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New comment by neutrinobro in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

neutrinobro — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:28:08 +0000

We might already be there. I've been running Qwen-3.6-27B with 8-bit quantization locally with llama.cpp (~100k context window), and to be honest for my use case, 40-50% of the time it is more usable than claude-code. I only have the $20/mo plan, so I often hit rate limits after 2-3 prompts. And while the local model is slower, it just keeps chugging, is practically free, and more often than not produces code similar to claude. I wouldn't be surprised if in 6-12 months we have local models which are comparable to opus 4.6...which I personally consider as a tipping point where agentic coding became practical.

New comment by neutrinobro in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

neutrinobro — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:53:12 +0000

Ah yes, how apropos, a "modest proposal" for a new AI era.

New comment by neutrinobro in "FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale"

neutrinobro — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:15:44 +0000

> At the same time, new versions of FFmpeg brought support for new codecs and file formats, and reliability improvements, all of which allowed us to ingest more diverse video content from users without disruptions.

While it is good they worked to get their internal improvements into upstream, and this is certainly better behavior than some other unmentioned tech giants. It makes one wonder (since they are presumably running it tens of billions of times per day), if they were involved in supporting these improvements all along. If not, why not?

New comment by neutrinobro in "We rendered and embedded one million CAD files"

neutrinobro — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:30:00 +0000

Neat, but also hilarious! Searching for "mug" gives results where the first item listed (ABC-00008297) is a mug model with a hole not only in the top to pour in your drink, but also in the side and bottom (just in case you wanted more access to your liquid).

New comment by neutrinobro in "Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association"

neutrinobro — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:34:20 +0000

No idea, you can still get one-off boards here and there, but buying anything in quantity has been tricky. I can only surmise supermicro's resources are largely tied up with AI data center build out, with everything else relegated to short runs.

New comment by neutrinobro in "Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association"

neutrinobro — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:12:56 +0000

Nice write up! For this sort of thing, I have leaned towards AMD Epyc, Intel e810, and DPDK for the software stack. Unfortunately, lately the supermicro H13SSL line of mobo's appear to have become near-unobtainable with ridiculous 6+ month lead times.

New comment by neutrinobro in "The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody"

neutrinobro — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:45:41 +0000

My comment was directed at your statement "that at no point in history was the US dollar 100% backed by gold (or silver, originally). Never." which is entirely false. The US dollar (the currency unit), was at one point quite literally an exact weight of silver. This is no longer the case, but it was true in the past. This has nothing to do with the nation debt, or what is backing it. Obviously, the national debt isn't collateralized by precious metals or anything else except the military and power to raise taxes.

New comment by neutrinobro in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

neutrinobro — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:34:55 +0000

The lack of an easy method to automatically pull in and manage dependencies in C/C++ is starting to look a lot more like a feature than a bug now.

New comment by neutrinobro in "The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody"

neutrinobro — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:21:51 +0000

Wrong. As per the Coinage Act of 1792, the US dollar was to be equal to exactly 371.25 grains of fine silver.

New comment by neutrinobro in "NASA finds Titan's lakes may be creating vesicles with primitive cell walls"

neutrinobro — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:22:38 +0000

Titan is completely dead, you can bet on that.

New comment by neutrinobro in "OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police"

neutrinobro — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:47:33 +0000

Yeah, I was equally surprised. I am using a patched version of ollama to run the models: https://github.com/austinksmith/ollama37 which has a trivial change to allow it to run with old versions of cuda (3.5, 3.7). Obviously this was before tensor cores were a thing, so you're not going to be blown away by the performance, but it was cheap. I got 3x k40s for $75 on ebay, they are passively cooled, so they do need to be in a server chassis.

New comment by neutrinobro in "OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police"

neutrinobro — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:26:22 +0000

I have a old system with 3 ancient Tesla K40s which can easily run inference on ~30B parameter models (e.g. qwen3-coder:30b). I mostly use it as a compute box for other workloads, but its not completely incapable for some AI assisted coding. It is power hungry though, and the recent spike in local electricity rates is enough of an excuse to keep it off most of the time.

New comment by neutrinobro in "From XML to JSON to CBOR"

neutrinobro — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:49:14 +0000

These days you don't have to worry about endianness much (unless you dealing with raw network packets). However, you do need to worry about byte-padding. Different compilers/systems will place byte padding between items in your struct differently (depending on the contents and ordering of items), and if you are not careful the in-memory or on-disk placement of struct data elements can be misaligned on different systems. Most systems align to a 8-byte boundary, but that isn't guaranteed.

New comment by neutrinobro in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

neutrinobro — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 01:24:56 +0000

Just drill a small ~1mm hole in the seat/down tube of all bikes before each race. That shouldn't meaningfully affect the frame's structural integrity, but would easily disable any small motor attached to the crank.

New comment by neutrinobro in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

neutrinobro — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 01:18:37 +0000

This was bound to happen at some point, but probably net-on-net won't affect most users. I think it's pretty useful for a variety of tasks, but those tend to fall into a rather narrow category (boilerplate, simple UI change requests, simple doc-strings/summaries), and there is only so much of that work which is required in a month. I certainly won't be cancelling my plan over this change, but so far I also haven't seen a reason to increase it over the hobbyist-style $20/mo plan. When I do run into usage limits, its usually already at the end of the day, or I just pivot to another task where it isn't helpful.

New comment by neutrinobro in "Cheap yet ultrapure titanium might enable widespread use in industry (2024)"

neutrinobro — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:10:53 +0000

Buried at the end of the article:

> A limitation of this work is that the resulting de-oxygenated titanium contains yttrium, up to 1% by mass; > After solving the yttrium contamination problem, applications to industrial manufacturing will be straightforward.

One wonders how much of a problem this is for most applications, and how easy it will be to solve...

New comment by neutrinobro in "The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)"

neutrinobro — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:34:19 +0000

You are free to use facebook.

New comment by neutrinobro in "The Curious Similarity Between LLMs and Quantum Mechanics"

neutrinobro — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:17:31 +0000

I was half expecting a discussion of the eigenvalues of a random matrix, or something at least halfway plausible, but no, this is useless mumbo jumbo, a la Deepak Chopra. People with zero understanding of quantum mechanics should stop making analogies to everything else.

New comment by neutrinobro in "SpiceNice – An open source spice database"

neutrinobro — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:05:09 +0000

No, that's exactly why I clicked on it too.

New comment by neutrinobro in "Why is language documentation still so terrible?"

neutrinobro — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 01:42:28 +0000

I disagree, cppreference is pretty good. The information is very complete and useful examples abound. And just because you may not understand a template operator definition does not make it useless documentation.