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teruakohatu

9,786 karma · joined January 10, 2020

Username translation: The Stone Quarry

Data Science, Rocks & Te Wai Pounamu, New Zealand.

Important: If you are looking at this profile because you thought something I posted was wrong, dismissive or disrespectful I would really like to hear from you so that I could understand how you got that impression. I will not get angry. It is important to me to communicate clearly and if something I said struck you that way then I failed and I would like to correct it. [Mostly borrowed from another profile].

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teruakohatu··on Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model
Any idea how well this would run on a CPU?
teruakohatu··on Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models
Have you see the price for Flash? Keeps going up. Flash 2.5 was a sweet spot.
teruakohatu··on I've created an open source 100% Rust clean-room clone of 7 of Adobe's apps
The link was removed on reddit. Here is the photoshop clone repo:

https://github.com/storytold/photocraft

teruakohatu··on Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time?
My high school English teachers would not agree with me, but there is a line where “need” becomes “hobby” (short of a career in English Lit).

I have enjoyed reading Canterbury Tales but have little to no ability to parse Beowulf.

I don’t know where that line is, but pre-Shakespeare is at the least diminishing returns.

teruakohatu··on Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time?
Bleak House’s opening paragraph

> … As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.

A completely functional high earning English-speaking software developer might easily find the above sentence hard to parse.

I find old school sitcoms hard to enjoy, probably because I am missing a lot of subtle cultural context. It doesn’t imply my comprehension skills are poor.

teruakohatu··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
> That's an Island of less than 5 million people,

The Republic of Ireland has more than 5 million people. The Island has well over 7 million.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0824/1588997-cso-popul...

teruakohatu··on An airport cooled by natural ventilation
I had an office in one of these buildings. I agree it’s gaslighting. In this specific instance the solution was to block most of the window and work in the dark. Every office was a concrete cave with inadequate lighting.

The upside was that the design didn’t allow it to go open plan.

teruakohatu··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
Thank you for sharing.
teruakohatu··on Steam Frame: Valve's standalone SteamOS VR headset ($1,059)
I take your point.

But I do think if everything is a PC it becomes a meaningless term: fridges, watches, TVs, calculators and phones.

teruakohatu··on Steam Frame: Valve's standalone SteamOS VR headset ($1,059)
> Steam Frame is a PC, and runs SteamOS powered by a Snapdragon® 8 Series Processor. With 16GB of RAM, Steam Frame supports stand-alone play on a growing number of both VR and non-VR games without needing to stream from your PC.

Stretching the definition of a PC here but it is interesting they have ported SteamOS to ARM with x86 translation.

teruakohatu··on JetKVM Mini
I am amazed that there is an ESP that can handle this and with just 32MB of RAM:

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-dev-kits/en/latest/e...

teruakohatu··on OpenAI Agents API
I don’t find it better than Claude Code but much better than OpenCode. So I am curious why less is more in that context.
teruakohatu··on FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued
> "Won't do free labour for our commercial enterprise to profit off of forever" is a rug pull now? It's incredible that you can type these words with a straight face.

I explicitly stated in my comment that we pay for open source (via vendor support). That is not the issue.

It is now a common business strategy to commercialise an open source project. FreeNAS was commercialised as TrueNAS, which is now having some of the source pulled.

TrueNAS doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s built on source projects.

teruakohatu··on FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued
This is disappointing, time to migrate from yet another was-open-source-now-only-technically-open-source software.

At work the trend is only adopt open source on a paid plan, adopting or relying on open source otherwise is just waiting for the rug to be pulled. Essentially treat open source as closed source.

How did we end up with this state of affairs?

teruakohatu··on Tracking Costco gas prices
Selling below the price of surrounding stations doesn’t mean they are losing money on the fuel.

Costco has a single store in my country and it’s butter that they sell cheaply to get people in the door. But I doubt they are losing money on it.

teruakohatu··on GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction
> without a better model in the wing ...

How do you know they don’t?

> is altman playing 4d chess or something I'm not aware of?

Anthropic just removed a discount on Fable, while people are simultaneously getting sick of reading fable and opus talking about “the load bearing texture” and “color of the blanket”. It’s become excruciatingly painful to read the output during coding sessions.

Maybe it’s just good marketing.

teruakohatu··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
How fast are 2x or 4x DGX?

I only have one and am wondering what the benefits are of getting another. I feel I will be disappointed…

teruakohatu··on Australia's social media ban has failed
It has been banned for a few months. Hardly a failure.

It will be a failure if 10 year olds continue to join social media at the rate they have done so in the past.

It’s not likely to get 15 year olds who have been addicted for 5 years off it, anymore than smoking bans have any impact on teens who have been smoking or vaping for years.

teruakohatu··on Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300
> There is no obligation in open source to transitively open source all of the documentation / tools used to create the open source project.

Open source means open source code. Open weight means a binary file dump, not unlike an exe file. There is nothing open source about it.

Its like having a closed source text editor that censors certain words, and an open source text editor that censors certain words.

The latter can easily be recompiled, the former requires reverse engineering. Both may give you a license to use them freely.

teruakohatu··on Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
Literally the first backend they mention is Vega-Lite.
teruakohatu··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
> My guess is that someone will be selling tokens at less than electricity + depreciation of GCs soon, since there's a lot of competition and "smaller" data centers have overcapacity? This is speculation, correct me if I'm wrong

My guess is they are selling you the tokens, then selling your tokens (data) onto someone else.

teruakohatu··on Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27
At this point in time what does meta get from releasing open weight models? Why devote the resources to it.
teruakohatu··on Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
Because that is a short term solution, it won’t be offered forever. Large organisations have to purchase credits at $/tokens. Eventually everyone else will too.
teruakohatu··on Tell HN: Fable is now credits only
I had networking errors, so maybe unrelated?
teruakohatu··on University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (2013)
I agree. It’s not a comment on the existence of a people group but rather a political structure. Saying something is older than the USA does not imply nobody lived in North America more than 250 years ago.
teruakohatu··on How to migrate from Proxmox VE 8 to 9: step-by-step guide (2026)
Here is the correct link:

https://www.lucasaguiar.xyz/posts/migracao-proxmox-8-9-2026/

teruakohatu··on Redeploying Fable 5
I hope the redeployed Fable 5 is the same as the version they pulled without any substantially increased restrictions.
teruakohatu··on Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He had worms
It’s available here in New Zealand over the counter in family sized packs of chocolate flavoured tablets.
teruakohatu··on OpenRA
Does that apply even for single player saves?
teruakohatu··on Underarm bowling incident of 1981
A wicket is a physical wooden structure. To take a wicket means to physically hit the wicket with a ball causing the batter to be out.

A wicket has the same function as a catcher in baseball.

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