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New comment by slices in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

slices — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:23:05 +0000

I've seen behavior like that when the model wasn't being served with sufficiently sized context window

New comment by slices in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

slices — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:43:28 +0000

Regions in the US dominated by Nordic immigrants have similar patterns!

New comment by slices in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

slices — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:38:30 +0000

Have you played with the effort setting? I'm finding medium effort on 4.6 to give more satisfactory results for that kind of thing.

New comment by slices in "An Update on Heroku"

slices — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:38:37 +0000

I would love to see the prompt that led to that word salad

New comment by slices in "An Update on Heroku"

slices — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:40:45 +0000

Just about to set up a new app to deploy to Heroku, but this does not seem promising. Render seems like the next logical move, but curious where others are looking for alternatives.

New comment by slices in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

slices — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:28:36 +0000

which was true

New comment by slices in "The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic US"

slices — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:31:58 +0000

David Sacks might be interested to know his title is now "Zar".

New comment by slices in "Bye, Google Search"

slices — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:27:50 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me how google search _used_ to work great for stuff like this. You could just type "tbray {obscure term on a blog entry from 10 years ago}" and bam, instant result.

I guess google generates more ad revenue with users forlornly paging through search results, hoping against hope that what they're looking for is there somewhere...

New comment by slices in "How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?"

slices — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:27:09 +0000

I thought they were talking about League of Legends players, whoops

New comment by slices in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

slices — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:01:54 +0000

I've never been a huge user of either, but my worst Uber ride was much better than my best taxi ride.

New comment by slices in "Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science"

slices — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:40:27 +0000

ideally, science would be the best available information on "is". When the science is i.e. funded by a tobacco company and regarding the safety of tobacco, we should be skeptical. How much of current science falls in a similar class?

New comment by slices in "Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science"

slices — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:37:14 +0000

how many public health officials acted with awareness of the prevention paradox during covid?

New comment by slices in "The withering dream of a cheap American electric car"

slices — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:11:27 +0000

if your cheap Chinese EV starts on fire and burns down your house, it might not have been such a good deal

New comment by slices in "The withering dream of a cheap American electric car"

slices — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:09:29 +0000

true. I wasted over a year waiting to get a base model Toyota Sienna, and eventually realized they might as well not exist.

New comment by slices in "The withering dream of a cheap American electric car"

slices — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:59:22 +0000

Since 90% of my car trips are under 30 minutes, yes that would be worthwhile.

The other 10% are beyond any practical battery range, so a BEV isn't an option.

New comment by slices in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

slices — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:56:03 +0000

living in a major US city in 2012, we had ancient DSL

New comment by slices in "Learning not to trust the All-In podcast"

slices — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:07:24 +0000

a guy with a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, who then worked for years at MIT, isn't an intellectual?

New comment by slices in "Memos: stick private notes on your email"

slices — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:30:20 +0000

"private", but the Australian government can access freely.

New comment by slices in "Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales before industrial technology"

slices — Fri, 10 May 2024 14:53:49 +0000

Very similar experience, it was cool seeing & hearing a whale up close, but man that must be annoying for the whale.

New comment by slices in "Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?"

slices — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:28:49 +0000

no, Heroku is fine, as long as you have a basic understanding. If your service becomes a runaway hit, your heroku bill may get big, I assume that's what OP is referring to.