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bavell

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About bavell

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

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49237660

    What was/is it like working with Hooded Horse? How did you get that going? I'm a big fan of the games they publish :) Good luck on your game & launch!

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    Comment #49068403

    I find it difficult to always have one or more long-horizon tasks 'queued up' and ready to run... I find myself usually bottlenecked on design, review, or something similar that re…

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    Comment #49030221

    I find no comfort in it. Merely pointing out that 'some' is hand-wavy and perhaps technically true but meaningless to the discussion.

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    Comment #49030206

    Precisely

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    Comment #49030090

    Good read and matches my experience pretty well, but I'd humbly suggest the author look up the definition of 'vertical' and 'horizontal' and swap their terminology + fix their vide…

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    Comment #49029752

    'Some' is doing a lot of heavy lifting there...

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    Comment #48950841

    Wouldn't be surprised if they issued credits or extended the deadline again as an apology. > Update - We are aware of an issue preventing users from selecting Claude Fable 5 within…

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    Comment #48950606

    Same here. Weirdly, > The promotion starts July 1, 2026 and ends July 19, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT. from: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15424964-claude-fable...

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    Comment #48762827

    > "... the plaintiff submitted an application in 2020 for food containers and other items invented by DABUS, an artificial intelligence the plaintiff had created." The plantiff is …

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    Comment #48753363

    Fable was only available for a few days, not seven.

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    Comment #48654309

    Yep, 9:30p here and it's 82F/80% humidity. Still pretty mild compared to the deep summer months (Jul/Aug)!

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    Comment #48619661

    Not my experience at all when I played around a year ago. There were plenty of noob-specific / noob-friendly lobbies with a mix of helpful players and fellow casuals.

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    Comment #48579185

    My rock collection causes concepts to enter my brain, but I don't think I'd say they're communicating with me, nor I with them.

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    Comment #48424791

    Another option - we keep the wild west unverified web, dotted with islands of verified/vetted spaces.

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    Comment #48413339

    This was a helpful visualization: https://youtu.be/U_sI9agWmEw?si=MItDfnTx1-oT_qX_

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    Comment #48293970

    > after I realize what's happening, I tend to take a little longer for each reply so they figure out it's faster to just do the research on their own most times. Agreed, and I do t…

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    Comment #48136940

    > MtGox Whew, that brings me back! I still think about the Bitcoin my buddy paid me for his half of a pizza ~15 years ago... worth 6 figures now haha.

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    Comment #48115916

    Great to hear, will submit my application soon :)

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    Comment #47996888

    > I'm not a Windows user—I only use it for gaming—so I don't really know how to get around this issue. 5ish years back I used to have a PCI passthrough via OVMF [0] setup for my GP…

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    Comment #47962185

    HN bio checks out. Kids are an investment, not a sunk cost.

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    Comment #47942114

    What a weird time for our industry. On one hand, small teams have never been able to move faster than right now. On the other, the economy and market conditions are brutal for the …

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    Comment #47942004

    In a reductive sense, yeah it's a bit silly. But zooming out, I can understand. Sucks to have your hand forced. Sucks to be let down. Sucks to watch something that was great fall f…

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    Comment #47933719

    Didn't the guy flee the country after posting bail? Doesn't exactly scream "innocent".

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    Comment #47922182

    Perhaps you could generate a few tokens before the entire model is downloaded, but since every token takes a potentially different "path" through an MoE model, you'd still need to …

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    Comment #47912344

    Going on 10 years now for me, tried Helm a bit and yep - all I've really needed was a package.json deploy script with sed to bump the image version.