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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Once users have given up on comfortable single-handed use, the only limiting factor is pocket size.

    For me, that means once it passes about 65mm in width, I might as well jump to ~80mm in width, which is huge even by today’s standards. 70mm wide phones are just the worst of both worlds to me.

    I want a small phone, but there hasn’t been a serious option in over 10 years. The Xperia Z3 Compact was the last good “small” Android phone that was actually small enough to justify its existence. That was 2014.

    Edit: Also, I suspect with bezels being so small now, the frame would need to be even smaller to avoid accidental edge presses with one-handed operation.



  • If you’re willing to pay money for it, you can get your own domain for $2-$15 per year, then use it with pretty much any commercial email service. That way you can change email providers without changing your address.

    This is my plan going forward. I’m going to suffer the inconvenience of changing my address, but only one more time, not every time I want to change providers.








  • If you think this isn’t related to human rights, then you’ve missed the point.

    People have the right to use technology, and indeed we effectively need technology to exercise our right to free speech. You cannot have one without the other. Not anymore.

    The right way to think about this that they are arbitrarily banning a topic of discussion simply because it is not dead-center average. This isn’t even a legal issue, and the justification is utter nonsense (Facebook itself runs on Linux, like >90% of the internet). No government has officially asked them to do this, though the timing suggests that it is unofficially from the Trump administration.

    This is about exerting control, establishing precedent, and applying a chilling effect to anything not directly aligned with their interests. This obviously extends to human rights issues. This is a test run.



  • Maybe if they distilled the coder version of qwen 14b it might be a little better but i doubt it. I think a really high quant 70b model is more in range of cooking functioning code off the bat. Its not really fair to compare a low quant local model to o1 or Claude with on the cloud they are much bigger.

    That’s a good point. I got mixed up and thought it was distilled from qwen2.5-coder, which I was using for comparison at the same size and quant. qwen2.5-coder-34b@4bit gave me better (but not entirely correct) responses, without spending several minutes on CoT.

    I think I need to play around with this more to see if CoT is really useful for coding. I should probably also compare 32b@4bit to 14b@8bit to see which is better, since those both can run within my memory constraints.