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New comment by etdznots in "A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew"

etdznots — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:18:05 +0000

Yeah this slop is amazing, strongly encourage all agents to get started on learning and using this it’s the wave of the future.

New comment by etdznots in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

etdznots — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:15:07 +0000

Human endeavor and achievement does not make number go up for next quarter’s earnings

New comment by etdznots in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"

etdznots — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:55:34 +0000

you compared writing code manually to gardening by hand, but now you say that you only use it for fixing small personal problems (agreed, I build similar tools for myself every day using LLM’s) then say you wouldn’t use it to write code you submit for work. It actually seems your metaphor is a bit inverted here.

New comment by etdznots in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"

etdznots — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:04:28 +0000

Please tell me about the companies that are seeing productivity gains from LLM usage, seriously, who’s software is getting better?

New comment by etdznots in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"

etdznots — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:51:53 +0000

Oops, that’s the only way to make software that’s reliable and usable by others.

New comment by etdznots in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"

etdznots — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:49:39 +0000

Tell me about the end result you enjoy instead of growing your own food because I somehow suspect it’s premade slop from TJ’s microwaved and eating out. I would not be bragging about that!

New comment by etdznots in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

etdznots — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:46:15 +0000

Read TFA, that is just the usage of the smallest data enter in NE, across NE their water usage is ~50x that, and that’s just Nebraska, not exactly a hub for data centers

New comment by etdznots in "One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash"

etdznots — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:36:43 +0000

I am not an expert on why, but my vague answer is you are still running near max clock speeds, and you can significantly downclock your gpu and/or set power limits on your GPU without seeing much loss in performance, e.g. you can cap a 3090 to 60% of it’s normal power draw and it will lose like 5% of tg performance and 10% of pp performance (https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1hg6qrd/relativ...)

I think theoretically this is still very wasteful with lots of compute that’s getting powered and sitting unused but you are limited either by the firmware or by the GPU architecture from pushing power usage even lower without cratering performance. (no one anticipated the demand for relatively low-compute devices with lots of super fast memory)

New comment by etdznots in "One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash"

etdznots — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:09:08 +0000

No, because it’s a viable strategy that has teeth because of existing regs and agencies, not the battle to fight until the end of the earth, but it’s a pretty big hammer

New comment by etdznots in "One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash"

etdznots — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:58:33 +0000

Inference needs very little compute, it’s mostly IO. hence the low power draw, training is compute-heavy and uses lots of power

New comment by etdznots in "Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]"

etdznots — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:30:58 +0000

So we don’t know anything, we can mechanistically dissect any phenomena, but that rarely yields the ability to make interesting or useful predictions, i.e. understanding.

New comment by etdznots in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

etdznots — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:56:07 +0000

Let’s see the moved mountains I’m sitting here waiting to see any improvement in software

New comment by etdznots in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

etdznots — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:48:48 +0000

Inflation does not keep pace with the housing market

New comment by etdznots in "Goodbye Google"

etdznots — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:25:33 +0000

Please let me know when it starts

New comment by etdznots in "Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake"

etdznots — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:25:11 +0000

Sad that the author chose to generate slop instead of writing an article about SL

New comment by etdznots in "Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?"

etdznots — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:54:01 +0000

A solution to any of the four options made by an LLM armed with a theorem solver and millions of dollars of compute would still not be that interesting to the math community since it is not likely that any new insights oe questions can be derived from the result

New comment by etdznots in "Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug"

etdznots — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:58:59 +0000

Llms should make these cost even less im thinking $50 in 18 months?

New comment by etdznots in "Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too"

etdznots — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:25:15 +0000

They can’t they’re literally fucked, and it’s not society’s problem! The whole world doesn't have to bend over to make sure a couple of lunatics who believe they are building a doomsday weapon also have a viable business model

New comment by etdznots in "Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too"

etdznots — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:22:09 +0000

This is all based on the delusion that Chinese labs are mindlessly distilling the frontier.

I would love for a US lab to be at or near the frontier with an open weight model, but it’s going to take some serious elbow grease, and yes some distillation (which btw OAI, anthropic et al, also use distillation of other’s outputs in their training)

New comment by etdznots in "Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE"

etdznots — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:21:54 +0000

Bruh sorry, stop running any RW services off an SD card, it has always been terrible and unfortunately it will remain terrible, you can buy a used SFF with >5x the compute and a sata ssd for the same price as a raspberry pi alternatively put an nvme hat on it