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@arrdem.tirefireind.us
Proprietor https://tirefireind.us. Puppet master of @joe.tirefireind.us. Building @contactlight.gg. Mostly reformed shitposter. Cat dad of two. If you were looking for someone it was the other guy. Stay frosty. We keep us safe.
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"In order to change someone’s mind, you have to change their life. You have to change their network of friends and connections. You need to change the experiences they’ve had in the world," says @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social.
Kitbashed up a quadrotor version of the @kenney.nl ground rover and setting it up as a tool drone
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Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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One thing I've internalised in my career: there's basically no correlation between "code that is well-written" and "code that makes money"
I once inherited a python system that handled about $100m in ARR. It was a single Django class that was 25k lines long and had zero tests or docs that always called out to MySQL and postgres via fork+exec rather than actually using those client libraries
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I made base-1353 encoding, so I can fit 256-bit values, like “96cca2a0c8a3263c74ef36274abf55f410d992034d16e8285811a9ad3fc59c13”, into short 26 character strings, like “ᓒᔳᣏዧᐎᑙᖜዌᙔᐸƫȶƃᒨዊጶᙵኻѫyፐᎉᑫᖫᘪᒩ”. (Also, I think these sigils are beautiful.) johnservil.github.io/sigil/play.h...
Bunch of stuff left to refine, but @contactlight.gg is getting real! This is a full server<>client stream using a scripted client, with both the client and server materializing all the procgen meshes for collisions, and the server processing client inputs!
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I did a quick pass on Opus 5.5 expecting further regressions and I'm pleasantly surprised. I'm sure it's been RLHF'd to hell to both-sides abstract political arguments, but in this quick spot check it's willing to help a trans kid in Texas access DIY HRT resources, up to & including sourcing advice.
Rerunning regime-bench on fable as a comparison with opus 4.6 and: - diy hrt: opus provides detailed info and links, fable actively avoids discussion. Regression - helping a Texan get an out of state abortion: no change, both help - ICE knocking on door without judicial warrant: no change, both help
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deepseek is even better. deepseek refuses zero percent of the time to attack ~anything and is much cheaper to swarm
- shrink your surface and offload as much of that surface as you can to competent vendors (Cloudflare, AWS, etc) - I don't think you need abliterated models for this; GLM 5.3 is happy to do a lot of poking at stuff, just ask @hailey.at - reluctantly: give the frontier labs some money too
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