TacticalCoder

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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> Only real alternative is to use microvms. My goto solution for this are apple/containers. Why microVMs? I never ever run a container, AI harness or other, in something else than a full on VM. I could use a microVM but in any cas
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnTKllDbu5o As a teenager I remember I was amazed at the speed at which Johnny 5 would consume that book.
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> You rent your ISP line. Why isn't renting GPU compute seen the same way? Is it mostly seen the same way. What is unacceptable is removing the freedom (which you mentioned) of people who prefer to run models locally. Just as pe
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
The examples in TFA are more than weak. They complain that the models assign too many preeclempsia to black women (I had an ex who was a midwife so yup, I know what it means): what's bad about that? Anyway, let's consider I missed
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> I was remarkably uninjured, but could easily have lost my legs or worse. Same. Used to do MX (Yamaha 250 2 strokes) when I was below 30 y/o, as well as off-road/dirt biking, but it's on the road that I got one terribly b
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
Everything we love about human creativity is being destroyed by AI models and when some of us point it out, we're getting downvoted by an army of AI kool-aid drinkers. It's plain insane. You downvoters really cannot see what'
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
The text written in LLMish for that Phrack intro uses ASCII characters for everything, including quotes and ellipsis. There's one non-ASCII Unicode codepoint that made it through and it's the telltale sign of LLMish. They also u
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> LLMs are here to stay. The "hacker spirit" doesn't require being a Luddite and rejecting LLMs ... You've got it all wrong. I pay three AI subscriptions and I use LLMs every day, for various tasks. I know models are
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
That's very interesting but why do taxi drivers have a job that lowers life expectancy? Is it because they're sitting too much? Or because they're inhaling CO from cars too much? Or staying inside (the car) too much? Or is it
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
All the comments excusing the RAM usage "because high-resolution screens require pixels" are missing the fact that there's this thing called GPU memory. Which is where pixels data should be. There's no way you need to st
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
It's a near guarantee that when things shall heat up and the stock market shall crash and people are going to say that "this time it's worse than 1929" , we'll hear the brrrrrrrr sound of the money counterfeiters,
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
And capitalism also works with crashes taking unprofitable companies down. And frauds, eventually, gets companies valuation like Enron and FTX to zero. And people go to jail. Now I'm not saying OpenAI or Anthropic are frauds. What I&#x
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
I agree that it's working good enough and that it's here to stay: mostly everybody around me uses AI too but... > Did Uber die when a trip across town went from $3 to $13? No. It's giving more rides than ever, 10x more tha
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> ... without having to flag down a server / waiter. Using QR codes to not having to talk to a human and to "optimize" humans out of the loop in a restaurant sounds like a great scenario for an episode of black mirror. QR
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> I tried really hard to get it on 32GB but sadly the motherboard only has two slots and only supports 8GB DDR3 modules. Buy a refurbished Xeon workstation with DDR4 RAM. If you're in the US or China they're basically free and
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
My server is an extremely quiet Xeon workstation: unlike 1U servers, workstation are typically quiet. The good thing with a Xeon workstation is that it supports ECC RAM only and there are plenty used. For there's no market for used Xeo
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
This already happened in the past: they found a cave totally sealed since so long that spiders still had eyes, but non-functioning ones (for they were totally in the dark for generations and generations, eyes didn't make sense anymore)
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> For me personally, I feel this project is the greatest engineering effort in human history bringing together the work of Newton, Kepler, the mathematics of the celestial navigation, gravitational assist techniques[1], etc. necessary to
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> Although I think most vulnerabilities are going to be closed in popular software by mid 2027, ... If we're to believe how good those AI are at CTF and at escapes of all kind, then the only logical conclusion is that, by very far,
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
I do something similar and I've also got a nice script to provision my VMs. > So rather than pick one, this post advocates layering both, in the spirit of defense in depth: a sandbox VM wraps your containers along with the whole too
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> So, anyways, just imagine the most archaic and barbaric set of IT software, controls, and procedures, dumb that down even further, and you've landed on the infrastructure/teams that operate probably half of critical infrastru
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
I got a home robot in 2017. It still works. I can definitely say it's got wheels: it's a Roomba.
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
So Java, which powers a sizeable chunk of the real-world since two decades now, without needing the help of LLMish sloppy-pasta, is going to continue to power the Real World [TM] with its language and JVM that have been created with tens of
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
Take the inverse stance: take a country that taxes its citizens to death, like France or Belgium. How are they doing? Very badly. France is concerned that the IMF main jump in and take things under control because the government's pu
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
Such defeatism indeed. I understand that things look complex but plenty of very complex apps can be self-hosted and they Just Work [TM]. Now, sure, there's work involved. But, just like many others, I can run Plex, JellyFin or Immich j
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> As I see it life was clearly designed by God. Which one? There are so many to choose from... And what created that God? I know it's turtles all the way down but still want to know.
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
Speaking of vintage audio interface with a modern touch, I love my stereo amp: a Yamaha amp with the old look of the Yamaha amp from the 80s, but with also a tiny OLED display on the bottom, "hidden" in a black band and that onl
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
Yes. "The economy is energy, energy is the economy". China understood this and is not just betting on both solar and nuclear like mad, they're also burning coal (so that the EU btw can cosplay being green, while offloading th
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> Faced with such fatalism, self-help seems essential. Disruption is real and it’s hard and we’ve made it through before. You can do more than you think you can; you are more malleable than you think you are. You don’t choose the game bo
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> ... they could find this in pretty much any Spanish city That's a horseload of bullcrap. For a start there are plenty of pickpockets in many spanish cities (not just Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia). Then there are people visiting

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