TacticalCoder

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by TacticalCoder 27d ago
> Tourism is a terrible industry that doesn't even contribute that much to our economy Portugal is heavily dependent on tourism: it's 10% of the GDP. In the EU not even France is that high: Spain is higher but Portugal's e
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by TacticalCoder 27d ago
> Take two drawer units, and instead of putting the tops on them they were supplied with, put a slab of desktop across both of them with a gap between and you’ve got yourself a desk. Definitely. My go-to is three units (I explained it in
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by TacticalCoder 27d ago
> I can just remove some of the dividers How it's better than that: you can not only rotate them 90 degrees, but you also move the dividers. Now due to how their built, it may not be the sturdiest thing to do but you definitinely
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by TacticalCoder 27d ago
> For those of you who look down on IKEA furniture, I'd like to hear about what alternatives you think need mentioning. Word! My desk at home is a very wide T-shaped desk made of three Kallax and two kitchen countertops: I share it
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by TacticalCoder 27d ago
Funny to see that frontpage as earlier on today I made a comment saying that with LLMs I'm betting we'll see N-modular redundancy systems soon, with a ultra-hardened, minimal, part picking the majority votes of N LLM-written imple
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by TacticalCoder 27d ago
My bet is one ultra-hardened, minimal, front-facing system which does N-modular redundancy which N systems, each written on a different stack/different language. The hardened software picks the computation that wins the majority. It&
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by TacticalCoder 27d ago
> ... why aren't we seeing European countries mass-banning 3D printers? Dunno, because most europeans are way more responsible with their guns than many people in the US? For example in the EU (and in Switzerland) before you can buy
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by TacticalCoder 27d ago
I do really like the following in the bulletin: > Important: At this point, you still don’t know whether the key you just imported is the genuine QMSK or a forgery. In order for this entire procedure to provide meaningful security bene
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by TacticalCoder 28d ago
> in a “civilized” lifestyle that you no longer even notice because you’re just so used to accommodating them: traffic noise, pollution, artificial light, etc. But I don't have any of those for there's a whole spectrum between
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by TacticalCoder 28d ago
The amazing thing technology brought me is that I can now have optic fiber in my house in the middle of nowhere . I'm literally typing this while hearing the sound of waves and if I look above my laptop's screen, I see the reflec
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by TacticalCoder 29d ago
> I think the TLDR for this article comes down to "Windows networking sucks", which everybody should already know anyway. You can even safely remove the word "networking" from that sentence.
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by TacticalCoder 29d ago
> https://www.s-config.com/microslop/ For that link only TFA is worth it.
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by TacticalCoder 29d ago
> Some people say it's a loss for EU sovereign AI but HF is technically an American corporation. The company was founded in NYC. Anyone saying that is really a clown. There's no EU sovereign AI. My EU is absolutely nowhere when
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by TacticalCoder 29d ago
I've got a book, hand-written, from the early 20th century where my great-great-grandfather (or something like that) made drawings while he was studying to become an engineer. The drawings are really wonderful and I wonder if I should
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> It is interesting that FFmpeg has its own Git server. Maybe we should move there too? Git is a DVCS. I know many people only ever used Git through Github and forgot what the 'D' in DVCS means but whether or not they remember
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> You're suggesting that LLMs get better at fixing bugs/vulnerabilities, but at the same time stop getting better at finding them? Are you implying that all code writing by LLMs atm is bug-free?
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> The analysis is still not compelling for me to switch from gtp5.6-luna to GLM-5.3-flash given ... So Luna is competitive because a few weeks ago they did a 80% price drop? Many here said that 80% drop was not a move against Anthropic b
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> $4,000 isn't priced insanely? ye gads It depends. My bicycle was in the 5-digits brand new (now I paid it 1/5th of that and I do thank the first owner for that: the 8 000 out of 10 K I saved were put into stocks, that's
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
Remind me: which one of OpenAI, Anthropic, NVidia, Google, Starlink, etc. was started in Spain? This strikes me as a move that shall keep Spain a totally irrelevant country on the world' tech scene. Once again: China emits 3x more Co2
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> They don’t have to restart the program on exceptions, because the condition system allows resuming the crashing code from anywhere in the stack after the system has been patched with a fix. I'm "only" using Clojure (whic
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
Currently typing this from my vacation house in France, in a rural area, with vineyards nearby. Closest highway is a 45 minutes drive (!). Now, sure, it is a fancy place in that it's Provence's seaside and, well, I can see big yac
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
They royally screwed up by signing an exclusive deal with the back-then no-name Microsoft company. IBM created the 3 trillion behemoth that Microsoft is while killing themselves in the process. It's really sad but also infuriating: had
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> ... collection of security issues which I can only describe as regrettable (because I promised my mum I would swear less). There are bangers like video title bash injection or all notifications being able to run arbitrary bash on your
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> Just because it says "modern art" ... I think we can all agree that naming anything "modern" or "new" or "nu" (for new) is simply deeply dumbfucktarded. GP talks about the 1860s: I'm sorry b
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> Hopefully the Syrian state officials are not corrupt They're already literally Al-Qaeda islamist terrorists. Imagine if, moreover, they were also corrupt. Rotten to the core doesn't begin to describe such individuals. They&#x
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> The part the author shared about the huge overhead cost of firing up emacs TFA's wording on that is a bit misleading. My Emacs with no config starts in 0.1s (110 ms). My Emacs with my huge config (between 3 000 to 4 000 lines of c
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> I had assumed that JPEG XL was for JPEGs that are Xtra Large, since that's what XL means on clothing and pretty much everywhere else. Yup the name isn't the best pick indeed. What most people don't know is that JPEG XL c
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> Plus watching the Children of Men style xenophobia and callous disregard for climate refugees set in all over the world. There are no climate refugees... Yet.
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> A more fair metric would be Co2 emissions/person and I’m getting We don't care about that notion of "fair": the cold hart truth is that China has 1.4 billon people. Another way to put it: China has one billion mor
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> Why do many environmental activists seem to want to go back to a shitty past rather than move forward to bright future. So do care about the environment but many "green" activists do not care at all for the environment: for t

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