nickdothutton

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by nickdothutton 5mo ago
Switched to local models after quality dropped off a cliff and token consumption seemed to double. Having some success with Qwen+Crush and have been more productive.
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
I presume they don't yet have a cohesive monetization strategy, and this is why there is such huge variability in results on a weekly basis. It appears that Anthropic are skipping from one "experiment" to another. As users we
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
A favourite of mine. Do please check the interviews with him on youtube. Some authors try to show you the far future, he tried to show us the next 15 minutes.
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
Although not an escape from the "who can spend the most on tokens" arms race, there is also the possibility to make reverse engineering and executable analysis more difficult. This increases the attacker's token spend if noth
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
Never heard of this game so had to look it up. Well, that was quite. rabbit hole!
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
Better to have smart bombs than dumb ones. Or rather, better to have 1 smart bomb than 1000 dumb ones spread across an entire city in order to pick off the particular building, vehicle, or person you want.
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
POC of GTFO should apply to AI models too, or the false positive rate will overwhelm.
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
What a great article. Several years ago I wrote a (far inferior) post along similar lines, using a famous railway/bridge disaster[1]. Study of these kinds of engineering failures, even those from hundreds of years ago, are so revealing
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
Hard to imagine now, but this was a huge turning point. A genuinely powerful CPU in a "Pee-Cee" available for less than RISC workstation money. I had to wait a while, mine was an AMD DX2-66 since I didn't have a budget for In
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
These are interesting numbers for engagement but don't mean as much without equivalent stats for the other platforms. It's a little like when a news story quotes only a percentage (but not the absolute figure in $) or vice versa.
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
I use a separate user account per project on my local machine (not in sudoers), which I ssh to, and also runs tmux. If I need claude code in windows, then I run a VM. The performance and (in)convenience cost of this to me is minimal. I star
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
"Gradually, then suddenly", as someone once said.
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
Title is wrong, should be "New form of cancer discovered".
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
When I got started, the NSFnet backbone was a bunch of IBM RS/6000 systems with comms cards. There were no routers.[1] [1] https://www.rcsri.org/collection/nsfnet-t3/
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
Recently working on implementing a "MS Teams for the terminal" (video conf, audio, chat, file sharing, recording, etc, the usual things you would expect). Linux and Mac, FBSD and others to follow. Prior to the 1M context window I
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
I wish someone would build a LinkedIn that was actually good. That you could actually do business over, and no I don't mean spam people with you BS cold emails which must have a 10000:1 success rate. I wrote a bit about this almost a d
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
xv was fast, stable, had a good interface, and useful far beyond the normal lifespan of such a piece of software. Used it all the time in the early 90s.
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by nickdothutton 6mo ago
Obligatory: The Policy Analysis Market (PAM), part of the FutureMAP project, was a proposed futures exchange developed, beginning in May 2001, by the Information Awareness Office (IAO) of the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
I wonder if you could do a good Atari Gauntlet clone as a terminal only game.
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
I occasionally "joke" that it was 9-11 where we shifted timelines to the alternate universe. 1 minute Fukuyama announces the end of history and our future will consist of abundance and TV and shopping, the next...
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
Ah great another reason to add to the many reasons not to use this OS. Semi serious question, is Apple looking to dump its existing customer base for a new, perhaps consumer not pro-sumer one?
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
This is what specifically caused me to make the late stage empire comment. When the flip comes, you know you are in that phase. Speaking as a Brit. Other indicators are loss of reserve currency status, inward looking elite factions (can be
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
The Iran war has demonstrated the US cannot adequately defend its allies in the region, regardless of bases, whose existence was predicated on them having that capability. No? All the current conflict has done is make obvious that reality.
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
I think there is a pretty good chance US is in the late empire phase. This is not about a single President or party, or even single geopolitical event/development.
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
From memory, it very much mattered on your choice of serial card/controller. High quality, high speed, (and high price) cards had their own buffers and better drivers resulting in fewer interrupts and more efficient use of host resourc
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
Even for a standard PC, you could buy a 16 port serial card and hook it up to 16 modems, either discreet devices or the dedicated ISP kit which might support dozens of incoming calls (possibly on a single bearer) via various means. Telebit
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
Eizo EV3285 and MkI eyeball probably ruined by years of screen time: 0.0052 https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AgcgKP__PX8P
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
Given the high cost of professional textbooks and my modest means as a youngster, FidoNet and BBS provided me with access to a wealth of knowledge, software, and friendly expertise. Sometimes the first dreams of something new are the most v
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
These big headline "UK investments" are always and without exception not what you might think they are. When you drill into them, which companies, what was bought, where was the profit realised, what actual _real_ R&D was fund
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by nickdothutton 7mo ago
From great constraint springs great creativity. Brought back fond memories of the BBS scene in the 80s. Thanks to any USR people who may be reading this, my HST (with sysop discount) opened up a world to me.

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