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by btbuildem 8mo ago
Sooo technically this is on the edge of legal/not legal, depending on your intent and what the judge had for lunch that day. ID'ing devices without consent is a grey area at best.
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
I've been futzing about with a vague prototype of a backcountry comms device (esp32, lora radio, gps) and initially was going to pair it via bt to a phone, for the use of screen / browser / keyboard. Long story short, small e
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
This is impressive. If you can scale it to larger models, and somehow make the ROM writeable, wow, you win the game.
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
Obligatory shoutout to Engineer Kala
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
> had been planning to put ads in ChatGPT As per the new terms of service, the ads are already in
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
Getting CC to work with other models is quite straightforward -- setting a few env vars, and a thin proxy that rewrites the requests/responses to be in the expected format.
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
It's just as fast, but not nearly as clever. I can push the context size to 120k locally, but quality of the work it delivers starts to falter above say 40k. Generally you have to feed it more bite-sized pieces, and keep one chat to on
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
Yikes.. I pay ~7¢ per kWh in Quebec. In the winter the inference rig doubles as a space heater for the office, I don't feel bad about running local energy-wise.
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
> doesn't make financial sense to self-host I guess that's debatable. I regularly run out of quota on my claude max subscription. When that happens, I can sort of kind of get by with my modest setup (2x RTX3090) and quantized Q
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
> Freeing the minutia allows for a higher cognitive load on the bigger picture I think we do agree -- the higher "big picture" cognitive load feels more expensive than the minutia cognitive load
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
How do you manage scope creep (ie, context size), and contradictory information in the context?
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
GPS unit
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
I think the article nails it, on multiple counts. From personal experience, the cognitive overload is sneaky, but real. You do end up taking on more than you can handle, just because your mob of agents can do the minutia of the tasks, doesn
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
The paper (rightfully) does not address this, but I'd like to speculate about the reasons why, overall, usage has been dropping. I think it's because social media, as a whole, stopped providing any value to its users. In the early
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
I'm confused, wasn't this already available via env vars? ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and so on, and yes you may have to write a thin proxy to wrap the calls to fit whatever backend you're using. I've been running CC with Qwen3-C
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
> As someone who generally stays out of politics Such a wildly privileged take. Unrelated: why offshore this? Why not end-to-end local development and production?
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
You haven't lived until you've paid municipal taxes to see one of these things at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVFFsKArEFk I've literally watched them approach a pothole full of water, blow the water
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by btbuildem 8mo ago
Not phones. There are a handful of apps on these phones that are the equivalent of meth. The infrastructure powering those apps should be seized and repurposed for public good, the proprietors / owners should be charged with crimes aga
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by btbuildem 9mo ago
Cool toy! As an avid snow enjoyer, I would like to point out that wind and snow interact in all kinds of interesting ways, and it would be super cool to see some of those captured in future iterations of a toy like that. One of those is tha
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by btbuildem 9mo ago
Exactly as predicted: the means of production yet again taken away from the masses to be centralized in a few absurdly rich hands. I ran out of tokens for not just the 5 hour sessions, but all models for the week. Had to wait a day -- so my
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by btbuildem 9mo ago
These "lords" sounds suspiciously like belligerent parasites. How did they ever bamboozle the people to enforce their nonsense on the innocent?
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by btbuildem 9mo ago
I like how you used actual financial data for the candlestick example :)
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by btbuildem 9mo ago
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes, something like that? I think we are indeed watching the fascist takeover, and economic collapse is under way -- it's just when you watch a giant fall, they seem to fall oh ever so slowly, the
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by btbuildem 9mo ago
We don't live in the meth lab downstairs, we're in the apartment above it. It's been wild in the past couple of decades, but lately you guys have started taking pot shots at the ceiling, so yeah, we're watching.
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by btbuildem 9mo ago
It's not pure symbolism. The most effective way to reduce the global threat the US is appearing to pose more as of late, is to hit the dollar. The US economy is in a very precarious state, tensions along political ideology lines are hi
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by btbuildem 9mo ago
The devil lives in the fine print, always.
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by btbuildem 9mo ago
Take heed, Americaneez -- and prepare, because this may be in your future sooner than prediction markets would have you believe [1]. LoRa mesh networking seems like the runner-up, but vague reports indicate (Meshtastic) doesn't handle
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by btbuildem 9mo ago
You mean in context of a complete regression in the West, right?
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by btbuildem 9mo ago
The fact that parking lots in the south of US aren't just covered in those makes no sense at all. Vast expanses of mostly empty pavement, bathed in sun all day? Shaded parking? No?
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by btbuildem 9mo ago
Same sentiment! The one photo from Mongolia is going as my desktop background

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