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bavell

1,682 karma · joined March 21, 2016

Solopreneur, full-stack web dev with a healthy helping of devops, happy k8s user, Arch enthusiast (btw), amateur guitarist.

Great men I admire: - Jimi Hendrix - Claude Shannon - Carl Sagan

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bavell··on How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way
Didn't the guy flee the country after posting bail? Doesn't exactly scream "innocent".
bavell··on The Prompt API
Perhaps you could generate a few tokens before the entire model is downloaded, but since every token takes a potentially different "path" through an MoE model, you'd still need to wait for the entire download before getting deeper than a handful of tokens... which is not really a UX improvement imo.
bavell··on Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)
Going on 10 years now for me, tried Helm a bit and yep - all I've really needed was a package.json deploy script with sed to bump the image version.
bavell··on Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
Funny, I've been doing the same thing lately! CC + godot + some game ideas I've had banging around in my head for years but daunting to dive into.

The results so far are... okay, but getting something working to validate the gameplay loop and experiment with different systems is a lot of fun!

bavell··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
I definitely agree that it should be shown and obvious in the UI. They do show a warning now when resuming old sessions but still could be better.
bavell··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
> I would also expect to see it taking exponentially longer to process a prompt. I don't believe LLMs work like that.

Try this out using a local LLM. You'll see that as the conversation grows, your prompts take longer to execute. It's not exponential but it's significant. This is in fact how all autoregressive LLMs work.

bavell··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Yesterday I was playing around with Gemma4 26B A4B with a 3 bit quant and sizing it for my 16GB 9070XT:

  Total VRAM: 16GB
  Model: ~12GB
  128k context size: ~3.9GB
At least I'm pretty sure I landed on 128k... might have been 64k. Regardless, you can see the massive weight (ha) of the meager context size (at least compared to frontier models).
bavell··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
> As a user, I _expect_ the cost of resuming X hours/days later to be no different to resuming seconds or minutes later.

As an informed user who understands his tools, I of course expect large uncached conversations to massively eat into my token budget, since that's how all of the big LLM providers work. I also understand these providers are businesses trying to make money and they aren't going to hold every conversation in their caches indefinitely.

bavell··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
Definitely some problems in the current system, broad and creeping executive overreach extending back decades now.

Pretty sure stealing from stores is already illegal, not sure I understand your analogy... lots of case law / precedent there.

bavell··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
I do agree it was a weak case, I think SCOTUS ruled correctly.
bavell··on Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
Haven't had a chance to test 4.7 much but one of my pet peeves with 4.6 is how eager it is to jump into implementation. Though maybe the 4.7 is smarter about this now.
bavell··on Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
The system prompt is always loaded in its entirety IIUC. It's technically possible to modify it during a conversation but that would invalidate the prefill cache for the big model providers.
bavell··on Codex for almost everything
Is it exponential or logistic?
bavell··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
Nope, the original tariffs were under IEEPA, then Supreme Court ruled they didn't have authority to use IEEPA, so they had to drop those tariffs and start working on refunds. It'd only have been illegal if they kept the tariffs after the ruling.

Lot of propaganda & emotions around this straightforward chain of events.

bavell··on Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code
https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/
bavell··on Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'
Try it before you give up, I got plenty of AI stuff working on my 6750XT years ago.
bavell··on Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'
Eh, YMMV. I was using rocm for minor AI things as far back as 2023 on an "unsupported" 6750XT [0]. Even trained some LoRAs. Mostly the issues were how many libs were cuda only.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43207015

bavell··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
I've been using CC a decent amount the past few weeks and have never seen this malware stanza...?
bavell··on A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
Self-aware meta commentary on HNers breaking HN guidelines to cite HN guidelines.
bavell··on I still prefer MCP over skills
They're complementary but also have significant overlap. Hence all the confusion and strong opinions.
bavell··on I still prefer MCP over skills
> How about we standardize this idea? We can have an endpoint to tell the agents where to find this text file and API

Good news! It's already standardized and agents already know where to find it!

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills

bavell··on How to get better at guitar
Absolutely. You can get "locked in" to certain patterns / phrases just via muscle memory and familiarity. Need to balance that with a little improv to find new patterns phrases you like, and then can train those in via muscle memory.
bavell··on I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok
Preach. I have 4 monitors and one is a vertical 1440x2560. Massive productivity boost - terminals running claude code, reading docs, IDE panes, anything with lots of scrolling. Highly recommend it!
bavell··on Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
Wow that's bad. Unsure if this is an outlier or typical for YC companies.
bavell··on Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure
Pretty sure this is illegal now across the board.
bavell··on ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI
No, missing a MMU.
bavell··on Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor
> What you are offering is NOT a free tool -- it is a demo, for a tool for which you are charging $12/month

Commonly known as a "free trial"

bavell··on Show HN: Agent Kernel – Three Markdown files that make any AI agent stateful
I've found memories and state to be a mixed bag with LLMs. To the point I don't bother with long term memories - usually only short or medium-term session logs or task-focused docs.
bavell··on The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]
Ooof, you're way behind - see sibling comments. Come join us in the promised land, brother!
bavell··on Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB
Home Assistant integration a la Alexa would be awesome
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