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apitman

13,487karma·3,567submissions·December 11, 2014
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Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.

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apitman.com

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IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.

LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider

TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters

boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy

droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing

recent activity (3,567 total)
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The 5 hour limits are coming back soon right? I thought that was temporary
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> give me Opus 4.5 at a tenth the cost and running ten times as fast and I'd take that for almost any coding task over any current frontier model This is pretty much where I'm at
28d ago·view thread
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Just wanted to say I started using Handy last week and I love it. It might single handedly cure my RSI. Well, hopefully double handedly.
28d ago·view thread
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Drug store cowboys, aka "big hat; no cattle"
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I can only imagine what that does to the poor SSD
28d ago·view thread
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What kind of tokens per second do you get on that setup?
28d ago·view thread
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Have you tried qwen3.6-27b or Gemma 4? gemma4-26b-a4b is particularly impressive for its balance of speed and performance
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> Helping people write word docs, recipes, and emails isn't going to justify $15K per month subscriptions either. Those things can all be done today on a $250 used video card and pennies of el…
1mo ago·view thread
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It would be more efficient if you had multiple users (or agents) making parallel requests to take advantage of batching, right?
1mo ago·view thread
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I've got dual 3060s as well. What's the best models you've found for this setup?
1mo ago·view thread
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You could test this by starting your sessions with "I am Terrance Tao"
1mo ago·view thread
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I don't think it's dashboards specifically, I think it's things that require a relatively small amount of code that fits in the context window and is easy to iterate on using natural la…
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I've vibe coded multiple apps that I now use regularly throughout the day. I doubt I could sell them, but they are very useful to me.
1mo ago·view thread
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This is the part I'm most excited about with the new release, though I'm concerned plebs like me may never get a chance to play with it
1mo ago·view thread
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Then wouldn't servers need to trust each other? Otherwise I could use my server to log into any other server.
1mo ago·view thread
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You pay for most of the complexity whether you use the feature or not.
1mo ago·view thread
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The killer feature of Discord for me is being able to jump between communities without logging in to each of them. Open source alternatives never provide that. Does this one? Matrix is the obvious exc…
1mo ago·view thread
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Some other similar projects: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling#overlay-ne... Interesting to see this built on Iroh.…
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I'm more worried about getting cut off from hardware because Nvidia can make more money selling to datacenters than I am about getting cut off from software.
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They're insanely good for prototypes though. To be able to actually see something working before deciding whether it's worth investing the time to build it for real is invaluable.
1mo ago·view thread
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If something like this works wouldn't that imply technical interviews can be automated?
1mo ago·view thread
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Is refusal something that can happen mid-stream, after status and headers have been received? I haven't looked at the API
1mo ago·view thread
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I was sure this was going to be a massive solid gold iPhone
1mo ago·view thread
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> bespoke I see what you did there
1mo ago·view thread
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podman is my favorite tool for this.
1mo ago·view thread
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I know you meant player AI, but now I'm imagining an RTS where every unit is running a small reasoning LLM.
1mo ago·view thread
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When it worked, IPX LAN was maybe the peak UX in multiplayer gaming. Moving everything to TCP/IP came with a lot of improvements, but we also lost important things. Reminds me of the move from Fl…
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