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New comment by danuker in "The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"

danuker — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:21:21 +0000

> I should be running my own LLM

I approve of this, but in your place I'd wait for hardware to become cheaper when the bubble blows over. I have a i9-10900, and bought an M.2 SSD and 64GB of RAM in july for it, and get useful results with Qwen3-30B-A3B (some 4-bit quant from unsloth running on llama.cpp).

It's much slower than an online service (~5-10 t/s), and lower quality, but it still offers me value for my use cases (many small prototypes and tests).

In the mean time, check out LLM service prices on https://artificialanalysis.ai/ Open source ones are cheap! Lower on the homepage there's a Cost Efficiency section with a Cost vs Intelligence chart.

New comment by danuker in "The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"

danuker — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:13:36 +0000

Some services have the down thumb

New comment by danuker in "Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks"

danuker — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 03:02:27 +0000

Placebo and nocebo are strong effects. Even when the people taking placebos knows it, they still work.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83148-6

New comment by danuker in "Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb"

danuker — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:09:03 +0000

Perhaps JetBrains should reconsider AppCode, since Xcode only got this crappy recently. Apparently they didn't get the market share they had hoped for.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/appcode/2022/12/appcode-2022-3-re...

New comment by danuker in "Kaizen"

danuker — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:25:15 +0000

The consequence of efficiency is inflexibility.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794

New comment by danuker in "The Legend of Holy Sword: An Immersive Experience for Concentration Enhancement"

danuker — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 11:07:22 +0000

Bit of a tangent, but I recently learned of "quiet eye" and how it is studied to improve aiming in sports.

New comment by danuker in "How economical is your local Taco Bell?"

danuker — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:45:37 +0000

Maybe Numbeo is more to your liking.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

New comment by danuker in "Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic human rights"

danuker — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:22:10 +0000

> I sure as hell wouldn't go there.

Don't even go close:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/belarus-divert...

New comment by danuker in "MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec"

danuker — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:00:45 +0000

I don't think they made up for it. They are training AIs off of personal data. The open stuff are a desperate red herring.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/10/meta_ai_training/

New comment by danuker in ""No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens"

danuker — Wed, 22 May 2024 07:50:37 +0000

> only the baggage a project needs

What projects need manual memory management? Those where the hardware costs are comparable to development/maintenance costs. That is much rarer than people think.

RAM is cheap, and few applications really need bespoke allocation. And it's not just a question of skill; even the most disciplined make mistakes. It's one of how much brainpower you want to allocate to... memory allocation.

New comment by danuker in "Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle"

danuker — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 03:38:40 +0000

Do you also consider Bitcoin a pyramid scheme?

New comment by danuker in "Car insurance in America is too cheap"

danuker — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 11:49:58 +0000

That is when you realize "free market" means "our buddies at the top can charge whatever they want, and you may not compete". Same with healthcare, telecom, financial services...

New comment by danuker in "How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days"

danuker — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 11:40:02 +0000

Hell, even reading the policies and responding whether I'm covered (and where it says so/hints towards) would be a worthwhile service.

New comment by danuker in "I'm Done Punching Trees and Grabbing Rocks in Video Games"

danuker — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:51:16 +0000

I remember being most productive at work when I was also indulging in Factorio. Maybe I should get back to both.

New comment by danuker in "Cops bogged down by flood of fake AI child sex images, report says"

danuker — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:02:26 +0000

If there is no way to tell, then reasonable doubt will become much more prevalent.

New comment by danuker in "Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands"

danuker — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:12:27 +0000

And yet, there still are illegal immigrants.

New comment by danuker in "A writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura"

danuker — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:32:40 +0000

I am particularly salty about HBO's Chernobyl.

Thunderfoot showed how misleading it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsdLDFtbdrA

New comment by danuker in "Tech world won't have long to fall in line when EU signs off on AI Act"

danuker — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:46:52 +0000

No! I meant Cuba.

New comment by danuker in "Tech world won't have long to fall in line when EU signs off on AI Act"

danuker — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:38:11 +0000

Still has a higher life expectancy than the US, though their GDP per capita is less than 14% that of the US.

New comment by danuker in "Sony facing $7.9B mass lawsuit over Playstation Store prices"

danuker — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:40:41 +0000

If I've got a laptop and am looking for "normal" gaming experiences, rather than the latest AAA games, I'll load up an old or light game on it.

Why would I buy a separate piece of hardware taking up more space in my home and life? More money down the drain.

Sure, it's nice that it "just works", but so does `pacman -Sy xonotic`.