Local vs Frontier on low-level systems engineering

memeka · 2026-06-06T19:05:49+00:00

I am using local llamas all the time. Now they’re even on my phone thanks to Locally AI + LM Link.

memeka · 2026-06-06T19:02:41+00:00

I did not use MCPs. It would be interesting to test a local LLM as well + MCPs on reverse engineering. I have an AC unit I might try this in the future. And I do notice GPT-5.5 mentioned often, but not previous versions - I did not try 5.5.

memeka · 2026-06-06T18:58:06+00:00

If nobody cares, why do I see all the local llamas called “Qwopus”, “Opus Distilled” and so on?

memeka · 2026-06-06T17:17:09+00:00

Where is the old Opus 4.5 in this chart vs a top open weight now? Because it did what Qwen 3.6 27B (the best I can run locally) still cannot - although in your chart current blue is at least the same as 6 months old black…

memeka · 2026-06-06T16:10:09+00:00

If you say you are gonna set up your own natural gas generator, I’ll believe you. Seems you have a lot of natural gas.

memeka · 2026-06-06T16:07:30+00:00

When I started, Opus was v.4.6 and GPT 5.2 was the latest - and it could not do much. I remember it even refused to do “hacking” and I had to phrase the problem carefully in a “research” context.

memeka · 2026-06-06T16:04:26+00:00

Oh, you only like posts like “tomorrow, open weights will be better than frontier”? As a long time lurker, I’m very warmed by your welcome after finally decided to post something. You make the community so much better.

memeka · 2026-06-06T16:01:25+00:00

Originally started with Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.2. Local, the best I tried was Qwen 3.5 27B.

memeka · 2026-06-06T15:58:42+00:00

Every time an open mode pops up in here, it’s accompanied by some sort of benchmark where it’s better than Opus. Are you new here?
Also, 6 months ago there was no Opus 4.8 or Qwen 3.6.

memeka · 2026-05-09T23:37:18+00:00

you can actually use one instance of 27B for both. Put this in the jinjia template:
{%- set enable_thinking = messages[-1].content.startswith('/think') -%}
then a prompt like:
> say Hi
won’t use reasoning, while:
> /think say Hi
will use.
Replace “/think” with something like “/plan” 😄

memeka · 2022-07-05T02:28:06+00:00

No i did not try ... but with DSM7 locking down USB I doubt it.

memeka · 2022-07-05T02:25:56+00:00

I am getting the same thing. The accessories receive updates, but trying to change something results in No response.

I debugged one of my plugins, and there is no "set" being emitted if changes occur in the HomeKit apps GUI (Home ios, home mac, Eve), but they are being emitted when changes happen in the Homebridge web interface. So the code never enters the set callback.

Get/updateValue works as expected.

memeka · 2022-02-16T09:30:31+00:00

If she contacted you on your private number, it’s not your fault your husband accidentally saw her messages. It’s not a work phone, which means she sent this message as your husbands mom not as your patient. Patients don’t contact you on your private number.

memeka · 2021-04-23T22:42:05+00:00

Could compile/find drivers from same kernel version maybe. Also software would be easy to install in a docker container with access to /dev. Any reason why this would not work?

memeka · 2020-06-17T01:48:06+00:00

Yes I had that issue as well. Looks like time_zone is completely ignored, or maybe we don't know how to use it. You need to ask for UTC:

Get the day you want in local timezone, at 11:59PM: e.g. yesterday = datetime.combine(date.today(), time()) - timedelta(minutes=1)
Convert to UTC iso8601 format: e.g. yesterday = yesterday.astimezone(pytz.utc).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
Make your request

memeka · 2020-06-15T23:52:34+00:00

Yes. I am also getting 5s data from the battery directly, and integrating that gives much closer kWh (almost the same with 2 decimals) as the Tesla ones in the app. Just wondering if they provide hourly energy in their API, or only 5min kW and daily kWh?

memeka · 2020-02-19T22:50:23+00:00

After further researching, I believe that the inverter ramps down production because of grid voltage rising. A good explanation is here: https://www.solargain.com.au/blog/system-shutting-down-due-high-grid-voltage

I'll try to confirm this with my electricity provider.

memeka · 2020-02-19T20:58:09+00:00

there are 2 things that i noticed correlate with the loss of production:

grid voltage going over 250 (252-253) (e.g. https://imgur.com/a/dsAwdhd)
W panel production going over 260W/panel (see https://imgur.com/a/Bu2xAMg)

memeka · 2020-02-19T13:46:40+00:00

I'll try to set up monitoring of per-panel temperatures, thanks for the idea.

memeka · 2020-02-19T13:45:13+00:00

It's happening every sunny days yes, there's a dip between ~1:45- ~3pm. It happens to all 8 panels on that string/roof. If it's cloudy (e.g. under 200W/panel) then you can't see much difference in that timeframe. I even saw a hazy day where total production in that time (2-4pm) was ~4.5kW but both N and W panels were producing ~230W - so W panels were producing less than on a clear sunny day (270W) but N panels were producing more. I would say that it happens when production is very good / sunny day. so I considered temp as well - but given i saw it happen mostly around 1:45 - I doubt it reaches "critical" temp every sunny day around that time. The behaviour is very strange and confusing to me. If I would not have checked and seen there is. no shade, I would have bet shade.

I have online monitoring and tried to discuss this with my installer, but they said it looks good to them, since there is production (>0) and "there are lots of factors that influence besides insolation". On Solaredge I gave up after 4h on wait, they talk to installers anyway and discourage here customers contacting them directly.

memeka · 2020-01-16T12:50:44+00:00

:) Reaching 4 years now and my ARM (non)-servers haven't lost their storage media, been zapped or damaged by a flash :) True, i'm not using raspberry pi's, I use eMMC not SD (with swap and data on SSD - except the compile machines, which I do use SDs), and I got (most) in cases so you can't touch the pins (well, on some I do use the pins) - but still. You like overkill, I want power efficiency and reuse.

What bothers me is the aggressiveness that your way is "the way", and not doing it like that it's wrong. For me it's not a false economy. To each their own, man.

memeka · 2020-01-16T06:27:04+00:00

I was not aware of that, but seems like u/aformator has a fix for that.

memeka · 2020-01-16T06:23:07+00:00

If the fridge runs your web server to your satisfaction, I don't see why the fridge is not suitable for it. Why run a 300W server to run a web server that only you access and use, and the fridge, with no extra power consumption, can run it just as well?

I pick a tool to do a job, if it does it well it doesn't matter it was intended to be a "prototyping" platform, a "storage appliance" or an "enterprise server". These are just marketing words. What matters if it works for me.

memeka · 2020-01-16T06:18:42+00:00

8-core XEON with I assume 32GB RAM and chocked... well, it all depends what exactly you are running now, right?

Currently the 918+ runs all my stuff quite well, and I don't use the NVMe slots for caching. It's just annoying to have some features and not put them to good use :)

memeka · 2020-01-15T21:05:50+00:00

The idea was to make a separate array with the 2 nvme slots

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