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I agree that turning CS into a casino wasn’t a tasteful choice on Valve’s part but as someone who has played CS at least once a week for decades I can understand that they needed t…

I'm developing software in this area right now, so I try a lot of the new models. They're not even close for coding tasks. It basically comes down to 26b parameters vs 1T parameter…

I built a steganography app that embeds encrypted messages into images. It lives here: https://stegg.alifeinbinary.com It's as much of an art project as it is a programming project…

I really like LM Studio when I can use it under Windows but for people like me with Intel Macs + AMD gpu ollama is the only option because it can leverage the gpu using MoltenVK ak…

Agreed. I block Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter on my phone and work computers to avoid impulsive doom scrolling with the time vampires. I never would have seen this announcem…

I appreciate your response and I hope you can understand my initial concern. Looking forward to trying this out :)

All those parameters and it still won't answer questions about Tianenman Square in 1989... :(

i’m in the same boat. I bought mine back in 2021 and honestly I don’t regret my decision. It’s my main software development of music production computer plus every Sunday night I g…

...no plans for future hardware. RIP. Serviceable, repairable, upgradable Macs are officially a thing of the past.

Hi, I read throughout your blog post and website but couldn't find a github link, so I gather this project is closed source. Is that likely to change in the future? For something a…

They just need to create a GUI interface with Visual Basic and see if they can track the IP address.

I use my Mac for film scoring and music production, so I have a long-standing practice of keeping my operating system one major version behind for stability reasons. If you want to…

While the M5 is impressive, its capacity to compete against enterprise models like Opus, Sonnet etc is off by a couple orders of magnitude. Even the most sophisticated open source …

I love working in MacOS but I refuse to buy another new Macbook that has the storage soldered to the motherboard. Non-volatile memory has a limited amount of write cycles and let's…