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rvba··on Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?
Satya has to go. It feels he is there to keep costs low, not to do things correctly.

One of the first moves was to get rid of QA

rvba··on Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)
I am simplifying a lot since there were much more chips involved... but 3500 transistors to have countless hours of fun to play NES games really puts things into perspective

My 5090 has 92 billion transistors (I dont say they dont bring fun)

rvba··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
It does not answer at all. 2000-3000 names per year?
rvba··on On A.I. regulation and messaging
It sounds like anti EU propaganda.
rvba··on A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"
In addition to what you wrote... what does China use? One could argue that the factories there have very low cost of shipping + economies of scale - they order thousands of units, if not tens of thousands.

Then probably RISC-V being "open" license is the key to its success, even if the architecture itself is weird.

rvba··on New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it
No idea how it looked in New Zealand, but after covid "ended"* there were a lot of people who simply wanted to go out - after spending so much time indoors.

I suspect that people went out more in 2023-2025, but then they reversed to the mean + economic impacts (of money printing everywhere) hit.

* by the way, did covid officially ever end? the new variants seem to be still there, but it just stopped being covered by media after Russia invaded Ukraine)

rvba··on New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it
> Propel has published more than 225 articles

Open topic is if anyone is reading those or not.

But decline of quality press & local press is a very big problem.

On another board there is a person who (for free) collects information about people who lost their lives in car accidents during every summer vacation. That person tries to link to articles that described what happened. More and more, there are simply no articles -> because there is no more local press, even a local portal that would write about it.

In a way it's on the people - who dont want to pay for content. Perhaps due to some content shifted to youtube, tiktok or facebook.

rvba··on DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices
Do you import old code base or work on small greenfield projects?
rvba··on Google has abandoned Google News?
And even why? They are allready written, why they break now? Someone useless is clearly vibe coding them to ruin.

If google cares about cost then stop changing them and just leave few custodians

rvba··on Google has abandoned Google News?
And even why? They are allready written, why they break now
rvba··on Google has abandoned Google News?
Windows 8 was never peak. It was the one that introduced the tablet view that nobody wanted.
rvba··on Google has abandoned Google News
That is such a bad metaphor...
rvba··on How to Do Great Work (2023)
For me it is
rvba··on How to Do Great Work (2023)
PG could really work on style to shorten those walls of text (yes he refers to it near the end)

That's actually my own problem too - I often use AI to summarize / shorten my own texts. (Opposite of what most who seem to use it for generation?)

rvba··on How to Do Great Work (2023)
For me keeping Hacker News in the way it is. One of the last "inspiring" places, now that reddit is dead.
rvba··on Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller
Wont this wear out the flash memory quickly? I wonder hiw many read cycles can it survive
rvba··on The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
> Much of your context is assembled from your system prompt, Skills, CLAUDE.md files, memory, and other sources

What are "other sources"?

rvba··on DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16
Yes. Humans can survive 9g for only a few seconds, while a drone could do much sharper manouvers
rvba··on Writing fingerprint analysis of responses reveals Kimi's similarity to Claude
A lot of those arguments could be said about writing a book, or a decent forum guide.
rvba··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
If you talk about movies that tell about dangers of AI, you can start with Terminator 1 - from 1984.

And you probably could find some earlier sci-fi too.

rvba··on The state of open source AI
They spend their money from Google on a lot of things but not theit core product (Firefox), so it juat kept losing market share.

They killed extensions. They introduced signed extensions - and then forgot to renew the certificate. Mozilla employees build what they want, not ehat users want etc.

rvba··on Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
I saw those and sadly none of those works not provides solution to "Error: stream failed" that happens like clockwork.

I found this one:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/toolbox-app/remote-agent-time...

But it requires me to reinstall android studio because jetbrains toolbox cannot find it... because I installed ir on D:

On a side note Android studio atill creates hundred of megabutea of hidden stuff on C:

rvba··on At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
If those billions were poured in research it could bring results too.
rvba··on Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
Thank you for your reply. I use LM studio (local server), but can switch to a different tool.

Do you know how to switch it in LM studio?

What I see is that: android studio gives "Error: stream failed" and in LM studio server I see it is still working, then says that client (=android studio) disconnected.

So I assumed it was a setting in android studio.

rvba··on Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
Apologies for asking here but literally nobody knows:

Android studio connected to a local model disconnects automatically after 10 minutes. How set this limit to 12 hours or remove it completely?

I could run my LM studio model all night... but I cant, since Android studio times out after a hard limit of 10M.

This is not related to number of tokens.

I tried Googling, searching for settings in Android studio, even created a stackoverflow post - but zero information. Jetbrains mentions "remote agent timeout mechanism" - but after changing it, nothing happens.

rvba··on Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
Does anyone know how to disable the 10 minute timeout in Android studio when using a self hosted model on local machine?

It always auto disconnects.

rvba··on Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason?
There is a streamer who plays Diablo 2 by listening to the AI advice and it is quite funny since it is pretty clear that most of the advice is an amalgamation of random, often incorrect advicem

I wonder if it is the same for programming or not, but I vibe coded an android app just to see if I can and it just works. It required a lot of "build the code and correct the errors" pushing though. For example requested code in kotlin but received something else.

rvba··on Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Sorry for asking here, but nobody seems to know.

If I self host a local model is there some way to make Android studio not time out after 10 minutes?

rvba··on Lost and Found
Something is wrong with this websites scroll. Perhaps due to pictures loading. It feels that you scroll but see the same pictures.
rvba··on Cloudflare Drop
If someone drops the Taylor Swift discography there, does Cloudflare get righs to it too?

Is this some "smart" way to get the Books2 dataset and claim it was uploaded by its owners?

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