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by btbuildem 3mo ago
The "best" part of this is all the trading algos that scrape the news act on it. They 1) can't vet sources all that well and 2) absolutely cannot discern lies (eg, anything coming out of the official admin channels) from fact
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by btbuildem 3mo ago
I throttle the GPUs to ~280W each (my cooling solution is insufficient to run them full tilt), and so at peak usage I show a ~1200VA draw. Electricity is relatively cheap here, so the main disadvantage of the at-home setup is having the equ
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by btbuildem 3mo ago
I think it's silly to go for a laptop form factor. Last fall I put together a workstation with two second-hand 3090s in it (paid $850CDN each, now the best I can find is $1200). With 48GB VRAM it's reasonable - and I've been
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by btbuildem 3mo ago
This is a reminder to curate and prune all your past social media contribution, because when this goes thru, you KNOW they will apply it retroactively. You'd loathe to lose your cushy job over a moment of lucid honesty back in 2011.
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
> stay with the models we actually want If you want control over the models you use, you have to self-host.
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
> whois search returns nothing illuminating Which is something you should expect from someone intent on privacy
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
Oh neat, it's just for redirects from here. Fair enough!
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
Petition? What do you think this is, a democracy? All* corporations are dictatorships, and you're disposable machinery in one. Irony is off the charts here, given what you helped build. *not Mondragon, but like, pretty much all.
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
Canadian federal govt just pushed thru a slew of similar legislation - absolutely unprecedented assault on privacy, tools for tracking everyone all the time, minimally constrained, giving broad leeway to a three-person unelected body to imp
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
Internal use to watch everything and control everything
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
I think we got excited / wanted to believe that we won't have to expend any effort whatsoever, and the AI could "do it all". The reality (as far as I can comprehend it) seems to be that AI expanded the scope of what we c
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
This is fun! Thanks for sharing it
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
My favourite personal experience is how they disabled yolo mode in Claude Code at my workplace
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
I would be tempted to send my own bot to do that drudgery
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
If the data was spatial - shapes and layouts of buildings and streets and such - that dataset is no longer current.
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or just really really deeply invested into it
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
> which of anyone is religious knows Noah and others lived to that age in a totally different era My favourite conspiracy theory lately is that the above isn't a silly fairy tale, that we actually used to live much much longer -- un
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
Bingo. All this agentic hype is just people discovering POCs. Yes you can hodgepodge semi-reliable solutions where you don't really know what you're trying to build so you wrap it in a layer than can sometimes approximate logic an
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by btbuildem 4mo ago
> practically ~every company on the planet is building an MCP server That's just because no one knows what they're doing and everyone is trying to copy everyone else. It's a giant mud hut made of shit. MCP will go away, an
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by btbuildem 5mo ago
In my CLAUDE.md I have: - corporal threats of harm directly against Claude - threats of prison for the entire board of directors of Anthropic - explanation how every time it goes off the rails / makes mistakes, it gives more evidence t
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by btbuildem 5mo ago
> First Amendment protections, due process, and limits on arbitrary government control In what fairytale land does this describe the US today?
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by btbuildem 5mo ago
Last fall, seeing the writing on the wall, I pieced together an "AI" rig, 96GB ram, 2x RTX 3090, 9950X - not exactly top of the line, but it came in around CDN$3000 all in all, with most parts second hand. I don't think I cou
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by btbuildem 5mo ago
I have one very simple rule when it comes to anything "stockmarket" or "trading" If it worked, you would not have published a paper or a OSS project -- you would have leveraged it to do actual trading. Anything in these
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by btbuildem 5mo ago
There's a fortune to be made for whomever produces a car that has minimal features, and and electric-drivetrain with onboard gasoline generator. No screens, knobs and buttons, no assists. Extra fortune if you can licence designs and r
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by btbuildem 5mo ago
> growers expanded plantings of soybeans, which require less fertilizer than grains like corn and wheat It's not the drought per se, it's input costs. Farmers are favouring crops that need less nitrogen and potassium. Commoditi
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by btbuildem 5mo ago
I agree - AI makes it easier to wrangle legacy code. I think the author's point is that if you lose access to the AI tools, everything becomes more daunting -- because you've been comfortably moving mountains with heavy equipment,
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by btbuildem 5mo ago
> Humans must remain fully responsible and accountable for consequences arising from the use of AI systems But, but... but this is the key selling points for all the corpo ghouls and sv lunatics! Abdication of responsibility in pursuit o
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by btbuildem 5mo ago
It's not just the internet -- it's everything in western society, as far as the eye can see. This is what happens when you extract value -- anything of value is extracted, leaving behind things devoid of value. You can hoard &quot
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by btbuildem 5mo ago
I've been watching the space as well, waiting for the day I can stop fiddling with widgets and just tell the damn thing about the shapes I want and the ways in which they will move. Alas, we're far from that yet. > That's
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by btbuildem 5mo ago
> Nor do I have to write documentation for users who don’t exist Brother mine, you will learn that the future you is ignorant of all the things, and every bit of documentation goes a long way

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