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BluSyn
·il y a 17 jours·discuss
Compared to what? All the comments seem to agree, but I curious if people here have actually used Grok.

I rotate between major models frequently. Grok has been up there in accuracy and research for some time, trading places with Gemini IMO. Latest 4.3 release has been solid.

Composer is pretty good and now they own Cursor. Don’t count them out yet.

So.. it’s bad, compared to what? Claude from 2 months ago?
BluSyn
·il y a 22 jours·discuss
I still stick with btrfs for this reason
BluSyn
·le mois dernier·discuss
Rust on embedded is fun to play with.

Few years ago I made a custom RGB LED rope light controller using ESP32 C3 DevKit and Rust embedded, connecting light to homeassistant via MQTT auto discovery. Was surprisingly easy to get started as someone who had limited experience with embedded programming, and only hobby Rust experience.

But the supported hardware in Rust crates was limited at the time and C3 dev kits weren’t widely available, so I never used it for anything. HAL support has only gotten better since then.

I may try to resurrect that project now with Pico 2 and Matter.
BluSyn
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
Strike on Venezuela?
BluSyn
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Perhaps related? My main fiber WAN went out few hrs ago, failing over to Starlink backup. Discovered it’s a cloudflare issue, as my multi-wan setup tests against 1.1.1.1, which suddenly stopped responding (but only from my fiber ISP). Switched to testing 8.8.8.8 to restore.

If it weren’t for recent cloudflare outages, never would have considered this was the problem.

Even until I saw this, I assumed it was an ISP issue, since Starlink still worked using 1.1.1.1. Now I’m thinking it’s a cloudflare routing problem?
BluSyn
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
Steam machine so close to perfect, but 1x USBC and 1GB Ethernet are huge misses for a 2026 device. Also needs more VRAM. May be better to just do custom SFF build.
BluSyn
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
Unsecured government loan to a successful company to fund acceleration and growth is a "handout".

A "bailout" is what happened in 2009, in the sense the banks would literally have collapsed without it (and they probably should have).

OpenAI is not going to collapse without these loans. Huge difference.

Also for the record, not rationalizing, because I'm not in favor of either handouts or bailouts.
BluSyn
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
I'm confused about language, as "loans" to me do not equal "bailout". The equating of the two seems odd, as many government incentives use loans that pay back with high interest, so governments MAKE money on those kinds of deals.

Also clear that the 1.4T figure includes some accounting for spend that does not come directly from OpenAI (grid/power/data infra for example). Obviously some government involvement is needed, but more at EPA/State/Local level to fast track construction permits, more-so than financial help from Treasury.

I'm confused why this generates such sensational headlines.
BluSyn
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
grok-code-fast-1 is my current pick, found accuracy and speed better than Sonnet 4.5 for day-to-day usage.