TacticalCoder

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by TacticalCoder 20d ago
> What exactly went wrong for this catastrophe to happen? The AfD's only selling point is that they'll end immigration. Here's what happened: 2.6 migrants coming to Germany in 2022 alone. Net migration into Germany in 2022
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by TacticalCoder 20d ago
> I feel so angry with and ashamed of my own country in a way I cannot even find words for. I feel so angry and ashamed for what the EU bureaucrats and politicians have done to the EU. Many people do feel like me. I'm not german but
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by TacticalCoder 20d ago
> and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment The really incredible thing is that my computers were already doing similar stuff before LLMs became really a thing... In the BBS days. Later on they downloaded mp3s from Napster which my
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by TacticalCoder 20d ago
> Deep down, we're an annoyingly arrogant little country with delusions of grandeur ... The problem is France used to be the world's superpower, with an economy bigger than the one of the UK. Literally number one. Then the mo
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
89% only think that? Wanna talk about the enrichment of US politicans? Not just the Trump and the Pelosi but also a serious discussion about the net worth of, say, the Obama, Ilhan Omar and Kamala Harris, etc.? And the argument: "But
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
Instead of CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1 I like CloudFlare's 1.1.1.3: it filters known porn and known malware sites. By now I expect many sites to be filtered out: too much crap out there. Then I also run my own DNS (unbound) and after see
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by TacticalCoder 21d ago
> Spreadsheet formulas can refer to rectangular ranges of arbitrary size. When a user changes the structure of a referenced table, the spreadsheet system updates the references to refer to a new range. Unfortunately, this new range may d
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by TacticalCoder 22d ago
> It means it can execute arbitrary machine code in the sandbox. Well which is precisely why we have sandboxes. To me "executing arbitrary code in the sandbox" is similar to "I don't give a flying fuck for it's w
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by TacticalCoder 22d ago
> M0 or M Speaker Mute, completely silent during dialing M3 is also common, but different on many brands As a teenager with my first modem (I think I started with a 14.4, so not that early) I had no idea how to mute the modem with those
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by TacticalCoder 22d ago
> Yes. Grab those open-weight models while you still can. You mean like it's impossible to download a movie because it's illegal, it's going to be impossible to download open-weight models because it's going to be mad
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by TacticalCoder 22d ago
We've got a solution for this already... Raising my kid in three languages (english, french and spanish) and over four countries now, spelling words letter by letter was bound to be a never-ending problem (like french 'i' &#x
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by TacticalCoder 22d ago
A few months ago some dude offered a very fancy business card: it looked really gorgeous and all tech. Don't remember all the details but it was shiny and had tiny components etc. So I took it and was going to put me in my wallet and t
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by TacticalCoder 23d ago
> How will we make a living? Don't be selfish. Think first of all the jobs that are already dead. A friend of mine she's a translator: like translating financial documents between french/english/spanish. It's ove
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by TacticalCoder 23d ago
> I spent the last few weeks analyzing what Claude did, feeding it my 33 years of memory of how I built the game, my notes and the git repos. It wrote the first draft of the article, and I edited line by line over a week. Sooooo cool! I
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by TacticalCoder 23d ago
The benchmarks do looks good (I mean: they literally spank the latest Anthropic benchmarks of two days ago in every single benchmark) but the promotional vid is so cheesy. They decided to use the iconic Herman Miller Eames chair if I&#x27
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by TacticalCoder 23d ago
Yeah, the following sentence in TFA is weird: > Transcoding does not mean compressing everything. Images, video, and fonts are usually compressed already. It's because they're already lossily compressed that, precisely, they&#x
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by TacticalCoder 24d ago
> So would I and I didn't have a great life but if I alter the past I don't meet my missus/have my family so as much as it did suck, I'm happy now and don't want to change anything. That's the thing right? I
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by TacticalCoder 24d ago
Commented elsewhere in the thread before reading the comment (a terrible habit of mine) and I fully agree. The way I explained it to my daughter is this: "We're all someone else's NPC" .
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by TacticalCoder 24d ago
We are all someone else's NPC. Even the worldwide famous movie stars. Even the billionaires. My 11 y/o daughter loves the concept: there's this guy, he always walk his dog at the same hours. We always see him in the neighborh
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by TacticalCoder 24d ago
Meta and Microsoft are two of the absolute worst evil companies on earth and Amodei is trying very hard to join them. These Effective Altruists are despicable people: a bunch of thieves working to line up their own pockets while posturing a
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by TacticalCoder 24d ago
> Disk drive luxury, all I had was the tape deck. A friend's father had an incredible stereo-stack, full Nakamishi stuff. We tried hard to copy C64 tapes of commercial games using his stereo gear but got nowhere: I was maybe 12 ye
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by TacticalCoder 24d ago
It's even a bit crazier than that: the Commodore Amiga 1000 came out in 1985, a bit less than three years after the C64, in july 1985. A friend of mine, whose father was an art teacher, had an Amiga 1000 at home. Mind blown (I'm
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by TacticalCoder 25d ago
> Also for every skid you get on a coaster brake I'll raise you a nose Endo with the front disc brake! This guy fox!
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by TacticalCoder 25d ago
We used to call coaster brakes "torpedo" when I was a kid and, yup, they're totally horrible. If you've got coaster brakes I don't even know if you can learn to trackstand (you need to both slightly pedal forward an
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by TacticalCoder 26d ago
> I disagree with the premise that you need to be able to actively recall facts like this Same. The goal is to differentiate things. I code mostly in Clojure and I love functional code, so the one thing that really stands out is anythi
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by TacticalCoder 26d ago
> It's annoying that most file formats don't checksum their own content. I agree. > Even formats which should know better, like SQLite, delegate that to the filesystem, most of which are also not checksumed and which delegat
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by TacticalCoder 26d ago
No sadly I don't have any public repo: it's mostly really a collection of shell scripts and then the database one (for the berzerker/renamer) is in Clojure and I run it from my always-on REPL. But I know others did similar th
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by TacticalCoder 26d ago
Yup sorry if I mislead people. I usually use 10 hexdigits (40 bits) but no matter how many there are, it's the x bits of the beginning of the checksum that are verified against the hash (in the examples I gave 40 bits). I wasn't v
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by TacticalCoder 26d ago
> deduplication at the file level: every file is now stored under its BLAKE3 hash Blake3 is really a wonderfully fast cryptographic hash. I use it for my own "deduplication / integrity / berzerker" utility (which I ma
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by TacticalCoder 26d ago
At some point I was good at making coffee using a moka pot. Strong coffee. I learned to stop worrying and bought a full-auto machine: I put whole grains in it and coffee comes out. And as a bonus it's cheaper than, say, Nespresso-style

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