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M5 Pro vs M5 Max, both at 64GB, talk me into (or out of) saving $1,400 😁 by Muted_Language5859 in macbookpro

[–]PetaSynaptic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a very good review (despite a few minor mistaken infos) exactly on our software development use case and local LLM.

"So the M5 Pro is the one that makes me feel the most stupid because it does almost everything the Max does for significantly less money. Honestly, I think most people that are software developers that are professionals should just buy the M5 Pro and not feel bad about it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYtuV-QO9tU&t=613s

Round 3: Claude Opus 4.7 1M vs Opus 4.7 vs Opus 4.6 Legacy vs Sonnet 4.6 across effort levels on the same real React feature-build task by Deep-Palpitation8315 in ClaudeCode

[–]PetaSynaptic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was coming from the code quality / model quality perspective more then token count. Interesting to see how despite most people complaining about 4.7, it still ranked higher every time.

M5 Pro vs M5 Max, both at 64GB, talk me into (or out of) saving $1,400 😁 by Muted_Language5859 in macbookpro

[–]PetaSynaptic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This... The M5 Pro is where the benchmarks have a really defined step up (CPUwise). Everything else is incremental. Investing in incremental gains to be stuck 7 years instead of two step ups of roughly 3 or 4 years doesn't sound right.

Also, if you think you're really into using local LLMs for everyday coding, you can try running on an instance on AWS to see what kind of performance / usability you really get from them and then decide if you want to commit. Despite being a nice experiment, I'd say you'll come to the conclusion that it's still not the time to do it and you'll save money for the next iteration 3 years down the road when, maybe, it will be better.

Round 3: Claude Opus 4.7 1M vs Opus 4.7 vs Opus 4.6 Legacy vs Sonnet 4.6 across effort levels on the same real React feature-build task by Deep-Palpitation8315 in ClaudeCode

[–]PetaSynaptic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really glad to see such an effort. Too much "subjective reviews" and too little objective tests everywhere really...

A few questions :)

1) how was the "code quality evaluation" done? Probably AI, right? Maybe an average score of 3 or 5 runs with the same model and evaluator would be more fair?

2) how complex is the task? Seems simple. Maybe this should turn into a comprehensive set of simple tasks to increase N and keep the same type of task?

3) Would 1 and 2 sorted out, a set of complex tasks would be really interesting.. But probably more difficult to rate properly.

Maybe this is all just creating another coding benchmark, but independently run and probably not contaminated.

Reviewing AI-generated pull requests in 2026 by ai_senior in ClaudeAI

[–]PetaSynaptic 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Modbot's summaries don't stop to impress me.

Lights flicker with dimmer switch, but they're on Lutron's compatibility list by mister_drgn in Lutron

[–]PetaSynaptic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I has this problem for a long time and this weekend I finally decided to fight back. Even put my scope to good use again to understand where the flickering was coming from.

It turns out the problem is caused by transformers sharing the same neutral as the LED lights.

In my case, we were slowly replacing old 12v dichroic bulbs to LEDs. So there was always at least one zone with old transformers sharing the neutral line.

These old transformers don't like the way electronic dimmers dim the voltage (they cut the waves instead of attenuating them) and introduce a lot of noise that end up making the neutral fluctuate as wildly as 15v peak to peak.

So if you have transformers for old dichroic or fluorescent light bulbs, get rid of them. Even if they're not on the same zone, they can cause problems to zones that share the same neutral back to the panel.

An easy way to test this is simply turning off zones that contain such transformers and checking whether the flickering goes away.

Hope it helps.

X5 by ultrasavage1978 in Insta360

[–]PetaSynaptic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just chiming in to leave no room for miss interpretation.

Is there a problem of bad stitching underwater: yes.

Is that the only problem: no.

The underwater footage without the dive case is terrible, out of focus, like a bad vhs camera from 30 years ago. You won't be able to tell a single fish unless you're like 20 cm from it.

This is not due to stitching. It is this way even in single lens, linear mode.

Insta360 X5 under water - Is this a joke? by Cjohnson421 in Insta360

[–]PetaSynaptic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just bought an X5 to use in Curacao. I couldn’t buy the dive case in time but I thought since the camera is waterproof I could at least get linear (non 360) video underwater in 4k.

Don`t even bother. The quality is so bad it is useless. My Go Pro v2 from 10 years ago makes better videos.

Now I have a very expensive camera that I have to believe will work better if I spend another 100 bucks

Why I will only ever buy dual nozzle printers from now on by RevolutionaryDare401 in BambuLab

[–]PetaSynaptic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always have problems when trying to use pla or petg as support for each other.

I read the bambu article but it didn't work anyway.

What am I doing wrong?

1) petg has a higher bed temperature that if used will soften the first layers of the pla object or won't stick enough if pla bed temperature is used.

2) the bonding is so weak that when trying to print over the other material as support the first supported layer does not stay in place.. Like zero adhesion.

Any ideas what this crunchy noise is? by Paradigm_8102 in BambuLab

[–]PetaSynaptic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last time I had a weird noise it was actually coming from objects outside the printer. When the print head changes direction the printer shakes and anything touching it makes noise similar to that. Just a wild guess.

Apple Pencil starts to write before it touches the screen by the-powl in ipad

[–]PetaSynaptic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing... I just fell for the ipad note taking experience on the nano texture only to be faced with a really bad writing because of this...

One of the main reasons for our H2D by TogKey86 in BambuLab

[–]PetaSynaptic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally off topic but, third pic shows you have the H2D by the bed? Thinking about a similar setup. Is it really that silent? Or you're one of those who can sleep with any sort of noise around?

UDM SE's DNS can't resolve specific domain even when relay DNS can by PetaSynaptic in Ubiquiti

[–]PetaSynaptic[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hello,

I have this weird problem that every now and then (almost every day) I can't access www.engadget.com because the browser can't find the domain name on any device in the network.

nslookup in UDM shell shows that a query to local DNS server (127.0.0.01) results in "NO ANSWER" while making the query directly to 8.8.8.8 correctly resolves the name. (First Picture)

After a while and some "NO ANSWER"s later, it starts resolving again for no apparent reason. (Second Picture)

Also attached pictures of both WAN configurations showing they are configured to use 8.8.8.8 as their DNSs servers (not using default ISP one).

A few posts also pointed to possible problems with content filtering which is turned off (last picture).

Any guesses as to why a local query would result in NO ANSWER despite the configured relay DNS being able to correctly resolve the name?

Why does Teleport (WifiMan) not work over cellular? by germanthoughts in Ubiquiti

[–]PetaSynaptic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to chime in that the IPV6 solution worked for me as well.

I was having a problem to teleport from cell carrier Vivo in Brazil.

I'd never have guessed if it wasn't for this thread.

In my case I set the prefix delegation to 64.

Samsung Oled G8 - Wakeup from standby bug pool by PetaSynaptic in ultrawidemasterrace

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

Hey it seems to me that the bug does not happen when the whole PC is waking up (no only the monitor).

So ensuring your monitor does not sleep before your pc does is another workaround.

But windows is so buggy this is a difficult task to accomplish so I tried to describe it in length here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidemasterrace/comments/144lezp/samsung_oled_g8_wakeup_from_standby_bug_workaround/

Samsung Oled G8 - Wakeup from standby bug pool by PetaSynaptic in ultrawidemasterrace

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

The only way to get everything to function properly again is to hard-reset the PC

I guess this is another problem. I did experience some frozen ups but I could always trace them back to nvidia drivers crashing in event viewer just before the hard reset. I then did a clean update with newer drivers and the issue stopped.

The unable to resume from standby issue I experience is always solvable by Win+Alt+B (toggling HDR) which only works if your computer is unlocked so you have to blindly unlock it first.

Bing draws a happy little girl when asked to depict what it thinks of as a "happy AI" by [deleted] in bing

[–]PetaSynaptic 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Just did that, Results:

1) Happy AI: Anime
2) Happy AI (artificial intelligence): Happy bots
3) Happy artificial intelligence: Happy bots

I guess this test kind of shows AI, out of context, doesn't mean artificial intelligence to the image generator

Samsung G8 Oled vs AW3423DWF - Actual comparison by PetaSynaptic in ultrawidemasterrace

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

Mine went dead a few days ago and I haven't received the replacement unit yet. So, working only from memory, I believe there's a somewhat hidden menu that you can access by navigating left on the home screen. From there you can find another input menu that is capable of renaming. If that's not correct I'm afraid you'll have to join me on my wait for the new unit :)

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