TacticalCoder

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by TacticalCoder 18d ago
The amazing thing technology brought me is that I can now have optic fiber in my house in the middle of nowhere . I'm literally typing this while hearing the sound of waves and if I look above my laptop's screen, I see the reflec
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by TacticalCoder 19d ago
> I think the TLDR for this article comes down to "Windows networking sucks", which everybody should already know anyway. You can even safely remove the word "networking" from that sentence.
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by TacticalCoder 19d ago
> https://www.s-config.com/microslop/ For that link only TFA is worth it.
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by TacticalCoder 19d ago
> Some people say it's a loss for EU sovereign AI but HF is technically an American corporation. The company was founded in NYC. Anyone saying that is really a clown. There's no EU sovereign AI. My EU is absolutely nowhere when
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by TacticalCoder 19d ago
I've got a book, hand-written, from the early 20th century where my great-great-grandfather (or something like that) made drawings while he was studying to become an engineer. The drawings are really wonderful and I wonder if I should
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by TacticalCoder 20d ago
> It is interesting that FFmpeg has its own Git server. Maybe we should move there too? Git is a DVCS. I know many people only ever used Git through Github and forgot what the 'D' in DVCS means but whether or not they remember
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by TacticalCoder 20d ago
> You're suggesting that LLMs get better at fixing bugs/vulnerabilities, but at the same time stop getting better at finding them? Are you implying that all code writing by LLMs atm is bug-free?
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
> The analysis is still not compelling for me to switch from gtp5.6-luna to GLM-5.3-flash given ... So Luna is competitive because a few weeks ago they did a 80% price drop? Many here said that 80% drop was not a move against Anthropic b
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
> $4,000 isn't priced insanely? ye gads It depends. My bicycle was in the 5-digits brand new (now I paid it 1/5th of that and I do thank the first owner for that: the 8 000 out of 10 K I saved were put into stocks, that's
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
Remind me: which one of OpenAI, Anthropic, NVidia, Google, Starlink, etc. was started in Spain? This strikes me as a move that shall keep Spain a totally irrelevant country on the world' tech scene. Once again: China emits 3x more Co2
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
> They don’t have to restart the program on exceptions, because the condition system allows resuming the crashing code from anywhere in the stack after the system has been patched with a fix. I'm "only" using Clojure (whic
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
Currently typing this from my vacation house in France, in a rural area, with vineyards nearby. Closest highway is a 45 minutes drive (!). Now, sure, it is a fancy place in that it's Provence's seaside and, well, I can see big yac
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
They royally screwed up by signing an exclusive deal with the back-then no-name Microsoft company. IBM created the 3 trillion behemoth that Microsoft is while killing themselves in the process. It's really sad but also infuriating: had
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
> ... collection of security issues which I can only describe as regrettable (because I promised my mum I would swear less). There are bangers like video title bash injection or all notifications being able to run arbitrary bash on your
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
> Just because it says "modern art" ... I think we can all agree that naming anything "modern" or "new" or "nu" (for new) is simply deeply dumbfucktarded. GP talks about the 1860s: I'm sorry b
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
> Hopefully the Syrian state officials are not corrupt They're already literally Al-Qaeda islamist terrorists. Imagine if, moreover, they were also corrupt. Rotten to the core doesn't begin to describe such individuals. They&#x
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
> The part the author shared about the huge overhead cost of firing up emacs TFA's wording on that is a bit misleading. My Emacs with no config starts in 0.1s (110 ms). My Emacs with my huge config (between 3 000 to 4 000 lines of c
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by TacticalCoder 22d ago
> I had assumed that JPEG XL was for JPEGs that are Xtra Large, since that's what XL means on clothing and pretty much everywhere else. Yup the name isn't the best pick indeed. What most people don't know is that JPEG XL c
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by TacticalCoder 23d ago
> Plus watching the Children of Men style xenophobia and callous disregard for climate refugees set in all over the world. There are no climate refugees... Yet.
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by TacticalCoder 23d ago
> A more fair metric would be Co2 emissions/person and I’m getting We don't care about that notion of "fair": the cold hart truth is that China has 1.4 billon people. Another way to put it: China has one billion mor
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by TacticalCoder 23d ago
> Why do many environmental activists seem to want to go back to a shitty past rather than move forward to bright future. So do care about the environment but many "green" activists do not care at all for the environment: for t
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by TacticalCoder 23d ago
Spain also smashes foreigners owning a property in Spain. They see tourists and foreigners (even if they're from the EU) as a gigantic target to squeeze and screw as hard as they can. That's what you get when your economy is base
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by TacticalCoder 24d ago
> One definition of a cult I've liked is "A cult is a group you can't leave with your dignity intact". You can really get a good understanding if something is a cult by the way they talk about their ex members. A heal
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by TacticalCoder 24d ago
The look of Pris is really amazing, for it's nearly timeless. Probably inspired by looks from the early 80s and I know there's a bit of a 80s comeback (at least music-wise) but I really dig it.
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by TacticalCoder 24d ago
If they do reset it all, then I want to see several acknowledgment: 1. we ran out of other people's money 2. we probably shouldn't have abandonned convertibility to gold 3. goldbugs correctly saw it coming (and unl
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by TacticalCoder 24d ago
> I've install debian onto my fairly ancient Lenovo X201 Tablet and it is exceptionally snappy. I'm running Debian since Debian 1.1 (1.1, not 11). My install has always been very lean: a minimal WM I love. Computers have only e
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by TacticalCoder 24d ago
That's a great article too. I hope we'll see it comig back frontpage once in a while. He differentiates between "things that last" (knowledge that transfers) and the rest... Something has to be said about dodging a lot o
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by TacticalCoder 24d ago
> I mean CRT is inherently bulky, it's hard not to see why LCD panels became popular. But going from, say, a Sony Trinitron CRT [1] to one the first LCD was a huge step backwards, which is what GP is saying. I did wait for the fir
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by TacticalCoder 25d ago
As TFA pointed out, it's not the first time in the belgian royal family (which has no power btw and they're not anywhere near as rich as, say, the royal british family). A few years ago it was revealed that Delphine Boel was the d
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by TacticalCoder 25d ago
> His biggest headache was replacing the electrical equipment thieves would demolish to get to the copper It's one of the reason trains get stuck in Europe: thieves stealing copper cables. They've been found to steal, too, heav

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