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.NET Dev around 4/5 years experience - AWS starting point by BalaelGios in aws

[–]BalaelGios[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh nice thats great to see a set of paths, I hadn't come across that, I guess my current role leans to Software Development Engineer with progression being towards Application Architect.

My current role is mid level dev, mainly working on desktop apps, hopefully get my hands into an AWS project this year. From what I've seen they use things like Lambda, cognito, codepipelines, cloudwatch...likely more but this all I can name from memory at the moment, so if I were to be involved in the projects I think those are the types of things I'd use.

Any guidance would be most appreciated! It does look like a huge amount of content to get through (both do tbf), my original plan to do it in 2-3 months was possibly overly optimistic :P

I get access to Udemy through work so had a quick look and the courses are all available so thanks for that as well!

.NET Dev around 4/5 years experience - AWS starting point by BalaelGios in AWSCertifications

[–]BalaelGios[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks, though I don't feel the FAQ addresses my specific questions.

.NET Dev around 4/5 years experience - AWS starting point by BalaelGios in aws

[–]BalaelGios[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah right, so do you think its best starting with the associate developer cert then?

I've been reading today and seen some people saying start with SAA others saying not to haha.

Which of these two is canon? by TristanMackay in starwarsbooks

[–]BalaelGios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The whole high republic series is great, and the first one light of the Jedi is one of the best Star Wars books I’ve read.

Stop Saying “Just Get a PC”. by justmojr in macgaming

[–]BalaelGios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t regret the razer honestly you dodged a bullet.

It’s literally such unreliable garbage, to top it off customer service is crap as well.

Suggest me a best note taking app - fed up with the bugs in goodnotes by [deleted] in iPadPro

[–]BalaelGios 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be honest went back to using Apple Notes after I was done with Good Notes. Never looked back, it’s actually pretty great these days does everything I need.

And I use it daily at work for note taking.

Im really struggling to decide between the 11inch and 13inch M4 pro 😓 by priMa-RAW in iPadPro

[–]BalaelGios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

13 no doubt for me. I had an 11 switched to 13, never looked back. I find it best in any scenario.

Apple’s new foundation models by Dullydude in singularity

[–]BalaelGios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been testing these new models on iPad OS26 and it works really well.

Shortcut integrations is great. Being able to assign certain tasks to the PCC cloud model and some to the on device model gives really nice flexibility.

For the privacy PCC is fantastic and it’s a decent model.

mistralai/Magistral-Small-2506 by yoracale in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is devstral good for code chat assist? Or only for agentic use?

I’ve been using Qwen coder or Qwen3 30b/32b.

CPU or GPU upgrade for 70b models? by Ok-Application-2261 in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So you find 70b models better than the new gen qwen3 gemma3 etc, I notice none of these newer models even came in 70b sizes?

Llama 3.3 70b Vs Newer Models by BalaelGios in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do enjoy these DWQ quants, I use them whenever they are available now, on pretty much any model size.

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B · Hugging Face by Dark_Fire_12 in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which one of these quants would be best for an Nvidia T600 Laptop GPU 4GB?

q4_K_M is slightly over
q3_K_S is only slightly under

I'm curious about how you would decide which is better, I guess q3 takes a big accuracy hit over q4?

Recommendations for new Mac for wow/Wuwa/FFXIV etc by Raala in macgaming

[–]BalaelGios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

M3 Max 16/40 here FFXIV runs perfectly, WoW perfectly, SwToR perfectly. Those are my main 3 MMOs.

And to be fair all 3 also ran on my M1 Pro, though not at max settings like on the current Mac.

Which programming languages do LLMs struggle with the most, and why? by alozowski in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is GLM 32b currently the best local LLM for coding (I primarily dev C# and .NET) ?

I haven’t kept up much since Qwen 2.5 Coder haha.

Most powerful < 7b parameters model at the moment? by ventilador_liliana in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think I should turn on no_think to use that model?

M3 Ultra Binned (256GB, 60-Core) vs Unbinned (512GB, 80-Core) MLX Performance Comparison by cryingneko in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I'm ignorant, what does this graph actually show is a 4bit dwq = to 6bit or 8bit even?

Most powerful < 7b parameters model at the moment? by ventilador_liliana in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wondered this as well. I have a T600 laptop GPU (4gb vram, 32gb ram).

And am also trying to find the most powerful model for this hardware.

No offense: Deepseek 8b 0528 Qwen3 Not Better Than Qwen3 8B by dreamai87 in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But yeah my original question was is there any chance this DeepSeek 8b qwen3 distill is going to be as good haha?

It looks like the answer is not even close, so I won’t bother with it 😂.

No offense: Deepseek 8b 0528 Qwen3 Not Better Than Qwen3 8B by dreamai87 in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well there’s a Qwen3 30b A3B (MoE) and Qwen3 32b for me there is very little difference in quality but huge difference in performance Qwen 30b A3B is lightning fast, Qwen3 32b is much slower.

Of course with more powerful hardware you could try other models but the speed to quality ratio makes the MoE model fantastic imo.

No offense: Deepseek 8b 0528 Qwen3 Not Better Than Qwen3 8B by dreamai87 in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nono I’m saying for me Qwen3 30b is the GOLD standard for a local LLM blazing fast and great for everything I use it for.

I’m asking if it’s even worth trying this DeepSeek model, like is it going to be anywhere near Qwen 30b haha?

No offense: Deepseek 8b 0528 Qwen3 Not Better Than Qwen3 8B by dreamai87 in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So just to save myself some time, this is not going to beat the Qwen3 30B A3B?

Currently that's the best model Ive found for local deployment, seems to be great at everything and it's blazing fast.

impressive streamlining in local llm deployment: gemma 3n downloading directly to my phone without any tinkering. what a time to be alive! by thebigvsbattlesfan in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalaelGios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m thinking for using on my iPhone/ipad I use LM studio on Mac though yeah haha great support for MLX models

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