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New comment by regexorcist in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

regexorcist — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:31:11 +0000

What? The US govt has in practice unlimited access to whatever that's hosted in the US, or even outside by a US company. It's called the CLOUD act.

New comment by regexorcist in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

regexorcist — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:04:58 +0000

I have done both extensively and heavy, and like you said yourself, with the barbell deadlift you will sometimes trash your back. Yes it does work the back muscles a little harder, but for me the extra risk isn't worth it. Also with the trap bar you can lift more weight so it balances out.

New comment by regexorcist in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

regexorcist — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:50:30 +0000

> the best workout is the one you can do on the way to the bathroom

Absolutely not. This is what you tell sedentary people to get them to move a bit. For your purpose of looking good, you're wasting your time. You need to add weight every workout.

> I've been training with appearance (especially to women) in mind

That is the wrong mindset, but then again what I told you earlier will give you the appearance you seek. Seriously just go to a proper gym with a barbell.

New comment by regexorcist in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

regexorcist — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:08:26 +0000

That is way too much, of the wrong type. You're doing a lot of isolation work, but really you should be focusing on compound lifts with the barbell. Check out Stronglifts 5x5 for example.

New comment by regexorcist in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

regexorcist — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:57:58 +0000

With a few millions in the bank I'd retire to Asia and live off interests. I guarantee you wouldn't be treated like shit.

New comment by regexorcist in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

regexorcist — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:13:52 +0000

> but it goes mostly to the gut

This is so weird to me if you're always working out as you said. What are you doing at the gym? Compound barbell movements with heavy weights will absolutely prevent this and get you jacked in the right places.

New comment by regexorcist in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

regexorcist — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:22:01 +0000

Same here, really life changing for me with a back injury. I recommend hex bar deadlifts as they put much less pressure on the lower back than conventional ones. And front squats for the same reason.

New comment by regexorcist in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

regexorcist — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:51:20 +0000

At this point I simply don't care about Anthropic or OAI in the slightest, the exciting stuff is coming from China with great, cheap SOTA models and local AI that people can run themselves.

New comment by regexorcist in "Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak"

regexorcist — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:56:11 +0000

I use bubblewrap directly, never liked Flatpak.

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

regexorcist — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:33:52 +0000

> 90% of features for systems half a decade old

This can be a good tradeoff. An M1 Ultra still runs circles around 90% of consumer hardware sold today, and with Linux it has easily another 10+ years. Now support for M3 is coming.

> Asahi is doing incredible work but it's still 5 people in a garage vs the huge corporation.

Not sure why the "vs" scenario, this is a project that makes no promises. And I think they do have some support from Fedora / Red Hat fwiw.

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

regexorcist — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:52:22 +0000

Yeah for a lot of us macOS really gets in the way of using the otherwise excellent hardware. My daily driver is an M1 Pro with Asahi and it's easily my favorite computer ever. It's a real shame that the newer M models can't run Linux.

New comment by regexorcist in "Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement"

regexorcist — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:12:42 +0000

I get ~10 tok/sec on a M1 Ultra, but the real issue is abysmal prompt processing which makes it unusable. On the M1 and M2 series MTP is actively harmful for performance.

New comment by regexorcist in "Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement"

regexorcist — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:07:52 +0000

What signals? Looking more like a tiered release.

New comment by regexorcist in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

regexorcist — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:35:42 +0000

Any good LLM should be able to come up with the equivalent git and curl commands fairly easily.

New comment by regexorcist in "Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things"

regexorcist — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:54:37 +0000

I'm doing much the same, avoid the long thinking loops and instead have more iterations on the plan with reviews from different angles.

New comment by regexorcist in "Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results"

regexorcist — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:11:48 +0000

When I set up my local AI server I tried different harnesses and one prompt was to build a site for a consultancy in my domain. Not long after an actual agency I know had a website redesign and it was the exact same thing I got from my local model and the Hermes agent with the web design skill.

New comment by regexorcist in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

regexorcist — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:56:51 +0000

6 or 7 years here, no news or socials. I keep telling people the same thing, you find out about the important stuff real quick regardless. The rest is noise and rage bait.

New comment by regexorcist in "Our position on open-weights models"

regexorcist — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:12:59 +0000

He is well aware. This is just another pathetic attempt at being handed a monopoly based on fear-mongering and protectionism.

New comment by regexorcist in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

regexorcist — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:43:45 +0000

Indeed, and I kinda miss it. My first couple IT jobs were right in Central London and we would all religiously meet at the pub after work, along with hundreds from other companies of all kinds. The banter was glorious.

New comment by regexorcist in "Our position on open-weights models"

regexorcist — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:21:05 +0000

Don't be so naive. He only wants a monopoly and a massive IPO.