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built one in 1836 just before the war started

I’m confused this seems exactly like a skinned glm 5.3 - flash with a few context injection tricks and guardrails - whats going on with these “startups”?

half of them died of diseases brought by the spanish...

i think this is a wash at best, but might be ok if you have a very specific model that is completely unoptimized - but these days you could just point your astra level llm at it and say "make this faster"

Ok so i took the time to benchmark this on the following on my m5 max 128gb:

Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-4bit Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-4bit Qwen3.5-9B-MLX-4bit Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B-4bit Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-4bit qwen2.5:0.5b

and the results are what i kinda expected to begin with, this adds next to nothing? - also the repo was pivoted from a playwright sub assembly to this not long ago - so my conclusion - THIS MIGHT be worth some watching if you have a model where no-one!, has optimized it at all - and where it does not use anything native to your platform.

results (averages)

VIA rapid-mlx :8902 (MLX) Decode: 175 tok/s TTFT: 64 ms prefill (~760 tok cold): 594 ms

Magnitude 0.2.1 (GGUF/llama.cpp+Rust) Decode: 161 tok/s TTFT: 111 ms prefill (~760 tok cold): 669 ms

Nah llm optimizes for the middle of the bell curve - most designers and designs are meh so they’ll output meh across the board . Takes rare skill to do it right

As a guy who used to do art direction and was a creative director i can with some confidence say that: “most “designs sucks balls” and 95% of the worlds population DO NOT CARE.

I wish it was different but estetics, color sensitivity and for a lack of better word “taste” is a skill that needs training - the kerning alone on those make me sad - but the dirty secret is that meticulous design and craft is a dying breed - why spend days on designing whitespace when you can get something the client likes in 10 minutes from a prompt?

For the type interested - get this: https://amzn.eu/d/09z7Mut8

Thinking gucci is gucci

Sorry, isnt this just compression? Lookups burn tokens just on the other end?

Any drinks list without a pan galactic gargle blaster is sus

I’d do the same for a11y an internationalization purposes - however this is juts a bad implementation of it from an americans perspective.

You’d change seperators and position if you truly wanted to do this right

Its basic date wrangling and tbh i see nothing malfeasant here

Its basically yyyy/mm/dd yy/M/d mm-dd-yyyy stuff but suuuuper lazily done

maaan i got had there

stone age gets a vote from me!

Why are you all heating it?, eat it raw with milk unheated

I've repackaged my personal setup for speeding up local claude execution on code-bases.

using modern terminal tooling and better integrated pipeline / parallel tools average discovery and file based operations can be significantly improved and speeded up.

let me know what you think and suggestions welcome... totally vibecoded from local setup so ymmv

Would love to se tagged template Literals and w eb components as first citizen in this - lit.dev etc.

Worked for years in japan, beg to disagree.

Love japanese and japan but their work culture is horrific - Japanese are inefficient and the veneer of looking to work "hard" is more important than the hard work itself. People often stay until ridiculously late just to show they "put in the effort" which is more important than outcome.

Then again that happens in many other countries as well ...

Afaikr, wd-40 was never supposed to be a lubricant - it was created to remove moisture in rocket assembly - plain oil is probably a better lube

I liked it, made me reflect and consider - not always easy these days.

Happy new years and thanks

Edited for politeness:

Cancer metabolism isn’t a 2-bit meme. Tumors adapt. If they couldn’t, they wouldn’t metastasize.

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Works well for me

Neither can react

Nope

Lit.dev

Did duetds.com

In any city the shortest distance in total time spent is by bike.

Even if it is widely dangerous to do so (most american cities i've ever visited)

You can hem and haw - but its pretty bang on

When you then add finding parking at the ends of your trip to it it is crazyly more efficient timewise.

Now even copenhagen denmark has rain causing many more to take a car or public transport (that works).

But it is very clear that the time argument is simply not true.

Now you can argue convenience at the start of the trip vs agony in the end (finding that parking space)

Or for "need to lug an ikea sofa across time"

Or even for "my kids and familiy needs to go as well"

That's super fine, and all true - but 70-80% of ALL trips in cars are by 1 person sitting in 1 car. So moving just 10% of car users to alternate means free up a tremendous amount of space in the city.

I love my car, my bikes and my public transports and each does something nice for me - but seriously do you think cities like l.a. are even livable on a human scale - people don't even walk if the distance is over 1000meters.

I certainly agree with the idea of "uhm lets try to plan for otherthings than cars going forward"

I've done the same for a multinational with 1000 franchises-like subcompanies - trying to get them to conform to horizontal guidance. It is an impossible task, noone takes it that serious and are focused on imminent kpi and okr's.

My only success has been internal reviews of wcag compliance and the threat of fines if found lacking.

But for non digital design its embarrassingly hard

React and the most commonly used pattern inherently promotes an way to complex html Node structure and shitty css, especially if stuff like tailwind is used.

Now you CAN so it so that is not the case, but tbh i have never seen that in the wild -

Wtf? Links , substantiation!