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javier2··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
At best, this tells you v4.1 flash is profitable, but can they really get $38 per gpu hour? Sounds like a lot.
javier2··on Docker is weird
> As for "commercializing": Docker was famously bad at commercializing anything, we open sourced so much (maybe too much) and still people complained that we were not open enough.

yes, and no. Probably both. Docker would not become such a default standard if it wasnt for all the open sourcing.

javier2··on Docker is weird
As a backend developer, I am hopelessly grateful for docker and containerization in general. The old days with stateful application servers were AWFUL.
javier2··on JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
If going away from jpeg will 20x our hosting costs, it will be difficult to ever switch from jpeg.
javier2··on Tesla Roadster
Not really. It would be very simple for one of these parties to just not use symbols of old hate, or avoid spending hundreds of millions of dollars to remove crucial aid for millions of people. These are active choices. Glossing over these choices is not helpful to anyone.
javier2··on JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
the main thing with jpeg is adding 10bit would be a breaking change anyway, and storage space on phones gets you 30-40% more photos on the same storage if you change formats.
javier2··on Tesla Roadster
One of these people use their money to spread hate and promote themselves, the other does not.
javier2··on JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
1. How long does size, encode time and resize take compared to good old jpeg?

2. Is it possible to encode AVIF with hardware acceleration?

javier2··on Using AI to reverse engineer hardware
As an aside: I tried using claude to write GTK4 applications in december 2025/january 2026 and it was awful at it, barely even helpful. Then in September it's writing great gtk4 apps with barely any prompting.
javier2··on Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design
e16/e17 was a lot of fun, and it was fast.
javier2··on Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil
Ideally, at least the board would do time and lose any rights holding such positions for a long time.
javier2··on Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
Conspiracy people are like "nono, the government is lying to you", but really it was the corporations that make money all along.
javier2··on IRCv3
Slack is a very bad that is super slow no matter what time of day I use it. It completely locks up on a spotty network. Discord works way better and their voice chat is several leagues above.
javier2··on IRCv3
ok, that is funny at least!
javier2··on IRCv3
really need the simple voice chat for me to use it.
javier2··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Yeah, I was about to say, the memory industry has been found guilty of price fixing multiple times.
javier2··on Beauty in DVD Menus
I recently tried out some of my old dvds, and i have to admit I cant stand the quality of it on even my 27'' monitor, much less my 65'' tv. I'm giving blu ray a try though, can get disks for as low as $1-$3 on the used market.
javier2··on Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
This, even the prevalence of hevc (heic) encoded image from phones have caused us 4x the cpu usage.
javier2··on Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model
quite sure i have been getting those for 3-4 months already.
javier2··on JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development
fwiw, i have really appreciated Jetbrains approach to AI harnessing thus far. At the same time I have to admit I spend more and more time inside Claude Code...
javier2··on The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
i have used linux for 20 years now. I'm actually so happy we get good working drivers mere weeks after new hardware launch.
javier2··on The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
I bought a 9070 xt shortly after launch and it was already fine, but I am on arch so had easy access to latest kernel.
javier2··on Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
ok that is getting interesting!
javier2··on macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage
I dont even have Siri enabled, but even less so on macOS.
javier2··on Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors
its under 15$ a month...
javier2··on Jemalloc 5.4.0
We changed to jemalloc first on a jvm service which we could never get to run in its kube memory limit. with jemalloc its been dead stable for years, and we made it the default for all jvm services
javier2··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Oh, Google does not like others stealing and indexing their content?! How dare they!
javier2··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Oh, Google does not like others stealing and indexing their content?! How dare they!
javier2··on Fuck it, make it anyway
NGL, its a little annoying and disheartening that many can now partially build with an LLM tool what I spent so many years learning. It does not cover all cases, but there is an element of this.
javier2··on Doomscrolling ourselves to death
Yeah, I have stopped basically all consumption except from youtube, which itself also has a tendency to expand to fill all available time. I dont use shorts that much, but there is just much good content being released as well.
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