TacticalCoder

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by TacticalCoder 10d ago
> I suspect it's people who have not yet used the paid models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Gemini is comparable to free models from other providers, but not in the same universe as paid models. I totally disagree. I pay for both ChatG
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by TacticalCoder 11d ago
> The real surprising part is that Anthropic is also negligible (according to this article) in Germany. It's all OpenAI. Besides a few software devs about zero people I talk to (I'm in the EU) have ever heard of Claude / A
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by TacticalCoder 11d ago
> ... that's how humans were intended to live Humans weren't meant to be packed like ants. Wrong species.
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by TacticalCoder 11d ago
> If the IP address you're using has been detected as a residential proxy, it doesn't matter. It's going to be flagged on lists for a long time. Flagged and then... What exactly? If people who have a smart TV have their sm
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by TacticalCoder 12d ago
> I grew up with DOS, Win 95, 98, 2000, XP and so on. For me it's worse: I grew up on stuff like the C64 and then the Amiga. Switching to DOS was a serious step backwards. > I have to ask when was Microsoft above breaking things?
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by TacticalCoder 12d ago
> How's that winter if you're not below 0°C? Seasons are called summer, autumn, winter and spring and each last three months and that bears no relation to whether or not there's snow or sub-zero temperatures. In the countr
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by TacticalCoder 12d ago
> Does the perfect messaging tool exist (100% e2ee encrypted and decentralized and open)? (Note that I don't care about cryptocurrencies except for the cryptography behind it) There are fully anonymous cryptocurrencies using ZKP w
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by TacticalCoder 12d ago
While reading this thread I noticed many have Mitsubishi HVAC while I'm the oddball with an Hitachi HVAC (which now belongs to Bosch [1]). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Controls_Hitachi
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by TacticalCoder 12d ago
> But you could make a strong case that the groups most bound to that vision of the future are the extremists from the three Abrahamic religions, to whom life is to some greater or lesser extent disposable in service of "wholehearte
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by TacticalCoder 13d ago
> A plausible hypothesis for the emergence of those concerning behaviours is a conflict between goals. They are sycophants who must achieve their goals: every mean is OK to maximize paperclip production if that's what's been
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by TacticalCoder 13d ago
> Base62 (or 64, with -_) is totally suffic Base64 all the way, but with dot and underscore. Dash is problematic (or, well, let's say you're bound to end up on a script not correctly dealing with those: you definitely can deal
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by TacticalCoder 14d ago
> Revolut is a platform which enables money laundering, tax evasion, welfare fraud and sanctions workarounds. An estimated 3% to 5% of the world's entire GDP is linked to criminal activities. The reasons are complex (for example dru
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by TacticalCoder 14d ago
> The ego of being able to do things they made them seem like magicians? In the interest of fairness, if you want to go down that route, we should have a talk about the ego of those now making software they believe is quality and who hav
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by TacticalCoder 14d ago
> At what point do we stop engaging with Anthropic’s leadership in good faith and acknowledge their track record, ... It's all lies as usual. This announcement has got nothing to do with alignment and pacing the "frontier"
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by TacticalCoder 14d ago
> not interesting as the writeup as very AI sloppish I'm the target for such material for I do use OpenSCAD to model parts I then 3D-print to fix stuff around the house and enhance the cars etc. And yet the writing is totally insuff
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by TacticalCoder 16d ago
> In many ways it’s something that I have to tolerate to do many things that functioned fine before. I have to use an app to pay for parking. I need to create an online account to pay for a family swim at the local leisure centre. I have
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by TacticalCoder 16d ago
> For US readers - in my country in Europe I'd say that 95% of people have only debit card, not credit card. it's very not common to have a credit card here. In the countries I've been to in the EU (Belgium, France, Spain,
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by TacticalCoder 16d ago
> quant HFT is pretty decent mental exercise and it has given them “deep” brain muscles. that’s my take. It's quite crazy that it's Deepseek's background/original purpose. We already had very advanced stuff from the w
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by TacticalCoder 17d ago
> You'd have been lucky to be able to recover those in 2001. 2001 might be a stretch but indeed they do degrade badly. During Covid I was locked down, by a stroke of bad luck, alone, 2000 kilometers away from my wife and young daugh
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by TacticalCoder 17d ago
Upvoted you but... > A lot of my friends have kept their old 486 computers, and everything is period-correct except for the hard drive and floppy drive which have been replaced with a CF-to-IDE for the HDD and Gotek running FlashFloppy f
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by TacticalCoder 17d ago
> I then realized that most people just stick with whatever default they're provided with, and it's a lot of them. That's why Google already captured such a big part of the market with Gemini: they're now integrating
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by TacticalCoder 18d ago
> UAE AI model tops 50 million monthly downloads So in a bit more than a year, 10% of the planet has downloaded a NSFW classifier? I mean: in the end there are only 8 billion people on earth, which projects do, all added up, need to down
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by TacticalCoder 18d ago
> Isn’t eMacs just a text editor like vim or nano? For a start it's either spelled "Emacs" or "EMACS", and definitely not "eMacs". Then it's closer to an OS than an editor.
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by TacticalCoder 18d ago
> Well, as much as people lose all their muscle by been bed-ridden, he's lost all his brain by being AI Assisted™. Wanna know the answer of those who lost all their brain cells to that? "If there are bugs, it's only becau
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by TacticalCoder 18d ago
> There are millions of schizophrenics worldwide. Are 95% of worldwide terror attacks done by schizos?
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by TacticalCoder 18d ago
> When Apple is not racing for the frontier it's a strategy, but when it's Mistral it's a mistake. Apple is a $4.7 trillion company selling computers and iPhones. How many computers and iPhones is Mistral selling? In your
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by TacticalCoder 20d ago
If you're on some X11 (Xorg or whatever else if there's still something else than Xorg) windowing system (say non-Wayland Linux or a BSD), you can definitely get some window manager with themes very close to that.
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by TacticalCoder 20d ago
TFA just shows the author is addicted to his phone and nothing else. Many comments here are already explaining why the comparison is not valid. As a consumer in the market for cars (we've got four at home), I'm basically intereste
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by TacticalCoder 20d ago
Yup was thinking the same: make honest people pay $0.00001 when they visit the site (in electricity/compute), have the challenge made so that only the website wins a tiny something. Bleed the bots dry. > This makes Anubis challenges
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by TacticalCoder 20d ago
> the best thing about freebsd in 2026, is no goddamn systemd virus Yup. And with FreeBSD's bhyve you can run VMs. My plan to be, at long last, entirely systemd free again is FreeBSD/bhyve/Linux VM (a distro without syst

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