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Otternonsenz

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About Otternonsenz

Always interested to talk tech, music, or anything else that might be enlightening!

Recent public activity

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    Ask HN: Where is NFTs as a technology or investment?

    As I’m working through reports, I realized that with AI-everything taking all the air in the room, I hadn’t heard about tokens of the non-fungible kind for a hot second. As an arti…

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    Comment #48733919

    Thank you for the recommendation, and so far, it has been working great (within reason, haha). It doesn’t kill my rig when thinking, but it definitely needs more training wheels to…

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    Comment #48723775

    Fully agreed, and my hope is as open models grow and change, that getting some amount of this working on Pro-sumer hardware will be more attainable. But certainly seems like we are…

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    Comment #48723731

    Now that I’m dipping more into this space, am gonna see what I can upgrade with the motherboard I have, but RAM pricing as it is, I’ll need to be smart about when I upgrade. I very…

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    Comment #48722996

    Is there any hope for people that cant even run 27B parameters, Qwen3.6 or otherwise? Are there any quantized models that do well with tool calling at smaller parameter sizes? I do…

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    Comment #48574540

    The CrafsMan is great, a lovely voice to listen to as he works, and makes a bunch of fun diy crafts. A good amount of videos to work thru: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCrafsMan

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    Comment #48194743

    And for the curiosity of those who are running open models locally, are there any open models that offer anything even looking like parity with commercial coding offerings? Or is t…

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    Comment #45961768

    To be fair, I believe this protocol existed before Google’s thing, if I remember right.

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    Comment #44941804

    Honestly not expecting to see an answer to a question I had for myself and other residential appraisers who want to have our own AVMs to run thru, that we can develop ourselves! Wa…

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    Comment #43435690

    Then this might serve as an interesting opportunity for you to sell leads or direct them towards the info you’re scraping from. Tho if it works as free advertisement on either side…

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    Comment #43426587

    Zillow, OpenDoor, Redfin, and Realtor.com all pay for API access to the largest Multiple Listing Systems (except for Realtor because they are the ones that are selling the access).…

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    Comment #42934288

    Location: South West US Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: For the right company Technologies: PHP, XML, JavaScript, some Powershell Résumé/CV: Can supply Residential Appraisal…

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    Comment #42516450

    I am curious, with the way you are using “ Is your point that people aren’t willing to pay for things if they have a choice not to? Or is it that independent artists should be grat…

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    Comment #42515564

    Because a person might be willing: -to directly support artists with buying the albums or songs at full price, rather than letting Spotify barely pay artists anything for their mus…

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    Ask HN: How do infrastructure providers calculate cost to compute?

    From the outside of the hosting business, but with a less-than-shallow understanding of computer and networking history, I am befuddled at hosting costs (cheap as they may be even …

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    Comment #39305129

    Wonder if this will muddy the waters for searching about info for the Gemini protocol.. I have no use for machine learning like this, and definitely not what I thought when I saw t…

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    Comment #39042886

    Nicole is great, and someone who is a fantastic resource for all the cool ways people use the software! Her and a bunch of others are active on the Obsidian discord, and from the T…

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    Comment #39032152

    While not my personal knowledge base yet, my personal use case for Obsidian is probably what gives me the most joy for it: as a Dungeon Master’s Worldbuilding Notes / Interactive D…

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    Comment #38997705

    I think they were working on an Obsidian plug-in at some point, and got some primitive functionality up, but don’t know what the state of that is currently. So possible rendering p…

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    Comment #38569653

    Can agree this one is fantastic, and you don’t need to be polyamorous or in a poly relationship to get something out of it. I would recommend it for anyone who wants to be more sec…

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    Comment #36895251

    That visual pun was my Typography professor's favorite joke as we were learning about kerning, haha.

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    Comment #36484393

    So runs a virtual machine on any type of hardware? I like the idea of computing that works anywhere and is not locked in by vendor, but it seems like this is early enough that they…

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    Comment #35640824

    Not to my knowledge at this point in time, though I wish there was. Gopher and other small web tech seem closer to the owned platform idea. I would love not having to rent my platf…

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    Comment #35042040

    I’m not at my home Obsidian vault, but now I’m curious if there is a way to make this work within the theme settings for Obsidian. If anyone else gets to it before I do, let me kno…

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    Ask HN: Where are the open source physical music production tools?

    In building out a home recording studio piece by piece, I’ve had difficulties finding gear that is useful but not too out of my current price range (as I do not currently have the …