Blockchain Developer / Decentralization Maximalist / Certified Miner / Made Ethereum Classic / Founder & lead of @getemerald

Joined October 2009
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So we’re all switching to local DeepSeek v5 Pro?
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Just learned about "bind mounts" in Docker. Ex., when you use Docker for building from sources, instead of ADD or COPY your code into the image it's much faster to just bind the directory. Also unlike Volumes it's not restricted to the current dir, so it works for path deps as well
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To understand why business in the EU doesn't fly (pun intended) just check what "EU Business Class" seats actually look like
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I don't think I understand the AI valuation hype. With the current progress we'll get Opus 4.8 level weights runnable on a commodity server in 2-3 years. In five years prosumer hardware will run the same level models. In ten years max we'll have it in our pockets. What exactly does Anthropic plan to sell in that future to justify their valuation?
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The next one is GPUs, because who knows what AI models you run on them. The GPUs should be able to load only approved weights
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OFFICIALLY SIGNED: New York just banned online sales of CNC machines, lathes, and 3D printers. Required surveillance software on every one. And there's a bill in committee to require a background check to buy them at all. Look around you at who didn't fight, or who ONLY appeared to fight once they saw my video views pouring in. 🤔 Video soon!
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Maybe @intellijidea secret hope is that @AnthropicAI buys them to work on Claude Code? I mean, they know they can't outcompete Anthropic on the AI side, they've also given up on the IDE side, so they're probably just sending signals now
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IntelliJ's "Ask AI" / "Fix with AI" / etc. is so annoying. Way worse than the Clippy, because they put it EVERYWHERE so I keep clicking it by mistake
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The crypto prices are the first thing we all check in the morning, before the weather, so I've made a weather app for crypto. It's a bit windy right now.
You follow this account for prices. Now you can check them any time, not just when we post. Emerald Weather for iOS is live. Free. No account. apps.apple.com/us/app/id6770…
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In 2017 we had many talks about how Smart Contracts would be used. A common example was literal contracts on chain, like a car insurance smart contract that pays the other side. That obviously didn't make any sense, and I argued that smart contracts are not for people. My counter example was autonomous cars making agreements on a parking lot about which spot to take. I.e., agreements between machines. Not about money at all. It was before DeFi so we didn't see that path. And I still think that's the way. Maybe not autonomous cars, but other machines. The AI. This thing can write, read and perfectly understand all the tiny details of a smart contract. So if an AI needs to make an agreement with another AI - they could collaborate on the code, deploy and execute what works for them. And no one can stop them.
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Publishing an app to the Apple App Store for the first time. Surprised by how many things you have to go through. The submission takes more time than the development. So many questions to answer. For ratings, privacy, contacts, encryption, data sources, instructions, and so on. But most surprising - they want to know what value it provides, what it solves. Also record a video. Feels like applying to YC
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Come on, the new Ferrari is not that bad. It's a nice family car, kids would love it
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Apparently @Cloudflare are using this now. Is it more secure than Lava Lamps?
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Recently I needed to generate some images on the server. Just basic stuff with numbers and sometimes a chart, but nice-looking. I spent like a couple of days making one until realizing there's a much simpler approach that solves most of the problem. I mean,I solved the 'image gen' problem, that's easy apparently. The hard one is making it 'nice looking' and that needs a different approach
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So the lesson here I guess - HTML Chromium is the right tool for image gen automation. Don't start from the 'image' part, optimize for the loop you spend the most time in
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Ah, an it lives at @emerald_weather
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With all due respect to Kotlin for solving most major Java pain points, its syntax is the weirdest of any language I know. I have to google every time I need to write a getter, a private constructor, inline impls, and so on. (i.e., weird in terms of 'hard to deduce', not following any common structure)
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