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blueside

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About blueside

My name is John. I am a programmer in Oregon

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    i have been trying several open source models for the last few years. running qwen 3.6 27b on my 4090 is the first local llm i have used that made me start to second question if an…

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    Comment #48230669

    Is prefixing your searches with "before:2024" the new "reddit" of google searches? I have certainly found myself using this prefix a lot lately for certain topics. I use AI a lot f…

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    Comment #47938594

    Cybersecurity certainly makes money. The good ones make a lot. I mean a lot. But if you think you can just study for a year and get some security certificates and call it a day, yo…

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    Comment #47555978

    More often than not, when I see "That's it, that's the smoking gun!" I know it's time to stop and try again.

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    Comment #46346368

    I started to convert a lot of my content in AV1 until I realized that my Nvidia Shield devices won't play AV1. My $30 firestick will play them but I do really prefer the Shield. I …

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    Comment #45796032

    The users review the output

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    Comment #45777177

    if this guys learns enough, who knows, he may have a future in programming!

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    Comment #45650977

    As we all know here, if the the title of this post was about Codex on the web, the top comment would have been about using Claude instead. YMMV, but this definitely doesn't track w…

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    Comment #45621785

    LLMs have continually taught me that we have vastly overestimated human intelligence

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    Comment #45377355

    only 2 people (engineer and conductor) for an entire train that is over a mile long seems about right to me though

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    Comment #44818678

    Agreed, I couldn't believe they skipped the RB19

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    Comment #44818654

    F1 has never been the same for me since they got rid of the engine sound, I miss it so much

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    Comment #43180955

    There is no question that Tesla helped accelerate EV adoption in China but BYD's significant battery R&D was already underway and would have happened with or without Elon

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    Comment #40449024

    And it's the promoters, on behalf of the artists, who helped secure all those exclusive deals. Taylor Swift didn't become a billionaire because of Ticketmaster fees.

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    Comment #37018156

    `g ctrl-g` will do it, but i can barely remember that, so i end up doing `!wc %`

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    Comment #34847806

    Of course data was used, but you may have the order of operations wrong; execs often make the decision before the data.

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    Comment #34068960

    Given the nature of programmers, I think the bigger threat is that AI makes the jobs so mind numbingly boring and unchallenging that they quit before AI gets the chance to replace …

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    Comment #33977718

    It doesn't impress me now but it was the first exposure I had to see Excel being used fluently. I later learned that it was very common in the world of finance and nothing exactly …

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    Comment #33976865

    Shkreli is live streaming this right now and somebody on his voice chat just said to him "No offense Martin, but you're probably the last person I would go to if I had incontrovert…

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    Comment #33959266

    Pilots are truly some of the craziest people around. Just last summer, a guy flew a Cessna 172 from California to Hawaii. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N490NW/history/2022082…

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    Comment #31393318

    And maybe they are smarter than humans - they are playing the long game. They know they will still be here after humans wipe themselves out

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    Comment #30412252

    I think this is one of the better lists out there. I own almost all of the books in this list. But don't get your hopes up too much. I'm still a lousy programmer.

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    Comment #30280865

    Was he sent by Mitch and Murray?

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    Comment #30264679

    for $199, you'd think Nova would be mobile friendly. Maybe this has changed? When we tried it last year, we were quite shocked it had no responsive design support.