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Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
creesch Link ParentAnd those people are problematic, plain and simple. I have little time today, but I have written about the last time it came up and we lost multiple people over it. I will not repeat myself, but...Because some people fundamentally disagree with the concept of being able to opt out of these discussions.
And those people are problematic, plain and simple. I have little time today, but I have written about the last time it came up and we lost multiple people over it. I will not repeat myself, but the people you reference I feel like should have a good look in the mirror because of what I already mentioned the last time.
Also, this is general advice, if someone tells something about their experiences in life don't see it as something that needs correcting. Most people get annoyed by that, some groups just have to deal with it more often making it more exhausting.
For further context, I am linking previous discussions:
And blocking people is no a solution it is a last resort.
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Comment on YouTube is looking to expand into audiobooks in ~books
creesch LinkThis makes actually sense to me, more than the fact that you can play games on youtube (and netflix)This makes actually sense to me, more than the fact that you can play games on youtube (and netflix)
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Comment on Best way to setup email forwarding for a domain I own? in ~tech
creesch Link ParentIt is also a free service offered by a giant company basically looking to offer loss leaders to tie people in their web. I generally have been trying to move away from big tech where possible....It is also a free service offered by a giant company basically looking to offer loss leaders to tie people in their web. I generally have been trying to move away from big tech where possible. Certainly cloudflare recently has not been looking good with various moves they made vibing up things.
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Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes
creesch Link ParentYeah it is the sort of uncritical techbro stuff we can do without.Self promotion is one thing, reposting a PR or marketing release from AI companies and just highlighting parts of it in the submission comment is in the same category as influencer marketing to me.
Yeah it is the sort of uncritical techbro stuff we can do without.
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Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes
creesch Link ParentPersonally when OP doesn't reply to me specifically that's alright. But when OP doesn't reply to anyone, even in a post where they ask for perspective it does give an impression of disinterest in...From our perspective, we take our time to give OP a comment so it's understandable to feel left hanging when the OP doesn't reply with at least one comment. But from their perspective, they're inundated by many people and (by this expectation) equally many demands for conversation.
Personally when OP doesn't reply to me specifically that's alright. But when OP doesn't reply to anyone, even in a post where they ask for perspective it does give an impression of disinterest in the topic even if that is not intended.
In this case it feels like OP is aggregating the result of a discussion rather than being part of the discussion. In the case of their own blog posts it more or less can give an impression of driving traffic rather than genuinely being interested in the topic they have written about.
And to be clear, I feel like you are tackling it more broadly where I am responding the context of how I see OP specifically operate on this website. It is somewhat less as part of the community and more along side it and people are clearly picking up on that and giving that as feedback to OP.
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Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes
creesch Link ParentThat's not really a "on the other hand" but either me not making it clear or you somewhat misreading what I said. I am not saying it should be an obligation, but without such a discussion starter...That's not really a "on the other hand" but either me not making it clear or you somewhat misreading what I said. I am not saying it should be an obligation, but without such a discussion starter combined with the other context I can see where people are coming from. Maybe put more clearly, the overall lack of participation by OP in discussions (even ones they did start themselves as this very post) can create a feeling of them operating outside the community rather than part of the community.
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Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes
creesch Link Parent@rodrigo One more thing I have realized is that I now realize is that you have the tendency to create a post and then basically not check back on it for a while. For example, you are asking a...@rodrigo One more thing I have realized is that I now realize is that you have the tendency to create a post and then basically not check back on it for a while. For example, you are asking a question here, several people have replied and 12 hours later there is not a single comment from you. I don't expect people to be glued to tildes once they make a post and reply to every single thing. But no replies at all when a post still is "fresh" does increase the feeling of "hit and run" posting.
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Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes
creesch LinkYou link to the previous post. Where people mostly ask you to at least also post a comment with a little introduction to the blog post. Which, even if it isn't technically in the tildes guidelines...You link to the previous post. Where people mostly ask you to at least also post a comment with a little introduction to the blog post. Which, even if it isn't technically in the tildes guidelines seems like a nice thing to do anyway.
If we do look at what you quoted
If you have your own site/project/channel/etc. that you'd like to share on Tildes, that's generally fine (in moderation), but it shouldn't be the primary reason that you post on the site. Tildes is a community, not a free advertising platform. Sharing your own content is welcome as long as you're involved in the community, but don't just treat Tildes as a source of an audience.
And I do have a quick look at your profile every other submission you do is to your own blog. Your comments a majority of them seem to be related to submissions you made yourself and then mostly (but not entirely) focused on your blog posts as well. So, from that perspective I can see why people feel like you are somewhat doing the self promotion thing.
But again, I get the feeling it is more related to overall participation and in this case "hit and run" type posting where you post the link but no submission statement. You can argue that a blog post stands on its own, but in that case you are just linking to one external source for the majority of posts.
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Comment on Best way to setup email forwarding for a domain I own? in ~tech
creesch LinkYup, with your own domain you can have anything@yourdomain.com even without configuring each address. Just make sure the hosting provider you go with does support catch-all. If you actually want...Yup, with your own domain you can have anything@yourdomain.com even without configuring each address. Just make sure the hosting provider you go with does support catch-all. If you actually want to sent from those addresses you are looking for what are called mail aliases. There often is a limit to these, so I only configure them when I actually do need to send something from a specific address and otherwise rely on catch-all.
I have been a happy user of mailbox.org but there are plenty of other providers out there.
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Comment on Any search engines with information cards like Google? in ~tech
creesch LinkDuckDuckGo with "bangs" might help Like you can do !lb dune and it will go directly to letterboxd. I personally think Brave is a company of questionable morale and personally wouldn't want to use...DuckDuckGo with "bangs" might help Like you can do
!lb duneand it will go directly to letterboxd.I personally think Brave is a company of questionable morale and personally wouldn't want to use it but their search does have infoboxes.
Bing also does have infoboxes but as a terrible UX experience initially with an overload of clutter. Which you can mostly turn off but then you still get popups here and there and generally it is just as bad and often worse than google.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
creesch Link ParentIf you stretch the definition of "they can" then yes, they can. If you look at practical use, then for all intents and purposes they cannot. Models perform worse with languages they have less...They can.
If you stretch the definition of "they can" then yes, they can. If you look at practical use, then for all intents and purposes they cannot.
Models perform worse with languages they have less training data for. Languages most common on GitHub like Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, etc generally show good performance where models score noticeably lower on things like Lua, R, Perl.Frontier models tend to compensate for this by leaning on languages that look similar but that only goes as far. So no, if a language is not in the training data a model will not be able to work in it as fluently and, depending on the language struggle noticeably
Mind you, this is about languages they have been trained on. If they have no training data whatsoever for a language it will be even worse. Possibly you can compensate somewhat by having a prompt include "this language most closely relates to Y". But then you are also going to deal with a things like wrong assumptions about semantics, patterns that work slightly different causing issues, etc, etc.
Tool calls can help here but those are just a patch and will not yield the same results compared to a model natively having been trained on a language. It will also just mean more token consumption. And eat up a lot of your model's context window. Which matters more than you might realize as it is well documented that an advertised context window doesn't mean the model will perform as well with the entire window in use. Since there is no training data you'd need all relevant data always in that context window. Depending on the complexity this can mean a substantial use of the context window, resulting in additional degraded use. Improvements have been made here but this is also an area where open-weight models generally tend to trail behind, with a smaller effective context window than advertised.
So far I have just written about this in the context of one language even. Over times we are talking also about things like protocols, best practices, etc. Yes, you can put it all in tool calls, skills, etc. But again, that will not perform the same as the model having native base knowledge about a subject and at some point there will really be no effective context left to have it actually do the thing you want. You might say that it only needs to pull information in where it needs it, but if most of the project is something it has no data on that just means it has keep pulling in that data.
To sum it up, in the short term I'll hand it to you. Sure, small changes to frameworks and languages initially you'd be able to compensate for with some small degradation in performance. In the long term, no they effectively cannot.
As far as fine tuning goes, it effectively has a similar problem. Tuning is good at changing behavior and style, less so at adding new information to a model that was not included in pre-training. Knowledge added through fine tuning is something models tend to hallucinate more over, to the point that retrieval (so the earlier mentioned tool calls) is seen as more effective. Which, in itself already has limitations as I went over.
Fine tuning also tends to change models overall degrading some things they already "know" which only gets worse every time you tune a model again. Talking about years of drift and multiple fine tuning rounds and I guess you'll have the next generation meme about model rot the same way people meme about JPEG artifacts.
Then there is the practical aspect of it all. It is one thing to tune a model on one additional subject. That's not going to be the case though, it will not just be one language or one framework but all additional data and knowledge I already mentioned earlier. Even if fine tuning was without flaws it would be a massive undertaking to keep models up to date on all of that (or even a subset). As it stands fine tuning is not up to task of doing the same sort of training that these labs do. And no, the popular narrative that the Chinese labs are doing this with barely any budget isn't quite true.
Which returns me to my original point. Open weight models are also heavily subsidized at the moment, without millions invested in hardware to train these models it currently isn't possible to reproduce their results. And as I hopefully have made clear now, the current models will not remain usable no matter what, yes you can keep running them, I am talking practical usage. That also means, that from my perspective, the entire LLM industry can effectively rug pull us as consumers. Not just the frontier labs by raising pricing, but also the Chinese labs by simply no longer providing these models for free. We could hope they'd offer them for less than the frontier labs, but that is also not a given.
I honestly think it is better to be realistic about this. And to be extra clear, I am not coming at this from a perspective of someone against the use of LLMs in general. I happily use them in all sorts of tasks. I am also acutely aware that the current situation isn't likely to last and that it might mean a significantly higher cost of using them in the future. I rather be wrong about that than to be wrong about firmly believing everything will be well in the future and nothing is really going to change.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
creesch Link ParentYeah not really though. DeepSeek v3's final training run was reported to cost somewhere around $5.6M for the hardware. Which ignores training before that, personnel cost, prior research, etc. The...That was why DeepSeek had such an impact, because they published a paper that said they trained their model for a little over 100k usd, and they described how they did the training.
Yeah not really though. DeepSeek v3's final training run was reported to cost somewhere around $5.6M for the hardware. Which ignores training before that, personnel cost, prior research, etc.
The paper you probably mean is about R1 reporting it to have cost $294k, but *that is on top of V3 as the base model. DeepSeek also never claimed this was the total cost of building the model, just the final training. The actual hardware investment for example is estimated to be in the millions to over a billion dollars.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
creesch Link ParentOkay, we are going in circles. I already addressed this.Why would those models no longer be usable? There is no reason to believe that these models will suddenly stop being runnable on hardware.
Okay, we are going in circles. I already addressed this.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
creesch Link ParentTo which someone replied that it doesn't matter as long as open weight models are available. But that is only relevant if they receive updates and are provided for free. If they are no longer...The discussion was about if the current pricing can be rug pulled.
To which someone replied that it doesn't matter as long as open weight models are available. But that is only relevant if they receive updates and are provided for free. If they are no longer provided to the world for free you either end up with models that eventually will no longer be usable, or alternative the reason they are no longer free is because interference providers are now required to start paying for these models.
Regardless, also open weight models are mostly a thing right now because they are being subsidized. All things considered there are massive costs involved with these models that are hidden from the consumer end of things because everyone is still trying to either keep relevant or that moat.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
creesch Link ParentBecause software development will continue to evolve. New frameworks made, new languages created, languages will receive updates, etc. Eventually, fairly quickly even models will end up being...Because software development will continue to evolve. New frameworks made, new languages created, languages will receive updates, etc. Eventually, fairly quickly even models will end up being outdated with nobody updating them. That's why.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
creesch Link ParentMost open weight models still cost money to train. Maybe not as much as frontier models but why that is the case is also very much up to debate as these Chinese labs aren't exactly open about the...Only if you ignore open weight models. D
Most open weight models still cost money to train. Maybe not as much as frontier models but why that is the case is also very much up to debate as these Chinese labs aren't exactly open about the training methods. We can say for sure that they cost a lot more to train than the cost of "being made available for free". Which also means that they too are subsidized at the moment as companies aren't doing this out the goodness of their heart.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
creesch Link ParentThat "as long as" is doing a hell of a lot heavy lifting here. What you are effectively advocating for is to have nobody understand the code base. LLMs don't have working memory or context...It does not matter that the codebase is not maintainable by a person, as long as LLMs can maintain it, it will be fine.
That "as long as" is doing a hell of a lot heavy lifting here. What you are effectively advocating for is to have nobody understand the code base. LLMs don't have working memory or context awareness. All they have is the code and whatever is documented around that code. They too benefit from that code being structured and developed according to good practices. As it helps them write actual working functionality.
That structure is not there by default and by default most code hardnesses there is only a tiny amount of structure provided. Without anyone further dictating that structure you'll quickly end up with an amalgamation of different structures and approaches in your code base. This will be barely noticeable in small projects or early green field projects. But once a project grows it will become an issue as the LLM will start to confuse it self due to the code base containing all sorts of mixed signals it created itself.Claiming you currently don't need to look at code is simply saying you don't care about overall quality. Or, somewhat more charitable, is based on you only inspecting small projects amd drawing conclusions from there.
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Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all in ~tech
creesch Link ParentWhile interesting, I'd also like to point out that there are already a lot of alternatives out there that do a lot. And, which to frank are good enough for 99% of personal use cases. For photoshop...While interesting, I'd also like to point out that there are already a lot of alternatives out there that do a lot. And, which to frank are good enough for 99% of personal use cases. For photoshop there are a variety of programs covering a variety of use cases like Gimp (with PhotoGIMP if you really want photoshop), Krita and Photopea as well as a few others I left out. For vector editing there are Inkscape and Graphite. For raw editing there is darktable, RawTherapee and RapidRAW.
These are just a few, there is a lot more out there depending on use case. As @raze2012 points out as well it often doesn't come down to there not being replacements available.
Having said that, I am interested to see where this project will end up. The lack of readme I do see as a positive indicator they are working on it for themselves and are not trying to give an impression of it being more ready than it is.
In the meantime I'll keep the great OSS software that is already there for most of my needs ;)
That's valid as well, it is why tried to frame it as the impression some of it might give rather than framing it as something that is wrong. It could still be an idea then to leave a little comment. At the very least saying this to shape perception a bit better.