I regret giving this article a chance and wasting my time trying to figure out why the “author” was saying what they were saying. Flagged.
Im not a native English speaker so it took me a while longer but once I noticed? Hell no, if it's not worth the time to write or at least edit it, it's not worth the time to read.
And that's even before taking the contradictiona into account.
I think the submission doesn't belong to HN.
But it sounds like there were other gremlins (like ulimit reverting itself) that would've thwarted automated testing.
Do you feel like there's a point where it would've made sense to automate?
it's just that each run takes a long long time
This can lead to a VS_Store corruption == noBOOT sadMAC
It turns out that the essentially no difference thing wasn't true... but fortunately these things are such antiquated beasts that just two people can fix this, via email, by custom "rebuilding your VS_Store firmware" – you'd have to search the forums.
One sad day soon... the "5,1"s won't boot (without pre-emptive maintenance, or an onboard reflow of the many-pinned bootROM chip). Every bootup... one step closer to its eWaste fate.
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Yes, it uses a lot of power, but my VEGA64 is about as fast as an RTX 5060Ti(8gb) for using Ollama, locally (eight year old design, but it used HBM2 !!).
In wintertimes, this thing has reliably acted as a monero-mining space-heater, albeit quite inefficiently (no: I do NOT have a reversible heatpump; spaceheaters, only == no net-cost).
Was already getting lots of AI generated vibes from the article before that, but I’ve seen Claude constantly use that phrase and no real person ever in my life (though I guess some people must have or LLMs wouldn’t have learned it).
It’s the most annoying thing about reading anything LLM related. I genuinely (ugh that’s a term I’ve picked up from using Opus 4.8 every day for work as it constantly says it and now so do I and I can’t stop) want to learn more about the topic but it’s painful to read most posts about it.
The people really into LLMs, surprise!, have a tendency to also LLM generate their writing about LLMs. This would be fine if they used that as a starting point then edited it for brevity (LLMs are consistently overly verbose for some reason, this post was like twice as long as it needed to be, though I guess you could argue the same about my comment haha), correctness, and tone…but they usually don’t.
Then I make it halfway through the article and wonder if I can trust any of it at all.
But I won't be the one to tell you, because I sure as fuck am not going to wade through overly verbose, tired linkedin-tier slopisms to find out.
Please...
(otherwise, congrats for discovering the scientific method!)