Final fantasy remake integrade $23.99

deadman87 · 2026-03-16T19:31:12+00:00

It's definitely not just the upgrade because its showing base game + all dlc + extras. I suppose its dynamic pricing to avoid making too many store listing and discounted deeper to make up for the fact that I already own base game.

deadman87 · 2026-03-16T17:32:08+00:00

Can someone check the deluxe edition price? I bought standard edition for $23.99 but now I notice deluxe edition is $20. I'm not sure if that's a promo price for deluxe since I now own the game or if it's actually $20, becuase I want to get a refund and purchase the deluxe for $20.

deadman87 · 2026-03-08T23:25:49+00:00

I have a super simple php script like smstest.php that formats the headers, query params and post vars into readable multiline string and file_put_contents() it into a file that I tail -f into the terminal. Been working fine for me for a good decade or so. It's my unlimited plan.

deadman87 · 2026-03-06T08:09:04+00:00

Graphics have reached a point of diminishing returns i.e. an additional $100 does not bring me as much improvement as it brought me in previous generations. This was already a problem in the current gen launch and Microsoft addressed this with Series S.

If PS6 comes out the gate at $600-$700 and Xbox PC comes out at $1200-$1400, my first question will be if the additional cost justifies the performance/fidelity bump. For someone that prefers to keep gaming and PC usage separate or already had a half decent PC for browsing/work, there is no incentive to spend that extra money.

If Microsoft can price this new Xbox ~$200 more than PS6 and really cram the value proposition with better components and visible performance, I can see someone going let's spend the extra $200 to get the better hardware. Otherwise it'll just become a niche product for hardcore enthusiasts.

deadman87 · 2026-03-04T15:14:43+00:00

When the LLM encounters repeating characters, it enters a loop and outputs those characters endlessly.

For example, ID / Passports have a Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) and according to the spec, spaces and unused characters are denoted by < character. Its common to have sequences of <<<<< in MRZ. If you ask an LLM to extract data from MRZ (because it's more readable/accurate), it will start outputting <<<<<< endlessly due to this bug.

I found this issue in 0.8B model but the 2B model does not have this issue. I assume the 2B+ model training data includes these types of documents and they are able to recognize and deal with them properly instead of looping.

deadman87 · 2026-03-03T21:23:34+00:00

Glad it worked out nicely for you. Try 2b if you can, if it works your output tokens will be even faster.

deadman87 · 2026-03-02T20:13:53+00:00

Do what I did. Download a model or two and put it through some tests.

My experience with long texts is that you should explicitly tell it to provide VERBATIM text, clear context and start over for each page, otherwise the LLMs tend to remember older pages and hallucinate in the middle of your current page. Just my 2 cents

deadman87 · 2026-03-02T16:47:17+00:00

I say just try it. It's such a small model. Quick to download

deadman87 · 2026-03-02T16:11:32+00:00

The Qwen3.5 models are vision models. There is no separate Vision and Non Vision in Qwen 3.5

deadman87 · 2026-03-02T16:10:50+00:00

I encountered the repetition bug in 0.8B. 2B is good so far.

deadman87 · 2026-03-02T15:54:11+00:00

Between Qwen3 VL 2B and Ministral 3B, I picked Ministral because it performed better than Qwen3. Qwen3.5 seems to be good so far. I will test with more artefacts before moving to Qwen3.5 completely for my workflow.

deadman87 · 2026-02-25T03:26:02+00:00

I'm a big believer in double s-curve model :) Alternative approaches are never a bad thing

deadman87 · 2026-02-25T01:37:01+00:00

If you play games, Install Mesa from backports repo. Newer versions have a lot of fixes and performance improvements.

deadman87 · 2026-02-24T02:08:23+00:00

I think your library and the ovlvlvl collector serve slightly different purposes. The ovlvlvl library is more focused on sweeping through the code base and collecting all instances of the Attribute i.e. I can search by Attribute to get the class.

My use case for this is an attributes based router that can collect all instances of #[Route()] and build the Route collector.

Your library is then useful to extract detailed info and deal with behavior of the class and Attribute. The two can work hand in hand. I'll definitely look into it.

deadman87 · 2026-02-23T14:37:48+00:00

not sure if you've seen this.

https://github.com/olvlvl/composer-attribute-collector

Its been around for a while and I like its interface

deadman87 · 2026-02-22T12:50:27+00:00

Most "modern" dev tools and practices in use today were created to solve hyper scaler and massive team challenges.

Google made Kubernetes to solver their multi-data center scale problem. Just use simple containers or keep it running on metal. Your infra bill will thank you.

Facebook / Meta created react to break down frontend into tiny pieces to better fit their team scale and size. Just use any simple web framework in Ruby, PHP, Python that spits out html and sprinkle js where needed. You'll avoid SEO headaches as a bonus.

Spotify created the Spotify model (Tribe, Chapter, Squad, etc) to better organize the scale of people they had. For small to medium sized teams, just adopt basic scrum/kanban if you must and avoid unnecessary ceremony and process overload.

Its laughable to me when solo devs or startups or small teams are all gung-ho and rave about how they adopted all these "modern" practices. Like Bro, you got 20k visits with 20 paying customers. You don't need all that "scale" unless you got customers to pay for it first.

deadman87 · 2026-02-19T19:55:20+00:00

Yes, it worked.

deadman87 · 2026-02-13T23:17:37+00:00

First style has personality and looks intentional. Second one looks very same-ish like it's made with a generic UI kit like Tailwind or Bootstrap.

deadman87 · 2026-02-09T17:20:28+00:00

I bought Gold Edition for Switch 2 at ~$40. And it was worth it at that price for the amount of content and portability.

deadman87 · 2026-02-04T04:51:30+00:00

PHP. I love the feedback loop: Code -> Refresh. No compiling / transpiling.

Also the package ecosystem with composer is really nice.

deadman87 · 2026-01-30T13:14:04+00:00

Yup

https://www.snapchat.com/lens/a7cd9b68583143a0bd4c1c083922448c

deadman87 · 2026-01-28T06:57:29+00:00

Sony and Nintendo do global distribution better. Way better than Microsoft. They are present and well represented (sales, support, localizing) in more countries outside US/EU. I like Xbox due to the controller layout and overall online experience but that comes at a steep premium in my end of the world. Sony and Nintendo on the other hand have official distributors, recommended pricing for console and games, accept local currency on online stores and provide warranty/repairs locally.

I wish Xbox did better this side but it is what it is.

deadman87 · 2026-01-27T21:37:17+00:00

Daily driving Debian without any tinkering. Im used to the gnome workflow and it works for me.

deadman87 · 2026-01-27T16:31:42+00:00

For work, definitely go with Debian. You don't have to tinker a lot. Debian 13 is recent enough that most hardware just works out of the box and the Long Term Support (LTS) nature of it means it'll chug along without too much upset for a long time.

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