Readit Newsalcasa commented on Qwen3 Coder 480B is Live on Cerebras cerebras.ai/blog/qwen3-co... · Posted by u/retreatguru
Really cool, especially once 256k context size becomes available.
I think higher performance will be a key differentiator in AI tool quality from a user perspective, especially in use-cases where model quality is already sufficiently good for human-in-loop usage.
alcasa commented on I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012 ounapuu.ee/posts/2022/01/... · Posted by u/hddherman
I don’t think the author is alone in keeping an older thinkpad running by upgrading its components, that’s part of why they’re such popular machines with tech people. I have to say though, his complaints about the newer machines doesn’t resonate with me, my T495s works great (the only issue is the awful Lenovo buying process)
I honestly feel like there were some issues in their specific hardware selection. Linux shouldn't be that bad on a recent Thinkpad system
alcasa commented on I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012 ounapuu.ee/posts/2022/01/... · Posted by u/hddherman
Do something fun with the ExpressCard34 slot.
Shame it isn't a 54 slot. You'd be able to get an expresscard bluetooth mouse. They're comfier than you'd expect and incredibly convenient. They even charge while stored in the slot.
Or use it for an eGPU connector, I believe there were also options to use it as additional storage
alcasa commented on I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012 ounapuu.ee/posts/2022/01/... · Posted by u/hddherman
> The CPU innovation stagnation between 2012-2017 has resulted in 4 cores still being an acceptable low-end CPU in early 2022
I recently got M1 Max MacBook, and I was expecting a huge jump from my 2010 Mac Pro, but on my day-to-day work. It is barely noticeable, despite the raving reviews of M1. Perhaps for me it is not about things getting obsolete, but more of that my own needs on CPU/GPU performance were pretty much fulfilled in 2010. I am a programmer, so my needs are not that high. Or perhaps it is that after 12 years, the laptops are now on bar with desktops. I think the biggest improvements for me in last 20 years have been the SSDs and then the NVMe.
If you mean Mac Pro and not Macbook Pro I wouldn't be that suprised. Single thread performance is mainly dominated by clock speed and possibly instruction set improvements. Having a much higher TDP there isn't much magic you can work to make a Laptop faster than a recentish desktop system.
alcasa commented on We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow catchjs.com/Blog/Performa... · Posted by u/simonpure
alcasa commented on Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework techcrunch.com/2017/04/18... · Posted by u/apetresc
Great. I was waiting for React to stabilize before I learned it.
I've been cleverly waiting since 2006 to learn jquery. Will start next year.
> Great. I was waiting for React to stabilize before I learned it.
But once it's stable, it's outdated.
You can take almost any tech job, and there is a probably an argument to be made, that it is mostly reasonable given some other moral priors.