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by toyg 4mo ago
Codenames are meant to tickle the pride of this or that manager, not be useful to customers.
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by toyg 4mo ago
Because he's now a Traitor, an Un-person, so every sin can be safely attributed to him without losing faith in the glorious Party. Such is the world of Apple fans.
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by toyg 4mo ago
In some ways I would say it could even increase trust: if the guy is a privacy absolutist, ultra-libertarian, "my business is not the state's business" type, his VPN products are likely to be pretty good. On the other hand, h
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by toyg 4mo ago
Yeah, freudian slip.
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by toyg 4mo ago
In many ways, that's how a lot of people feel in modern Britain: everywhere you see signs of XIX century grandeur, but "on the streets" life can feel depressingly backwards.
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by toyg 4mo ago
It's not only July and August; January, May, June, and Mars, are named after Roman gods; February and April after Roman rituals; and September to December after Roman numerals (7 to 10th month, as they were when the calendar first star
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by toyg 4mo ago
But they do it by squeezing businesses upstream, who end up with even lower margins.
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by toyg 4mo ago
It feels like GITS made a stylistic choice because they were criticized for going too much the other way in recent productions (lots of crap 3d/CG).
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by toyg 4mo ago
You've just described Hollywood, the music business, but even the supermarket/distribution business. The middleman tends to accumulate all the profit.
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by toyg 4mo ago
> I would just find or write an emulator Nowadays, yes. Back then, systems could barely run the OS they came with...
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by toyg 4mo ago
Reform and Restore will say anything to get into power, and then they will turn into ultraconservatives. See also: council tax in pretty much all sizeable councils they got to control, which they promised to keep fixed and then raised immed
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by toyg 4mo ago
> And they keep voting for the Labor party. The alternatives are even more power-mad, fundamentally illiberal parties (Reform, Conservatives), equally pearl-clutching ones that will likely continue on the same road as Labour (greens)
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by toyg 4mo ago
They didn't "steal" anything, iirc; they started as a legitimate licensee and then tried their usual embrace/extend/extinguish as "J++" (the EEE I mentioned). Sun sued for breach of license and won, barrin
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by toyg 4mo ago
This. C# was basically always meant to be "Java but done right". It came several years later, after Microsoft was legally barred from "EEE"-ing Java and required a direct competitor.
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by toyg 4mo ago
It has. Which is why they were forced to turn to acquisitions to grow - they can only buy other people's customers, not attract new ones.
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by toyg 4mo ago
Qwen 3.5-9b-Q4_K_M. I have a 5080 too! For me, the key has been dropping Ollama for Llama.cpp, which is not particularly scary to configure anymore and just skyrocketed performance. I download the models with LM Studio, then run them with l
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by toyg 4mo ago
That's not my experience, and the trajectory is good anyway - what doesn't work perfectly today will be just fine in a few months. In a quickly moving field, it's amazing how much money one can save by overcoming FOMO and not
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by toyg 4mo ago
Yes, you've nailed it. Ollama are desperately trying to pull a Cursor - like 3791 other projects in this space.
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by toyg 4mo ago
Yeah but they can also be used to play games and do other stuff.
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by toyg 4mo ago
Such a correction was always going to happen. Coders always were the blue-collar workers of the 21st century, and capital ruthlessly optimises for profit. Where you once needed thousands of workers to run an assembly line, you now have doze
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by toyg 4mo ago
Should we call this the DARPA Internet then?
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by toyg 4mo ago
You can probably concoct your own accountability engine with a bit of AI these days.
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by toyg 4mo ago
I built a scraper for an illegal comic book site, to search their database and package the comics as CBZ so I can read them faster and without ads. Now I want to add some sort of recommendation engine on top, to let me discover stuff I migh
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by toyg 4mo ago
qwen 3.5 with 9b is being a pretty decent workhorse for me, even with context around 4k.
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by toyg 4mo ago
I've been playing with local models for some time, and I've been pleasantly surprised of late. A meager rtx 5080 with 16gb can give pretty good results now. The ecosystem is also improving pretty quickly. I have a feeling at some
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by toyg 5mo ago
Of course it implies volume - shipped volume. Which is what you worry about when you think about posting every day: viewers going elsewhere is a commercial worry about your product , it has nothing to do with the quality of your art
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by toyg 5mo ago
The terminology is art vs content . Anybody talking about "content", by definition, do not actually care about what that content is, just that it is contained into something they charge for.
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by toyg 5mo ago
Celentano and Moro are many things, but humble is not one of them... He's a preachy Catholic bore, completely detached from reality; and she's deluded that they're still big stars. They used to be something, but they've
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by toyg 5mo ago
You're suspending the reporting of your dealings, which implies you've done no business in the previous period. When you do business, you unsuspend and report. I think you might want to step away from the keyboard for a bit.
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by toyg 5mo ago
Obviously you could unsuspend it at any time and report as necessary. That's what "suspended" means, as opposed to "closed" or "terminated". Come on.

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