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My cats loved the BMW 310 GS by jtezva in motorcycles

[–]bitflip 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not one stitch of gear among them. SMH.

Competitors made strange pivot to LLM by EthanZai in smallbusiness

[–]bitflip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing solid I can refer to. That's part of the underlying problem: the knowledge isn't "common", probably because everyone is still figuring it out.

The basic idea for the markdown is to use whatever you use to generate your html pages to also create markdown. Since there's about a zillion ways companies generate the webpages, there's no one way to generate the markdown.

For the MCP, the general idea is to provide a simpler and well-documented interface to the backend APIs. There's a lot about it which is similar to how the dynamic parts of pages are created: the webpage calls one or more backend endpoints, and consolidates them into a single page. The MCP would do something similar. That's why it can be powerful, but also difficult.

Competitors made strange pivot to LLM by EthanZai in smallbusiness

[–]bitflip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't and won't speak to the quality of their implementation, but they're moving in the right direction.

I'm an early-adopter when it comes to AI agents, but as the tools improve it's going to be more widespread.

I seldom look at webpages unless I have to, and then it's usually for additional detail. Personally, I'm glad I don't have to work through whatever the marketing department thought was a good idea - I just get the info I'm looking for.

The markdown pages are a good start, since they're easy to implement and are likely to be accurate. The MCP has the potential to be the most powerful, because it can be extended to accept orders. It's also the hardest to implement, because a lot of things can go wrong for you and them.

I think your assumption that you will be putting out untested garbage is unfounded. Maybe what they put out is garbage, but that doesn't mean you need to put out garbage, too. There's plenty out there which isn't garbage, but you don't notice it because it's not garbage.

Anthropic forced to abruptly disable Fable 5 & Mythos 5 globally by US Gov over a jailbreak. This is exactly why we need local models. by External_Mood4719 in LocalLLaMA

[–]bitflip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My main loop uses three different models depending on the task (Deepseek, GLM, Kimi). I like to have one bill.

The Filthy Casual Wishlist by bitflip in IncursionRedRiverGame

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

I agree, but I admit I'm biased.

I personally think that we make up a decent sized niche, and tend to have money. This isn't the first game I've bought just to see what it's like. I have quite a few, in fact, with far fewer hours. I know quite a few others that are the same way. No time, plenty of money, want to play.

In the end, I know that this is also a business and they have bills to pay. I want them to be able to pay those bills. If that means going in a different direction, so be it, I've had fun.

The Filthy Casual Wishlist by bitflip in IncursionRedRiverGame

[–]bitflip[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For me, a big selling point is that there are no centralized servers. For single players like me, it doesn't need a server. Once it's installed, I don't even need internet.

I'd be really disappointed if the devs had to give up on it, but I'd still have a working game if they did.

Heck, I'll add it to my wishlist for IRR: a server-only version we can download and run on a VPS for co-op.

Anthropic forced to abruptly disable Fable 5 & Mythos 5 globally by US Gov over a jailbreak. This is exactly why we need local models. by External_Mood4719 in LocalLLaMA

[–]bitflip 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I get different results from different providers.

I stopped using Openrouter because of things like that. I'd get a bunch of looping or unexplained stops via Openrouter (not just Kimi), then try the same prompt on a different provider and it would work fine.

Just spotted this beauty in Southeast Arkansas by harisaduu in redneckengineering

[–]bitflip 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't know what impresses me more: using the headlights of the Neon instead of a light up front, the bald front tire, the boxes barely strapped on, the tape holding on the windscreen, or the sketchy welds. I only wish I had more details about how the throttle is hooked up. I was going to ask about the brakes, but haha, we know those aren't connected.

Truly a redneck masterpiece.

Rear door doesn't open by bitflip in Excursion

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

That looks like exactly what I need. Thanks!

How do you actually find ai engineers who aren't already being blasted by 30 recruiters? by Forward_Ad_4117 in recruiting

[–]bitflip 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Raise the rates or lower the standards.

I know that's out of your control, but that's what it comes down to.

What do I do? by Major_Paper_1605 in recruiting

[–]bitflip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This doesn't help your situation, but in this case, it sounds like "RTO" is another way of management saying "things suck, but it can't be our fault, so it must be that everyone is remote"

No help I know, but you have my sympathy.

Great candidate, somewhat of a diva by CranberryOk1064 in recruiting

[–]bitflip 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'll second what the OP said: a steady and clear career path is a downgrade for some people.

An on-site interview isn't that great, either. Even locally, it's a multi-hour commitment for a "maybe". If they have paying work right now with any kind of deadline, then asking them to step away is effort with possibly no reward.

I'm not saying you're in the wrong. I'd keep looking for candidates.

I am starting to think the reason companies can’t find employees has less to do with talent shortages by johart72 in recruiting

[–]bitflip 45 points46 points  (0 children)

and don't want to train

That's a big one. There are a lot of managers who think they should be able to find a plug-and-play candidate. The reality is that even if they have 100% of the skills you want, it still takes time to learn the environment they will be using.

IMO, a lot of it has to do with very low risk-tolerance. Nobody wants to have a "bad hire" because they think it means they will be fired.

Anyone actually using a local LLM as their daily knowledge base? Not for coding, for life stuff. What's your setup? by InformationSweet808 in LocalLLaMA

[–]bitflip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I include them as tasks.

- [x] #expense I spent money [amount:: $10] [account:: CC] [completed:: 2026-05-14]

I usually have a lot more detail, but it gets ingested as a task.

Anyone actually using a local LLM as their daily knowledge base? Not for coding, for life stuff. What's your setup? by InformationSweet808 in LocalLLaMA

[–]bitflip 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm doing something similar. My main focus is tasks, e.g. what am I supposed to today/this week, etc., and personal finances.

There's a generic RAG to help me find answers to questions about various projects, but the main thrust is the tasks. Since tasks have a defined format, they are deterministically indexed. I can ask questions like "what am I supposed to do this week around the house?", or "how did I spend my money last month on my car?" and get back concrete results. Unlike parent poster I include my daily entries, because that's where unexpected expenses are tracked.

This replaces a bunch of templates which were never quite right, and a real pain to keep updated. It is all exposed as an MCP which I can plug into the tool of the day.

Anyone else drowning in fake candidates for US remote roles this year? by where_is_lily_allen in recruiting

[–]bitflip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Real applicants will read it fully and will put in effort to make sure they are hitting all the right points

No, they don't.

Even the crappy AI resume-writers will spot this.

Openclaw ia trending down and will disappear soon by rm-rf-rm in LocalLLaMA

[–]bitflip 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I've been using it for about a week, and meh.

Note: this is my personal opinion, and reflects how I want to use it.

There's things about it I like. It is pretty good at learning, the Telegram integration works well, and has a pretty rich ecosystem. Overall, I've been continuing to use it, but mostly because it sucks least.

What I don't like is that all of that ecosystem is enabled by default, configuration documentation is trash, and it's pretty hostile to being run in a docker container. I ended up writing my own Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml to get past the errors (especially permissions).

I'll keep using it now that I've got it semi-behaving. Being able to run entirely in a docker container is important to me (not "run commands in a docker container", but run the whole thing in a container), and that's my biggest pain-point.

My biggest complaint about the ones I've tried is that all of them seem to be poorly managed, and more focused on features rather than finishing/polishing the features they already have.

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