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New comment by ducktective in "It used to be hard"

ducktective — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:29:11 +0000

It's not just corpo talk. The ultimate goal in LLM and AI progress is "replacement" of professional knowledge workers. In the march of the 9s of the accuracy of the generated LLM output, the engineers role would matter less and less.

It's asking engineers to "adapt" to being efficient in filling out the last 10% then 1% then 0.1% then 0.01%.

New comment by ducktective in "It used to be hard"

ducktective — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:11:23 +0000

Please explain this "adapting". The LLM sellers' holygrail is * you just need to crank our model bro *. With this mindset, there is no adaptation needed, save a couple of weeks of getting up to speed with nuances of using the models, the / commands and integration of their APIs into your workflow.

New comment by ducktective in "LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090"

ducktective — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:39:35 +0000

Are off-shelf GPUs (like one 3090) suitable for modern academic research on current AI advancements or is it better to rent some cloud compute?

New comment by ducktective in "100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite"

ducktective — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:31:44 +0000

Does anyone have rough numbers (max daily users etc) on viability of SQLite vs PostgreSQL for a typical user-facing webapp or e-commerce application?

I know due to some recent update, SQLite can support concurrent reads but still only a single writer. For which cases this would be a problem?

Some recommend it's better to start with postgres anyway if you have any remote thoughts of scaling in mind....

Test Your Ability to Spot Google Gemini's Nano Banana Pro

ducktective — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:30:39 +0000

Article URL: https://realorai.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46030673

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ducktective in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

ducktective — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:16:51 +0000

Like imagine editor is on ws2, you open a terminal to /tmp/ to check something quick, it scrolls to the right, then jump to ws3 for your file manager and other stuff and go back to your editor.

Now you want to access that terminal on /tmp/ again. Where was it?

In i3, I just spam-switch workspaces in this case, but at least I can find them. With scrollable wms, every ws can potentially hold that target app.

New comment by ducktective in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

ducktective — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:14:14 +0000

Yes, still on each workspace, everything is visible on i3. I wonder how scroll to the right differs from i3's tabbed panes.

New comment by ducktective in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

ducktective — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:59:56 +0000

One of the advantages of tilling wm are that every window that is run, is visible too. Nothing invisible exists.

But in this "endless horizontal tilling" scheme, the above principle would no longer hold, right?

New comment by ducktective in "Stepping Down as Libxml2 Maintainer"

ducktective — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:15:40 +0000

So if one wants to open-source his project and sell it :

- Licence as AGPL

- Mention that commercial use (without having to open source the derivative work) is available

Did I get it right?

1- Is this solution useful for subscription-based contract too?

2- Does it make a difference if the product is a app, library or hardware device?

Debian 13.1 Released

ducktective — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:37:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250906

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45150226

Points: 21

# Comments: 0

New comment by ducktective in "Matrix.org service offline: corrupted database"

ducktective — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:27:23 +0000

Keep up the good work! There are satisfied but silent, Matrix users too.

New comment by ducktective in "Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas"

ducktective — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:39:13 +0000

Would the "LLM era" revitalize languages like Ada and Haskell into mainstream?

New comment by ducktective in "FreeDroidWarn"

ducktective — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:06:14 +0000

Didn't Google say that they're gonna provide an escape hatch for students and hobbyists? So, best case scenario, we just need to tap some label 5 times to enable side-loading again.

Easer: User-defined explicit automation for Android

ducktective — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:04:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/renyuneyun/Easer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45092404

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ducktective in "QEMU 10.1.0"

ducktective — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:31:28 +0000

Awesome tech!

It's not possible to run an android VM on QEMU right? As in, is it officially supported? (I know about Waydroid)

Guile bindings for Sway window manager

ducktective — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:43:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ebeem/guile-swayer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44921467

Points: 77

# Comments: 9

Debian 13 “Trixie”

ducktective — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 18:18:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44848782

Points: 974

# Comments: 407

New comment by ducktective in "Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation"

ducktective — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:04:31 +0000

"I can't belllieeeve RMDNZ preferred L-Johnson's card to mine"

New comment by ducktective in "How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ"

ducktective — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:34:36 +0000

Very simple question:

How do people trust the output of LLMs? In the fields I know about, sometimes the answers are impressive, sometimes totally wrong (hallucinations). When the answer is correct, I always feel like I could have simply googled the issue and some variation of the answer lies deep in some pages of some forum or stack exchange or reddit.

However, in the fields I'm not familiar with, I'm clueless how much I can trust the answer.

New comment by ducktective in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

ducktective — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:53:51 +0000

Wasn't the model winning gold in IMO result of a breakthrough? I doubt an stochastic parrot can solve math at IMO level...