TacticalCoder

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by TacticalCoder 3d ago
> A plausible hypothesis for the emergence of those concerning behaviours is a conflict between goals. They are sycophants who must achieve their goals: every mean is OK to maximize paperclip production if that's what's been
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by TacticalCoder 3d ago
> Base62 (or 64, with -_) is totally suffic Base64 all the way, but with dot and underscore. Dash is problematic (or, well, let's say you're bound to end up on a script not correctly dealing with those: you definitely can deal
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by TacticalCoder 4d ago
> Revolut is a platform which enables money laundering, tax evasion, welfare fraud and sanctions workarounds. An estimated 3% to 5% of the world's entire GDP is linked to criminal activities. The reasons are complex (for example dru
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by TacticalCoder 4d ago
> The ego of being able to do things they made them seem like magicians? In the interest of fairness, if you want to go down that route, we should have a talk about the ego of those now making software they believe is quality and who hav
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by TacticalCoder 4d ago
> At what point do we stop engaging with Anthropic’s leadership in good faith and acknowledge their track record, ... It's all lies as usual. This announcement has got nothing to do with alignment and pacing the "frontier"
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by TacticalCoder 4d ago
> not interesting as the writeup as very AI sloppish I'm the target for such material for I do use OpenSCAD to model parts I then 3D-print to fix stuff around the house and enhance the cars etc. And yet the writing is totally insuff
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by TacticalCoder 6d ago
> In many ways it’s something that I have to tolerate to do many things that functioned fine before. I have to use an app to pay for parking. I need to create an online account to pay for a family swim at the local leisure centre. I have
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by TacticalCoder 6d ago
> For US readers - in my country in Europe I'd say that 95% of people have only debit card, not credit card. it's very not common to have a credit card here. In the countries I've been to in the EU (Belgium, France, Spain,
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by TacticalCoder 6d ago
> quant HFT is pretty decent mental exercise and it has given them “deep” brain muscles. that’s my take. It's quite crazy that it's Deepseek's background/original purpose. We already had very advanced stuff from the w
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by TacticalCoder 7d ago
> You'd have been lucky to be able to recover those in 2001. 2001 might be a stretch but indeed they do degrade badly. During Covid I was locked down, by a stroke of bad luck, alone, 2000 kilometers away from my wife and young daugh
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by TacticalCoder 7d ago
Upvoted you but... > A lot of my friends have kept their old 486 computers, and everything is period-correct except for the hard drive and floppy drive which have been replaced with a CF-to-IDE for the HDD and Gotek running FlashFloppy f
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by TacticalCoder 7d ago
> I then realized that most people just stick with whatever default they're provided with, and it's a lot of them. That's why Google already captured such a big part of the market with Gemini: they're now integrating
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by TacticalCoder 8d ago
> UAE AI model tops 50 million monthly downloads So in a bit more than a year, 10% of the planet has downloaded a NSFW classifier? I mean: in the end there are only 8 billion people on earth, which projects do, all added up, need to down
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by TacticalCoder 8d ago
> Isn’t eMacs just a text editor like vim or nano? For a start it's either spelled "Emacs" or "EMACS", and definitely not "eMacs". Then it's closer to an OS than an editor.
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by TacticalCoder 8d ago
> Well, as much as people lose all their muscle by been bed-ridden, he's lost all his brain by being AI Assisted™. Wanna know the answer of those who lost all their brain cells to that? "If there are bugs, it's only becau
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by TacticalCoder 8d ago
> There are millions of schizophrenics worldwide. Are 95% of worldwide terror attacks done by schizos?
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by TacticalCoder 8d ago
> When Apple is not racing for the frontier it's a strategy, but when it's Mistral it's a mistake. Apple is a $4.7 trillion company selling computers and iPhones. How many computers and iPhones is Mistral selling? In your
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
If you're on some X11 (Xorg or whatever else if there's still something else than Xorg) windowing system (say non-Wayland Linux or a BSD), you can definitely get some window manager with themes very close to that.
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
TFA just shows the author is addicted to his phone and nothing else. Many comments here are already explaining why the comparison is not valid. As a consumer in the market for cars (we've got four at home), I'm basically intereste
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
Yup was thinking the same: make honest people pay $0.00001 when they visit the site (in electricity/compute), have the challenge made so that only the website wins a tiny something. Bleed the bots dry. > This makes Anubis challenges
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
> the best thing about freebsd in 2026, is no goddamn systemd virus Yup. And with FreeBSD's bhyve you can run VMs. My plan to be, at long last, entirely systemd free again is FreeBSD/bhyve/Linux VM (a distro without syst
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
> What exactly went wrong for this catastrophe to happen? The AfD's only selling point is that they'll end immigration. Here's what happened: 2.6 migrants coming to Germany in 2022 alone. Net migration into Germany in 2022
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
> I feel so angry with and ashamed of my own country in a way I cannot even find words for. I feel so angry and ashamed for what the EU bureaucrats and politicians have done to the EU. Many people do feel like me. I'm not german but
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
> and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment The really incredible thing is that my computers were already doing similar stuff before LLMs became really a thing... In the BBS days. Later on they downloaded mp3s from Napster which my
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
> Deep down, we're an annoyingly arrogant little country with delusions of grandeur ... The problem is France used to be the world's superpower, with an economy bigger than the one of the UK. Literally number one. Then the mo
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by TacticalCoder 11d ago
89% only think that? Wanna talk about the enrichment of US politicans? Not just the Trump and the Pelosi but also a serious discussion about the net worth of, say, the Obama, Ilhan Omar and Kamala Harris, etc.? And the argument: "But
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by TacticalCoder 11d ago
Instead of CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1 I like CloudFlare's 1.1.1.3: it filters known porn and known malware sites. By now I expect many sites to be filtered out: too much crap out there. Then I also run my own DNS (unbound) and after see
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by TacticalCoder 11d ago
> Spreadsheet formulas can refer to rectangular ranges of arbitrary size. When a user changes the structure of a referenced table, the spreadsheet system updates the references to refer to a new range. Unfortunately, this new range may d
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by TacticalCoder 12d ago
> It means it can execute arbitrary machine code in the sandbox. Well which is precisely why we have sandboxes. To me "executing arbitrary code in the sandbox" is similar to "I don't give a flying fuck for it's w
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by TacticalCoder 12d ago
> M0 or M Speaker Mute, completely silent during dialing M3 is also common, but different on many brands As a teenager with my first modem (I think I started with a 14.4, so not that early) I had no idea how to mute the modem with those

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