BatteryMountain

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by BatteryMountain 7mo ago
Same here! I've traded some privacy for freedom, but if they take away freedom, I'm still paying the privacy price. In this scenario, there is nothing left for me here. So Apple beckons.
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by BatteryMountain 7mo ago
So the solution being proposed by multiple companies, is that the restaurant is now responsible to check your age and gender before they bring you something from the kitchen. Also, now you cannot tell the kitchen to use your toaster as some
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by BatteryMountain 7mo ago
Why can't a bank put a lock on large transfers or have an extra verification step? Or a cooldown period, so that if they see a large transfer from people above 60, let them go to a branch to verify/ack the transaction. Why is this
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by BatteryMountain 7mo ago
LLM's also do well with writing parables, so try something like: "write a parable about a software engineer battle against the compiler and discovering that letting go of control and letting the compiler help him build better appl
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by BatteryMountain 7mo ago
Locking down the entire chain of trust. Try to start an ISP and/or become a public Certificate Authority.You will quickly run into steep requirement (admin and financial). To buy IP address space, get peering partners for traffic trans
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by BatteryMountain 7mo ago
The knife and the knife maker doesn't have intentions to pump propaganda and porn into the childs mind. The internet is not neutral like knife. The internet has an actor on the other end (human or algorithm) that has certain intentions
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
Worst part about big phones are that fingers cannot reach around the whole screen when using one hand, so you are forced to always use two hands. They also fall out of pant pockets easily and have no holes for lanyards.
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
Even then, it can be solved by having open-source firmware, kernels, drivers and userspace. If they make that the core value proposition, they will win.If they can guarantee the entire execution chain is open & clean, or even just flash
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
If anyone from Motorola reads this thread; the market is beyond ripe for a good shake up. Going full open source and pushing updates & openness, user control and freedom, you will gobble up a good chunk of market share. Make MDM easy &a
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
America is losing the plot.
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
For interest sake, have a look at the flutter engine. It does this kind of diff on each build (meaning, each time the ui tree gets modified & triggers a rebuild); they split their objects into stateful & stateless, and then in your
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
In the old days we had these kinds of wars with cpu instruction sets & extensions (SSE, MMX, x64,). In a way I feel that CUDA should be opened up & generalized so that other manufacturers can use it too, the same way cpu's equa
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
I also built one.. mine is called whispy. I use mine to pump commands to claude. So far a bit hit & miss, still tweaking it.
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
At first used Claude Max x5, but we are using the api now. We only give it very targeted tasks, no broad strokes. We have a couple of "prompt" templates, which we select when creating tasks. The new opus model one shots about 90%
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
Spin up a mid sized linux vm (or any machine with 8 or 12 cores will do with at least 16GB RAM with nmve). Add 10 users. Install claude 10 times (one per user). Clone repo 10 times (one per user). Have a centralized place to get tasks from
106.
by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
It is indeed correct. (else I wouldn't have posted it here)
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
I've used it recently to flesh out a fully fledged business plan, pricing models, capacity planning & logistics for a 10 year period for a transport company (daily bus route). I already had most of it in my mind and on spreadsheets
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
Definitely this. Now way they are saying no to that bag (and/or gag orders....). This isn't over.
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
If your work doesn't revolve around a web browser, try closing it completely when you try to do work. It might actually feel unsettling to work without having the browser open, almost the same feeling as reaching for the phone to check
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
Unless they start storing data about your specific gait & posture, skull shape, limb dimensions and build up a "fingerprint" of your body.
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
Of the thousands, a handful will prevail. Most of it is vaporware, just like in any boom. Every single industry has this problem; copy-cats, fakes & frauds. "Buy my fancy oil for your coal shovel and the coal will turn into gold. I
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
Remember that games are just simulations. Physics, light, sound, object boundaries - it not real, just a rough simulation of the real thing. You can say that ML/AI/LLM's are also just very distilled simulations. Except they s
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by BatteryMountain 8mo ago
Combination of partitioning + sharding perhaps? Often times its is only a handful of tables that grows large, so even less so for a single large customer, thus sharding that customer out and then partitioning the data by a common/natur
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by BatteryMountain 9mo ago
Applied Akka Patterns by Michael Nash, Wade Waldron (Oreilly) was very digestible and relevant at the time, might be dated by now. Just read the intro to get the vibe. These days I would recommend picking a framework and then ask claude &am
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by BatteryMountain 9mo ago
It actually explains a lot about why religions, psy-ops, placebo's, mass-hysteria/psychosis, cults and even plain old marketing works. Feels like I took a peek behind the curtain.
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by BatteryMountain 9mo ago
Orleans is pretty cool! The project has matured nicely over the years (been something like 10 years?) and they have some research papers attached to it if you like reading up on the details. The nuget stats indicate a healthy amount of down
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by BatteryMountain 9mo ago
Saying the quiet part out loud...Shhhs
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by BatteryMountain 9mo ago
Interesting rabbit hole, thank you!
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by BatteryMountain 9mo ago
You need some Ayahuasca or large does of some friendly fungi... You might be surprised to discover the nature your soul and what is capable of. The Soul, the mind, the body, the thinking patterns - are re-programmable and very sensitive to
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by BatteryMountain 9mo ago
Why?

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