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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 It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
Really hate this trend/style. Sucks that it's ossified into many AIs. Always makes me think of young preteens who just started texting/DMing. Grow up!
bavell··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
You are just describing a "meme", deeper than language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

bavell··on Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
CR removing comments removed the soul from the product :/

Was always fun reading the top comments on big episodes. Finding those few other ppl who noticed that one small thing at timestamp 14:30, dunking on the first episode of the latest garbage isekai... etc

bavell··on Litestream v0.5.0
Also running a few single node clusters - perfect balance for small orgs that don't need HA. Been running small clusters since ~2016 and loving it.
bavell··on Jules, remote coding agent from Google Labs, announces API
Same situation, 10+ yrs deep with my first client, project still chugging along while I tackle bigger fish.

Can't justify spending much time on it now but a DIY no/low code solution for them isn't a bad idea.

bavell··on Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres
Sounds like a good way of tackling this - thanks for sharing!
bavell··on GPT-OSS Reinforcement Learning
Iirc abliteration (ablation?) can be done without "training" and is pretty quick. It finds the individual weights related to the concept you want to ablate, and modifies those weights to "deactivate" them. Precision brain surgery, to anthropomorphize.
bavell··on Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version
Most minimum/recommended game specs reference mainstream gaming CPU/GPUs, and most gamers know the strength of their own hardware relative to mainstream components.

If you're a very casual/young/inexperienced gamer then sure, you might have trouble comparing your own system with the min specs.

bavell··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
Correlation is not causation.
bavell··on Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls
I play all my steam games on Linux/proton, zero issues for years now.
bavell··on I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory
> Current video games are designed around streamlining content. As a player, your job is to extract all content from an area before going to the next.

Wrong right from the outset. Some games are designed around content and "extraction". Many are not.

bavell··on Show HN: AfriTales – Discover the Magic of African Storytelling
Has anyone said they actually want this? I wouldn't, especially for traditional folktales.
bavell··on Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes
You basically replied to GP's eloquent and nuanced post with, "nah bro trust me, purple is actually blue!"
bavell··on Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything
China has a demographic time-bomb about to go off in the next decade or two. We'll see if they can survive it.
bavell··on What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry?
Nah, if you have an important application this is very low cost for adding tons of insight into how your app is running.
bavell··on Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos
It's fairly common for artists to release a single or two from an upcoming album. Some artists release more singles than they do albums.
bavell··on DeepSeek-v3.1
IDK about "efficiently" but we've been able to run llms locally with AMD for 1.5-2 years now
bavell··on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents
Chroot jail?
bavell··on Cursor CLI
> how do you accept/reject and rollback changes?

Git

bavell··on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
Great read and insights! I learned a few things and found myself nodding along most of the article.
bavell··on Open models by OpenAI
> I think OpenAI may have taken the medal for best available open weight model back from the Chinese AI labs.

IMO, the "I think..." bit could be ambiguous and read as, "In my opinion, OpenAI may have...".

I agree with you it's not a hard/bold endorsement but perhaps leading with the disclaimer that you're reserving final judgement could assuage these concerns.

bavell··on Open models by OpenAI
Did you mean to type equality? As in, "everyone on equal footing"? Otherwise, I'm not sure how to parse your statement.
bavell··on Open models by OpenAI
I mean, there's always torrents
bavell··on Open models by OpenAI
I'd love to try this on my data set - what approach/tools/models did you use for fine-tuning?
bavell··on Open models by OpenAI
There are a ton of ways to do this that haven't been tried yet.
bavell··on Open models by OpenAI
Unfortunately, it was predictable given the other "choices"
bavell··on Claude Opus 4.1
> I've basically wasted the morning on Claude Code when I should've just been doing it all myself.

Welcome to the machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBvAxSx0nAM&t=45s

bavell··on Claude Opus 4.1
I'm on the basic $20/mo sub and only ran into token cap limitations in the first few days of using Claude Code (now 2-3 weeks in) before I started being more aggressive about clearing the context. Long contexts will eat up tokens caps quickly when you are having extended back-and-forth conversations with the model. Otherwise, it's been effectively "unlimited" for my own use.
bavell··on Objects should shut up
The genius bureaucrat probably did as much research as you did and came to the same conclusion.
bavell··on How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast
Yes, incredible productivity gains from using a single language in frontend and backend.
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