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by davidwritesbugs 3mo ago
You have a /horse/?! Well laadeedaa
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by davidwritesbugs 3mo ago
Yes, precisely. Assessing your own cognitive skills is dubious. I’m pretty certain I’m less clever than I was when younger but if I find a problem tough now maybe 25 yo me would also have struggled?
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by davidwritesbugs 4mo ago
I watch it and think of the “Are we the bad guys?” meme: lots of people advancing their careers in the Empire & shrugging at their own evil deeds mentally saying “ ok, but what can I do?”
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by davidwritesbugs 4mo ago
Not saying you are wrong about many US business owners but having travelled in China I can tell you that Chinese companies have no qualms about poisoning their neighbours for enhanced profits - my guide there said it was what he hated about
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by davidwritesbugs 4mo ago
“Nazis”: see Godwins law
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by davidwritesbugs 4mo ago
In a previous life I've employed contractors and software engineers to run a criminal website. Motivations for my guys were that it was well paid work that was technically challenging in order to evade enforcement agencies, and was &#x
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by davidwritesbugs 4mo ago
Truth was bound to get leaked at some point. CIA had a good run.
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by davidwritesbugs 4mo ago
His "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" was the most unintentionally comical thing I read at the time. Like his lyrics and prose it was woefully pretentious & leaden. I also met him once. A more unpleasant, up hi
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by davidwritesbugs 4mo ago
I tried getting any sota llm (GPT 5, Opus 4.6, Deepseek V4 pro, glm-5) to write a Metal 4 shader for a bottle usdz and none of them got it right. They screwed up the normals and textures , total mess. I tried it to do it in Metal 3 and stil
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by davidwritesbugs 4mo ago
Yes! I remember thinking "damn you band gap physics, if we only had blue leds we could do colour displays with LEDs, but that can never happen."
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by davidwritesbugs 4mo ago
I also remember being amazed, and did a forehead slap, when an old army bomb disposal man explained how, what I thought was an innocent device, was used by the IRA in bombs.
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by davidwritesbugs 4mo ago
Oh god I feel old. I remember being an excited schoolboy thinking how magic this was when it debuted.
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by davidwritesbugs 5mo ago
BC109 for ever!
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by davidwritesbugs 5mo ago
I did the same using the mlx version on an M1 Macbook using LMStudio integrated into XCode. I had to up the context size I ran it a against a very modest iOS codebase and it didn't do well, just petered out at one point. Odd. Pretty go
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by davidwritesbugs 5mo ago
hmmm, interesting. .... address? Can I get an account?
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by davidwritesbugs 6mo ago
I had one, hella cool. Had a funny flat battery I think? Regret not keeping it when it broke
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by davidwritesbugs 6mo ago
Same and not to mention reames of weird .Net errors that were never fixed and hard to understand or speculate about
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by davidwritesbugs 6mo ago
Pffft, that's the budget for the paperclips to hold the meeting notes together
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by davidwritesbugs 6mo ago
Get down to A&E quick, you've clearly drunk a potentially fatal amount of Elon KoolAid. Musk is a buffoon. Clever? yes by all accounts, genius? Hardly. He's had luck, made good judgments mostly offsetting the bad ones. Most of
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by davidwritesbugs 6mo ago
Jesus. Do you perform in public too?
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by davidwritesbugs 6mo ago
If you're British then that is a majestic fail. My children are taught that in primary school.
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by davidwritesbugs 7mo ago
But do people actually do this? How would you find someone to give you bitcoin for your gold? Are there online markets? Honest Q
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by davidwritesbugs 7mo ago
It doesn’t “just” work, I just implemented a streaming radio client and the http streams were a nightmare
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by davidwritesbugs 7mo ago
Please leave the Internet :)
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by davidwritesbugs 7mo ago
When I was a boy into electronics the one thing that always stymied me designing circuits was how to make an inductor of the right value. I can't recall these many decades why but I needed to make ones of a value and you couldn't
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by davidwritesbugs 7mo ago
Similar experience to me. I tend to let glm-4.7 have a go at the problem then if it keeps having to try I'll switch to Sonnet or Opus to solve it. Glm is good for the low hanging fruit and planning
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by davidwritesbugs 7mo ago
Background agent in the decoy identity that periodically browses the web, retrieves email from a banal account etc.?
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by davidwritesbugs 7mo ago
"Idunno copper, I'm a journalist not a geek"
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by davidwritesbugs 8mo ago
Hope she knows she still only has 3million trial days left
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by davidwritesbugs 8mo ago
In other words "democracy" - people with an agenda tell their version of its benefits. Saying "the vote was invalid because the poor uneducated people were too stupid to realise they were being lied to"

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