TacticalCoder

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by TacticalCoder 12d ago
> Yes. Grab those open-weight models while you still can. You mean like it's impossible to download a movie because it's illegal, it's going to be impossible to download open-weight models because it's going to be mad
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by TacticalCoder 12d ago
We've got a solution for this already... Raising my kid in three languages (english, french and spanish) and over four countries now, spelling words letter by letter was bound to be a never-ending problem (like french 'i' &#x
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by TacticalCoder 12d ago
A few months ago some dude offered a very fancy business card: it looked really gorgeous and all tech. Don't remember all the details but it was shiny and had tiny components etc. So I took it and was going to put me in my wallet and t
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by TacticalCoder 13d ago
> How will we make a living? Don't be selfish. Think first of all the jobs that are already dead. A friend of mine she's a translator: like translating financial documents between french/english/spanish. It's ove
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by TacticalCoder 13d ago
> I spent the last few weeks analyzing what Claude did, feeding it my 33 years of memory of how I built the game, my notes and the git repos. It wrote the first draft of the article, and I edited line by line over a week. Sooooo cool! I
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by TacticalCoder 13d ago
The benchmarks do looks good (I mean: they literally spank the latest Anthropic benchmarks of two days ago in every single benchmark) but the promotional vid is so cheesy. They decided to use the iconic Herman Miller Eames chair if I&#x27
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by TacticalCoder 13d ago
Yeah, the following sentence in TFA is weird: > Transcoding does not mean compressing everything. Images, video, and fonts are usually compressed already. It's because they're already lossily compressed that, precisely, they&#x
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by TacticalCoder 14d ago
> So would I and I didn't have a great life but if I alter the past I don't meet my missus/have my family so as much as it did suck, I'm happy now and don't want to change anything. That's the thing right? I
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by TacticalCoder 14d ago
Commented elsewhere in the thread before reading the comment (a terrible habit of mine) and I fully agree. The way I explained it to my daughter is this: "We're all someone else's NPC" .
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by TacticalCoder 14d ago
We are all someone else's NPC. Even the worldwide famous movie stars. Even the billionaires. My 11 y/o daughter loves the concept: there's this guy, he always walk his dog at the same hours. We always see him in the neighborh
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by TacticalCoder 14d ago
Meta and Microsoft are two of the absolute worst evil companies on earth and Amodei is trying very hard to join them. These Effective Altruists are despicable people: a bunch of thieves working to line up their own pockets while posturing a
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by TacticalCoder 14d ago
> Disk drive luxury, all I had was the tape deck. A friend's father had an incredible stereo-stack, full Nakamishi stuff. We tried hard to copy C64 tapes of commercial games using his stereo gear but got nowhere: I was maybe 12 ye
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by TacticalCoder 14d ago
It's even a bit crazier than that: the Commodore Amiga 1000 came out in 1985, a bit less than three years after the C64, in july 1985. A friend of mine, whose father was an art teacher, had an Amiga 1000 at home. Mind blown (I'm
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by TacticalCoder 15d ago
> Also for every skid you get on a coaster brake I'll raise you a nose Endo with the front disc brake! This guy fox!
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by TacticalCoder 15d ago
We used to call coaster brakes "torpedo" when I was a kid and, yup, they're totally horrible. If you've got coaster brakes I don't even know if you can learn to trackstand (you need to both slightly pedal forward an
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by TacticalCoder 16d ago
> I disagree with the premise that you need to be able to actively recall facts like this Same. The goal is to differentiate things. I code mostly in Clojure and I love functional code, so the one thing that really stands out is anythi
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by TacticalCoder 16d ago
> It's annoying that most file formats don't checksum their own content. I agree. > Even formats which should know better, like SQLite, delegate that to the filesystem, most of which are also not checksumed and which delegat
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by TacticalCoder 16d ago
No sadly I don't have any public repo: it's mostly really a collection of shell scripts and then the database one (for the berzerker/renamer) is in Clojure and I run it from my always-on REPL. But I know others did similar th
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by TacticalCoder 16d ago
Yup sorry if I mislead people. I usually use 10 hexdigits (40 bits) but no matter how many there are, it's the x bits of the beginning of the checksum that are verified against the hash (in the examples I gave 40 bits). I wasn't v
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by TacticalCoder 16d ago
> deduplication at the file level: every file is now stored under its BLAKE3 hash Blake3 is really a wonderfully fast cryptographic hash. I use it for my own "deduplication / integrity / berzerker" utility (which I ma
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by TacticalCoder 16d ago
At some point I was good at making coffee using a moka pot. Strong coffee. I learned to stop worrying and bought a full-auto machine: I put whole grains in it and coffee comes out. And as a bonus it's cheaper than, say, Nespresso-style
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by TacticalCoder 17d ago
> Tourism is a terrible industry that doesn't even contribute that much to our economy Portugal is heavily dependent on tourism: it's 10% of the GDP. In the EU not even France is that high: Spain is higher but Portugal's e
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by TacticalCoder 17d ago
> Take two drawer units, and instead of putting the tops on them they were supplied with, put a slab of desktop across both of them with a gap between and you’ve got yourself a desk. Definitely. My go-to is three units (I explained it in
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by TacticalCoder 17d ago
> I can just remove some of the dividers How it's better than that: you can not only rotate them 90 degrees, but you also move the dividers. Now due to how their built, it may not be the sturdiest thing to do but you definitinely
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by TacticalCoder 17d ago
> For those of you who look down on IKEA furniture, I'd like to hear about what alternatives you think need mentioning. Word! My desk at home is a very wide T-shaped desk made of three Kallax and two kitchen countertops: I share it
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by TacticalCoder 17d ago
Funny to see that frontpage as earlier on today I made a comment saying that with LLMs I'm betting we'll see N-modular redundancy systems soon, with a ultra-hardened, minimal, part picking the majority votes of N LLM-written imple
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by TacticalCoder 17d ago
My bet is one ultra-hardened, minimal, front-facing system which does N-modular redundancy which N systems, each written on a different stack/different language. The hardened software picks the computation that wins the majority. It&
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by TacticalCoder 17d ago
> ... why aren't we seeing European countries mass-banning 3D printers? Dunno, because most europeans are way more responsible with their guns than many people in the US? For example in the EU (and in Switzerland) before you can buy
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by TacticalCoder 17d ago
I do really like the following in the bulletin: > Important: At this point, you still don’t know whether the key you just imported is the genuine QMSK or a forgery. In order for this entire procedure to provide meaningful security bene
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by TacticalCoder 18d ago
> in a “civilized” lifestyle that you no longer even notice because you’re just so used to accommodating them: traffic noise, pollution, artificial light, etc. But I don't have any of those for there's a whole spectrum between

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