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Re:Duet is the future of chatbot interaction on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:05PM (#50307837)
What have you tried to do that you found grok lacking for?

I can understand if you're building code, but for personal assistant stuff there's nothing it hasn't been able to handle from what I've seen.

Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:41PM (#50262839)
No, that's called a laptop.
Does that remain true in the RAMpocalypse?
Improvements in models and products coming out of SpaceXAI since the acquisition would seem to disagree with you.
Re:Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX on Saturday August 29, 2026 @02:17AM (#49487406)
LOL, obviously Space-cursor-xAI-musk-imperial-holdings-inc is providing them compute. They either _can't_ cut them off, or they know not to bite the hand that feeds them.
Re:GLM-5.3-Flash on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:28PM (#49453616)
lol, exactly.
Your location/income bias is showing. Most people do not buy new phones every year.
Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:18PM (#48727473)
No, buy a framework desktop.
Re:Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS on Thursday June 18, 2026 @08:19PM (#48593406)
Don't buy a QNAP if you care about real ZFS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593360
Re:Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS on Thursday June 18, 2026 @08:13PM (#48593360)
QNAP unforgivably uses a proprietary version of ZFS with their own extensions that are not compatible with mainline OpenZFS. It can only zfs send/receive to other QNAP devices. While your data is protected like any other ZFS system, it is _NOT_ interoperable. You can not take a zpool out of a QNAP system and access it on another system with ZFS. I discovered this painfully the hard way, and won't buy from them again, unless I plan to wipe the software and run something open.
Re:DaVinci Resolve 21 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:27PM (#48386167)
I think you're right in this case, but Illinois lawmakers are generally extremely silly, so I wouldn't put it past them.
There are very real reasons to use ZFS instead of the oldschool Linux block device sandwich. mdadm+luks+lvm still do not quite provide the same set of features that ZFS alone does even without encryption. Namely in-line compression, and data checksumming, not to mention free snapshots.

ZFS is quite mature, the feature discussed in the article is not. As others have pointed out this could have been avoided by running ZFS on top of luks and would have hardly sacrificed any functionality.

Re:Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite on Thursday September 25, 2025 @04:52PM (#45378893)
You can drag and drop chats between projects
Re:Why I'm Spoiled by Apple Silicon (But Still Love Framework) on Monday September 22, 2025 @06:15PM (#45340277)
It's funny how polarizing this is. Seemingly based on whatever system you grew up on, or are most accustomed to.

I find Mac's window management to be something of a joke, and can't imagine why anyone would want to replicate it. I do see the value of the global menu but everything else feels wholly unintuitive to me. I can't stand that cmd+tab takes you to the last app, not the last window, and raises all that apps other windows as well. I literally never want that.

Re:Why I'm Spoiled by Apple Silicon (But Still Love Framework) on Monday September 22, 2025 @06:01PM (#45340126)
The parent's complaint about non-native docker is not solved by colima. It's not bloat from the desktop app it's the fact that you have to run a VM to run any sort of container runtime on a mac.
Re:You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @12:48PM (#44661272)
Took me a bit to find this, but you can click on a line number in multi-buffer to open that file at that location. I think their default assumption is for you to not use the mouse much. If you're using vim mode g+[space] will open the file where your cursor is. I think it's alt+return in normal mode but either way there's a shortcut hint on the right side of the header for the file your cursor is currently in.
Re:Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:42AM (#42220084)
Each person on my team has a day of the week they own, and then we have a rotation for weekends, and negotiate holiday/pto trades. I guess it really only maps correctly for a 5 person team.

We previously had a week long rotation, and some folks were initially skeptical of the idea to change, saying they were worried they'd feel like they were "oncall all the time". But, they agreed to try it for a month. That was a bit over a year ago now, and no complaints.

I think it ends up being a lower stress configuration, because it just becomes part of your normal expected work-week routine, and generally isn't as mentally draining. It does make end of year PTO/holiday time a bit more complex to work out, but so far my team has been okay with that tradeoff.

Re:Hermes 3: The First Fine-Tuned Llama 3.1 405B Model on Thursday August 15, 2024 @05:54PM (#41260810)
That seems completely backwards? Debit interchange fees are usually lower aren't they? and if you run it with a pin as a debit there's almost no charge for the vendor.

Definitely weird, as everything I know about the incentives for that go in the other direction for a vendor.

Re:AI solves IMO problems at silver medal level on Thursday July 25, 2024 @01:26PM (#41071157)
Hope that's true. Really mucks up the world a bit if not.
Worse than than, 10$ gift card
"Config Management" means something else to systems folks. Suggest adding "for node projects" or something akin to the title to clarify.
Re:Cost Per 1M tokens Of Self Hosting Llama-3 on Friday June 14, 2024 @12:59PM (#40682521)
I thought it was generally known they were operating at a loss?

even with the subs and api charges, they still let people use chatGPT for free with no monetization options. Sure they are collecting the data for training, but that's hard to quantify the value of.

Bad UX, it's hiding under the hamburger menu in the top left https://web.archive.org/web/20240401100849/https://www.972ma...