richstokes

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by richstokes 5d ago
We had the Roamer, British school, very early 90's. I remember programming a logo/turtle type thing on the BBC Micro, and then I think there was a way to copy the program on to the Roamer directly from the BBC. Or maybe we did it
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by richstokes 7d ago
Stopped using them when I realized I had stopped seeing posts from my actual friends and family. It’s mostly endless reels and ads now and I have to scroll for way too long before I see a post from someone I’m connected to/friends with
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by richstokes 9d ago
Doesn’t load.
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by richstokes 13d ago
Is code being converted to / represented in maths that much more helpful for an LLM that deals in language primarily, by definition? I have no idea, interesting though!
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by richstokes 13d ago
I feel the same sometimes. I don’t see how this doesn’t lead to massive job losses. The thing we spent our lives/careers learning is now worth basically nothing in comparison. AI is only going to get better and do more with less humans
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by richstokes 15d ago
Do we think that was necessary? What would have happened if OP had just asked it to rewrite and test/validate each piece as it went until everything is verified and complete? My gut feeling is this is doing way too much, and it would&#
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by richstokes 28d ago
Having the LLM run the proprietary app through ghidra (which I think even has an MCP now), would likely give it some useful clues too
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by richstokes 1mo ago
First thought; this could be turned into a really cool password generator
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by richstokes 1mo ago
Had a moment of nostalgia and started building an IRC client for macOS. It’s totally free/open source. And has been fun to customize / add the features I like to see while avoiding the ones I don’t. https://github.com&#
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by richstokes 2mo ago
Idea: Support providing it the URL to your own / arbitrary git repo, so you can see it type out whatever code you like :-)
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by richstokes 2mo ago
If the AI could understand the save file format for Minecraft, it could manipulate that
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by richstokes 2mo ago
Device-bound would be a nightmare. I don’t want to have to think about different credential for phone vs. laptop, etc.
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by richstokes 2mo ago
I got steamos working on my nvidia PC with a bit of messing about. I really like it, it’s a fun experience and after this initial hack, everything has worked great. https://github.com/richstokes/SteamOS-Nvidia-Drivers
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by richstokes 2mo ago
Is it a nightmare? I pasted the first, zoomed out, image of the shirt into ChatGPT, and it decoded it / let me know what the bash script does in one shot
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by richstokes 3mo ago
Pretty bad. It seems to have very limited context, and it mostly cant follow up on things if you have additional things to ask. It was ~fine when it first came out, but seems to have made basically zero progress since then, and frankly feel
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by richstokes 3mo ago
American football is unwatchable to me for that reason. It’s so stop-start. 30 seconds of play followed by 3 mins of ads. It’s just insane. Feels like the entire game was designed around maximizing commercial sales heh
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by richstokes 4mo ago
Andddd now everyone knows that an arbitrary text string in a device hostname is enough to ground a flight.
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by richstokes 4mo ago
What if you deploy to a different CPU architecture than you develop with? Some languages/libraries use pre-compiled binaries as part of their packages.
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by richstokes 4mo ago
I wonder if you could repurpose the cars SIM card (eSIM or otherwise) / cellular modem for your own use? Like presumably the manufacturer is paying a data plan to a cell provider. If the connection is not locked down to specific traffi
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by richstokes 4mo ago
It was the Wild West back then. Good times!
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by richstokes 5mo ago
Kinda related but I used to practice guitar in my dreams. If I had been learning something I’d often dream about playing it over and over again, and even going beyond that and figuring out “solos” and melodies and stuff over the chord. Can’
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by richstokes 5mo ago
Was thinking the same honestly. GH is very sticky though, especially when you have actions and all kinds of other integrations set up. But it’s just kind of absurd at this point how many outages they have.
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by richstokes 5mo ago
Are there benchmarks of this / what’s the best way to compare it against paid models? With all the rate limiting in Claude/Copilot/etc, running locally is more and more appealing.
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by richstokes 5mo ago
Do you use it with ollama? Or something else?
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by richstokes 5mo ago
My personal Claude sub (Pro), I can burn through my limit in a couple of hours when using Opus. It's borderline unusable unless you're willing to pay for extended usage or artificially slow yourself down.
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by richstokes 5mo ago
The problem is half the time you don't know you need the better model until the lesser model has made a massive mess. Then you have to do it again on the good model, wasting money. The "auto" modes don't seem to do a goo
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by richstokes 6mo ago
Agreed. What network are they forgetting here? Pretty sure I've only ever seen that apply to wifi. Are they trying to say you might need to re-pair a bluetooth speaker on a date? I don't get it.
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by richstokes 6mo ago
Probably not. That would slow them down. The turbo button under-clocked CPUs :-)
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by richstokes 6mo ago
“Like carfax but for your home” is a really interesting idea. So many homes are bought with little-to-no history beyond an inspection of questionable thoroughness. If this became the norm, somehow, it would be a really helpful tool for both

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