radicalbyte

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by radicalbyte 6d ago
People use Chrome in 2026? O_O
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by radicalbyte 7d ago
Oh that's who Mullenweg is? I had a bit of an argument with him on one of the socials, I was making the argument that Zuck has very much jumped the shark but he seemed to be a big fan. He didn't have particularly good arguments th
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by radicalbyte 8d ago
The training data and knowledge is the edge, you need to build that up and maintain it. And of course mine everything you can from the American and Chinese models, like they mined everything from the internet / films / music &#x2F
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by radicalbyte 8d ago
Specifically we have American models which were built on extremely crappy data in insane quantities. What happens when you use same models to build a corpus of extremely high quality training data. Say for Math, coding etc. Then use that to
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by radicalbyte 12d ago
I have a $40 head-mounted thing with integrated light and it's awesome for modern boards.
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by radicalbyte 12d ago
You can buy a whole lot of practise kits on Amazon. Start with push-through components and move on to surface-mount if you fancy that. I'd recommend checking out one of the many youtube channels who do repairs for an idea of the tools
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by radicalbyte 14d ago
Impossible Mission for me; didn't realise that it's actually a good game. Very very good for the time too.
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by radicalbyte 14d ago
I'm loving my C64U. The original C64 got me into tech. The most accessible way to get into assembly / machine code. Those of the engineers who skipped that (including most in their mid-40s like me) just don't have that level
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by radicalbyte 19d ago
There are an army of people using SPAs for problems best served by a simple and more traditional website. It has been a thing since SPAs started showing up so you have a whole generation who think that Next.js is just how you build for the
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by radicalbyte 19d ago
They're not able to spy on all the other websites I visit or apps I use via the browsers in the way they are by forcing me to install spyware on the spyware machines from Apple and Google.
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by radicalbyte 21d ago
Might want to take a look at the news channels you're following as none of them describe the Democrats, outside a bit of performative "socially left" things (like keeping the government out of bedrooms - though as a libertari
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by radicalbyte 21d ago
The two main US parties are firmly right wing, although the Democrats do have a small number of centralist (like Bernie) and centre-left people (though I dunno if any are actually in the Congress).
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by radicalbyte 23d ago
The lawmakers are: in the EU you have a block of right-wing parties. The large part are funded by large companies and make laws which favour them. Same thing as in the US. There are other right-wing (and left-wing) blocks who are funded by
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by radicalbyte 23d ago
Having worked on the inside: this is by design. You know for 100% that Pepsico and Coca Cola unleashed an army of lobbyists to make sure the laws were written in a way where the single market only worked for large business.
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by radicalbyte 23d ago
Erm I've been talking about this for 4 years now. So I'm not sure how it can "come out of nowhere" unless you're paying 0 attention to really important regulation in your field. There will be a post in 9 months from
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by radicalbyte 26d ago
It reads like the white papers companies publish on their websites to build legitimacy. Or anything from those IBM / SAP / Deloitte / etc consultants who write technical papers despite having little to know understanding of t
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by radicalbyte 28d ago
They were too busy dying from typhoid, cholera, "consumption" (TB + other lung diseases) and probably lung cancer caused by all the coal / asbestos.
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by radicalbyte 1mo ago
The whole push behind .Net Core was to get .Net running on Linux well and natively and was being lead largely by those of us using .Net for web. We were being murdered by other languages at the time; mono was an option but Microsoft shops u
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by radicalbyte 2mo ago
Our intelligence services have capabilities, it's not just the US. The Patriot / Cloud Act increase the scope outside of intelligence agencies. I'm of the opinion that for military intelligence there is a legitimate need to h
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by radicalbyte 2mo ago
This is the EU Commission. Yesterday was the Christian nutjobs and right-wing ghouls in the European Parliament who undemocratically pushed through their crackhead Chat Control. EU Commission = US Senate, EU Parliament = US Congress. Kinda.
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by radicalbyte 2mo ago
Some of the early models - either the Chevvy or Nissan Leaf - had battery packs which would degrade very quickly. This was causes by the charging system which seemed designed to destroy them. The expectation in the EV fan world was that mod
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by radicalbyte 3mo ago
They benefited greatly from the FTC not doing their job. Google too. Overall it has been extremely damaging to the industry but I suspect that it is the main reason for a small part of California (it not even American exceptionalism, it&#x2
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by radicalbyte 3mo ago
Venture Capitalists are now even worse than the marketers.
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by radicalbyte 3mo ago
Claude Code are slopmaxxxing and you're considering their "judgement"? :-)
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by radicalbyte 3mo ago
No they weren't, 50 years ago is when they were working very hard to get people in from Turkey/North Africa to do those jobs because they wanted to pay peanuts and the natives had options. These are all hyper exploitative industri
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by radicalbyte 3mo ago
Migration in my part of Europe (Holland) has largely been workers for jobs the Dutch won't do. These people are abused as a sort of semi-serf labour mainly in the farming sector. Some groups are a big net benefit to our (looking at the
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by radicalbyte 3mo ago
They still are. My kids haven't watched a single Simpsons or Family Guy episode but are quoting both regularly. Facebook et al also quite literally stole email contact lists and installed spyware at kernel level on mobile phones which
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by radicalbyte 3mo ago
The Samsung with parental control does the same thing as this phone only you don't have to beg Commodore to install the apps your kid's school requires them to install. It's at most a $200 smart phone (doubling the prices for
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by radicalbyte 3mo ago
It has the same core spec as a $120 (delivered) Samsung phone and will cost between $500-$600 (delivered). The C64U is an amazing achievement but it seems too early to go for the smart phone. Hopefully there is a niche and their business pl
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by radicalbyte 3mo ago
Keeping Linux-based devices up and running and somewhat reliable is horrible. I'm 45, I've spent 25 years doing that. Time I'll never get back. Time I'm spending with my kids instead of dicking around with an obscure bug

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