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waterfowl, chaotic neutral. building stuff since the 90's. made some video games. into CS, geopolitics, diplomacy, finance.

Joined May 2022
Elon Musk vowed to retaliate against Democrats if they are able to secure the House and/or Senate in November to investigate his companies and political actions. Read more: forbes.com/sites/antoniopequ… 📸: Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images
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I feel like Unity introducing mimalloc support did’t get enough coverage tbh… Its a good thing.
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Sharing my reverese engineered IQOS ILUMA i HID USB protocol and associated C structs, the IQOS dashboard is lacking so wrote my own with raylib + imgui. If you need IQOS Realm secret key for decoding usage data on your MacOS send me a pm. gist.github.com/duck4i/d7f75…
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Lets face it: 3M dominates the Password manager market.
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So much discussion around "agents" is build on top of so many abstracted systems that it's easy to get lost and forget how these systems build on top of LLMs. I made a small project you can reference to make your own agents, claude-code type platform, etc. github.com/macton/nagent
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What in the name of fuck am I reading? 😳
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Good software is invisible. That's why all software is bad because the managers demand visibility of programmers work.
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I tried to warn you a couple of years ago 🤷‍♂️ xitter.gq/ulong64/status/1768437…
JUST IN: FBI warns of rising “anti-tech extremism” as opposition to AI & data centers intensifies.
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Replying to @MsftSecIntel
russian roulette with Israeli and Iranian machines 😭
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Elon renting his GPUs to Anthropic can mean only one thing (three-fold): - There's no money in training an underdog LLM and, while feasible, there's no money in trying to catch the leader. - There's no money in selling token-based inference of yours or others' underdog LLMs. - There's money in providing leaders and persistent underdogs with fat pockets a place to burn their cash.
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There's an online magazine to prove that these Wikipedia mods are idiots.
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Current state of software dev.
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As someone who has audited dozens of safety-critical systems, built static analysis tools, and used most formal verification and security tools, here are some red flags that should be a caution in taking these claims at face value: 1. There are no comparison benchmarks with 1/
Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software. It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans. anthropic.com/glasswing
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*NASA ARTEMIS CREW SETS RECORD FOR FARTHEST HUMAN SPACE TRAVEL
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Garry from Garry’s mod closed a deal with Valve to make a polished version of source2 SDK available to the public. From what I understand, this means ‘regular people’ can create and publish games on Steam using the Source 2 engine, royalty free! (Not april fool’s joke)
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Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality. Learn More → nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/new…
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