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I love LLMs too, but I am concerned about their cost. They are all still very subsidised. Is there any guarantee that I'll be able to run a Opus 4.8-level model on my personal computer before the big AI labs decide to hike up the prices?

Well, the creator of Bun is certainly someone that deserves professionalism.

But even random people you get on GitHub sending you PRs. You shouldn't reject them with "this code is slop". At least say "Cannot accept this. The code quality isn't great" or something to that effect.

But the point is: dismissing real people who are doing real work and spending a lot of effort on something with "that's slop" is very unprofessional.

You are just coming up with scenarios that don't really apply to what happened in this blog post.

What I don't understand is where are the Starlink competitors. Supposedly the UK government owns a stake of 10% in OneWeb and yet they are planning to use Starlink for trains.

Is it really just too hard to put enough satellites in orbit to be competitive with Starlink?

Calling something "slop" is dismissive, vague and not constructive. That's why it's not professional.

If you want to tell someone their code quality is poor, then you better do so with specific things that is poor so that the person you are telling it to can learn and do better.

And for those interested in Mitchell's take on it: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2075261972061594106?s=20.

TL;DR: No comment.

Reminds me of another language that I used to know...

For real though, if your goal as a language isn't to become popular then why should anyone learn it? Why should anyone spend their limited time building libraries in it when the language isn't likely to grow (and thus is more likely to disappear)?

I know you said you don't care to know. But for others wondering: being professional is important because it reduces conflict. Having a leader of the language personally insult someone like this makes the community feel that it is okay to insult others in the community too.

Personally I find it hard to believe that a community isn't toxic when their leader acts in this way.

That’s a good attitude to have. Any tips for identifying projects which have leadership which does this?

Calling someone’s code “slop” surely isn’t professional nor courteous.

Agreed. This article should have stuck to the cold facts, rather than a series of personal criticisms that you wouldn’t see written out in the workplace.

Sadly there are far too many open source developers out there who are far too comfortable writing like this. It’s one reason I have stopped being active in open source. You would be fired (or at least disciplined) from any reasonable workplace if you acted like this.

ooh nice

What evidence do you have for this? It doesn't pass the sniff test: why would anyone buy a game for full price when they can get it for far less by just grabbing a cheaper subscription? (that they can cancel any time)

Nice, thanks for sharing! I'm definitely hoping to make use of the determinism for my netcode, if you have any useful write ups about that I'd be interested to read more.

I've had the same experience with my PS5. It wouldn't even let me play 007 First Light a few weeks ago because it needed to update the system. Starting to wonder if I should/could just keep it offline to stop it from updating incessantly.

Could this be due to the games being available on Game Pass? Why would anyone buy them on Steam if they can play them on Game Pass for "free"?

Funny to see this just a few days after I’ve started building a Tron-like 3D game for the browser using Jolt[1]. So far Jolt is working pretty well but I’ll certainly be taking a look at this.

1 - I’ve been sitting on this domain for years: https://lightcycles.io

It’s hilarious that I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not here

If the EU actually mandates each member country implements a ZKP for this then I am all for it.

Can they also provide other ZKPs? Specifically to attest that someone is a unique human being? Humanity verification is incredibly important to fight against propaganda online[1]

1 - https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...

That’s not how I interpret gamergate. Actually I view gamergate as the staging post for MAGA and Trump getting elected.

It was a great trial run for flooding the zone with lies and outrage to defeat progressives. It worked then and continues to work.

If you're interested in detail of how it works, I wrote about it here: https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...

No humanity verification is perfect. 50% of people is already pretty good.

Really governments need to do better here, and make it possible to do this type of verification using zero knowledge proofs.

This already happened in the iTunes era, didn’t it? My partner bought South Park episodes and songs and lost them all.

My guess is by using ID verification similar to how I do it on https://onlyhumanhub.com/

As a customer I can no longer support you.

But as someone that has been in a similar situation to you, I understand it's tough to end up building something big with someone who's politics you do not agree with. I would seriously urge you to consider building something new that rejects this kind of politics explicitly.

What do folks use to keep on top of new model releases that are appropriate to their system? i.e. the models that will actually work on the MacBook Pro with 48GB of RAM or whatever their specs are.

I've seen sites here and there but they feel like quick little toys that don't get updated, so they always suggest old models.

I've been running it on my 48GB MBP too and it's not particularly great. Super slow and not near enough to the quality provided by even Claude Sonnet.

Twenty dollars?

How are you comfortable spending that much to write something as simple as a matrix bot?

Are people doing this kind of thing just super rich or am I missing something?

Very cool idea. Shows programming language trends pretty well.

https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=Nim&q=Rust&q=Zig

Is this just basically a bountysource? or are there ways to give projects tokens without just sending them money?

I don't mind this, what I do mind is that there is still no way to verify my identity without giving private information to third parties. Why aren't governments building zero knowledge proof-based solutions to this?