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Re:I resigned from Anthropic today on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:15PM (#49629898)
Easy to say "should".
Re:Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:31AM (#49626253)
What's the point, when we have Chat Control 2.0?
Re:Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go? on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:44AM (#49445757)
Unchecked immigration, lax policing.
Damn, this is a fantastic evaluation, thanks!
It does, beautifully. Now let's wait for an NVFP4 GGUF!
Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:36AM (#49153402)
Check out cactus needle, might be what you're looking for.
Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:25AM (#49153309)
Easy to do with Unsloth Studio.
Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:24AM (#49153305)
And if you're running it on a dGPU, power limit it, because you lose very little in terms of token generation performance, since it's memory-bound.
Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:23AM (#49153289)
RTX 4060 and above. Ideally RTX 50 Series, because you can run NVFP4-quantized GGUFs that give you better prefill AND better quality.
Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:19AM (#49153251)
Huh what? Qwen3.5-35B-A3B runs just fine with maximum context, on an RTX SUPER 12 GB, with offloading of some expert layers to DDR4-3200.

Same story on an RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB. MTP is a serious boost to tg.

Downloading the model is a simple hf command that HuggingFace's web UI even gives you.

llama.cpp is trivial to use, and so is llama-swap, if you want to use other models too.

If you don't know what arguments to run it with, you download ggrun and use that.

Local LLMs are incredibly capable and don't need expensive hardware. A $500 GPU will do. Or even cheaper.

This is all trivial.

Oh no, we do, because the software world has been abusing what engineering means for decades, in order to inflate job titles. Most people are programmers, not software engineers, and that's OK.
Re:Unsloth GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @12:16PM (#48647304)
Not really, you can do great things without them. I've been summarizing hundreds of documents. I've added MCP servers to my internal business tools (Elixir apps) and can chat with the Nous Hermes agent over Telegram about pending orders, inventory level, historical product prices, etc., without having to click/dick around with a web UI.

Sure, it cannot replace SOTA models for agentic coding, except for small, well-scoped refactorings. But even a model like ministral-3:8b or qwen3.5:9b is a boon for so many smaller use cases!

Re:Unsloth GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:54AM (#48647019)
Europe was never at the frontier of any tech? Huh what now?
...and you'd be wrong.
Re:I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked on Saturday August 16, 2025 @12:36AM (#44920213)
Thanks, that was not clear to me from skimming the docs.

However, this NIF also returns more fields than the disksup function.

Re:I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked on Saturday August 16, 2025 @12:33AM (#44920199)
It's because the most familiar thing to me that uses a NIF was Exqlite, so that was my starting point.

Using Rust and Rustler turned out to be way easier and it also now works across Elixir versions 1.14 to 1.18.

Re:I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:59PM (#44918249)
The post explains why I don't want to use disksup. You have to start an extra application (os_mon) and configure disksup to update the starts more frequently than the default of every 30 minutes.

Do we really need to do all that instead of the equivalent of a df?

Agree about the C code, which is why the latest version (on GitHub, the HEAD, not yet released in Hex.pm) is now using Rust and Rustler.

Re:I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked on Friday August 15, 2025 @03:00PM (#44916221)
Why not C? It made no difference, we're talking about a few function calls.
"Abo" in German means "subscription" (from the French abonnement). Show some cultural sensitivity about these languages.
Re:Debian 13 "Trixie" on Saturday August 09, 2025 @06:53PM (#44851122)
Thank you for ntfy, it's such a useful piece of software!
Wekan looks close to pre-Atlassian Trello.
Just use Wekan. Problem solved.
apt install geeqie

That's all.

Re:Why the $25,000 car is going extinct on Monday June 30, 2025 @05:05AM (#44421055)
That's the VAG marketing strategy. Share most parts, have the customer pay for the brand.
Also try out Garage.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Sunday May 25, 2025 @06:00PM (#44091599)
I've been working on a kinda-sequel to my first technical book, Northwind Elixir Traders. This one (Phoenix Product Codex) is about developing and deploying a production-grade REST API with Elixir and Phoenix.
Re:Zed: The Fastest AI Code Editor on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @05:14PM (#43920619)
Zed is great but not so great if you are trying to copy/cut/paste with the keyboard layout being anything other than latin.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Monday April 28, 2025 @04:29PM (#43825759)
I'm working on my second self-published technical book related to Elixir. The first one has been a surprising success, but since it was about learning to use Ecto on the basis of an old pedagogical toy database (and tiny dataset), the new book is about the development of a production-grade REST API with Elixir and Phoenix.

I find that many books out there are focused on documenting the "happy path" for rather small and simplistic applications without boundary conditions or business thinking behind them.

So, I thought (as with the first books) that it mix things up by also documenting the business context, the questions, decisions, and the decision-making process itself, as well as all the gotchas and "side-quests", rather than showing "here's how you do it" and then expecting the reader to suddenly make the jump from tutorial hell to actually software engineering.

Overall, it's enormously enjoyable, and I hope it goes as far as the first book, and possibly even farther.

Re:I Just Want to Code on Monday April 28, 2025 @08:03AM (#43820441)
This is The Incredible Story of Deft... https://leanpub.com/deft
Re:Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal on Monday April 28, 2025 @07:59AM (#43820394)
There are degrees of dependence on others, you make it sound as if it's a binary choice.

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