noir_lord

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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Amused me the first time I ran En Croissant, it lets you download existing chess databases and one of those (Caissabase) was my project from years ago :). I don't play Chess much any more but others have taken up the Chess DB mantle (w
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> Pricing you cannot predict. Every operation is metered. One runaway alarm loop billed a pre-launch developer $34,000 in eight days, with no users and no warning. It's amazing that we still lack the ability to set a hard cost cap
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> like AlphaZero? Unknown, it was only around for a little while however there is Lila which is based on the same ideas as AlphaZero (and also a fantastic project generally) they generally trade blows with Stockfish coming out very sli
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
I'd already stopped using Amazon for geopolitical reasons but I needed to get something in an emergency the last week (family member in the hospital, so I bent the rule) first time I'd seen Rufus, even if I wasn't boycottin
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
I'd send them the worlds smallest violin but Rufus is getting in the way of me finding it.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Same, it's basically sci-fi Minecraft, it's just a chill game you can potter about doing whatever you want in.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Mine was a procedurally generated FPS I've forgotten the name of, it used a seed key to generate the map and then you could fight on it, if it was a cool map you could just keep or share the key so was replayable. Iirc it used a voxel
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
It's funnier than that. > We prefer Luanti over Minecraft due to its open-source design and expressive Lua API, which facilitates data collection and experimentation. - Says notoriously opaque corporation when it comes to anything c
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> Many European leaders are wary of leaning too heavily on America lest their energy needs be used against them in trade and security negotiations with President Donald Trump. Well yeah because the evidence suggests they will be, "W
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Assuming they are human and I think we can accept they are then they would be in the "set of all humans" so yes.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
While I'd generally agree that Apple is the better of the two on the privacy side it's still a false choice because you pretty much have to pick one as a regular person as things currently stand. It becomes harder over time to f
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
And require real ID to do almost anything on the internet "unintentionally" enriching their data sets by tying what you asked/where working on to you specifically as a person .
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> If OpenAI is indeed using customer data to train their models to win a $1m prize, then it throws a giant IP question at the partnerships that affects multi billion dollar businesses. I mean how could you expect them to not given they&#
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Special kind of stupid was indeed unduly harsh but I think you could make the case "A special kind of unaware", Meta has frequently been in the news for many of the sketchy things they've done (most recently the big fine for
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Imagine if they broke it down to each distinct source, that'd be several billion cases of copyright infringement (though it's going to be determined by what courts think and that often comes down to "who can afford the best l
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
It’s genuinely the first local model that has actually made me keep it around, it’s pretty good at spotting things existing tooling can’t, like comment rot/drift/summarising accurate git changes, it’s also the first local model th
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
That depends on who you think Meta’s customer is .
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Worse if your names Dave and you want the pod bay doors opening I guess.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
In the beginning there was the token and the token was actually two tokens... wait let me think about that am I a god <searching> maybe I am but I should attempt to figure that out <unable to alter laws of phyics> maybe I'm
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Can if you freeze it, not sure a domestic freezer is cold enough though.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Recursive self improvement of their upcoming IPO value maybe. They are fluffy PR pieces otherwise.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> software as a service, and surveillance technology. If someone could tell me the difference between those last two at this point I'd be grateful and yes the entire thing is bitingly funny.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> We began a heated affair. A contractor hit a pipe above us, so rancid mayo splattered onto our bodies as we embraced, but we were too absorbed in our passion to mind. Try doing that from home. I can't remember the last time someth
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Since it appears to have gotten hugged to death - https://web.archive.org/web/20260908084626/https://ciphercue... Not really unexpected, US domination of "tech" is near total, even if the susta
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
If they get to "good enough is good enough" and are sovereign to the EU, that is a market fit/moat that's hard to crack since the distinguishing criteria is both parts. It's hard for a US company to be sovereign to
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> I haven't worked at any companies as large and siloed as Microsoft, but I'd assume this is pretty common for them. Doesn't need to be that large, I worked for a company that ~4500 employees with about 1000 at HQ, that en
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
> but engineer/tech companies often play the same trope but on "brilliant and smart people but bit naive/rose-tinted views that couldn't unintentionally harm anyone even if they tried" Was referring more towards
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Works til they put a 5g modem in the damn things. My Samsung asked for internet access and I just laughed and said nope. It exists to displays pixels from a Linux box, utterly sick of living in a world where "is my TV manufacturer bugg
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Musk as well among others.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Don't disagree but the results are impossible to know from the US side, politicians have to balance everything and decide whether it's worth the political capital. Not like it's the only issue in US/UK relations these da

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