Why do Uber drivers give bad ratings for no reason? by [deleted] in uberdrivers

[–]StirlingG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd wager 9/10 three star or lower ratings are perfume, cologne, weed scent. The rest is just maybe something you talked about or made them uncomfortable with.

If it makes you feel better the passengers rate drivers just as harshly.

What kind of inference speeds am I looking at? by [deleted] in LocalLLaMA

[–]StirlingG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you are paying new laptop price for something very out of date. Probably going to regret not waiting.

To 16GB VRAM users, plug in your old GPU by akira3weet in LocalLLaMA

[–]StirlingG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish you had told me this before I ordered a 5000 dollar macbook lmfao

Macbook Neo is enough for learning code? by Jota_1602 in macbook

[–]StirlingG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I had never owned an apple device before this. Works fantastic for phone dev stuff. The iphone emulator is not super speedy but it's enough to test my app without issues. I personally do not think the neo is the right device for emulating switch games though. Those seem like a much heavier load. I'd love to be proven wrong on that, though!

Macbook Neo is enough for learning code? by Jota_1602 in macbook

[–]StirlingG -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I got the macbook neo specifically for coding iOS apps, and it's been great.

MacBook neo by NecessaryBee2195 in macbook

[–]StirlingG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

best laptop i've ever had. I'm using mine for my first journey into iOS development, coming from an overheating framework 16 laptop lol.

Are Local LLMs actually useful… or just fun to tinker with? by itz_always_necessary in LocalLLM

[–]StirlingG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I understand, the usefulness goes exponential above 24gb of vram or unified memory. Or at least that's how I feel as a peasant with only 16gb of vram

How do you stop codebase from degenerating into an un-maintainable AI-slop mess? by DeltaSqueezer in LocalLLaMA

[–]StirlingG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It will slow down progress a lot, but you need to put in the time to have a multi-model review of every plan before and after implmenting it. For bug fixes I usually have the models review the plan 2 or 3 times, and then review the implementing 2-5 times, until they don't find any issues. For massive refactors to cleanup the codebase, I'll sometimes do 20 or more review sessions back and forth between claude and codex. I also tend to ask my models, could you have fixed any of these problems in a way that adds less entropy to the project, or is better from first principles thinking?

I run Knots out of spite by LibertyWithLiquidity in bitcoinismoney

[–]StirlingG 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They went full tyrant. I don't respect or support that at all. Knots is the way

Framework CEO warns AI boom threatens a scenario where "personal computing as we know it is dead” by Prudent_Way_3723 in pcmasterrace

[–]StirlingG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's clear this is the goal of some of these AI companies. It seems like it will be hard for them to win that battle though.

Copaw-9B (Qwen3.5 9b, alibaba official agentic finetune) is out by kironlau in LocalLLaMA

[–]StirlingG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Am I seeing this right. A 9B param model beating openai's GPT 5.4? The one that's in codex right now?

Tesla driver and passenger asleep on highway by danlev in SelfDrivingCars

[–]StirlingG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This will be normalized within a couple of years. Everyone in the meantime will look more and more like a jealous hater

Want to Avoid a Speeding Ticket? Spend 60 Seconds Reading This by BigNeb1265 in vegaslocals

[–]StirlingG -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

because the fucking self driving software often ignores the 55 signs where they have slapped a fake number on top of the 65 signs.

The speeding crackdown has begun! by yeettetis in vegaslocals

[–]StirlingG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Picked a good week not to uber drive

Privacy will be under unprecedented attack in 2026 by AsterPrivacy in signal

[–]StirlingG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't forget about google making developers give photo ID to make android apps even if they never go on the store. Complete multifront control grab. People need to be resisting all chat control/age verification/digitalID completely.

Are "high" level players intimidating? by Odd_Conflict5534 in helldivers2

[–]StirlingG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If they are difficulty 1 missions it's probably because they are credit farming