Xeoncross

I can't imagine why people are looking into alternative healthcare

You know, all those people making new n64, playstation, and gameboy titles might be onto something. Apart from steam, I don't think I've heard anything but bad news from modern consoles.

Project: https://github.com/chris-mosley/AmazonBrandFilter

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amazonbrandfi...

TIL, thanks for your work!

Moving away from the technical solution space - I'm curious, have their been any games (or communities) with a high entry fee/deposit (e.g. $500 USD) to join kept in escrow and lost in the event you're discovered to be cheating?

There are plenty more questions like paying for mods/review, securing the money, paying for servers, etc.. but my basic question is if cost of entry exceeds cost of reward from cheating has ever been attempted in a game.

Apparently buying a new copy of a $10-20 game isn't enough to keep people away from cheats. Less so when there is prize money on the line or skins (e.g. CS2) worth $100k.

Redis really is a great piece of software. Low memory, high-performance, feature-rich, and stable. Really hard to beat it for places where you want a durable cache even if technically you can use something else.

"password is to long, max length..."

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

1. Open a web browser and do a search

2. Read until you find a sentence that you like.

3. Use it as your password

I'm really looking forward to the next generation of languages. Not only are the old 90's languages like Java, PHP, and JavaScript now actually doing things correctly. The new languages like Zig, Go, Swift and Rust continue to figure out new ways of trying things like generics. Spinoffs like V, Ante, and others are perfect testing grounds.

What is the speed on responses? (t/s)

The full 128GB is surely helpful in keeping browsers, editors and other things running since even 20-35GB models + k/v caches can eat up a lot of the core 64GB in my experience.

The Corporations Won, because it turns out software engineers turned into IP maximalists

Yeah, it's always bothered me that developers are eager to get legal to patent something they were involved in at Company™ put their name on patents so they can include them in their promotion docs.

It's like we're slowly defrauding ourselves and ensuring companies have the maximum legal standing against individual makers. Almost like a prisoner's dilemma where we're building the things that will/have be used against it us and those that come after in exchange for a little personal gain.

Considering the decade of poor results from doing anything other than music, weather and alarms I think we've all learned to avoid using them for anything else.

Honestly, we're at a point where AI can write better software than some devs and answer medical questions with more knowledge than some doctors.

Likewise, AI is oblivious to it's own mistakes, much like said professionals can be at times.

Not that AI is actually thinking, but rather the collective corpus of text yields greater insights (knowledge of the crowd, not wisdom of the crowd) than a lower-average person in that same industry.

Even for work questions about sensitive IP/code Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is a great option on macOS (35t/s) when you don't want info leaving your laptop. I'm using it with oMLX.

I would love to have a more detailed write up on development while mobile. Seems like an ideal way to pass the time vs doom scrolling when on the go.

Just how many lunch lines does it take to program a GB game?

I've never liked token buckets (vs sliding window counters) due to the extra work CPU cycles required to "fill" them. It seems like doing an atomic incr on a key based on a `time % 1 minute` or something would be more efficient and then let that key TTL expire X duration later. This results in zero work for rate limiters not in use and only a single push change -> resulting count for ones in use. Nothing but setting the TTL extra is required.

Thanks for the links, I'll checkout the Generic Cell Rate Algorithm!

I would rather my kid was in a group of 10 students than 30. I remember very little time actually left for a teacher to help an individual child with all the kids to manage. Most people are scared to watch three kids at a time.

I'll take 1-on-1 mentoring over better computers, books, clubs, sports, or anything else the budget is spent on.

Please hire more teachers.

Well said, this seems like a very appropriate comparison.

GenAI thinks like the human mind in the same way that cars run like the human body.

Similar utility in drastically different ways.

or (more pointedly) that brain activity could not possibly implement cognition because it can be described as a collection of neural firings.

This sounds like a dismissal of the argument through a characterized straw man.

That is, it seems that reducing the complexity of the brain to "collection of neural firings" is not being honest about everything involved to a much greater degree than saying neural networks are a "collection of statistical calculations".

I too believe LLM's will grow in complexity, but presently I can not even fathom how they can be compared to the complexity of a system such as the human brain.

They are still there either way. They don't suddenly become smarter and/or hard working because we pretend.

If anything, it simply increases the pool of people who realize you don't need to try.

Nice! Tracking connection reuse is really important if you are running any kind of benchmarks or comparisons both as the author of a new tool / service and as the person evaluating different options or client libraries.

I've hit a lot of walls not ensuring I was using connection pools correctly even when the service I'm calling was local/docker. File descriptor exhaustion happens often if you're not careful.

Thank you for sharing, if you don't mind can you share some Go+SQLite leanings as someone actually pulling this off?

1) How do you do backups? Do you use github.com/benbjohnson/litestream? CRON job backup with rsync?

2) Any issues with large databases and many clients? Is there a TPS or DB size where SQLite becomes problematic?

3) How do you deploy new binaries and safely shutdown the old instance? Caddy change to route to new binary + Go's HTTP server graceful-shutdown on old instance?

4) Do you use a pure-Go SQLite lib or one of the CGO libs?

So is https://github.com/obeli-sk/obelisk the Rust version of https://github.com/temporalio/temporal (Go)? Can you guys add a comparison between them on the site?

I'm really happy to see a lot of new software come out in Rust, Go, or Zig.

The value and ease of development that slow interpreted languages used to offer is disappearing. New languages have all the nice things built in, or rather, our 1am pager alarms are starting to make us mad.

Ah, but it's cheaper. Replace "AI" with "auto parts" or "store food" and you see the same thing. Replace "AI" with "police force" or "contractors" and it's the same thing.

Why is everyone and everything getting worse? A sort of "Prisoner's dilemma" I suppose: no one wants to take a stand and lose their business edge just for principles sake.

It's not religion, it's litigation and money.

1) non-consensual or illegal (CP) content could come with expensive lawsuits.

2) Adult content has higher abuse (charge-backs, fraud, etc..).

Is it better to have an M4-M5 Pro with 32GB of ram or an M1-M2 Max with 64GB of ram? They seem about the same price.

It seems like cache layers like https://omlx.ai make more RAM better than more GPU cores or faster CPUs cores, but I'm curious if someone has tested both.

I agree, earlier Sonnet wasn't that great, but Sonnet 3.5 is where things really came together. The difference was night-and-day. Sonnet 3.7, 4.0, 4.5, etc... didn't have as drastic of a change to me.

AI does the work during the day and we learn while sleeping. Society doesn't collapse from ignorance. We have a new movie plot gentlemen.

I've been in at least a dozen class action suites and the payouts are measured in cents. I'm glad someone got something more, but that's not common.

As an aside, class-action lawsuits seem less than ideal for the public. The awards benefit the lawyers and perhaps a small handful, but the actual plaintiffs only get $0.05. In addition, successful class-action suits prevent further litigation from being allowed for the same issue.

Individuals bringing their own lawsuits seems like it would affect better change as 1) the award money would be better distributed instead of concentrated and 2) the amounts levied against the companies would be higher and more of concern than the class-action slap-on-the-wrist they currently get.