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New comment by geon in "Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't"

geon — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:38:29 +0000

Really? I broke my Geforce2 MX, so I had to make do without a graphics card for a couple of weeks. I think halflife ran ok in software mode on my Athlon XP 1700+.

I might be misremembering though. Perhaps I scavenged some basic pci card, but that should still have been worse than the ProSavage.

New comment by geon in "When AI Costs More Than the Engineer"

geon — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:09:09 +0000

Clever. Wish I had thought of that.

New comment by geon in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

geon — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:17:10 +0000

Wouldn't the same improvements have been made in zig if they instructed the agents to improve instead of rewrite?

New comment by geon in "When AI Costs More Than the Engineer"

geon — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:28:43 +0000

Correct

New comment by geon in "When AI Costs More Than the Engineer"

geon — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:54:46 +0000

Garbage. You can't include training by the companies that develop an llm in the comparison against companies that merely use the same llm. Apples and potatoes.

New comment by geon in "You need a webring"

geon — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:43:33 +0000

If those are concerns to you, you are not really the target audience.

New comment by geon in "Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV"

geon — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:59:41 +0000

No. I thought it meant the haptic feedback was for a human to make it easier to find the charger in the dark ir something.

New comment by geon in "Do LLMs pass the mirror test?"

geon — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:07:14 +0000

No. The reasoning is just an illusion. As soon as you look at it closer, it falls apart completely.

https://yosefk.com/blog/llms-arent-world-models.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1mnc9qf/llms_a...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854518

New comment by geon in "Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly"

geon — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:19:28 +0000

Inshallah

New comment by geon in "Pull request limits are cutting down the noise"

geon — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:53:52 +0000

Because it is vibecoded garbage.

New comment by geon in "AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost"

geon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:13:57 +0000

Like a horoscope.

I suppose we humans are so good at reading between the lines, that we will see meaning where there is none.

New comment by geon in "Steam Machine launches today"

geon — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:50:45 +0000

Absolutely no one needs a steam machine.

New comment by geon in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

geon — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:10:44 +0000

That is already allowed.

New comment by geon in "Perlisisms (1982)"

geon — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:21:33 +0000

What does the quote mean?

As you point out, I would prefer to parse a text string as early as possible, so that I could pass around structured data instead of having to parse the same string over and over.

That seems so obvious that I can't imagine what the author meant.

New comment by geon in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

geon — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:59:13 +0000

You should add inky and pinky so you can corner pacman. Their movement is dependent on blinky, so you would be in control of all 3.

https://pacman.fandom.com/wiki/Maze_Ghost_AI_Behaviors

New comment by geon in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

geon — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:34:17 +0000

I get kind of nostalgic when I see Verdana on 1024x768 in winxp/2k.

New comment by geon in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

geon — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:19:49 +0000

When I was in college, I drove my carless chemistry geek friend to an agriculture store. Apparently they had a reasonably chemically pure fertilizer.

New comment by geon in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

geon — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:13:43 +0000

When I was 12, I made a "smoke bomb" by placing a fire cracker in the bottom of a tube and topping it up with powdered clay. It shoot out a 4 m tall plume of dust, which was cool and all, but I thought it would look a lot more impressive with a black plume.

So I painstakingly ground down some charcoal to fine dust and redid the same experiment. That gave a much more impressive boom, but no dust plume, which puzzled me until I learned about dust explosions.

New comment by geon in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

geon — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:41:16 +0000

"Could not connect to translation service" was apparently good enough for someone, so the bar must be extremely low.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/3e786n/chinese_hair_...

On the other hand, a lot of people become extremely put off by the smallest sign of ai slop. And the llms have a tendency to impart their style to any text they touch.

New comment by geon in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

geon — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:34:25 +0000

> I did compare a few individual chapters between the Ellsworth translation and the Fable translation.

I'm pretty sure the Ellsworth translation is in the corpus. You basically instructed claude to regurgitate it.

The llms all have the more famous books memorized. You can trick them to recite them more or less word for word.