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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 Despite sticker prices, the real cost of getting a degree has been going down
No, we need more mature and responsible adults in the world, not adult-sized children.
bavell··on But good sir, what is electricity?
Isn't a straight up physical "collision" just a strong interaction between the electromagnetic field of multiple particles?
bavell··on DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards
He loves a good troll and the media + commentariat eats it up like candy and gives him all the free airtime he wants.
bavell··on El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
Sure, all you have to do is compute until the heat-death of the universe. No proof of work needed!
bavell··on Using AI for Coding: My Journey with Cline and LLMs
It's faster if all you're concerned with can fit in a static html file but what about for more complex projects?

I've struggled with getting any productivity benefits beyond single-file contexts. I've started playing with aider in an attempt to handle more complex workflows and multi-file editing but keep running into snags and end up spinning my wheels fighting my tools instead of making forward progress...

bavell··on GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable
Such as?
bavell··on Boosting Computational Fluid Dynamics Performance with AMD MI300X
Isn't rx580 like 4 gens behind now? It was released in 2017. Probably not the right card for anything AI.
bavell··on Has LLM killed traditional NLP?
You will most likely be using the same model so just 1 to load into vram.
bavell··on Collection: More Doctors Smoke Camels
Or perhaps the studies are flawed? (you know, what this whole thread is about?)
bavell··on Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep
Sounds to me like you were focusing on the (negligible) impact, while they were upset on principle?
bavell··on Agents Are Not Enough
It's true, they're very convincing bullshitters ;)
bavell··on Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
Can't CoD do 60+ fps @1080p on a potato nowadays?... not exactly a good reference point.
bavell··on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
Here's [0] a muuuuch more balanced overview of the situation, the day after the ambassador bridge was opened.

[0] https://youtu.be/f7YIpSWqT0s?si=0DdPECPkBcU1AKKj

bavell··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
A voice of sanity in a cacophony of madness. I hold no sympathy for Meta but it's laughable that so-called "fact-checkers" are anything but "status-quo enforcers".
bavell··on For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house
Node.js is a server runtime, it does not run clientside at all. NPM can be used to download server OR client JS packages. A frontend bundler tool (e.g. webpack) can analyze a dependency graph of your client-side entrypoint and bundle all the NPM deps used, which will then be sent and executed on the client. No Node.js components or code are run client-side at any point (caveat - some packages can work server- and client-side).

HTH

bavell··on DeepSeek-V3
8x H200s recommended:

https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/tree/main/benchmark/de...

bavell··on How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect
Says more about the team than React.
bavell··on Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
Great explanation, thank you. Thinking about them in terms of PKI and SSH keys finally clicked for me.
bavell··on Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning
It's always amusing listening to techies' musings on law... lots of misunderstandings, I suspect due to the helpful but inaccurate "code but for humans" analogy.

Obligatory/relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/

bavell··on Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
Similar experience here at a (very) small company.
bavell··on 418 I’m a teapot
Because nothing brightens an engineer's day like putting rocketship emojis in commit messages
bavell··on The phone ban has had a big impact on school work
The band Tool does this - they ask for no phones and no photos during the show (except the last song)
bavell··on AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M
I think you are erroneously conflating open source with deterministic builds.

Yes, there is a random element when "producing the binary" but that doesn't mean it isn't open source.

bavell··on Scrollbars: Overriding native behavior to provide a better experience
I think it's a joke? Try one big scroll on mobile, pulling all the way up.
bavell··on Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane
Better than adtech or fintech
bavell··on U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate
10,000% this. Sedentary lifestyle with a poor diet and little to no regular exercise is a recipe for health complications throughout life.
bavell··on Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
Read some other comments in this large thread, maybe it will click for you.
bavell··on Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
And yet it's exactly this fear of voters abstaining which just ousted Biden as nominee.
bavell··on Converting Codebases with LLMs
Fair enough, I've never used them either!
bavell··on Empathy for the user having sex with your software
Especially with all the tightly-coupled components.
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