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Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @05:14AM (#50229640)
One recent performance issue that was raised by a customer was in the end a tiny svg animation loop that was on all the time even when the tab was inactive. So no game engine loops for my customers.
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:56AM (#50229571)
Controversial take: Looking at lines of code is no longer a feasible task. Also it adds very little to quality for large swathes of user facing functionality. Instead focussing that much time on building a robust test suite is a better application of developer time.
I've been using it ever since on my windows machines because I've never found anything even coming close to it. I don't need anything feature rich with a 5 second startup time. I need something that's 500ms away.
Re:Postgres isn't slow, your storage is on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:38AM (#50054349)
True. We do have to remember that this is only possible in the last few months. The costs to manage more and more infrastructure is steadily going down.
Remember that these systems still operate as infrastructure inside the companies.

If new weapons still operating inside any of these companies spew a million bullets on my house, they are still liable. Humans are setting these system up and they still have to behave responsibly.

Re:OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week on Sunday September 20, 2026 @05:47PM (#49780440)
When has anyone faced scrutiny over their lies to these politicians?
Re:Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:49PM (#49760732)
Wake up babe, new recursive self learning technique just dropped.
Re:Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:08AM (#49724262)
These are not the Gemma model family you might be thinking of. Gemini models weights are never made open.
I use multiple OSes. I do not want a different list of extensions and preferences on each machine I am on. Firefox makes it simple and uniform.
Re:GLM-5.3 is now open-weight on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:53AM (#49480394)
I have been only using GLM models since last December and have had the best experience without any drama about tokens and geopolitical restrictions. The quality has been great and I am doing more and more with the latest 5.3 and am really excited that consumer hardware will develop in the next few years where I can run these at home.
Re:Small Models Have Arrived on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:06PM (#49468852)
I am very excited that more makers will come up with fast memory for consumers rather than enterprise. Companies can only pre order so much RAM.

At some point there will be a surplus of fast memory and even in a crash the current generation of SLMs are bounced to be plenty to build a lot of intelligence at home.

Still a massive market looks like.
Re:US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call? on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:18AM (#49388495)
Grow our way out of that means hitting the $50 trillion number.
Re:Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:13PM (#49379616)
I'm with you on that. I was just curious about Azure reliability stats.
Re:Git at Any Scale on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:41PM (#49378473)
There's a reason you say that with a throwaway account. Even you know it's shameful.
Re:Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:52PM (#49350727)
Is there any data on Azure being terrible with stability? Would love to see data than anecdotal stories.
Re:David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post on Monday August 17, 2026 @09:31AM (#49330546)
He would not have been attached the current administration if he had even hinted at so. Quite the opposite.
I highly doubt 415 million people will find enough reason to purchase $100 worth of Anthropic, especially when the price of intelligence keeps going down and smaller models become more and more capable to meet the average person's needs like drafting emails, customer support, basic RAG.
They are worth (on paper) so much that there are not enough retail money to buy them anymore. All these companies can do is put Uncle Sam on the hook to print money for them. There is no other way.
Re:Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? on Sunday August 16, 2026 @10:03AM (#49320188)
PgBouncer? Don't even know er.
Re:Making Postgres queues scale on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:05PM (#49115061)
These days, most of them are from the DBOS folks. :)
The goal is to replace these 5 year old with a team of Nostr aware agents. /s
Re:Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode on Monday July 20, 2026 @10:13AM (#48979161)
>Regardless of its flaws, OpenCode is the harness I’ve been the most productive with by far, and I’ve tried them all.

I feel the same way. It's the right amount of 'gets out of my way' and 'won't nuke my machine'.

Especially the ease of using Plan mode and quickly getting stuff done.

Is file IO a bottleneck now?
Is there anyone who is NOT building another AI sandbox solution?
Re:Count Binface on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:29AM (#48889550)
That hand dryer placement is absurd.
Re:PostHog Open Sourced on Thursday July 09, 2026 @12:11PM (#48848271)
Spent a day trying to get it running 2-3 weeks back. Gave up after a day.
Why? Don't tell me you've never tried a non-US based model, ever.

There's a number of US providers who also run it, if that is your preference.

Re:Kids Act Would Require Age Checks to Get Online on Sunday June 28, 2026 @08:07PM (#48713160)
> terminally online losers

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