crossroadsguy

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by crossroadsguy 5d ago
Why is everyone suddenly asking everyone else to not use AI to write literature, essays, comments, emails, letters… but apparently writing code with AI is fine. Oh that sounds natural to you? Not to me, it doesn't. It doesn't feel
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by crossroadsguy 5d ago
Hey, I was being playfully terse but I should have been more polite. But I did assume you were from the "English west" and now that you are not I specifically take my words about pronouncing "Gandhi" back :D PS. Tamil is
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by crossroadsguy 5d ago
My mac is 5 years old. I don't think I can comfortably buy a new one right now. It has a 16GB unified RAM. Honestly that would be enough for so many local models that I want to use but can't use. Because RAM usage (even with liter
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by crossroadsguy 5d ago
> If my passport is voided for whatever reason then I am returning to the US. I am still a citizen and so was he. "firesteelrain = Edward Snowden" Hence established! ^
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by crossroadsguy 5d ago
Passport revocations are all details. Where else he would have gone and stayed alive/un-arrested until now? He had the option of either not reporting what he saw wrong at all, or getting killed or arrested after doing that had he not c
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by crossroadsguy 5d ago
No, we have both those sounds and clear indication on where and how those sounds are made. In our case it's not really confusing. When someone learns English, like I did, there is no way to know what sound will occur where other than j
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by crossroadsguy 5d ago
And yet you kept the “classic vibe colour scheme” ie the general crowded dark colour scheme (so every 999 out of 1000 sites generated since the era of LLM began), with no option to change it to light, let alone reading the OS’s. I am genuin
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by crossroadsguy 5d ago
> discrepancy between pronunciation and spelling That’s rich coming from a speaker of French But on a serious note, this discrepancy at this point is entirely unnecessary and wasteful.
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by crossroadsguy 6d ago
You just need to lend an ear.
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by crossroadsguy 6d ago
Luckily zed and zee won't flip the article.
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by crossroadsguy 6d ago
a ho.tel an oh.tel or o.tel (is it still spoken somewhere like this?) The confusion arrives for words like "herb" depending upon whether the place uses F or C for temperature ;-)
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by crossroadsguy 6d ago
an LLM, an MP, an FBI agent, a CIA agent, a NASA engineer, an NSA mechanic, an 8 year old car, a 10 year old dog, et cetera – it's the sound of how you said those letters , always the sound.
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by crossroadsguy 7d ago
Pretty sure she is. She even suspects it. Even I do, for myself, but two psychiatrists cleared me so I stopped bothering.
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by crossroadsguy 7d ago
> The OS is mostly invisible to me I always thought I was missing something on the Macs. That must be it. Cheers.
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by crossroadsguy 7d ago
A friend learnt French and piano in her mid 30s and later. Then she went lazy as potato and pretty much is horrible at both. Never practised. Now she is in late 40s and rather spends time scrolling Twitter (yup!), Instagram, and Youtube or
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by crossroadsguy 7d ago
These researchers probably forgot to factor in the brain's disk size bottleneck. Maybe they will get there.
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by crossroadsguy 7d ago
Running an OS of your choice? Easily? That kind?
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by crossroadsguy 7d ago
As this point anyone not talking about their hacking adventures using AI is missing out. Or they may not have lawyers like Google and the other labs. Yeah, that must be it. PS. Btw, I really like how the word "hacking" has settled
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by crossroadsguy 7d ago
It sure needs a large enough push from one of few big companies (with their explicit backing) that can bring businesses to support other app store(s). But imho that has to happen in a way that it doesn't create a need to write and publ
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by crossroadsguy 7d ago
The answer to this is - the real world comes knocking. Govt, banking, investment, grocery, transport, even some mainstream social/communication apps, all stop working - yeah, kinda cold turkey. And if your, or someone else's, answ
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by crossroadsguy 7d ago
> frontier models are supernaturally good at selecting pleasing turns of phrase It's not even the suggestions in isolation, but it tries to convince you that your writing is stellar and then slips in a word or two, and you accept it
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by crossroadsguy 8d ago
> Howard Buffett, a farmer with no college degree What absolute humble beginnings ;-)
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by crossroadsguy 8d ago
[delayed]
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by crossroadsguy 8d ago
At this point does any of us/you really think all those piss-cheap tokens are coming out of thin air? That unlimited token-usage during certain hours was not coming from Chinese side of Himalayan glaciers, was it? Besides why would you
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by crossroadsguy 8d ago
I use GLM key on Pi and even Calude Code, never on ZCode. Even Codex sub can be used on 3rd party harnesses. Anthropic and Google don't let you do it (there maybe be few more).
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by crossroadsguy 9d ago
It's hard to tell here between naivety or deliberate thickness.
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by crossroadsguy 9d ago
People identify with other places, people, policies, and cultures — along with their own, or wherever they're originally from. Sometimes they don't even identify with their own, or say, feel alienated. It's perfectly fine, an
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by crossroadsguy 9d ago
If you don't control your data size, it will end up controlling you and your backup choices, which will eventually lead to many avoidable, disastrous outcomes. Somehow, this gets missed in data storage and backup planning.
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by crossroadsguy 9d ago
I mostly use speckit, not openspec. I think basically these are the same tools. There are other reasons for using such tools, but one reason is to enforce discipline for me and the LLM. Otherwise, often it starts going round in circles. Hel
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by crossroadsguy 11d ago
They block iOS 27 upgrade over 5G (irrespective of data mode and battery setting/state). Then they show something like this as a warning: > Paused. > … will resume when device reconnects to Internet. Yes "Internet"! The

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