• Recently I ordered a soft toy from Amazon, its huge in actual size, like 3ft or something but Amazon had vacuum packed it to the size of a laptop. Since then I started wondering if I could use that.

    I’m moving across country, normally I’d leave most of my clothes and blankets here because they are bulky and puffy and take up a lot of space. But in reality they are very light. And I always tend to travel light from the 50lb weight limit, it’s just that the clothes take up almost all of the space where I can’t push it any further.

    So I was starting to consider if vacuum packing would be a good idea. In my mind if I can use that I can even compress my pillows and take them with me and then leave them in the sun for a couple days to let them stretch out.

    Do the magic bags and vacuum bags sold on Amazon and Walmart do job effectively enough if anyone has experience with them.

    The difference in my situation is that I do not have to pack the bags on the way back so I was considering purchasing a pump and bags separately, and then I could just leave the pump instead of half my stuff.

    If anyone has other suggestions let me know as well.

    Thanks a lot

  • I recently ended a relationship and for the past couple of days I’ve been using ChatGPT (4o) as sort of an “interactive journal” in order to get insights of the whole shenanigans.

    After today’s “session”, I decided to watch a movie: the classic from 2013 “Her”. It took me less than 15 minutes to abhor this new AI reality.

    Sure, there are many benefits that we have reaped (and many more that we still haven’t gotten to) but I’m afraid it’s going to cost us a lot. Technology already made us more distant. Everyone is already stuck on their phones, TVs and whatever other source of entertainment you can think of. I’m afraid that spontaneous human connection is dying, just look at dating apps. And with AI it will get worse.

    I don’t want to live in a bubble of my own creation. I hate the algorithms. I want new experiences, new sensations, new feelings. I erased every convo and memory in ChatGPT and it still remembers. Yeah I know that according to oAI it takes a few days to reset, but it still feels weird.

    I’m amazed and scared at how easy it was to pour myself to a machine, an imperfect one at that. I see my younger cousins fully immersed in the AI experience, some of them have even called it “a great friend”. We’re getting lonelier every minute and we don’t even realize it.

    How do you handle this existential dread? I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one.

  • I spent 12 hours testing both models on real development work: Bug fixes, feature implementations, and refactoring tasks across a 38k-line Rust codebase and a 12k-line React frontend. Wanted to see how they perform beyond benchmarks.

    **TL;DR:**

    * Kimi K2 completed 14/15 tasks successfully with some guidance, Qwen-3 Coder completed 7/15
    * Kimi K2 followed coding guidelines consistently, Qwen-3 often ignored them
    * Kimi K2 cost 39% less
    * Qwen-3 Coder frequently modified tests to pass instead of fixing bugs
    * Both struggled with tool calling as compared to Sonnet 4, but Kimi K2 produced better code

    **Limitations:** This is just two code bases with my specific coding style. Your results will vary based on your project structure and requirements.

    Anyone else tested these models on real projects? Curious about other experiences.

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