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New comment by strobe in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

strobe — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:31:17 +0000

yes, and it's already some offerings like that but they all cost a lot because they only good for "I have some idea of workload for N hours or days" lets rent it and run. That fine for some experimentation but if you think about renting something 24/7 even for example to share it with the friends that will cost at least 4x from any API prices as result (something like rtx 6000 48gb will cost ~$470/m).

New comment by strobe in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

strobe — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:49:14 +0000

it worked for me okay when I needed it for myself in my personal account. But when I tried setup this for a company I spent almost a day solving lot of small puzzles in GCE like how to tell CEO that he have to connect billing account created for other purposes (and he not even remember at time that it exist) to new project and all other things that others talking about.

New comment by strobe in "How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video]"

strobe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:27:54 +0000

I'm always very frustrated about this pencils manufacturer as they avoiding using standard softness marking like everybody else (..H,HB,B,2B..etc).

New comment by strobe in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"

strobe — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:12:35 +0000

even if they are is no guarantee that for 'your' specific tasks is beneficial in any means

New comment by strobe in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"

strobe — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:10:10 +0000

openai works well with subscription, as many non major providers subscriptions

New comment by strobe in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

strobe — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:25:20 +0000

it doesn't imply that lot legacy apps won't crash in prod when it will be actually released. Cool that some complex app is working but is nothing proving that everything will be fine when everyone will try to upgrade.

New comment by strobe in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

strobe — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:53:41 +0000

I don't think that Devs making those chooses but business and industry forcing devs to explore other options. One of the main issues with Scala currently that is no good selling story anymore for a business peoples. Even Rust story with 'memory safety' very fragile because not a lot of businesses see it as huge issue which worth additional effort (probably only MS backing helps there).

In the past it was lot of selling points that business could see:

- 'better java' - more velocity over java without loosing anything

- 'type safety / FP' - less errors that cost money in production (backed by 'Typesafe/Lightbend' company)

- 'akka' - platform for distributed/concurrency applications (in pre kubernetes era was big demand for it)

- 'spark' - initially Scala was only way to use it fully

- 'twitter' - startup success story

- and few more

But now nothing from this list has any real meaning for peoples making decisions currently.

Kotlin actually suffer from this too as 'better java' not that big deal when java constantly improving.

New comment by strobe in "EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why"

strobe — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:56:33 +0000

at least while ago they used Stackless Python

New comment by strobe in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

strobe — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:03:01 +0000

I heard that recruiters also use amount of connections to filter out candidates, and they probably view it as if you don't have 500-1000 connection probably you just don't fit basic requirements of the the role even with 10+ yoe.

Even is so stupid but looks like in last few years lot of strange metrics like that used more and more.

New comment by strobe in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

strobe — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:58:48 +0000

good that they improving but I have one 2019 macbook died because of that issue, probably my M1 also could die because of that.

New comment by strobe in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

strobe — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:03:33 +0000

>I thought that was already fixed?

only partially and both Sway and Hyperland still doesn't has official support yet.

this blog post explaining some issues https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-...

New comment by strobe in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

strobe — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:15:11 +0000

I recently had opposite experience - I been using NixOS with X11+i3 for about 2 years and never had any significant issues beside some troubles with one Nvidia driver version, even most Steam games worked for me without any issues. But out of curiosity decided to give try Wayland+Sway. First Sway remind me that Nvidia GPU completely unsupported and probably wont work at all, but in really fix for that just to use some 'unsupported' flag to launch it. After that I found that displays fractional scaling only can multiply original resolution to bigger size so is no way I will able to set up my 3 different displays in way I would like. Then I found that Zoom app can't share display even if everything for that is provided and it thinks that sharing actually happen (it can share if used thought web-browser and it also some workaround with virtual camera thought kernel module and OBS). After that I found that Barrier app (that I been used to share cursor/keyboard between desktop&laptop) while has support for wayland it can't work with Sway yet and is no any real alternative.

For now I can deal with that stuff but it looks like more I use wayland more issues I see so not sure that I will able stick with it long term.

oh now I also has flickers with discord app

New comment by strobe in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

strobe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:30:45 +0000

in case of macbooks even if something like usb port controller failed is most likely leads to board replacement as well so is high change that even if RAM is fine it could be useless because some $2 component failure

New comment by strobe in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

strobe — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:35:49 +0000

> friends watched or a game they played is a perk that has real value

in most cases it don't unless this game become really legendary which often not the case. So young person easily can spent 10y in attempt to do that but as result non of those games will be remembered in 2y after release.

New comment by strobe in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

strobe — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:30:16 +0000

right and it's also additional hidden kind of exploitation happen with that. That artistic passion coming from desire to do better "art" and grow as "artist" (what ever creative field person is chasing) and also to connect with peoples of similar goals.

But in reality that environment helping only to grow in technical aspects of the job ( maybe also learning some market forces) but it leads to severe degradation in artistic practice of which person original desire cultivate even not realizing that just because is no business need for anything like that. Bus sines can be fine by just coping that everyone else doing or implementing some one else vision.

New comment by strobe in "Claude Design"

strobe — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:48:11 +0000

Winamp been really unique, probably because they able to combine that unique design with very practical UX. Even when better players released a lot of users got hard times to switch because of UI, visualizations, skins...

New comment by strobe in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

strobe — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:04:00 +0000

try Unsloth recommended settings

    Thinking mode for general tasks: temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0

    Thinking mode for precise coding tasks (e.g. WebDev): temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=0.0, repetition_penalty=1.0

    Instruct (or non-thinking) mode for general tasks: temperature=0.7, top_p=0.8, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0

    Instruct (or non-thinking) mode for reasoning tasks: temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0

(Please note that the support for sampling parameters varies according to inference frameworks.)

New comment by strobe in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

strobe — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:34:55 +0000

OSS projects usually has culture which adopting quality aimed development practices much faster that commercial projects (because of cost of adoption) so it looks like same concerns eventually will hit other kind of projects.

New comment by strobe in "Writing code is cheap now"

strobe — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:13:48 +0000

unlikely, FOSS is mostly driven by zero-cost maintenance but AI tools needs money to burn. So only few FOSS project will receive sponsored tools and some definitely reject to use by ideological reasons (for example it could be considered as poison pill from copyright perspective).

New comment by strobe in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

strobe — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:52:49 +0000

>With AWS the knowledge is at least transferable

unfortunately it lot of things in AWS that also could be messed up so it might be really hard to research what is going on. For example, you could have hundreds of Lambdas running without any idea where original sources and how they connected to each-other, or complex VPCs network routing where some rules and security groups shared randomly between services so if you do small change it could lead to completely difference service to degrade (like you were hired to help with service X but after you changes some service Y went down and you even not aware that it existed)