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New comment by peder in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

peder — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:05:50 +0000

But tech debt with vibe coding is fixed by just throwing more magic at it. The cost of tech debt has never been lower.

New comment by peder in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"

peder — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:00:29 +0000

Have you been using `omlx serve`? If so, how are you bumping up the max context size? I'm not seeing a param to go above 32k?

New comment by peder in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"

peder — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:22:36 +0000

Did you have any Anthropic vs OpenAI specification issues with Claude Code? I have been using mlx_vlm and vMLX and I get 400 Bad Request errors from Claude Code. Presumably you're not seeing those issues with llama-server ?

New comment by peder in "Cursor 3"

peder — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:57:27 +0000

> I feel like this design direction is leaning more towards a chat interface as a first class citizen and the code itself as a secondary concern.

That's because that's exactly where we're headed, and it's fine.

New comment by peder in "How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage"

peder — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:52:31 +0000

And despite saying that they're the party of YIMBY, in practice we can clearly see that Democrats simply aren't. They'll say that they allowed ADUs, but then Dallas will come along and build 10,000 homes in the time it took Seattle to simply debate ADUs.

At some point you have to look at the actual results of policy.

New comment by peder in "How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage"

peder — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:29:53 +0000

Right, it's not an inherently left vs right thing. Today NIMBYism has been largely a left-wing phenomenon, with really high end housing developments that are politically untouchable by housing projects.

The answer is always the same tho: make it easy to build housing, and build more housing. Keep building housing until there's a glut of supply.

New comment by peder in "How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage"

peder — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:26:31 +0000

Housing prices cratered in China, because, yes, eventually supply catches up and then the ponzi schema has nowhere to go but down. Lots of people hold real estate thinking it's an investment just by itself, so it's been a vicious cycle of prices going up. But if you build enough supply, the market stops treating property that way.

I don't think the Chinese real estate market will ever truly "recover" to the Tulip Mania levels it hit before. Especially with a declining population.

New comment by peder in "How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage"

peder — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:55:56 +0000

Leftists doing anything except just building more housing

Rent is falling all over the Southeast where housing has been built in droves, and actually in greater quantities than new demand. The only solution is just flooding the market with housing.

New comment by peder in "Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive"

peder — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:32:54 +0000

I feel an ocular migraine coming on looking at these.

On CRT displays, did these not cause visual problems in the same way? I remember having no trouble looking at these years ago.

New comment by peder in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

peder — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:15:39 +0000

> A lot of people are venally or ideologically motivated against accepting this.

That’s the story of the last 10 years among certain types that keep regurgitating obviously wrong concepts.

New comment by peder in "NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun"

peder — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:45:33 +0000

Saddened to load this comment thread and see no comments related to Mars and terraforming

New comment by peder in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

peder — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:45:05 +0000

Largely a left-wing echo chamber here (and also seems to be much more European here than the average forum), so everyone here all thinks Musk is doing something illegal just because he's right-wing.

These raids are entirely political.

New comment by peder in "Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info"

peder — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:14:04 +0000

Not sure if you're a .NET/C# person, but PDBs are a bit different tho in that they contain full debug information and you can absolutely decompile a .DLL + .PDB combo. Very successfully even in the case of obfuscation.

New comment by peder in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

peder — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:49:02 +0000

Yep, and nobody ever goes on these types of threads and says the EU is collapsing, even though there's demonstrable evidence that things are not going great for the EU (the UK left, there is virtually zero economic dynamism or tech investment, Russia has seized 1/3 of Ukraine who was trying to join the EU, and the continent has no money, no navies and terrible demographics to compete globally in the next century). People gloss over issues about the EU because it aligns more closely with their political beliefs.

New comment by peder in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

peder — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:41:37 +0000

Precisely. People in this thread almost seem mad that the economy didn't crash in Trump's first year.

New comment by peder in "CRISPR-like tools that finally can edit mitochondria DNA"

peder — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:37:31 +0000

And then when it gets it wrong and you ask why it grew a nose instead of an ear: "You're absolutely right! I can fix this!"

New comment by peder in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

peder — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:09:14 +0000

Because it's talking past each other. Very few people are literally asking for divine intervention, they're conveying wishes for a good outcome

New comment by peder in "iPhone dumbphone"

peder — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:16:14 +0000

> At least a few of these, like payments and basic communications, can be done from a watch.

Is that a distinction without a difference?

New comment by peder in "LLM Inevitabilism"

peder — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:31:42 +0000

Utter nonsense. The scale of disruption with LLMs is almost unfathomable. Every small business in the country has basically abandoned the big platforms and expensive enterprises for IT support, marketing and digital content creation, HR, legal...

Patients are having detailed conversations about their health with LLMs. Office visits for routine questions are plummeting.

Software is written almost entirely by LLMs, producing a greater volume of code in a fraction of the time.

Rapidly, we are approaching a point where there is no need for junior employees in most organizations. It's not industry-specific, it's universal. This will reshape corporate Big Four accounting, software engineering, and medicine because revenue will shift so dramatically.

This is not just some marginally more effective use of computing resources.

New comment by peder in "LLM Inevitabilism"

peder — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:27:03 +0000

Most of the comments here feel like cope about AI TBH. There's never been an innovation like this ever, and it makes sense to get on board rather than be left behind.