TacticalCoder

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by TacticalCoder 5d ago
I've got two LANs at home, one of them I disconnect from the Internet by pulling a single ethernet cable (in a "try to hack this" way). It's honestly very refreshing to have stuff I self-host and be operational without
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by TacticalCoder 5d ago
> nvidia-smi -pl 450 for like a 4% reduction in throughput. Yeah people don't pay enough attention to those settings IMO. The first thing I do when I set up a new machine (or upgrade my OS) is to restore all my powersaving configs.
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by TacticalCoder 5d ago
> Well you can also just stop using these products. I don't have or use Facebook, Instagram, Whats App, Reddit (since they removed old.reddit.com unless you have an account), TikTok, Snap, or anything else. I don't have any of
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by TacticalCoder 5d ago
> What everybody except Steve Jobs got wrong was not taking user interface seriously enough. But Linux took over the world and it had a crappy UI. I was there, back when Xorg didn't even exist, running X and messing with modelines o
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by TacticalCoder 5d ago
> But for example I believe Crypto/Cigarrets in Prison/Silver/Gold/etc aren’t part of that hierarchical region. Many early chinese kingdoms had coins as money and they were based on the rarity of the metal. And they b
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by TacticalCoder 5d ago
> Be glad our civilization isn't built on sustenance farming anymore. Oh sure, but that doesn't mean we have to accept as normal governments where leeches enriching themselves and their fat friends manage to create public debt
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by TacticalCoder 5d ago
I never understood people complaining about "ATM machine": I mean, I get it. Everybody knows what an ATM is and we know it's a machine, so it is redundant. But if I didn't have a japanese keyboard and family living in Ja
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by TacticalCoder 5d ago
> They say it is to protect the kids, but likely it is to find out who watches La Liga without a premium subscription. I think the most likely explanation however is that since Franco's death in 1975 things have only been moving ver
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by TacticalCoder 6d ago
You mean how special are we as a species that we managed to create machines that may become more intelligent than us? I think that makes us really quite special.
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by TacticalCoder 6d ago
I've got a family of all colors (with half-black and half-asian nephews) and we speak many languages at home. I do believe however we should be allowed to criticize religions and I do believe we should be allowed to criticize religions
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by TacticalCoder 6d ago
> What gets me as a non-native speaker far more than "a vs an" is the "a vs the" conundrum. I still don't quite get when something needs to be "indefinite" and I've been speaking English for close
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by TacticalCoder 6d ago
Nope, it's basically as in spanish: > Il est un médecin? Nope that's bogus french: you say "il est médecin" . But you can say: "c'est un médecin".
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by TacticalCoder 6d ago
When looking at commie-inspired taxes, people would be wise to take a cold hard look at how well things are going in communist countries, like for example Cuba or North Korea. Things aren't exactly great in Cuba atm: the idyllic paradi
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by TacticalCoder 6d ago
oh noooooooo!
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by TacticalCoder 7d ago
> but fail to see that the dozen variations generated are not distinctive - they might have somewhat different typography or imaginary, but still have the same AI uniformity and smell as the crappy restaurant poster you see on the street
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by TacticalCoder 7d ago
> which began life in the pre-internet era Bulletin Board Systems and moved to internet File Transfer Protocol servers (“topsites”) in the mid- to late-1990s. Yeah! I was a bit connected in that we'd write "intro" for a BB
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by TacticalCoder 8d ago
> Passkeys do marginally improve security against MITM and phishing attacks ... The tragedy of passkeys is that they're a step back from the security offered by the likes of Yubikeys. But because passkeys are pushed by both Google,
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by TacticalCoder 8d ago
> If someone asked what is 'the largest theft of labor in human history' I would have thought slavery. Then I take it you're interested in factual information as to whom the biggest slavers were, which country was the last
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by TacticalCoder 8d ago
> What makes you think RCEs are being found & fixed at a rate that’s faster than they’re being introduced? It could go either way but we're already at a point where successful exploits in some software (like Chrome) require an a
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by TacticalCoder 8d ago
> William MacAskill co-founded 80,000 Hour ... > Then the movement minted a fraud. Sam Bankman-Fried was not an accident of proximity; he was EA’s own product TFA could have have mentioned that it's a fraud, MacAskill, who minted
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by TacticalCoder 8d ago
I can't help you but my comment may help others... As a techie you should have known better: you first learn how 2FA using TOTP works. You understand what happens when you create an entry in Google Authenticator (or whatever app). Yo
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by TacticalCoder 8d ago
I found soap decades old, very likely older than half a century. Hundreds of boxes and hence thousands of soap bars. I'd regularly found them for years and years here and there for my great aunt had stashed those left and right. I foun
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by TacticalCoder 9d ago
Good to see some raising the issue of the sex cult that Effective Altruism is: I'd like to hear what feminists have to say about that picture in TFA of that woman and six men watching her. Just as I'd like to hear what feminists h
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by TacticalCoder 9d ago
> The not-so-silent minority hanging out on HN know that the true heroes are those who take the time and put in the effort, and then put even more effort to reply and post about it here. We know that the entirety of the AI movement is
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
Well there are, today, several models (either text or image or vid) that can be run in a fully deterministic way. A conscious machine that always answer the very exact same thing, formulated the exact same way, bit for bit, to a query is, w
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
> Is this common? I’ve had access to company credit cards before on a one-off basis (never in my name). Do people legitimately make this mistake? “oops, I put it on the company cards”? A very good friend was in IT support... Clients were
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
Yeah I regularly drive in France which has terrible drivers (road deaths way above EU average in France) but it's nowhere near as bad as the US. The one thing people should ponder is this: Germany has less than 3x the number of road de
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
Leaving aside the irony in seeing the "peaceful" EU (who bet it all on Uncle Sam) now going on full warmongering and wanting to spend 3% of its GDP on warfare, the serious issue here is the lack of will of politicians to punish th
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
username checks out!
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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
Ah yup for quick one-off one-liners or small Bash script, Gemini works perfectly fine too. For longer scripts I use another model.

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