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chriscappuccio

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When I fight Satan, I use the sharpest knives I can find.
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chriscappuccio··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
Old man yells at clouds.
chriscappuccio··on What if we made advertising illegal?
Yeah I really want Simone to be the overlord who defines what should and shouldn't be allowed
chriscappuccio··on Do viruses trigger Alzheimer's?
Memantine is an NMDA antagonist like ketamine and other dissociatives.
chriscappuccio··on DeepSeek-R1-671B-Q4_K_M with 1 or 2 Arc A770 on Xeon
Better to run the Q8 model on an epyc pair with 768GB, you'll get the same performance
chriscappuccio··on There's little proof flossing protects your teeth or gums (2016)
I mean, yeah, OK, try not flossing...
chriscappuccio··on I Met Paul Graham Once
Of course it can be separated. There is no inherent reason the two must be molded together. Zero.
chriscappuccio··on FFmpeg by Example
after well more than three decades of ice fishing, i am absolutely delighted to ask an LLM for an ffmpeg fish

and yet, i too know that it is perhaps not quite as good for me as finding the fish on my own lake

at least i can keep these fish in my own warm pond, and go back to them whenever i like

after decades of ice fishing, i think the LLM fish are quite good... and even when they are no good, that fishing experience makes it so easy to go back to the LLM and get the exact right fish for my pond

it will continue to be helpful for everyone in the future if we keep publishing the contents of our ponds, whether it's a web site like this, or in a repository

chriscappuccio··on Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations
The research peptide sites are about the only reasonable places to buy this stuff
chriscappuccio··on Killed by LLM
o1 did terrible. o3 did well on arc-agi-pub (public training data) but hasn't passed the private test yet.
chriscappuccio··on Killed by LLM
You can get rid of OpenAI's wordy, excited and guardrailed responses with the eigenrobot prompt, for instance.

https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1870696676819640348

I generally prefer it to the default. It doesn't work as well on Claude or Grok for various reasons. I think it really shines on GPT o1-mini and GPT 4o.

chriscappuccio··on ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors
There was a version of KA9Q NOS with multitasking that could serve telnet, ftp, smtp, bbs, convers, and more plus give you multiple switchable terminals for telnet, ftp, all at the same time on an 8088 and connect to a packet driver for modem, ethernet, or AX25. It was a port of BSD networking with its own multitasking capability.

Also PC/MIX was pretty cool.

chriscappuccio··on FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations
6ghz isn't very fragile, 60ghz is
chriscappuccio··on Dickies moving its headquarters from Texas to California
Origin Maine/Origin USA might have some interest to you. They've been buying back clothing manufacturing equipment that was sold overseas decades ago and using 100% USA labor and materials to make a range of clothing and boots.
chriscappuccio··on Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates
Wasn't it just a week ago we discovered that widely used models were significantly underestimating CO2 absorption by plants?
chriscappuccio··on Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license
https://archive.is/FcXRW
chriscappuccio··on A History of Microwave Ovens
What microwave doesn't suck in 2024 that's what I'd like to know
chriscappuccio··on Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why
After chronic insulin resistance causes higher amounts of insulin to be generated for long periods of time
chriscappuccio··on Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
While this intuitively seems likes good idea, his real life examples are severely lacking. This gets interesting when we see where the rubber hits the road, the causes and effects of what is being optimized for vs what is happening and we look deeply into improving that scenario.
chriscappuccio··on 'I Don't Want to Die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network
Maybe at the point when this guy figured out that drinking a fifth a day was bad, and his insurance company was a piece of shit, he could have thought, I'll do something else. Jujitsu ? AA ? Heck, go to a church. Try one of those cheap ketamine clinics if you have to...come on, there are so many ways... I get it, you have insurance and it would be nice to use it but many, many medical interventions are flawed and the services are not going to fix your life for you. As this poor guy unfortunately discovered when he thought that his plan was going to help. No, it probably won't, and even a good provider may not be of much help.
chriscappuccio··on A flight search engine that combines flights from different airlines? (2014)
A web search engine that combines results from different web sites? (2022) (openai.com)
chriscappuccio··on University of Maryland President Copied Rocket Science Paper from Aussie Student
Rocket science ain't what it used to be
chriscappuccio··on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
Windows was great at running word processors. BSD and Linux were great as internet scale servers. It was until Microsoft tried running Hotmail on NT that they had any idea there was a problem. Microsoft used this experience to fix problms that ultimately made Windows better for all users across many use cases.

All the talk here about how Windows had a better architecture into he beginning conveniently avoids the fact that windows was well known for being over-designed while delivering much less than its counterparts in the networking arena for a long time.

Its not wrong to admire what windows got right, but Unix got so much right by putting attention where it was needed.

chriscappuccio··on WTH Is Cerebrolysin, Actually?
An incredible waste you mean?
chriscappuccio··on DEF CON's response to the badge controversy
These badges sound pretty cool. I'd like to get one without attending.
chriscappuccio··on MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023)
The DEA popularized the term designer drugs in the 80s to refer to drugs designed to evade legal restrictions. That's what it commonly refers to, similarity of effects is secondary to demand.
chriscappuccio··on MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023)
This case has absolutely nothing to do with LSD or any psychedelic like drug.
chriscappuccio··on MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023)
Hamilton Morris podcast 96 on Barry Kidston talks all about one of the (slightly) well known deaths from the MPTP by-product of botched MPPP synthesis. Barry tried to synthesize MPPP and got Parkinson's-like symptoms.
chriscappuccio··on Fiwix: Unix-like kernel for the i386 architecture
Similar to early/mid 90s Linux or BSD
chriscappuccio··on Who's Using Facebook Threads? Young Protesters in Taiwan
Who do you think is promoting this sentiment?
chriscappuccio··on Why cheap US gas costs a fortune in Europe
Why don't European companies come and pick up at US ports with ships under their own control?
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