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mmonaghan

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About mmonaghan

https://what.lol

swe @ harmonic.ai

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49190289

    People love hating on x and nikita but both the app & web experience have improved dramatically over the last year+. He's done a great job in a year and there seems to be even more…

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    Comment #49118074

    Platitudes sound nice but in the real world you need incentives and there are plenty. Other than real madrid and barcelona and a few italian clubs, very few euro clubs are run as n…

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    Comment #49028948

    I think distillation is inevitable and pretty hard to prevent but I also dunno why anyone would spend billions to train frontier models if there's enough distillation going on to g…

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    Comment #48987335

    This is true for any company following an open source strategy. You'll have the weights but you'll need to run inference, figure out your system prompt, sampling, quantization, etc…

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    Comment #48987295

    Agree but I think they'll spend whatever they can to subsidize and break dependence on US models. Whatever isn't spend on US models will be spent on chinese models. Europe will rem…

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    Comment #48987286

    Who's got a monopoly though lol?

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    Comment #48987283

    how profitable though

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    Comment #48987273

    > the idea that anyone could own that is obscene What if china ends up owning it? Do you think that's better or worse for the world? You're commenting your open opinions on a site …

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    Comment #48987248

    They're dumping, dude. They subsidize important industries so they can give it way so cheaply that free markets can't compete, and when those companies fail, they swoop in and make…

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    Comment #48987145

    People say this but windows and mac won the os wars and consumer linux distros are dead. No one I know uses open weights models to code day-to-day and very few use open weights mod…

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    Comment #48750211

    Flailing. I hope its because he fears for his job and not because he senses yet another price-fixing scandal on the horizon.

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    Comment #48687254

    ehhhh I'm not a corgi stan but I'd bet they just took the design & copy, which is totally fine imo. Often better to just take another's design instead of spend a bunch of cycles fi…

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    Comment #48660797

    The country has changed massively through voting in the last 25 years. I would rather not change to a system where political groups attack others with guns and bombs to change thin…

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    Comment #48417855

    I think there's evolution at play here - if you dislike AI enough to opt out of using any ai-generated code, you will likely suffer. I think there's definitely a conversation to be…

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    Comment #48187448

    Tried everything and love 1pass. Dont want to have to think about it too much. I think this is tentatively good for bitwarden - making money means you can more easily invest in the…

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    Comment #48152341

    Good for them. Much easier to build a great product if you're making money from it. I tried bitwarden a while ago but ended up going with dashlane for a few years. I'm on 1password…

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    Comment #48137288

    This is clickbait meant to make you angry - the move has been planned for more than ten years, well before datacenter power usage was an issue. NV Energy has made it clear that the…

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    Comment #47894258

    Kimi nowhere close to opus on extended use but definitely highly competitive with sonnet. I will probably end up using kimi for personal stuff when I find some time to get it runni…

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    Comment #47892756

    I think its two systems masquerading as one - employed-and-insured and everyone else. If you're the former, it works great. If you're the latter, it can be mediocre to BRUTAL. Medi…

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    Comment #47773402

    If you can successfully integrate with quest/labcorp and one or two of the big ehrs, i will happily pay double what you're charging.

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    Comment #47773346

    after reading it, it's super positive and really great. I wouldn't consider myself the target audience for this, but ill probably work it into my morning practice a little for a co…

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    Comment #47772235

    trendslop is a great way to describe it

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    Comment #47531978

    Yes, it's been insane. Hitting limits by noon since late last week. Not even using opus 4.6 with 1mm context, just normal opus and a bit of sonnet/haiku.

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    Comment #47430366

    I hate these types of study because yea, in general people are really moral and want the right things but when it comes down to specifics, very few people are voting for a new nucl…