TedDallas

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by TedDallas 25d ago
Exactly. Or at least software is a custom tooling. A factory in the traditional sense is a process and infrastructure tuned to run efficiently that produces something of value that does not require highly skilled/expensive labor.
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by TedDallas 2mo ago
Corporations are already pulling back from using expensive SotA closed models. The buffet is open weight. Just look at Databricks as an endpoint provider for both open weight and closed LLMs. Companies will utilize what is cheaper and does
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by TedDallas 5mo ago
I had created my own chat tool that can render html responses directly in the chat interface, if needed. It is very handy for when I am needing rich(er) responses dealing for mathematical expressions. But it burns more tokens. It is useful,
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by TedDallas 5mo ago
Ask yourself what monks did when scribes were replaced by the printing press. If I was a scribe at the time I’d be thrilled because of all that extra time available to work on beer productivity metrics.
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by TedDallas 5mo ago
About 20 years ago I maintained a shop floor control client/server application. I asked my manager why we didn't have any independent Q/A. He said we didn't need any testers because we have 500 in the building. Wild west
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Mythos, Glasswing, and the hardware disclosure problem nobody is discussing
3 points by TedDallas 6mo ago|1 comments
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by TedDallas 7mo ago
Microslop? Its more like they are taking a Macro-crap.
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by TedDallas 7mo ago
Ugh, memories. I'm so old my first web browser was Mosaic and I think I saw this. I used a provider called Texas MetroNet that served up dial-up PPP connections for $45 a month on a speedy 28.8K baud modem. Days of wonder, I tell ya. N
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by TedDallas 8mo ago
On a related note, when the sales and popularity of the automobile really started to take off, some farmers and rural residents would deliberately block roads with wagons and refused to yield right-of-way.
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by TedDallas 8mo ago
Per Anthropic’s RCA linked in Ops post for September 2025 issues: “… To state it plainly: We never reduce model quality due to demand, time of day, or server load. …” So according to Anthropic they are not tweaking quality setting due to de
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by TedDallas 11mo ago
Ask this question in the 1940s and they would tell you it’s math. We are making machines that do math to kill Nazis. Now take this vacuum tube and plug it in over there and then go get me a cigarette.
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by TedDallas 11mo ago
Three words to solve this problem: direct mail marketing. Just kidding, that just goes into my RL trash can.
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by TedDallas 11mo ago
It is like SQL injection. Probably worse. If you are using unsupervised data for context that ultimately generates executable code you will have this security problem. Duh.
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by TedDallas 1y ago
HeidiSQL is written with Lazarus/FPC.
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by TedDallas 1y ago
It was kind or that way in early days of high end personal computing. I remember seeing an ad in the early 90s for a 486 laptop that was $6,000. Historically prices have always gone down. You just have to wait. SoTA is always going to go fo
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by TedDallas 1y ago
Yeah, the problem is if you don't understand the problem space then you are going to lean heavy on the LLM. And that can lead you astray. Which is why you still need people who are experts to validate solutions and provide feedback lik
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by TedDallas 2y ago
I’m seriously thinking about getting a custom made bumper sticker with the following text: ‘; select 1/0;
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by TedDallas 2y ago
DRY is more about support and maintenance than anything else. I see a lot of attacks on DRY these days, and it boggles my mind. Maybe it is being conflated with over-engineering/paramterization/architecting. I don't know. But
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by TedDallas 3y ago
Note to self: invest in a used book store ASAP.
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by TedDallas 3y ago
I experimented with cc65 and wrote a simple game that ran on my actual C64 hardware. It was a lot of direct memory access, unrolling loops, and avoiding stack usage. A fun time overall, and it ultimately ran smoothly, but I see do why peopl
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by TedDallas 3y ago
OK MS. The first thing I'll do is rebind it to run llamafile.exe
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by TedDallas 3y ago
That is correct. I have lived in Tornado Alley for a half century. Serious tornadoes have landed all over my local area over the years, but I have also never even seen so much as a funnel cloud. They can be devastating though, but are also
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by TedDallas 3y ago
The thing about learning in general is that it inherently introduces biases. I imagine you could train up a genocidal maniac LLM with the right data sets.
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by TedDallas 3y ago
Tic-80 is what you are looking for.
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by TedDallas 3y ago
Low code has been a thing in ETL data integration space for a long time. Anecdotally the most consternation I have experienced lately has been supporting buggy low code implementations which seem to becoming worse and not better over the la
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by TedDallas 3y ago
Ernie stating Nixon as its favorite president is not really surprising. This is a common opinion among those in mainland PRC. Nixon and Kissinger are perceived as good guys that helped open up China to the West. When I have asked people in
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by TedDallas 3y ago
At a certain level of complexity it is easier to write the damn SQL than it is to explain your query to GPT.
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by TedDallas 3y ago
Nice to see a cool looking cross platform editor written in Free Pascal with Lazarus. Pascal is a surprisingly expressive language.
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by TedDallas 4y ago
Agile cargo cult software development there. Got to get that 4 byte change in this sprint in order to prove that the team's fantasy points are burning down.
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by TedDallas 4y ago
Does it support a syntax for recursive queries? In T-SQL we use recursive CTEs which are ugly as hell. This is very cool though. There are lot of features that would make my life easier. Group By All is noice.

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