kar1181

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by kar1181 14d ago
Yeah, anthropic's models, even opus, are so slow I constantly find myself wishing for something a little bit dumber but a lot faster as most of the work is mechanical. If you have a clever controller agent driving some slightly dumber
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by kar1181 28d ago
Go - the language no one likes, but frankly everyone needs.
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by kar1181 1mo ago
If you think of it as message oriented it makes so much more sense.
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by kar1181 1mo ago
It's a toy, easy to break is what vintage software was. A very different era with users of a very different mindset. Not just rewrite the interrupt handler either, can rewrite the timer itself :) Part of the fun of real-mode is the abs
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by kar1181 1mo ago
Yeah, I think the ability to move at pace helps and especially when you get stuck at some sort of intractable bug, in realmode especially, claude/gpt is unbelievably good at identifying and proposing the fix. THAT is part of the issu
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by kar1181 1mo ago
I mean this is cool, it's wholly / mostly AI gen, so it takes the wow away which I think is what foklks are reacting strongly to here. Sadly this sort of thing is much easier now - thanks to the tooling. I speak from personal expe
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by kar1181 1mo ago
Robin used to go by 'bro' and he was insanely good deathmatcher, also an LPB (low ping bastard) as the Uni of NSW/RMIT folks had decent net links unlike the rest of us plebs.
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by kar1181 1mo ago
Quake was special for me, the first time I felt truly immersed in a world. I'd played doom/wolf, obviously, but being able to look down, and move in a 3d space just felt real in a way nothing had until then. Then the multiplayer -
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by kar1181 1mo ago
Oh man - herdr is great. This will not be net good. Sigh.
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by kar1181 5mo ago
This is true. But Anthropic did us dirty most recently and so it’s their turn on the pitch fork. Sam will do us too. Just not yet.
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by kar1181 8mo ago
Anthropic want you to use claude code cli badly and are prepared to be very generous if you do. People want to take that generosity without the reciprocity. I don't normally like to come down on the side of the megabigcorp but in this
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by kar1181 1y ago
Agreed, though being OS is no panacea as we have seen from countless other projects, but it does mitigate some concern of investing in an editor and its ecosystem and getting rugpulled.
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by kar1181 1y ago
This is it, in terms of pure text editing zed is the best GUI land editor I've used. Not quite there with emacs/vim but it's a much more accessible environment and more convenient for typical workloads.
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by kar1181 1y ago
Also love Zed, but sigh, it's VC funded. We all know how this is going to end. Best VIM mode ever implemented in a (non vim) app. I use it as my 2nd editor (most of the time in Jetbrains products). I just hope I'm wrong about the
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by kar1181 3y ago
I feel like the voyager spacecraft are a part of me, growing up in the 80s marvelling at all the images they sent back it was a magical time. The idea of voyager going dark feels like losing a part of myself. It's proven to be a hardy
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by kar1181 3y ago
One of things I struggle with is on certain issues like Ukraine and Israel libertarian folks I normally (largely) agree with seem to hold inexplicable views which seem to border on religious rather than practical. It makes me then wonder ab
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by kar1181 3y ago
Clanpnp/ftb myself. Still remember some of the server IPs by muscle memory.
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by kar1181 3y ago
I was heavily involved with the australian team fortress (quake 1 version) community in the late 90s and 'bro' (Robin Walker) and John Cook were gods to us, regularly involved in the RMIT/Melbourne Lan scene and online even w
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by kar1181 3y ago
Sounds like Apple / Xerox all over.
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by kar1181 3y ago
Intel ride or die here. My 2019 i9 mbp is trucking along still - and this time of year the heat helps keep the room hospitable. Was looking towards M3 for a big leap, but apart from heat and power (I use my MBP plugged in 95% of the time) t
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by kar1181 3y ago
We did move out of the US and funnily enough food (bread especially - we lived in the south) was part of the reason. However since our return to the UK the over processing of what were simple foods has occurred also. It seems to have dramat
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by kar1181 3y ago
Ultra processed is the end result of mckinsification of our food chain.
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by kar1181 3y ago
My son is allergic to soya - that was a catalyst for us looking into the supply chain of what we buy and eat and if there is one profound change above all is the fact soy is in -everything- and if not in the product itself then certain in t
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by kar1181 3y ago
More pertinently than that, it's a quick win for a kids show, ads when young kids are involved increase friction so much it's not worth it.
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by kar1181 3y ago
Just waiting for spotify to do it too.
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by kar1181 3y ago
I recently read ultraprocessed people and while it's a bit hyperbolic it's still eye-opening about the state of the packaged food business. My son is allergic to Soya, Nuts, Eggs, Dairy and since he started eating solids we'v
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by kar1181 3y ago
I was about to ask the same question - basically the Packt books I have read have been (almost) universally poor quality. It's been a long while since I've bothered with them so hoping that's changed somewhat.
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by kar1181 3y ago
I started on RedHat and it has a special place in my heart - even now they still host the original distributions I cut my unix teeth on all the way back. But sadly times change. Get it, they want to make money, but doesn't change the s
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by kar1181 3y ago
One of the first utilities I had to get to grips with way back was awk, and it serves me well to this day. Best bang for buck investment of time in my entire career. Even today I still use some variant of awk -F(x) '{print $x}'.
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by kar1181 3y ago
Gandi are so gross. Had an issue 5 years back now where their site/my connection glitched and they double charged me. It was the most confrontational support exchange I've had (even to this day), and in the end had to go the charg

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