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New comment by hamandcheese in "What Is Codemode"

hamandcheese — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:55:31 +0000

This somewhat validates a fear I've had (but hadn't tested) of codemode with smaller models. It works fantastically with Opus and Sol but I've always wondered how well it scales down.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

hamandcheese — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:25:09 +0000

In its current form, Meta's muse is actually the most pro-user agent among Muse, Instinct, and Grok bot. Instinct and Grok bot are both prompted to hide details from you, not reveal how they work, etc. which is user-hostile.

Muse on the other hand is very much Your Agent and does not (yet) have silly limitations that work against your interests.

I hate Meta as much as the next guy, but Muse is well designed.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries"

hamandcheese — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:04:45 +0000

I wonder if increased reliance on VPPs increases the difficulty of a black start. Especially since these things are internet controlled, I can't help but feel like there's a bit of a circular dependency. Can't coordinate the VPP without internet, can't have internet without power, can we black start without coordinating the VPP?

New comment by hamandcheese in "Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries"

hamandcheese — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:58:49 +0000

Are there peaker plants that come online for seasonal variance?

New comment by hamandcheese in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

hamandcheese — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:06:40 +0000

...is it? I'm looking and it seems like it doesn't have any data. It might be useful if they keep it up.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

hamandcheese — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:05:11 +0000

> The same can be said of Linux, it can be a real PITA finding and configuring drivers for something that should not take more than a few seconds.

If you value your own dignity you should see that these scenarios are worlds apart. In one case you have a trillion-dollar company actively working against your own interests. On the other hand, you had some trouble finding drivers for a volunteer-driven project, which is a problem that you are actually empowered to fix.

New comment by hamandcheese in "I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago"

hamandcheese — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:21:51 +0000

Presumably, if you are positioned to plug in Jev (or an LLM classifier), then you are also positioned to collect training data.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint"

hamandcheese — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:29:09 +0000

If we were talking about speed instead of size, i think it would be perfectly reasonable to say 9x faster. I'm not sure I agree that 9x smaller is unintuitive. It makes sense to me.

New comment by hamandcheese in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

hamandcheese — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:58:28 +0000

Why not? If its the difference between the information being available at all, then I choose login any day of the week.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

hamandcheese — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:41:47 +0000

And what a lot of people seem to miss is that with AI, there is going to be (already is?) orders of magnitude more software in this world. I'm sure a lot of jobs will be eliminated, but new jobs will be created as well. Hopefully enough to balance things out, but we'll see.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

hamandcheese — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:42:21 +0000

> if you can actually afford to use the cloud.

If you are an individual and you want to store a media library, you'll go broke instantly.

I have roughly 200TB of storage capacity, 100TB used, in my NAS. That would be $2300/mo on S3 before even getting to access fees and network egress.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

hamandcheese — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:36:37 +0000

> Creating an issue first is pointless spamming akin to the classic "asking to ask"

Many projects disagree with you on this one. It is quite common to have a policy that forbids PRs without an issue or discussion first.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Creepy Crawlies"

hamandcheese — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:46 +0000

I wonder how much is for training vs for LLMs doing research. On several occasions Claude has gone digging through kernel archives on my behalf (sometimes at my direction, other times all on its own). Usually to determine the current status of some kernel bug I'm experiencing. Apologies for the load, but I'm sure it was much less than an actual crawler trying to slurp up everything.

New comment by hamandcheese in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

hamandcheese — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:50:48 +0000

Sometimes Earth is the one that is in between.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework"

hamandcheese — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:02:26 +0000

This seams neat, but I'm not sure I understand the purpose/difference between this and using the iOS simulator.

New comment by hamandcheese in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

hamandcheese — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:27:58 +0000

I believe you were referring to one kind of eclipsed and with my subtle edit I was referring to a different kind of eclipse :)

New comment by hamandcheese in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

hamandcheese — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:45:58 +0000

And when it’s in between we cannot even see it (when it’s exactly in line).

New comment by hamandcheese in "A week of using Codex more than Claude"

hamandcheese — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:20:08 +0000

The story of how the code got to a certain state belongs primarily in git commit messages, not in comments. Comments should serve to aid in understanding of the code, highlight footguns or hidden dependencies, etc.

Claude very often litters code with comments about decisions that were made within a single session/pull request, its just noise.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs"

hamandcheese — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:24:47 +0000

If I'm paying you per-second of screen on time: yes.

New comment by hamandcheese in "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs"

hamandcheese — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:21:20 +0000

> No, you paid for the end result.

No, I literally am paying for the thought process, per token. "Pay only for the result" is not how these things are billed.