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Comment · 24 days ago
We could mandate an onboard chip that would safely and securely vet models, denying bad people the ability to run naughty models.

We could call the chip … ClAIpper … or something

Comment · 26 days ago
Is the cynical take on this experiment the one where the detectors have a dual purpose?

I was interested to see the photos of the modules. LEDs and an Ethernet port!

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Comment · 2 months ago
Same for electronic music in Australia - well off context here but fora such as spraci, ITM, and then its sibling FL were great for discovering and connecting with new music and people.
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Comment · 4 months ago
Not sure if you ever make it over to HKG but there are quite a few cargo 747s that still seem to be making the rounds. CX and others have them on the GA / cargo side, and when on Lantau you often see (and hear!) them on final or takeoff.

I think CX would hate to retire them because from what I understand their load capacity is unparalleled. And you can load horses in them! There'll always be money from that for HAECO to keep them aloft.

It's even better when you're at the bus terminal at HKIA and watching them fly overhead...

Comment · 4 months ago
How many MS-01s did you have clustered?

And could you not use something like an N5 + iSCSI for storage?

Comment · 4 months ago
Your story also reminded me of the early LUG scene, distributed all over the world. We believed and all we had access to were the dirtiest ratshit computers but hey they could boot Slackware or Debian and maybe if you said the right incantation you could get that 10Mb card you got for free but was still the most valuable part to work with cat5 Ethernet so you could download stuff from a local sunsite mirror so you could join in the future.
Comment · 4 months ago
Did you ever bounce around the crackmonkey list? nick and friends seemed to know people with similar backgrounds.
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Comment · 5 months ago
Why use fuel, though? Is there something about its specific density and weight distribution that rules out using other types of ballast?
Comment · 5 months ago
Thanks, I will try that!
Comment · 5 months ago
I was a little disappointed with the results I was seeing in F#. I thought the .NET + GPT-5.* pull through would be sufficient but it never seemed to work out. Maybe I just wasn’t approaching it correctly.
Comment · 5 months ago
My pipeline for this is vscode + prompts + markdown templates + GitHub copilot -> markdown docs -> pandoc to produce.docx -> copilot in word for “nice” formatting -> copilot in ppt for nice decks. LLMs all the way down.

I find it’s easier to version control and diff the .md artefacts, those remain my authoritative source.

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