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Same for me even with vanilla ubuntu. "It just works" used to be true for macos, and linux was for tinkering. Now, Ubuntu "just works" (and fast!). I want a system that works out o…

Exactly! "It just works" used to be true for macos, and linux was for tinkering. Now, ubuntu "just works" (and fast!). It's not just that macos is slow and window management is str…

I was using a new macbook pro and another machine with ubuntu. Compared with ubuntu, macos is soo slow I had to stop using it.

I like that you go beyond just prompt engineering and "LLM as a judge" and use finetuned (?) ModernBert and Llama models. In your previous post you mentioned that you "score 20+ di…

> choosing a small number of tasks to execute exceptionally well And that is the Unix philosophy

This is much needed on mac os. But why? Back in the day, mac os was supposed to "just work", and linux was for weirdos who had too much time and customized everything. But now, it'…

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I agree that sampling only valid tokens is a very promising approach. I experimented a bit with finetuning open source LLMs for JSON parsing (without guided token sampling). Depend…

I wish it was easy & reliable to run ubuntu on an M2 macbook. That would be perfect - ubuntu is a much more capable & convenient OS at this point, but nothing comes close to the ma…

So sad that we need 3rd party apps for even the most basic functionality in mac os. It used to be that linux was a hassle to set up, and mac os worked out of the box. Now it's quit…