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by sieve 9d ago
You have to wonder why someone did not think of this form factor sooner. I have the original X4 and have been enjoying it a lot. My Kobo mostly lies unused because I do most of my reading in bed and the X4, even with a clip-on light, is so
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by sieve 16d ago
It does for me. You need to ensure that they are injected into context. Your models might be broken if they ignore it. As good as ignoring a prompt.
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by sieve 16d ago
I subscribed to Claude Pro for one month earlier this year. The subscription lasts as long as you chat with it in the UI. The moment you use Claude Code, it becomes useless and you keep hitting limits. So, great for hammering out a specific
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by sieve 18d ago
I have used all three extensively. DS4 Flash is quite smart. I would rank MS 1.2 below it. MiMo is the dumbest of them all but good enough for basic stuff. MiMo wins handsomely if you want to think about your code for minutes at a time as y
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by sieve 18d ago
For me, an average long session results in about 200-300M cached input, 4-800K input, 2-400K output. Mostly the lower bound. Output depends on how much the model thinks. There are two problems here: - cache hit pricing (both Muse Spark 1.2
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by sieve 26d ago
Size is pretty similar to the original iPhone. The actual screen is the size of a credit card. You do not really notice the size once you get reading. It is light enough to be carried anywhere. But you need a strategy to protect the screen
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by sieve 26d ago
I am using the Xteink X4 as my primary e-reader now-a-days. Simple ESP32 microcontroller. Plastic+glass shell with an e-ink screen. MicroSD card works like a cache. Battery lasts for weeks. Works great. Don't get me wrong. I like moder
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by sieve 27d ago
I completely agree. IPR as a concept is suspect. But it is the world we live in, with timelines extending like crazy. There are works produced before I was born that will remain under protection till long after I am dead. A targeted modific
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by sieve 27d ago
Physical books and digital content is special in that you can mostly archive their content almost permanently for cheap. Buildings, paintings, idols, living things, natural features of the environment ... not so much. So the solution is:
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by sieve 28d ago
Bought an LFP battery+inverter set recently to replace an old dying lead acid based system. We need this kind of AC-DC roundtrip systems in India because of the unreliability of grid power (random power cuts, seconds/minutes to hours l
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by sieve 29d ago
Every couple of years, I revisit my PL dev hobby and this time I decided to create a language/runtime with pre-emptive scheduling using instruction fuel. While I always do freestanding builds, this time I decided that I also wanted to
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by sieve 1mo ago
@dang You can split this thread if it is OT --- > Very specifically pointing out "free bus rides to women" which is very famous in India and associated with a state not run by the BJP (i.e central ruling party) I am a pretty p
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by sieve 1mo ago
Who even writes these articles?! India used to have an excise, sales tax (replaced by VAT in the early 2000s) and octroi system. And LBT (Local Body Tax) where the municipal corporation staff that do not understand the B of balance sheet co
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by sieve 1mo ago
Yes. Habit from typing on the phone where the % sign is hidden away somewhere on my keyboard!
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by sieve 1mo ago
India is a conservative society. Women are 50% of the vote bank. They actually vote in larger numbers compared to men in many constituencies. They manage households and are very quick to notice price increases etc. The free bus rides and ca
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by sieve 1mo ago
> someone has to pay to maintain the infrastructure. :shrug: Under Indian law, companies must spend 2pc of their net profit on CSR activities (corporate social responsibility). Ask banks to use that money. The Indian banking sector made
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by sieve 1mo ago
> GST implementation Needed. I run a business. The previous tax system was horrific in its complexity and corruption. > Demonetisation Implementation could have been better. But there is too much cash in the system for my comfort. Thi
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by sieve 1mo ago
> Treat the payment backbone as a public infrastructure. Yeah. Let banks fund this out of the 2% of NP they must use for CSR activities if they have to. > he too subscribes to the anarcho-right political ideology of transferring wealt
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by sieve 1mo ago
Right, this has second and third order effects. I am sure this must have been brought up during the discussions and overruled for whatever reason. The bureaucrats and politicos involved are not stupid. But there is some game being played he
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by sieve 1mo ago
> P2P payments Some P2P is between family/friends. Or you are paying rent etc. But a lot of it is business transactions that move funds from one savings account to another because the auto driver is accepting a payment in his mother
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by sieve 1mo ago
Pennywise, pound foolish decision. India is forced to subsidize farmers to the tune of $37B JUST for urea. Governments routinely offer free bus services to women, free cash handouts to women, free electricity to farmers (who then use the po
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by sieve 1mo ago
I noticed this as well in the 2000s. Stuff like WinHex which I was pretty sure then was written using Delphi. Was into RE during those days, so I used to poke around the internals of software just for fun
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by sieve 1mo ago
There are pros and cons to both approaches. I moved from stack to register because I was writing the code gen backend from scratch in any case and preferred to have a register representation instead of converting from stack to register (whi
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by sieve 1mo ago
Nice! This is what I keep telling everyone: LLMs let you build stuff you may not have the time/energy to before. You still need to do the last 10% yourself though. Tying up all the loose ends. Syntax is a personal choice. Can always be
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by sieve 1mo ago
I have read almost every kind of fiction under the sun. My standard for what is great is pretty high. This is why I am perfectly willing to accept LLM output as lot as the writer has put in sufficient work into the same. Because this kind o
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by sieve 2mo ago
> The 'window' is I assume a french door, which I suspect is a mistranslation. It is a french door/window. The original story is by Saki (HH Munro), one of the greatest short story writers of all time. He was English. The
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by sieve 2mo ago
Did you read the original by Saki (Exhibit 12)? Ideally, you should read all 14 exhibits. Each has been produced by a different LLM, some local, others frontier models of the time. E4 = Claude E6 = ChatGPT E8 = Mistral E11 = DeepSeek V3 E12
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by sieve 2mo ago
This is something from early 2025. The situation and my own way of driving the models has improved somewhat in the intervening period. Variations on a Theme of Saki https://gist.github.com/s-i-e-v-e/b4d696bfb08488aeb893
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by sieve 2mo ago
My solution to this, as the human-in-the-loop, is pretty simple. If the generated draft is missing something that was implicit in the chapter outline, I ask the LLM to incorporate it and rewrite the para/section. Then I fix the outline
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by sieve 2mo ago
Yeah, if I think something is worth publishing, I might do that. I don't do this for the money. I do it because I enjoy building a completely lived in world from character sheets and outlines

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