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This kind of magic is the reason that I'm very itchy to be able to line up real work on Datomic or XTDB someday.

Sounds like about the right level of cognition for a talkie toaster!

Very relatedly, I've just started reading the 'Culture' series of sci-fi space operas by Iain M Banks, and the notion of ubiquitous sentient, super-intelligent spacecraft and appli…

I'm not super deep on LLM development, but with ram being a material bottleneck and from what I've read about DeepSeek's results with offloading factual knowledge with 'engrams' I …

Exactly! Any knowledgeable observer would have expected him to run for elected office instead.

You seem a bit... political. What's your favorite tech stack?

Even more on the nose: https://youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec?si=CAe210GZ_lKcc6_Y

Neat! I had been wondering if anyone was trying to implement a model in silico. We're getting closer to having chatty talking toasters every day now!

I took the easy way out, similarly - got an ArcadeVGA pci board, which is basically an ancient Radeon that supports 15khz well. I drive it with a groovy arcade Linux install and a …

While I can TOTALLY believe that TikTok might be doing classification and censoring of uploads - tech issues that happen during notable events will INEVITABLY be interpreted as par…

My quick rebuttal is that gaming is pretty close to 'there' if you pick a distro that prioritizes it. I run bazzite-DX (nvidia rtx4070) for dev and pleasure and gaming there is ON …

I haven't _needed_ windows in over 5 years, and I game pretty hard (though not much in the realm of anti-cheat compatibility drama). Bazzite is my daily driver now for development …

Interestingly, I had the exact same experience leaving Shanghai - I had picked up some nifty lighters at the wholesale markets. They took me to the room, had me take them out, and …

Valetudo is what I was referring to. For the vacuum, it's the Roborock Q5+ back from 2023. Not top of the line, but it works well on our mixed hardood+ rug floors.

Seconding Roborock - we have a mid range one and it's effective and a huge step up in smartness from my old Samsung. I love being able to dispatch it to one or two different rooms …

I had just recently factory reset my samsung S90C QDOLED - and had to work through the annoying process of dialing the settings back to something sane and tasteful. Filmmaker mode …

YouTube is one from my experience. The team there had a pretty strong anti-orm stance. DB performance was an existential necessity during the early scaling. The object fetching and…

I get it... but you can pry my cloudflare-tunnel from my cold dead hands. I'm no stranger to hosting things 'the hard way', but I am not going back from my happy casual hosting whe…

I did a pro bono analysis of a ddos against a dolphin protection non profit, probably a lashing out from a butthurt fishing concern. A significant amount of traffic in that attack …

Dyes, glyphosate, seed oils... Yeah. I like olive oil, and don't want to eat glyphosate, but you're fixating on the tenuous unfalsifiable presumed linkage of their toxicity to popu…

In circles of occult technology, a corporation would simply be understood as an "Egregore". Which is itself might be considered a slave of its constituents, but no more than they a…

I'm entertaining sending my kiddo to a Waldorf School, because it genuinely seems pretty good. But looking into the underlying Western Esoteric Spirit Science, 'Anthroposophy' (bec…

Belgium is overpaying for labor then! Open up those dormitories for workers and you can squeeze employee costs down at least 20% and harvest that value! (cynicism)

I once had a kind DM accommodate my misuse of the 'summon steed' spell to materialize my war horse within the allowed 30 foot range above an enemy to drop it on their head.

At least it's not shitcoin crypto!