biggest shill Ive ever seen

New comment by bakies in "Grok 4.6"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:09:53 +0000

Trump is doing everything in his power to make people illegal. Outright revoking visas and making immigrants unemployment so their visa sponsorship is expired. This is nationalism and doesn't have anything to do with border control but with brutalizing minorities.

We had all the border control, the border encounters being exactly 0 since Trump took office? Pretty obviously bullshit, it's the same as before with extra brutality. Despicable and disgusting people think like you and support this policy.

New comment by bakies in "Grok 4.6"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:59:30 +0000

Musk is in bed with my authoritarian government, what's China gonna do to me?

New comment by bakies in "Grok 4.6"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:56:20 +0000

It's doubled for the first week fyi

New comment by bakies in "Grok 4.6"

bakies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:54:02 +0000

That didn't really harm Tesla, they had already used their rebates. It harmed the competitors more so it may have been beneficial.

New comment by bakies in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

bakies — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:48:41 +0000

Get some emotions and care about people

New comment by bakies in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

bakies — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:42:22 +0000

Couple of years with some bandwidth improvements and higher RAM capacity might do some wonders