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New comment by maupin in "Anthropic S-1"

maupin — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:14:26 +0000

I have 2 DGX Sparks, 256 GB unified RAM, so not a cheap set of hardware. Luckily I bought them before the recent price increase.

However even with a high tier gaming machine you can run one of the Qwen models and it will be good at coding... like having an intern with boundless energy that will sometimes make mistakes but in general save you a lot of time. And for automating tasks involving scanning documents or creating summaries it will be brilliant.

New comment by maupin in "Anthropic S-1"

maupin — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:06:06 +0000

By all reports they are not good and have quite a few bugs. But the thing about open source is that, if maintained, it almost always improves. And with the bar for maintenance so low due to AI, we are entering a very interesting time for software.

And by interesting I mean scary, if you sell software.

New comment by maupin in "Anthropic S-1"

maupin — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:56:13 +0000

I am running GLM 5.3 Flash locally at home for coding and from my point of view it is indistinguishable from the frontier models of 6 months ago. It can handle almost every task I throw at it.

New comment by maupin in "Pi 1.0"

maupin — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:04:43 +0000

I won't say Pi looks particularly impressive, but for example OpenCode looks beautiful to me and I prefer it to any graphical interface. The screenshots of your tool are nice but they feel like too much. With a good TUI like OpenCode and even Pi (which is decent) I fell like the code is front and foremost.

New comment by maupin in "Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code"

maupin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:04:51 +0000

Didn't expect a stealth ad at the end there.

New comment by maupin in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

maupin — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:01:09 +0000

Same. I haven't seen this. And I hope I never do unless I specifically click a button to enable it.

New comment by maupin in "Storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs (2022)"

maupin — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:12:03 +0000

Well, today I learned something. I've gotten my phone stuck in this mode (half of the screen hidden below the bottom edge) and just assumed it was an iOS bug.

New comment by maupin in "DeepSeek could represent Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's worst nightmare"

maupin — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:42:40 +0000

> “We didn’t think China was ever going to compete in AI,” said Dion Hinchcliffe, vice president of the CIO practice at Futurum Research last week.

What? Oh, come on now.

New comment by maupin in "Show HN: Interactive game teaching dark patterns in UX design"

maupin — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:58:05 +0000

I think your UI could use some work, funny enough. But I like the concept, it's just that the way the page and "game" works is not exactly clear.

New comment by maupin in "FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine"

maupin — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:38:15 +0000

Loadstar (a C64 magazine) for me is still the gold standard for magazines on disk. Every issue was a pleasure and so well put together.

New comment by maupin in "Studios: Please don't spoil the movie we are seated to see"

maupin — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:19:56 +0000

That was my experience. For the recent rerelease I took my kids to see it for the first time in the theater. And we were treated to 20 minutes of spoilers before the movie started. Thanks, jerks.

New comment by maupin in "Japan's humble onigiri took over lunchtimes around the world"

maupin — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:06:44 +0000

These are what I miss most about my years living in Japan. I made them for my kids a few weeks ago and they adored them. You can buy plastic-lined seaweed sheets to fold the rice into, so opening them is almost the same experience as onigiri from a Japanese conbini. For a filling, I just mixed together some tuna, salt, and mayo.

New comment by maupin in "The Art of Finishing"

maupin — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 12:58:33 +0000

> 1. Define “Done” from the Start

Impossible for almost any non-trivial project.

New comment by maupin in "Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash"

maupin — Wed, 22 May 2024 15:12:52 +0000

I like how the website is as easy to read as a glossy magazine brochure in a gloomy cave entrance on an overcast day.

New comment by maupin in "DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war stories"

maupin — Tue, 14 May 2024 15:40:45 +0000

Accidentally read the last post first. My mind immediately jumped to copy protection as the purpose for that large nonsensical routine.

New comment by maupin in "How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?"

maupin — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:31:10 +0000

Wouldn't it make more sense for the switch to pattern 2 prefix matching to ignore the repeated characters? So if the user typed LLA the prefix matched would be LA (ignore the first L), not LLA.

New comment by maupin in "FFmpeg 7.0"

maupin — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:18:19 +0000

Too true! For a recent video project I wrote a 300 line bash script to generate the ffmpeg arguments needed to accomplish what I was after.

New comment by maupin in "FFmpeg 7.0"

maupin — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:15:16 +0000

In my case I'm working with very large uncompressed video. Files that are 1 hour and 300+ GB in size. I tried using Kdenlive but it choked.

I'm not saying the CLI is easy to learn, but once you do learn it, you have a lot of power at your fingertips.

New comment by maupin in "FFmpeg 7.0"

maupin — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:43:06 +0000

ffmpeg is such a joy to use, once you make it over the very steep learning curve.

I'm making some youtube videos where I play through Demon's Souls flipping a coin to decide to equip items or not, and I wanted to have an onscreen coin flip animation and sound effect. With some effort, I created a transparent set of frames for the animation. Then with ffmpeg's filter_complex I was able to add the image sequence as a video stream, overlay it over the original video, and add a sound effect. That's on top of the existing subtitles, audio channel merging, and video resizing/compression. All in a single (long!) ffmpeg cli command.

ffmpeg is one of the true wonders of FOSS.

New comment by maupin in "Google I/O '24 Puzzles"

maupin — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:29:36 +0000

It doesn't say it. It probably should.