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New comment by lvl155 in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

lvl155 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:54:42 +0000

This is not a viable strategy. You're effectively paying for hardware and/or cloud. Why do this when OpenAI and Anthropic are both significantly subsidizing costs to win the market?

Talk to “AI” executives at large firms and 95% of them are clueless sales types that crawled their way to the top. Then again, it is basically a repeat of IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. Same dumb executives making decision to not get fired and enjoy their place at corp.

New comment by lvl155 in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2"

lvl155 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:48:34 +0000

You mean other than the fact that MacOS continues its slow decline? And the fact that giving your customers different options to use their hardwares would attract more even more customers?

New comment by lvl155 in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2"

lvl155 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:04:36 +0000

It’s a shame that Macs have leading processors and hardwares but Apple can’t make Linux first-class. I know they have full builds internally so it’s not a matter of resources.

It’s simply a business decision for Apple. And quite a dumb one at that. Here’s hoping that Ternus reverses that shortsighted decision.

New comment by lvl155 in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"

lvl155 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:20:34 +0000

Man. DuckDB is one of my favorite tools in the past decade. It basically replaced pandas/Polars for me and I hope aws leaves it alone.

Otoh, I am glad those guys got paid.

New comment by lvl155 in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

lvl155 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:02:16 +0000

Every time Intel/AMD gets close enough, Apple just crushes competition in terms of SoC. I don’t know who’s on that chip team but they’re world-class. Hope they get paid more than a bunch of AI idiots Meta hired to do absolutely nothing (but I know they are not even close).

New comment by lvl155 in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

lvl155 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:13:32 +0000

They sorta did right? It didn’t sell well at all.

New comment by lvl155 in "Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

lvl155 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:57:49 +0000

Nice for them to add Thread and 10G ethernet to base Mac Studio. If they allowed first class Linux, this could be a great home server machine. I ordered the base model. 512GB SSD scares me but would I even notice plugging in TB5 external drive?

New comment by lvl155 in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

lvl155 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:22:20 +0000

Let’s be honest, it was DOA. Even Gruber admitted to it later. The whole thing was basically a scam.

Edit: I will never understand why people think ACA was so great. It was a bad policy because they couldn’t get it through whole. They passed it with all the compromises that made it DOA. You can’t fix something when you are still in denial about it being bad. ACA is not a transition to universal healthcare when you allowed massive consolidation in the space with some of the biggest companies in this country. Good luck deconstructing that mess.

New comment by lvl155 in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

lvl155 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:19:50 +0000

You mean obstacles from politicians who took money from the healthcare industry. That’s how we ended up with PPACA and they used it to justify massive cost increases and consolidations. They passed that junk to save face and now healthcare is far worse. But we “closed” the donut hole, right? Quite literally made everyone worse off and no one wants to talk about it. I still can’t believe they allowed payors such as UNH to buy up everything without ANY proper investigations during that period.

New comment by lvl155 in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

lvl155 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:17:40 +0000

I’ve stopped using OpenRouter this year. And I stopped using different models for testing. Anthropic won. I’ve even let my OpenAI API credits expire (which is a ridiculous policy in itself) because I had no need for them.

New comment by lvl155 in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

lvl155 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:33:10 +0000

All the money in the world and Zuck can’t buy anything worthwhile in AI. The problem at Meta is really Zuck taking interest in AI. Perhaps the adults should steer him back toward VR unless they all left.

New comment by lvl155 in "Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era"

lvl155 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:31:57 +0000

If you’re going to use AI, why use charting libraries? Just build it off of D3. By the way, latest models still struggle with charts/diagrams even if you specify your design system.

New comment by lvl155 in "Did they ghost you?"

lvl155 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:46:47 +0000

I was once ghosted mid interview day. They left me in conference room and completely forgot. I was going to walk out after 30 minutes but I just wanted to see how long I could stay there. It took them five hours. And this was in a “highly secure” building so not sure how they invite someone to interview and let them just hangout inside the building for five hours.

New comment by lvl155 in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

lvl155 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:47:11 +0000

What if I told you writing in all caps is even better for your brain.

New comment by lvl155 in "Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon"

lvl155 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:47:37 +0000

Basically most of the technology was US govt funded at some point. Now the Dutch can just leech off of that. I guess that’s what they’re good at considering their long history with VOC and “mercantilism”.

New comment by lvl155 in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

lvl155 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:54:31 +0000

So they used pirated materials to train their models but others can’t use their models for training even if you pay.

New comment by lvl155 in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

lvl155 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:16:41 +0000

It is not SOTA. Give me a break. Sure, run it on Cerebras to get speed but that’s pretty much its advantage.

New comment by lvl155 in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

lvl155 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:34:16 +0000

As much as I detest Zuck, he was right about Twitter guys.

New comment by lvl155 in "Blender 5.2 LTS"

lvl155 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:27:27 +0000

Even if you never use Blender, I highly recommend you to donate to the organization if you happen to donate to non-profit tech organizations/projects.

New comment by lvl155 in "Blender 5.2 LTS"

lvl155 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:24:53 +0000

It’d pretty much Houdini plus render engine of your choice. Blender will eventually get there especially if someone rolls out an AI module.