AussieWog93

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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
I don't think anyone's implying that people writing software by hand, especially as a hobby, are wasting their time. Like not even if you attribute unreasonably bad faith can you extract that out. We're living in an amazing
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Honestly I think part of it is just that it's cool to see software running on this platform. I remember coding some trash apps on the 3DS back in the day simply because I could. It was great seeing code running somewhere it isn'
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
I know the CloudFlare CEO reads HN. Every day I see so much cool shit from that org, that as a one man band I just can't trust because there's no billing cap/prepaid billing.
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
On the subject of learning something... Compare your comment to the sibling from Flashtoo. One is genuinely inquisitive and displaying willingness to learn, the other is just dunking all over someone.
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Not a data centre expert, but don't they quite famously pump CO2 into the server rooms automatically if the fire alarms go off, even if there are people in the room?
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Same thing happens IRL too. Not just literal scams but all kinds of ways people take advantage of one another. Still doesn't change the arithmetic.
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Honestly, I think our extremely liberal disability benefits scheme achieves this to a large extent (albeit possibly with downsides for both the recipient and society). Look at all of the crazy stuff made by unemployed trans people/auti
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Realistically, if Steam closed down tomorrow, within 4-6 hours there'd be a megathread on Reddit explaining how to get the games running without Steam. Within 48 hours there'd be an auto-crack tool floating around on GitHub.
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
I honestly never knew that, should give it another go.
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
The title's clickbait (from The Register, of all people - colour me shocked!). There's nothing really groundbreaking at all in there, just "chips are expensive, and open weights models hosted locally in enterprise could displ
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
It might just be a me problem, but I've always been wary of regexes. They're not too bad to write, but reading them back and understanding what's actually going on can get a bit hairy. Plus, all of the subtle differences be
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
I think the main split between hardcore "GNU/Linux" guys and the general tech world is about principle vs pragmatism. The hardcore crowd see free software as a right that needs to be fought for, whereas others see open source
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
LFSPA is a cap note, not an index fund. Hence the lower returns, haha. Not saying it's necessarily the ideal vehicle but anything beats the banks.
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
LFSPA. Not risk free, but not volatile either. Although even that underperforms compared to an index fund.
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Funnily enough the two people we heard that "advice" from were Brits and Saffas. It's just bad interest yields compounding over decades.
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
The banks might pay 3% interest, whereas even non-volatile conservative investments like cap notes or bonds would pay something like 7%. Plugging it into a calculator: 1.03 ^ 18 = 1.70 1.07 ^ 18 = 3.37 Example numbers, but you're effec
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
People in this thread are massively underestimating the level of financial illiteracy in the general population. We've had multiple people try to convince us to set up bank accounts for our kids, so that they could accumulate interest
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
I'm in the same boat as gp. They seem to be doing their darndest to kill advantage #1. Even the command line "cursor ~/git" no longer opens an IDE in the ~/git folder but some random Chatgpt-esque interface that no
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Look into the /stage-chapters skill for local review. It groups large edits logically into "chapters" (think individual Claude plan steps) that you can review one at a time, and it's local.
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Love the username, very relevant!
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
It's only a DNS block fwiw. If you set your DNS to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 everything works fine.
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Honestly, there's a 50-50 chance that you'd be able to do this in Claude today, even without access to the source code. Just open up a configuration window manually, tell if that the Window is open and it can pull apart the execut
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Honestly, things have really changed in the past 6 months. Opus 4.5 got most of the way there, and Fable can now literally one-shot your run off the mill CRUD app. I use a few of them daily. While there are still bugs, there are significa
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
There can be many correct ways to use a tool, while still having incorrect ways to use it. Sometimes you need to set your oven to grill, other times fan force. But if you're complaining about getting burned then, yes, you're simp
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Apparently Kimi K3 has 104B parameters active at a time. So at 4 bits you'd need 52GB just to hold the active params. That said, in theory this same technique should be able to run it on a 64GB Macbook, probably at <1 tps.
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Directly customer facing is a tough one, since a lot of the time chatbots are used to just fob off customers that eat up a lot of time (old people complaining etc). I think the best experience I've had is when companies offer an MCP se
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
I am wary of stories like this, since they seem to appeal to what people want to be true rather than what is necessarily happening. There are a lot of businesses quietly and conservatively implementing AI and seeing real results - it's
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
I could imagine a machine like this would cost something on the order of $100k, require ongoing maintenance and wouldn't really solve any problems/bottlenecks at your typical local pharmacy. It's not like you could replace th
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
Not sure about LinkedIn, but Facebook does let you export all your data as a bit monolithic zip file.
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by AussieWog93 2mo ago
I think everyone has weird ideas like this, but these rich, well-connected guys don't have to worry about their lives being ruined when they actually share them out loud. I can't imagine many aerospace manufacturers turning down a

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