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by jhancock 3mo ago
The private lending held back involved a) high interest rates b) unconventional methods of governance/collections which would be somewhat decoupled from Ant's lending platform down to the local level of collections. An example of
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by jhancock 3mo ago
From my perspective curtailing Ant's plans was positive regulatory action. Political priorities and good governance is why we have government.
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by jhancock 3mo ago
From a legal perspective the US may be safer than other places if the US is the one seeking your data. The US doesn't need legal process to authorize digging into your foreign server. From a practical perspective, I'm not sure any
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by jhancock 3mo ago
This type of attack has been happening a lot the past 2 years. I've seen one that was very well done...the GitHub account of a fairly well known security researcher had been compromised...their identity and code was being used as part
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by jhancock 3mo ago
Nice. How easily is the protocol categorized by an external observer? I'm noticing protocols like wireguard more commonly hitting problems as websites rely on third party systems to protect them from non-human interactions.
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by jhancock 3mo ago
I hear ya. In this case, for me, there is not much diff from "govt won't let us discuss it" and "here is a misleading answer".
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by jhancock 3mo ago
...and the answer is still incorrect. You seem to want the short "answer" western media has pressed into your mind. The real answer is more complex. Protests were widespread throughout China. They were about the economy. The econo
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by jhancock 3mo ago
Censorship and highly selective views exist everywhere. This is a short and worthwhile read https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.ph... Does the content of this article resonate with what you hear f
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by jhancock 3mo ago
I’ve been using podman on Mac. It’s been a nice fit as the container build files are identical to what I use on my fedora server. I have noticed my 2 virtual core 4 gb Linode vps runs apps faster in the same container as when run on my Mac
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by jhancock 4mo ago
I was told by someone in the industry that New Zealand leads the pack for travelling outside NZ and coming home to refute charges.
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by jhancock 4mo ago
everything points to money
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by jhancock 4mo ago
I built this Clojure lib for robust high scale LLM calls wherein the consumer is usually a http request waiting on an SSE stream. https://github.com/jhancock/aimee The article states: "Most applications are built
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by jhancock 5mo ago
ok. maybe. I don't know. I'm asking how you know. z.ai did go public on the HK exchange. They are under pressures similar to other public companies. I know that China models are increasingly being trained and run using Huawei chip
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by jhancock 5mo ago
What leads you to say China AI is giving up on open weights? I've been using GLM for over 6 months and pretty happy.
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by jhancock 6mo ago
z.ai models are open weights. GLM-5.1 is very close to Opus with obvious exception of session length. Only academic models will be true open source as companies can't legally afford to disclose learning inputs. In regards to "They
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by jhancock 6mo ago
I've been using z.ai and codex latest models since last September. Each release has been an improvement. codex handles longer sessions but the quality seems to decline and it tends to over engineer and lose focus. It will happily add s
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by jhancock 6mo ago
I'm going to keep this one... underqualified immunity :)
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by jhancock 6mo ago
AST of what? Will it read my clojure code's forms as such? What if my source file has a paran balancing error? I feel I'm thinking of this at the wrong level/angle.
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by jhancock 7mo ago
Good breakdown. I usually want the codex approach for code/product "shaping" iteratively with the ai. Once things are shaped and common "scaling patterns" are well established, then for things like adding a front en
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by jhancock 7mo ago
Depends on your app cache needs. If it's moderate, I'd start with postgres...ie. not have operate another piece of infra and the extra code. If you are doing the shared-nothing app server approach (rails, django) where the app ser
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by jhancock 8mo ago
I've started using a container (podman) which is just for the AI tools. I start it up for Codex etc and let it access to the appropriate code directory outside the container. Anyone else using this approach? Ideas on improvements?
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by jhancock 8mo ago
In VS Code settings search for "tasks" you will find "Task: Allow Automatic Tasks"...turn it off. Anything else that should be locked down?
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by jhancock 9mo ago
> are they making progress? * The Shanghai and Hong Kong stock market seems to have improved regulatory enforcement. I have no way of measuring this...just stories from others. * Over the past 10 years the China gov pressed on with build
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by jhancock 9mo ago
> What are they gonna do, sue in Chinese court? If your hypothetical happens, yes. China has been working hard to turn domestic investment away from housing. A trustworthy domestic stock market is key.
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by jhancock 9mo ago
The high level description for Tokyo's management could apply to Shanghai. Replace Tokyo's "elected mayor/assembly" with "party member administrators". Each Shanghai district has its own management structu
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by jhancock 9mo ago
true. I don't have the energy to learn emacs fu. An actual lisp machine would be dreamy.
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by jhancock 9mo ago
I use a modern Lisp everyday...Clojure. My dev environment is VS Code using the most excellent Calva extension which give me REPL-everywhere in my editing experience. Yes, that 70's experience was better...and it's still here, ref
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by jhancock 9mo ago
sure. It may be more than that...possibly due to variable operating params on the servers and current load. On whole, if I compare my AI assistant to a human worker, I get more variance than I would from a human office worker.
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by jhancock 9mo ago
I can use GPT one day and the next get a different experience with the same problem space. Same with Gemini.
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by jhancock 9mo ago
Love where this is going. Your company page https://www.zabaca.com and https://www.zabaca.com/careers/ feel just right.

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