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OldfieldFund··on Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs
laughs in Cerebras
OldfieldFund··on EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum
two things can be bad at the same time. also US is not the end all be all of things
OldfieldFund··on NautilusTrader: Open-source algorithmic trading platform
I work at a fund, and you need millions in capital and infra. It really doesn't make sense to trade as a retail investor. Look up Dimitri Bianco on YouTube; he's quite reputable and explains why it's not really feasible to trade with your own money.

In my opinion: If you trade, trade with a firm.

OldfieldFund··on NautilusTrader: Open-source algorithmic trading platform
This is 100% accurate.

The only way to make money for 99.999% of traders is to trade with a firm. You should not trade on your own. You will lose in the long term.

OldfieldFund··on Open models by OpenAI
you can run for presidency from prison :)
OldfieldFund··on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
exactly. there is a reason companies are paying through their noses for some people
OldfieldFund··on Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager
have you tried calling their hotline ;)
OldfieldFund··on Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding
Why not just tell the LLM in rules to strongly type and write guardrails and then:

[tool.ruff]

line-length = 88

select = ["E", "F", "W", "I", "N", "UP", "B", "C4"] # A good strict baseline

ignore = []

[tool.mypy]

python_version = "3.12"

warn_return_any = true

warn_unused_configs = true

disallow_untyped_defs = true

disallow_any_unimported = true

no_implicit_optional = true

check_untyped_defs = true

strict = true

OldfieldFund··on Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
long-term evidence isn't clear at all for the benefit of these
OldfieldFund··on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
and will find out that the outcome is better than mean (if it includes cuddling and stuff)
OldfieldFund··on Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective
you will never forget QWERTY, so it's just a little annoyance once in a while.
OldfieldFund··on Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective
start playing the piano and guitar. not joking.
OldfieldFund··on At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery
Rich people offshore money there
OldfieldFund··on FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime
I understand that too.

But no matter what we do this is an unsolvable problem of policing/judicial system. There will always be people who are falsely accused/falsely convicted. Let's say less than 1%, as a hypothetical. Do we accept that due to that we might be reducing crime by a lot? That's a question society has to answer.

I think the best solution here is not focusing on policing/courts, but making sure that everyone in the society is content, so that they don't commit crimes. Happy people with resources a typical human wants probably don't commit many crimes.

OldfieldFund··on The untold impact of cancellation
Much appreciated!
OldfieldFund··on The untold impact of cancellation
The same with OP's post.

So far, I see that this post caused quite a few forks, the opposite of what the author asked for.

I don't have a solution.

I think as a man who runs conferences you shouldn't sleep with people who attend them. Or any other things like that, for that matter.

Should you be cancelled for that? No. But humans are humans.

There is no solution to this. Courts are also wrong all the time (look at OJ) and victims of SA almost never see justice.

The answer is: we don't know the truth.

OldfieldFund··on The untold impact of cancellation
can you tell us? Twitter is difficult to navigate.
OldfieldFund··on Orion Browser
This is very specific. Why would you want that? Can you give me an example?
OldfieldFund··on Figma will IPO on July 31
And also it's soooo much smoother than native Adobe tools, even though it runs in the browser.
OldfieldFund··on MacBook Pro Insomnia
how do you work without iCloud?

Yes, I realize alternatives exist, but this works so smoothly on Apple devices.

OldfieldFund··on Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming
I'm not saying the bugs aren't real. But there is a non-specific frontier of control, so to speak. And the stock prices of the big companies are always going up, and there aren't any major disasters. Usually.

With more people, there could still be more bugs, and disasters could still happen. Limiting resources can work well in corporations.

OldfieldFund··on Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming
> 3X and 10X the amount of work in the backlog

This is an old trick to get people to work hard. It's no accident that every tech company does this.

OldfieldFund··on I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
It's not so much about what you build, but about the "secret sauce"/marketing that most people who actually succeed big time will never reveal.
OldfieldFund··on I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
I learned after 600. Or did I? :)
OldfieldFund··on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras
I believe the biggest problem here is that the author of the blog was using the ultra-wide-angle lens. I can tell by how the players are "leaning" and how the software is "fixing" the curvature of the photo. 90% sure of it. I always use the "regular" lens, and the pictures are much better.

You can also set styles in the camera settings to fix these problems: incorrect AI white balance and lighting.

OldfieldFund··on Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC
Apple has this out of the box with MacBooks + iPhones. But in their case, it's easy to implement.
OldfieldFund··on My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)
We are all cooked at this point :)
OldfieldFund··on Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”
An even more insidious method is selling "lifetime access," offering incredible over-the-top value, then exiting after 2 or 3 years when the momentum starts dropping. These are essentially rug pulls/exit scams.

There is no such thing as "unlimited" or "lifetime" unless it's self-hosted.

OldfieldFund··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
To anyone reading this, I recommend a 224-page book on the topic:

On Palestine

by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, and Frank Barat (Editor)

Goodreads Rating: 4.27, 11,732 ratings, 1,588 reviews

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater.

First published May 7, 2015

The paperback is about $12 on Amazon.

OldfieldFund··on Why does a fire truck cost $2m
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

-- Smedley Butler, a United States Marine Corps Major General and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.

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