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New comment by kingsleyopara in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

kingsleyopara — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:18:59 +0000

Thanks Nirav, always appreciated :)

P.S. The printer gag was cruel, just saying.

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

kingsleyopara — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:33:57 +0000

I really want to love this thing but at least in the UK, matching specs it comes out as more expensive than the MBP - even worse when you factor in potential discounts/sales which framework doesn't offer.

Framework 13 Pro: £2064 (Ultra X7 358H, 16GB, 1TB, default ports, no adapter)

Framework 13 Pro: £2264 (Ultra X7 358H, 32GB, 1TB, default ports, no adapter)

MacBook Pro 14: £1699 (M5, 16GB, 1TB, no adapter)

MacBook Pro 14: £2099 (M5, 32GB, 1TB, no adapter)

MacBook Pro 14: £2199 (M5 Pro, 24GB, 1TB, no adapter) - added as I think it’s an even better deal

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

kingsleyopara — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:58:45 +0000

Any word if this applies internationally? Looking forward to seeing commingling phased out in the UK as well

New comment by kingsleyopara in "IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act"

kingsleyopara — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:11:21 +0000

The most frustrating part here is that this car crash of a policy had cross party support so there wasn’t even a way for UK people like me to vote against it.

New comment by kingsleyopara in "iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max"

kingsleyopara — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:58:52 +0000

Surprising there’s no matte-black iPhone 17 Pro - dark, low-reflectance finishes are standard in pro video kit because they minimise specular reflections and stray highlights; keeping a shiny silver finish and skipping a subdued matte black feels like a strange choice and undercuts the “Pro” claim.

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Apple Debuts iPhone 17"

kingsleyopara — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:44:29 +0000

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Gemini CLI"

kingsleyopara — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:54:02 +0000

Thanks so much for this! I’d really appreciate a more consumer oriented subscription offering, similar to Claude Max, that combines Gemini CLI (with IP compliance) and the Gemini app (extra points for API access too!).

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Gemini CLI"

kingsleyopara — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:48:42 +0000

Gemini 2.5 pro in workspace was restricted to 32k tokens [0] - do you know if this is still the case?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleGeminiAI/comments/1jrynhk/war...

New comment by kingsleyopara in "SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators"

kingsleyopara — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 11:02:55 +0000

For zero-shot accuracy from Table 3:

* LLaMA 3 8B: baseline 72.26, 4-bit 71.31, 3-bit 62.79

* LLaMA 3 70B: baseline 79.51, 4-bit 78.06, 3-bit 74.68

These results seem comparable to modern quantization methods—for example, the ~4-bit results for smaller LLaMA models listed here: https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-quantized-lightweight-mo...

New comment by kingsleyopara in "SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators"

kingsleyopara — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 10:47:42 +0000

I was about to post something similar. While the research is interesting, it doesn’t offer any advantages over 3- or 4-bit quantization. I also have to assume they explored using longer tiles but found it to be ineffective — which would make sense to me from an information theory perspective.

New comment by kingsleyopara in "James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rotate Clockwise"

kingsleyopara — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:12:17 +0000

Exactly and anything new entering the spinning black hole is likely to inherit its spin.

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC"

kingsleyopara — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:37:50 +0000

Apologies, I stand corrected. Do you have a reference for this? I'm genuinely curious why the 96GB "limit" is so frequently cited - I assumed it must be a hardware limitation.

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC"

kingsleyopara — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:29:44 +0000

One thing to note on the more RAM: for the 128GB option, my understanding is that the GPU is limited to using only 96GB [1]. In contrast, on Macs, you can safely increase this to, for example, 116GB using `sysctl`.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-beastly...

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC"

kingsleyopara — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:17:40 +0000

A Mac mini with an M4 Pro and 64GB of memory has the same bandwidth and costs £1,999, compared to £1,750 for the Framework Desktop when factoring in the minimum costs for storage, tiles, and necessary expansion cards.

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Tandem OLED is OLED's latest weapon in holding off MicroLED, QDEL"

kingsleyopara — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:53:03 +0000

Dual-layer LCD is best thought of as a separate technology from tandem OLED, due to being transmissive rather than emissive. In many respects, it surpasses OLED, which is why mastering monitors used in Hollywood still employ this technology. Unfortunately, the poor efficiency and excessive energy consumption/heat output have hindered its adoption in the consumer market.

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Show HN: Python Compression Suite for Pandas DataFrames, CSV and Excel Files"

kingsleyopara — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 14:41:44 +0000

Thanks for the clarification! In that case, the README could definitely benefit from including at least one example to illustrate this functionality. That said, as you pointed out, selectively loading relevant columns—which pandas supports for both Parquet and CSV—would still be a more straightforward approach for most use cases.

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Show HN: Python Compression Suite for Pandas DataFrames, CSV and Excel Files"

kingsleyopara — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:53:14 +0000

I struggle to see the utility of projects like this. For tabular data in active use, decompression will still require the same peak memory, so optimizing data types (e.g., reducing float and integer precision, using categorical columns) is more effective. For storage or unused data, a more portable and supported solution like Apache Parquet, which offers native compression, or simply gzipping a CSV, seems more practical.

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones"

kingsleyopara — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:17:52 +0000

I question the accuracy of those statistics. I’m one of the few people who game on macOS and almost exclusively use Steam via CrossOver, so I wouldn’t be included in that 1.37%. The same was true before the Apple Silicon era when I used Boot Camp.

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Go 1.23 Released"

kingsleyopara — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:30:27 +0000

Privacy concerns aside, I personally don't appreciate binaries making network requests unless it's strictly required for them to function.

New comment by kingsleyopara in "Techniques used by developers to bypass App Store review"

kingsleyopara — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 09:30:27 +0000

You probably know this already but just in case: you need to deregister iMessage explicitly and can do this online even without the device https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage