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New comment by bbatha in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

bbatha — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:56:41 +0000

> future models can be trained to be even more aware of external knowledge

Then you need longer contexts, which is proving to a much more stubborn problem than general knowledge compression.

New comment by bbatha in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

bbatha — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:54:18 +0000

Exactly cd players in cars didn’t become common until the 2000s when anti skip became common place.

New comment by bbatha in "iOS 27 features we didn't see onstage"

bbatha — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:03:45 +0000

I’ve been asking for the volume feature since I switched from a blackberry in like 2009!

New comment by bbatha in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

bbatha — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:54:22 +0000

Resolve unfortunately only supports a few brands of raw. Om systems is not supported for instance.

New comment by bbatha in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

bbatha — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:52:12 +0000

You can. Davinci is more powerful for this too because you can copy the parts of the node tree. So you can have a base edit for exposure, white balance etc then apply your look as a copy paste on top of the clean part. In Lightroom and most photocentric workflows you get one prebaked pipeline.

New comment by bbatha in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

bbatha — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:50:07 +0000

It is. That was for the beta

New comment by bbatha in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

bbatha — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:06:21 +0000

For all the potshots about AI, this update is huge even if you take away the AI features. They basically added lightroom to this release. There's some polish before you'd want to change your subscription, but its really tempting. It may be the best photo management/editor on linux. Yes, I know about darktable and rawtherapee and I stand by what I said. They also added a ton of motion graphics stuff which from the beta seem to be enough to undercut a lot of basic uses of after effects out. The later two features are in the free release as well!

New comment by bbatha in "Sysadmining Like It's 2009"

bbatha — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:07:46 +0000

Imo vistas biggest problem was they underspecced the minimum system requirements. Most peoples experience with vista was on sub 1gb of ram machines with a single core, no gpu and 32 bits. Vista was an os for modern architectures first. Windows 7 had the luxury of those features being the default at launch.

New comment by bbatha in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

bbatha — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:33:06 +0000

What's time to first token? Raw throughput is usually not the problem in local setups in my experience.

New comment by bbatha in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

bbatha — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:47:57 +0000

Moreover the two lost shuttles included human lives. Better to blow stuff up with demo payloads now before sending up large contracted payloads or worse human beings!

New comment by bbatha in "What makes a good smartphone camera?"

bbatha — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:35:12 +0000

Games will typically un at 4k or less which is about 8mp on the other hand it’s difficult to buy a stills camera with less than 20 mp, and >40mp is common. Most algorithms are n^2 in graphics as well so we wouldn’t expect a linear speed up. I’ve tried dxo, Lightroom, and topaz they all perform about the same so I don’t think it’s particularly unoptimized.

New comment by bbatha in "IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields"

bbatha — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:39:38 +0000

Interesting, IBM sales and consulting were infamous for sending in an army of blue suits in

New comment by bbatha in "Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)"

bbatha — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:42:27 +0000

I remain convinced we won’t look at project estimates as time based in software engineering as our primary cost estimate. And this is transition will happen rapidly. We’re going to shift to a capex/token spend model for project estimates where the business will say “ok I do want that feature for $1000 in tokens”.

New comment by bbatha in "Are LLM merge rates not getting better?"

bbatha — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:46:05 +0000

A lot of enhancements came on the model side which in many ways enabled context engineering.

200k and now 1M contexts. Better context management was enabled by improvements in structured outputs/tool calling at the model level. Also reasoning models really upped the game “plan” mode wouldn’t work well without them.

New comment by bbatha in "MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%"

bbatha — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:40:47 +0000

I generally do this when I arrive at the agent getting stuck at a test loop or whatever after injecting some later requirement in and tweaking. Once I hit a decent place I have the agent summarize, discard the branch (it’s part of the context too!) and start with the new prompt

New comment by bbatha in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"

bbatha — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:04:36 +0000

Newton knew a lot about investing for the time. He was a master of the mint for much of his adult life.

New comment by bbatha in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

bbatha — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:33:54 +0000

Its funny you mention excel, I see vibe coding in the business sense right now being a gateway to replace all of the ad hoc uses of excel. We've basically leveled up the quality of the software you can build before buying a SaaS product or a hiring an in house engineer.

New comment by bbatha in "I tried Gleam for Advent of Code"

bbatha — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:35:28 +0000

I’m more interested in what happens when a language is designed specifically for llms? When doing vibe coding a lot of code is a lot more verbose than I’d do normally. Do we drop down the abstraction level because llms are just so good a churning out boilerplate?

New comment by bbatha in "What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription"

bbatha — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:43:56 +0000

Don't forget shortening copyrights would have a major impact on this issue as well! 25 year copyright would make most of these libraries public domain. Then the price would truly reflect what we would all like to be subsidizing: the new stuff.

Does the rights to Friends being traded around for the Nth time really benefit anyone?

New comment by bbatha in "Affinity Studio now free"

bbatha — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:00:09 +0000

> explain exactly how this doesn't end poorly

Explanations aren't sufficient either. The industry has burned that bridge. Strong contractual guarantees. Ceasing personal data collection operations, etc. etc. Concrete steps only. Thus far we have one concrete step that is proof of the opposite direction.