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by xtracto 6mo ago
I'm old enough to have programmed C in IBM/PC with the book Turbo C/C++ [1] at my desk side as reference, around 1993. I remember at that time, my "mentor" suggested to memorize all the "keywords" from C (
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by xtracto 6mo ago
I wonder, how long until that certain CrowdStrike kernel level plugin that brought down a third of the world's Windows comptuers gets hijacked by a malicious actor.
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by xtracto 6mo ago
A couple of days ago I was thinking about something related to this: How would the "computing" space look like once we get to the ultimate evolution/development of the AI/LLMs or whatever comes after it? Say in 10 years
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by xtracto 6mo ago
It's basically Capitalism.
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by xtracto 6mo ago
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by xtracto 6mo ago
So the VC gravy is drying. We should see the enshitification of LLM providers in the rest of 2026 and 2027. The bubble has to burst at some point.
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by xtracto 6mo ago
As a non-American, I love what Chinese companies are doing. The progress they are showing and the fact they are sharing the weights of the models is great. I can't wait for the day when companies that "have no moat" like A. ,
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by xtracto 6mo ago
I've mention before that we should have a look at Telegraph/telegram speak. There was a HUGE industry in word efficiency at that time. There are hundreds of books. I even think an LLM trained to communicate using telegram style mi
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by xtracto 6mo ago
I love your mission. Alas, I am not able to work on site in your location. Hope you guys make it big!
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by xtracto 6mo ago
Is this related to the massive layoffs in the Mexico/GDL offices that happened a couple of days ago? My LinkedIn was full of people opening for work. Pretty sad.
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by xtracto 6mo ago
I just read a tech "policy" document of one of the largest packaged food makers in Mexico. They explicitly say they ONLY use paid services/software to ensure there is liability and support. There are A Lot of businesses thar
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by xtracto 6mo ago
More like buying the hacked DirecTV Sim cards.
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by xtracto 7mo ago
That's why the use has to have some kind of cost. Sure, spammers and scammers will always have spare money, as long as the bounty is higher. But the alternative is "not having Email", because Email can be used by the same b
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by xtracto 7mo ago
Oooh thanks a lot. This looks promising. Maybe the only missing thing would be sone kind of (economic) incentive to share GPU power. Although the ability to use large models "for free" sounds pretty rad.
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by xtracto 7mo ago
Oh yeah, and maybe call it "SkyNet" or something.
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by xtracto 7mo ago
I would love to see a "distributed LLM" system, where people can easily setup a system to perform a "piece" of a "mega model" inference or training. Kind of like SETI@home but for an open LLM (like https:&#x2F
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by xtracto 7mo ago
An isolated group of customers are experiencing elevated error rates and degraded performance. FTFY. (I've read AWS word it like that)
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by xtracto 7mo ago
I used Opera so much around 2000. Small things like the X-Z shortcuts and the sheer speed blew me away.
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by xtracto 7mo ago
I've done a mix of SOC2, ISO27001 and PCI L1 for 3 different startups. 2 of them b2b. All certified 100% and fully compliant. The problem with the current frameworks is that the "controls" are so asinine and auditors so hard
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by xtracto 7mo ago
X11 was started in 1984 in MIT. That means, when Wayland was first conceived in 2008, there had been 24 years of X development. I guess Kristian grossly underestimated the effort required to write a full features Display manager. FWIW, in
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by xtracto 7mo ago
I also use MacOS, but have used Linux since 1997 (way too many distros), so i hold it close to my heart. For me the Wayland story is a great example of https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-sho
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by xtracto 7mo ago
Edit_distance uses pure levenstein which is quadratic, so for tables of 500k rows and 20+ columns each it will slowdown to a crawl. Without going into a lot of detail, I needed this to work for datasets of that size. So a lot of "
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by xtracto 7mo ago
Or as a good friend told me when I was starting my PhD: "those of us that finish our PhDs are not the most intelligent, but the most stubborn "
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by xtracto 7mo ago
Ha! You just made me remember how much I used JabRef (open source bibtex reference app) back in 2004 when I did my PhD. It was the best/worst 4 years of my life. I studied overseas (uk), met my future wife and got a PhD that really was
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by xtracto 7mo ago
The other day I (well, the AI) just wrote a Rust app to merge two (huge, GB of data) tables by discovering columns with data in common based on text distance (levenshtein and Dice) . It worked beautifully An i have NEVER made one line of Ru
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by xtracto 7mo ago
I want a "reddit" like discussion board where: - Users don't have to pay to post links/stories - Users have to pay to comment on links/stories - Users have to pay to "upvote" comments. Downvotes don't
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by xtracto 7mo ago
What a time to be a Mice!
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by xtracto 7mo ago
No? I have recommended Freestyle sugar free soda as a way to replace heavy CocaCola consumption. Here in Mexico it's a big problem, and I helped me get out of the addiction. ( add Allulose to the soda to add the sweet)
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by xtracto 7mo ago
Dr Shore device has been decades in development. It's been all the rage in r/tinnitus , r/tinnitusresearch and T. Facebook groups. Still according to people that have tried it, it's no silver bullet. I've had tinnit
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by xtracto 7mo ago
I was recently in the lookout for a new laptop. I wanted something BEEFFY! Specs wise but 13 inch at most. I literally couldn't find anything on the PC side. I wanted an x86 because I prefer Linux Mint as my OS (didn't care about

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