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New comment by nvarsj in "I Don't Like LLMs"

nvarsj — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:14:25 +0000

Insert "Old Man Yells At Cloud" meme

New comment by nvarsj in "Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)"

nvarsj — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:10:49 +0000

This kind of thing is almost always a result of the performance culture. There are a lot of promo oriented people in big tech who just want money and have no ethics (or engineering competency usually), sadly. These people have no issue at all plagiarising or stealing credit to get themselves more money and success. And it works.

New comment by nvarsj in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

nvarsj — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:27:29 +0000

Kind of bizarre tbh, given the software market for VR seems absolutely dead. Announcing it with a 7 year old game is like, what? What's Valve's plan here?

New comment by nvarsj in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

nvarsj — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:25:31 +0000

Except far less comfortable and motion sick inducing for a non-trivial portion of the population. No thanks.

HL Alyx was awesome though, nothing else on VR has been worth it for me.

New comment by nvarsj in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

nvarsj — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:30:44 +0000

I purge my box every few years. Do you really need 20 usb cables. I do save the esoteric ones though.

New comment by nvarsj in "iPhone Duo"

nvarsj — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:39:26 +0000

Triple fold just seems awkward as heck, plus you have to design the UI for it around the fold section. I’m pretty bullish on the duo design. Hopefully we see some more unique designs in the future if this works out.

New comment by nvarsj in "iPhone Duo"

nvarsj — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:29:42 +0000

What's up with all the negativity? Apple is finally doing something radical (for them) again with the iPhone, their bread and butter. And I'm all here for it. 10 years of the same form factor was getting old. I'm gonna buy this on release, easiest decision ever.

New comment by nvarsj in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

nvarsj — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:07:28 +0000

Reminds me a lot of big tech campus interior decoration. A lot of greys, neutral colors, very little color or personality.

Pretty much what you'd expect from techies that never really thought too hard about their living space beyond functionality.

I mean, I'm the same, so no judgement, but I did hire an interior decorator for my own place. Definitely worth the money and my house has all kinds of funky fun stuff and colors going on (on top of being 130 years old and super wonky everywhere, ha ha).

New comment by nvarsj in "Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs"

nvarsj — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:31:01 +0000

Well I guess it’s time to move my repos and stop paying. The moralism here is ridiculous. My code is my own, sorry.

New comment by nvarsj in "Notes on Private Trackers"

nvarsj — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:02:48 +0000

bibliotek is an interesting one, and one of the most exclusive trackers around.

They have very high requirements as their entire purpose is archival. You can't download anything without uploading new content first.

It's probably the most complete archive of niche books in existence - it's a librarian's wet dream. No wonder LLM training used it, and probably paid a lot of money to someone for access.

New comment by nvarsj in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"

nvarsj — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:37:32 +0000

I can believe it. They are used for general anxiety disorder which I imagine can be kind of similar - an over-reaction to some stimuli.

New comment by nvarsj in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

nvarsj — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:43:59 +0000

Eh I feel like search results have been pretty bad for years. SEO and fake page link farms ruined it.

ChatGPT is trained on all of Reddit and internet forums where most of the useful info is. It just automates the drudgery.

New comment by nvarsj in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

nvarsj — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:23:07 +0000

Yeah I pretty much soley used assistant.kagi.com the last couple months. Traditional search days are really numbered.

I'm finding though ChatGPT with sol 5.6 is as good or better, so I'm using that primarily these days. Can also do actions in browsers on your behalf, so you can have it book your whole vacation, etc. Pretty rad.

New comment by nvarsj in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

nvarsj — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:34:16 +0000

Just use Sol 5.6. There's no reason to endure Anthropic models anymore.

New comment by nvarsj in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

nvarsj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:29:41 +0000

Yeah OAI really nailed the communication style with GPT. It also seems just way more token efficient and faster compared to cc. Myself and all my friends have cancelled our $200 Anthropic subs. I'm using a $20 personal plan and even that is enough for my usage so far.

Also using Codex or Pi makes you realise how slow and clunky the cc harness is. Even the desktop app is more responsive and has better UX.

Funny how quickly the tides change.

New comment by nvarsj in "Kimi K3-256k"

nvarsj — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:56:11 +0000

tintinweb/pi-subagents. Then I use superpowers and it spins up subagents automatically. Works really well and you can customise the models and efforts you want to use with local AGENTS.md.

I’m primarily using gpt-5.6 and then opus for reviews.

New comment by nvarsj in "Kimi K3-256k"

nvarsj — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:45:52 +0000

Pi harness with subagents is pretty great. I’m using it for everything now.

New comment by nvarsj in "Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings"

nvarsj — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:47:46 +0000

Well no king would ever accept and propagate that religion.

New comment by nvarsj in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

nvarsj — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:06:21 +0000

Not hard to understand. People will pay for a better UX. Which Plex has, once you disable all the streaming junk.

Also there’s simply more clients for it. The only way to play Bluray Dolby Vision layers correctly is with an AM6B+ which has an amazing Plex frontend.

New comment by nvarsj in "Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week"

nvarsj — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:43:06 +0000

This assumes Valve isn't artifically bumping up the Steam Machine for more exposure.