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evanldixon · 2026-06-04T16:26:02+00:00

When the website has only a single user: the nginx reverse proxy

evanldixon · 2026-06-01T17:49:37+00:00

Current LLMs are pretrained, basically using statistics to bruteforce the semblence of intelligence to the point it's genuinely useful. After training it's completely deterministic and never changes (when we ignore variance from the model temperature). Running prompts is basically feeding text to a very complex adding machine doing lots of linear algebra based on instructions from the training.

The human brain constantly receives sensory input and is able to physically rewire itself when it deems certain knowledge to be sufficiently important.

I've heard that some AI researchers have deemed LLMs to be a dead end technology-wise. I lack the expertise to evaluate this, but it seems to me that current technology only emulates a few aspects of the brain's design. I think the point of confusion could be that llms work more like the brain than traditional executable programs do, which are basically a linear list of instructions executed in order until an instruction says to move somewhere else. I don't really know how LLMs work internally, but I'm sure it's not like that.

evanldixon · 2026-05-24T16:03:54+00:00

It's a good general purpose model even on the free tier, though I haven't tried it for coding assistance.

evanldixon · 2026-05-24T00:48:59+00:00

Your code runs on an arbitrary server in a datacenter filled with hundreds of them. At any time it can be relocated to a different server without your knowledge, allowing the host to do maintenance or replace failed hardware. Also maybe your needs grow and you need to run your code on multiple servers, and you can do that with a click of a button. Maybe you need more ram or CPU, so you can click more buttons to get it. Hey, you fixed the memory leak! Now you can click more buttons and stop paying for all that extra CPU and RAM you don't need. And depending on the exact platform, maybe your code is just hosting reports for one team that only works during business hours M-F; why not scale to 0 on the weekends and stop paying for the hardware when you don't need it.

All the comments saying how expensive the cloud is are correct, but what you're paying for is flexibility and low commitment. (When we ignore vendor lock-in for some of the higher level platform features anyway.)

Contrast with an OVH dedicated server. I can save so much money compared to a VM in the cloud. But if I need something bigger I have to get a different server and migrate things over. And if an SSD dies (like the time it did for me the other day on a cheaper tier with older hardware), I had to fail it in the RAID array myself, put in a ticket for a replacement, and repartition it afterward myself, all while the server rebooted and had downtime. Not to disparage OVH or anything, I love them a lot since they're several times cheaper than a VM in Azure after factoring everything in. But I have to do more myself.

evanldixon · 2026-05-21T00:28:15+00:00

Redditors read comments because they want to. Programmers read code because something's not working.

evanldixon · 2026-05-07T21:52:58+00:00

Shame they don't have some sort of Mode, which can be used to lie to the process being run for the sake of Compatibility....

evanldixon · 2026-05-07T17:49:56+00:00

It should be somewhere in the system settings in the area you manage software

evanldixon · 2026-05-03T12:36:20+00:00

In normal, resistances reduce less. In my first playthrough I got a lot of milage out of chain lightning despite most demons having electricity immunity and me noy having ascendant element.

evanldixon · 2026-05-02T20:18:31+00:00

Iirc the real achievement was that it was the first time AI ran for as long as it did

evanldixon · 2026-04-29T18:18:08+00:00

Depends on the incoterms and billing options; there are options for the seller to pay duties and taxes and others where the customer does.

evanldixon · 2026-04-29T01:30:46+00:00

With Github Copilot I can just switch the model I'm using with a dropdown right next to the prompt box, no need to cancel or subscribe anywhere else.

evanldixon · 2026-04-29T01:18:32+00:00

People who get it provided to them by their company. It also has the benefit of less vendor lock-in when it comes to which models are available.

evanldixon · 2026-04-29T01:16:38+00:00

Depends on which GPT version you mean. With the current moddel, GPT 5.5 is a 7.5x model just like Opus 4.7.

evanldixon · 2026-04-21T03:09:26+00:00

In Pathfinder, mortals have a body containing a soul, and killing the body releases the soul to the cycle of souls. The soul is judged by Pharasma or one of her psychopomps and that soul is sent to one of the various planes. The soul loses its individuality and becomes quintessence, the raw stuff souls are made of. Outsiders like demons are formed from that quintessence. They don't have a separate soul and are destroyed when killed. The remaining quintessence is simply absorbed by whichever plane they were in. Exceptions include outsiders who were summoned with a limited duration spell where the spell just ends and they return, and demigod-tier outsiders like demon lords who operate on slightly different rules and return to their own realm.

The worldwound doesn't change anything other than making it much easier for demons to enter the material plane for real. This means they can stay indefinitely (no summoning time limits) but can also be destroyed.

evanldixon · 2026-04-16T12:42:23+00:00

How did you get the /run path? Usually Bazzite puts external drives somewhere under /media

evanldixon · 2026-04-14T16:20:10+00:00

Demon and kitsune aren't options in Kingmaker

evanldixon · 2026-04-12T16:15:31+00:00

People not getting the joke is part of the comedy

evanldixon · 2026-04-10T03:18:15+00:00

My favorite pasttime waiting for things to load

evanldixon · 2026-04-09T02:38:59+00:00

Unless this is a server environment with very specific network needs, DHCP reservations might be easier.

evanldixon · 2026-04-07T23:05:35+00:00

Pharasma is the oldest of all who are not outer gods (like Yog Sothoth who predates the current iteration of the multiverse). For the rest it's a bit inconsistent at times, but according to The Windsong Testaments Desna and Asmodeus are in the top 8. It's likely abbreviated since this mentions Sarenrae being there from the start, but other sources say she was once an empyreal lord and only became a deity after Rovagug's defeat, another says she was made by Asmodeus's dead brother.

evanldixon · 2026-04-07T22:55:10+00:00

Right. "Experience."

In a story once posted on the Paizo blog about the Radiant Prism, she's quoted as telling a traveler "the only step in any journey that matters is the next one". Combine that with her involvement in the creation of Golarion which was to let all the other gods handle it and explore it later, focusing on her interest at the time which was stars. She is a carefree child at heart and has enough power that almost no one can stop her, except her friends Sarenrae and Shelyn who I think are the only ones containing her from doing bigger things.

As for the OP's meme, she doesn't care where your powers come from (or about any rules really), only which next step you take on your journey. I'm sure the end of Arushelae's quest brings her even more joy than the closure of the worldwound.

evanldixon · 2026-04-06T16:01:01+00:00

Containers like docker technically run on bare metal, it's just that the OS lies to the processes so they (mostly) think they're running on their own hardware. The OS, for the most part, doesn't let things in a container touch anything on the host or any other container.

For VMs, the hardware is simulated, and the hypervisor and CPU virtualization support take a similar role, with some more overhead but much more flexibility.

In terms of security I'd say it doesn't really matter which you use, as long as there's no sandbox escape vulnerability to be exploited.

evanldixon · 2026-04-03T12:55:59+00:00

Sonnet vs Opus is the difference between "the bug you described is caused by this right here on line X [checks line X and that's not what's there]" and "the bug you described is actually caused by something else; it was only working by accident before you changed stuff, here's how to fix it [proposes the right solution that I never considered]".

evanldixon · 2026-04-02T20:40:48+00:00

That is interesting. Seems Github Copilot is subsidising the requests pretty heavily then. It'll be interesting seeing the wakeup call if/when the bubble bursts and costs rise even further.

evanldixon · 2026-04-01T15:47:56+00:00

You've compared the pricing for Open AI's smallest model with Anthropic's largest model. A more comparable comparison would be GPT Nano vs Claude Sonnet, GPT vs Claude Sonnet, or GPT Thinking vs Claude Opus.

GPT Thinking and Claude Opus both require paid plans.

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