happycube

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by happycube 17d ago
It'd be very expensive to get a setup that can run non-flash well. If they were still at original price I'd get a couple of DGX Sparks myself to run Flash models at a decent quant/context combo.
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by happycube 18d ago
Not directly related, but reading this after looking at https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wa544p makes me think the writing style here is how LLM's probably should write web pages - simple e
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by happycube 19d ago
TBF the fizzbuzz code works just fine in CPython.
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by happycube 20d ago
The original neo6502 is available from Mouser and Digikey, so I don't see why they won't get this.
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by happycube 20d ago
I think it works if you treat it as a black box - the RP2040 and 2350 are synchronous and can basically play the role of an FPGA here. Although I could see a version of this with two RP2350's.
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by happycube 20d ago
If they're USB, they should! At least the Apple/Oric software supports USB flash storage, and the USB floppies are the same protocol. The problem is Apple II 3.5" disks are in GCR so you would need a custom controller (IMO c
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by happycube 21d ago
There were cheap nvidia crypto GPU's based on the A100 that recently got unlocked. They are no longer cheap.
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by happycube 21d ago
... and practically nobody's got the money for Fable at API prices. with GLM 5.3 Flash being a Reasonable Opus 4.x Substitute, Anthropic's moat is effectively gone.
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by happycube 21d ago
Those export controls might have saved the flow of open-weight models from China. There was talk about Qwen moving away from releases... until Xi himself started promoting open weight models!
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by happycube 21d ago
Distilled data or no, the Chinese labs are bringing a lot of solid original work in training and inference efficiency. Deepseek's work has probably made everyone's AI cheaper to run by this point.
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by happycube 21d ago
And if you run it yourself, you know it will be generally consistent with no random quality dips.
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by happycube 23d ago
Opus 5 just feels strange - IMO it's benchmaxxed in the worst way... it might be good at agentic tasks but leaves a sour aftertaste doing anything else.
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by happycube 27d ago
If it were a Chinese model everyone would be screaming benchmaxxed. Seriously something feels really off about Opus 5. I hope they correct it before 4.6 is removed.
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by happycube 27d ago
less word better(, many words bad)
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by happycube 1mo ago
What's sad is that, at least in some cases, Sonnet 3.5's writing was actually pretty good. Sometimes even good enough to read outloud verbatim.
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by happycube 2mo ago
Commoditize your compliments.
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by happycube 2mo ago
An interesting thing that came up is that MSVC uses 32-bit longs instead of 64, so a pure gcc/winelib build is another level of 64-bit porting. Claude then suggested using mingw instead, which makes sense...
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by happycube 2mo ago
Sounds like a paperclip maximizer to me. Seriously, why the duck aren't they running their own AI systems in house???
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by happycube 2mo ago
Agreed. It also needs roundrects. I think someone vibecoded a bad System 7 replacement that had at least some QuickDraw in it. In this case, actually doing those things would probably make it insufferably slow on a real PC though at leas
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by happycube 2mo ago
I prompted Claude Opus 5 (I don't really have the Fable tokens to spare) to do just that (via winelib). It's gotten to the point where it opens, runs for three seconds, and abruptly exits. edit: got it running but a ton of thing
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by happycube 2mo ago
Agreed... I suspect we're not too far off from being able to say "port this Win16 application to Win64" if we're not there already... and most of it will be harness improvements!
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by happycube 3mo ago
64-bit Windows was being worked on for 2003. x64 XP was in fact a build of 2003, and beta-wise, guess what Windows 2210 referenced in the readme is... ;) (haven't tried it yet)
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by happycube 3mo ago
Not weird at all, given the variance in Opus' quality over the last few months. wild guess - I wouldn't be surprised if Opus 4.6 was run quantized for a while, and 4.7/4.8 have QAT for that nerfed size.
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by happycube 4mo ago
Gee. I wonder why that would be allowed to happen.
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by happycube 4mo ago
Lol... in this case, cheese imports from China are much cheaper, just not quite as good. And for those who are all "but dur CCP get all ur data" you can use things like AWS Bedrock (at least for earlier versions of Deepseek an
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by happycube 4mo ago
It looks like Supermicro had some DDR3 Xeon v3/v4 boards, and the first thing that came to mind was a Shenzen workstation/gaming board using recycled parts... haven't searched on that but it's bound to exist.
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by happycube 4mo ago
There are repos on github. Which, technically, means you can download Windows source from Microsoft. Just not legally.
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by happycube 4mo ago
It's the Alder Lake MAX. Originally decent design just pushed too far.
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by happycube 4mo ago
Not offhand alas, but I figure someone's bound to have made one by now...
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by happycube 4mo ago
RP2350. 5v tolerant IO if set up correctly, enough GPIO's and the PIO's to trigger everything at once, and more than enough speed to emulate flash. Smart(sic)Media is just a NAND flash interface really.

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