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by faitswulff 4mo ago
Pinyin is widely used, but pinyin’s primacy is oversold. Chinese texts start with teaching Chinese characters - many are recognizable to children from daily exposure to begin with, so they don’t need the pinyin. Pinyin only comes in when th
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by faitswulff 4mo ago
I get 24 hour access through my local library. Here, have a gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-ci...
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by faitswulff 4mo ago
This runs counter to the last 50 years of American propaganda espousing the inefficiency of government. If the Chinese government can just throw money at industries and have them flourish, why can't other governments?
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by faitswulff 4mo ago
I wonder how much of DeepSeek and Xiaomi's pricing cuts can be traced back to cheap energy in China.
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by faitswulff 4mo ago
What kinds of programs are you writing and with what models? I'm curious if the lifetimes your programs require are trickier than most.
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by faitswulff 4mo ago
The article makes no sense. I can't use OpenRouter as a general purpose computing device. Why are we comparing a whole computer to a single purpose SaaS?
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by faitswulff 4mo ago
> Flagship models usually do not do that without some convincing Just a data point, but I’ve been having Claude do this regularly
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by faitswulff 5mo ago
> It will eventually doom zig to a smaller "artisanal" pool of contributors “Artisanal” and “Zig” are just about synonymous
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by faitswulff 6mo ago
Anthropic's position is that thinking tokens aren't actually faithful to the internal logic that the LLM is using, which may be one reason why they started to exclude them: https://www.anthropic.com/research/r
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by faitswulff 6mo ago
Does LM Studio have an equivalent to the ollama launch command? i.e. `ollama launch claude --model qwen3.5:35b-a3b-coding-nvfp4`
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by faitswulff 7mo ago
If you’re interested in Chinese characters, there’s https://github.com/wenyan-lang/wenyan
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by faitswulff 7mo ago
There are multiple videos out there of reviewers running multiple “Pro” apps at the same time on the Neo. It’s an impressive machine.
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by faitswulff 7mo ago
Someone actually did fuzz the claude c compiler: https://john.regehr.org/writing/claude_c_compiler.html
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by faitswulff 8mo ago
I have used it from China, actually. Not big enough to be blocked.
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by faitswulff 9mo ago
The Pebble Time 2 has a heart rate monitor
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by faitswulff 9mo ago
While we're on the topic, our school-issued Chromebooks allow unfettered access to YouTube. Yes, some of it is educational, but the kids can just click on the next video until they get what they want. Very convenient for you, Google Ad
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by faitswulff 9mo ago
Ah, I think I get it. Are you saying that regardless of BYD’s continued existence, China will still have 1/3 of the world’s manufacturing capacity?
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by faitswulff 9mo ago
> They’ll nationalize and inflate away any institutional debt or wipe it out This is just the reverse, actually, China isn’t afraid to go so far as to jail CEOs. There is no such thing as too big to fail in China, and all the Chinese dom
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by faitswulff 9mo ago
> I was always hunting for Pokémon with better abilities, better type coverage, analyzing synergy between moves… If you’ve ever played a mainline Pokémon game before, you must know how utterly unnecessary this is. Twenty years ago, I wou
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by faitswulff 9mo ago
I haven't used it in anger myself, but if you know Elixir and Phoenix you might like Gleam, which compiles to Javascript.
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by faitswulff 10mo ago
They're definitely investing in the chips as well. It's an ecosystem play.
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by faitswulff 10mo ago
You see similar levels of hypocrisy leveled at the capacity for Chinese EVs to surveil consumers, but not at Tesla, when we know that Tesla employees had access to sex tapes of their customers in their cars. As long as it’s western capital
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by faitswulff 1y ago
Ah, but the number of people who are capable of this type of work who could be imprisoned is quite large!
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by faitswulff 1y ago
What you're saying isn't necessarily mutually exclusive to what gp said. GPT-2 was the most impressive leap in terms of whatever LLMs pass off as cognitive abilities, but GPT 3.5 to 4 was actually the point at which it became a us
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by faitswulff 1y ago
> Still when I ask Claude.AI to double-check the math on our power consumption, it thinks we have an incredibly leaky apartment. Like ridiculously off the charts. Ah. That answers my question about how you ventilate the apartment for fre
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by faitswulff 1y ago
You’re probably being downvoted because the author ended up not using c2rust.
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by faitswulff 1y ago
You are correct: > ...each of the 117 drones launched had its own pilot. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ld7ppre9vo
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by faitswulff 1y ago
> Rust projects are easier to hack on and contribute to. This was actually the subject of a study at the University of Waterloo: > We find that despite concerns about ease of use, first-time contributors to Rust projects are about 70
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by faitswulff 1y ago
Meh, dropping actual human troops anywhere is largely romanticized. I'd bet on orbital drones, myself.
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by faitswulff 1y ago
What coding assistant do you use?

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