CheckMate
566 posts

CheckMate
@sladurb
Java, web, software at large, AI/ML, crypto. Common sense. Minimalist.
California, USA Katılım Ocak 2011
865 Takip Edilen153 Takipçiler

What changed three months ago?
Black Bird Group@Black_BirdGroup
According to our data, in April the net gains of the Russian armed forces were approximately 94km². Russian offensive attempts continue to struggle, while the frontline on the southern front has largely consolidated after the Hulijaipole offensive of February and March. 1/
English

@simonbrown Thanks, love it! I put a high premium on shorter, condensed books that are respectful of my time! Ideally 100-120 pages. See if you can cut even more!
English

@sladurb I haven't seen the templated manuscript yet and the figures still need to be redrawn, but perhaps somewhere in the region of 130-150 pages. A short book, but significantly longer than the self-published Leanpub version.
English

@TechLayoffLover Facts- free posts! These unfortunate characters do not exist.
English

$247,832 in debt and counting
A computer science grad from Carnegie Mellon with a 3.87 GPA
Class of 2025, recruited by Google, Microsoft, and Meta his sophomore year
All three offers rescinded "due to economic headwinds"
1,847 applications sent since graduation
47 interviews
12 final rounds
Zero offers
His roommate from Stanford drives DoorDash 14 hours a day making $11.23 an hour after gas
Another classmate from MIT stocks shelves at Target for $16 an hour
The career services office still runs LinkedIn ads about their "94% placement rate"
Based on 2019 data
Before AI murdered the entire profession
He spent four years learning React while React developers were being replaced by Claude
Learned Python while Python jobs got automated by Copilot
Learned algorithms while algorithms were writing better algorithms than humans
The ultimate fucking irony
He graduated summa cum laude in the exact skill that just became obsolete
Carnegie Mellon's computer science program costs $61,958 per year
For a degree that's now worth less than a community college welding certificate
But sure, keep telling kids to learn to code
English

@jun_song You are not following the news.
A flood of huawei gpu will soon hit the market
English

@zeddotdev 3-way git merge review .. was the reason i uninstalled zed 2 months ago
English

vllm-swift v0.2.2 is out
hybrid models (qwen3.5, qwen3.6, qwen3next) now scale with batch instead of going flat at B>1. ~16x total tok/s at B=64 on qwen3.6-27b on M5 max.
also fixed in this release:
- OOM at 4B / B=64 / 8K context
- crash at prompt length ≥ 2048 with batched decode
- source install no longer needs manual mlx.metallib copy
prebuilt brew bottle so no swift toolchain needed:
brew tap TheTom/tap && brew install vllm-swift
readme + getting started: github.com/TheTom/vllm-sw…

English

Many folks seem to be confused, and think the collapse of the CS major graduation numbers at Berkeley could be linked to the "AI is taking SWE jobs" hysteria narrative. Here's the easiest way to see that this is false: the timeline doesn't fit.
The graduating class in 2027 (first small CS cohort graduating) has students who arrived on campus as freshmen in Fall 2023, with freshman admission targets set (i.e. shrunk) by the university in Fall 2022. So, the hysteria narrative obviously doesn't match the timeline; ChatGPT didn't even come out until November 2022.
Now consider the plot below; orange curve is what % of bachelor's degrees are CS degrees each year at Berkeley, and blue curve is what % of applicants applied to be a part of that graduating year, intending to be a CS major in their application (combining both junior transfer and freshman applicants). In other words:
* orange measures CS graduate production
* blue measures CS demand (via % of all applications to the university)
What do you notice? The collapse in orange (CS grads) isn't because of a collapse in blue (demand). In fact it's the opposite: orange collapsed at a time when blue was going up. 1/

English

@thomasgauvin Wait, I can't send email with just smtp protocol, only your privately rest api?
English

@Alibaba_Qwen
killed the free/generous coding plan in qwen cli as of April 15th, 2026. No announcement!
@MiniMax_AI
2.7 no longer free oss. Gemini CLI pulled the Pro models this month too. Kimi 2.5 and GLM 5.1 - the last 2 still free, brutal VC capitalism from now on!
English








