So some context. In communist era Hungary, a lot of the population lived - and still lives - in big prefab apartment buildings that run off central heating.

In the winter as it was getting colder, the heating would get turned on at the same time for the whole district if not the city.

The “they” in “they are finally heating at Jucika” is the government. It’s a hot topic every year when it gets turned on, as the people pay a flat rate for warmth.

With us, it can be an arrow right, an arrow forward, a light saying bus, a bunch of things

Depends on the country. I’ve only seen these.

It’s informative in that you can guess what the extra light is even when off.

It is actually.

Enforcement is crap.

Are not all ORMs like that? I only used ActiveRecord before fucking off from backend 10 years ago

Weren’t they always?

When I grew up, the surgeon’s kid had an Xbox, the software engineer’s kid had a PS, and everyone else pirated PC games or got them from the bargain bin.

I got the whole Blitzkrieg Anthology for the equivalent of 5 EUR

Because it’s cheaper to buy a commodity chip and program it rather than get an application specific chip made.

A RAM pricing crisis they created through OPENAI, no less.

At least that only hurts its users. IDC about people doing shit to their own bodies

The sticks were digitally driven for quite a while as well. Managed to short circuit a 2004 VW Passat’s electronics, the sticks started to point in random directions all over the place while the car was in motion. And I don’t mean shaking, just going to a random value and settling on it every 1.5 seconds.

Was very spooky.

This is normal city stuff to be honest.

He was in government for 20 (16+4 before) and stole for longer than that.

I actually did an experiment on doing just that. For context, I’m an experienced software engineer, whose company buys him a tom of Claude usage so I had time to test out what it can actually do and I feel like I’m capable of judging where it’s good and where it falls short at.

How Claude Code works is that there are actually multiple models involved, one for doign the coding, one “reasoning” model to keep the chain of thought and the context going, and a bunch of small specialized ones for odd jobs around the thing.

The thing that doesn’t work yet is that the big reasoning model has to still be big, otherwise it will hallucinate frequently enough to break the workflow. If you could get one of the big models to run locally, you’d be there. However, with recent advances in quantization and MoE models, it’s actually getting nearer fast enough that I would expect it to be generally available in a year or two.

Today the best I could do was a tool that could take 150 gigs of RAM, 24 gigs of VRAM and AMD’s top of the line card to take 30 minutes what takes Claude Code 1-2. But surprisingly, the output of the model was not bad at all.

Putin gives zero fucks about Iranian children, he was perfectly fine killing Russian civilians to get into power.

Shaheds on the other hand…

Not Cyrillic, it says “és a szapora szobanövény"

Standard TLS, I think, but what else would you need?

They can ban payments from the EU to Pornhub

East German anthem

Yeah, but Europe, despite having the same idiotic centrists in power in a lot of places, has much stronger democratic institutions and systems to push back.

As much as I see far right pushes, they can’t fuck over the whole continent at the same time like they did in the US. Brexit had a backlash, AfD winning would show how shit they are to other countries. Also, there are more varied stuff going on, there is a lot of shit to hope about as well.

Hungary of all places might get a wealth tax going on this year for example. It’s not all bad. We just killed not just Chat Control 2.0, but also the already implemented first iteration was rolled back.

Not the entire supply, just enough to affect prices. Basically the stock market but without even the appearance of it not being manipulated to hell.

And it’s not Russia, or not just them, anyone with enough money to play can fuck people with sub-8 figure net worths over.