bayesianbot (u/bayesianbot)

bayesianbot commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84

I've never understood the initial arguments about Bitcoin, no matter how many times they've been explained to me.

The block chain is, and always was, an extremely inconvenient database. How anyone, especially many intelligent people, thought it was realistic to graft a currency on top of such a unwieldy piece of technology is beyond me. Maybe it goes to show how few people understand economics and anthropology and how dunning-krueger can happen to anyone.

Now the uninformed gambling on futuristic sounding hokum? THAT is easy to understand.

That being said, I'm sorry the author had to go through this experience, the road of life is often filled with unexpected twists and turns.

bayesianbot · 2 months ago

I agree with the article and I hold 0 crypto right now. But I still think it's amazing that I can hold something limited, something I can exchange for real money, in my head, just based on math. Sure it is extremely inefficient database, and pretty much all the real value needs to be linked with real world banking, but it does have some really unique features that makes me sad that it (predictably) turned to just scams and speculation.

Edit: and the other feature I like is that I could just attach my code to the raw banking backend. People say that anyways everybody just uses exchanges, and that's true, but if you'd ever want to connect to banking backend, you'd get buried in paperwork. With crypto, you'd just run or connect to a node.

bayesianbot commented on US will not send officials to COP30 climate talks reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/geox

bayesianbot · 3 months ago

At the same time, the CO2 increase measured at Mauna Loa for 2024 was over 3.5ppm/yr, way up from the ~2.5ppm/yr seen previously this decade[0]

2025 State of the Climate report[1] said (on top of other horrible things)

> A dangerous hothouse Earth trajectory may now be more likely due to accelerated warming, self-reinforcing feedbacks, and tipping points.

I haven't seen hothouse earth mentioned in mainstream papers for a long time (decade+?), as it was deemed unlikely before.

Also The German Physics Society and the German Meteorological Society issued a joint statement warning about the possibility of 3 °C warming by the 2050s[2]

I am actually angry to people that they're irresponsible enough to vote for this without caring about others, but it feels like it was such a horrible timing for all this stupidity as well.

[0] https://www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-atmospheric-co2-rise-... [1] https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1... [2] https://worldcrunch.com/focus/green-or-gone/global-warming-a...

bayesianbot commented on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder wsj.com/finance/currencie... · Posted by u/cowboyscott

bayarearefugee · 4 months ago

If you're already rich and can stomach writing a flattering letter to Dear Leader you're leaving money on the table by not committing massive fraud right now.

bayesianbot · 4 months ago

I feel like democrats should make it clear that if there's still a fair election and they regain power, they'll go after both the corrupt people in this admin and entities buying favors. The current state can't be too good for the society, at least there should be a clear possible downside for being a part of it.

bayesianbot commented on Rio Terminal: A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator rioterm.com/... · Posted by u/birdculture

zeppelin101 · 5 months ago

How do you use the remote control of Kitty? I have barely explored it.

bayesianbot · 5 months ago

Not OP but

- Terminal search and focus (you can list kitty tabs and windows and get the window content from the socket, implementing a BM25 based search is quite easy)

- Giving the current terminal content for AI, so I can do things like run `ls` and then write "Rename the files (in some way)", and push the whole thing to LLM that replaces the command line without me having to write the full context

I even have a Codex session finder that uses codex session files to list and select the session I want, and then uses the kitty socket to find and focus the window which matches the session content

bayesianbot commented on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/... · Posted by u/VikingCoder

shirro · 5 months ago

An Australian reporter recently asked Trump how much money he has made since returning to office and if it is ethical for a person in his position. His org got locked out of a press conference in retaliation and we get the mafia boss threats about it not being good for our country to ask those sorts of questions.

Anyone living in the USA should by now have made a decision where their line in the sand lies. Without a free press or opposition things can move quickly so decide now. If I was a member of a minority likely to be a target I would want to know I had an exit strategy.

bayesianbot · 5 months ago

Trump also said he's gonna tell Australia's prime minister about the reporter, which is kinda nuts (and hilarious?)

Old track, but just hard to imagine what would have happened if Biden was asked about his corruption and answered like that. But it's hypothetical anyway, since no previous president would ever be rug-pulling crypto scams or selling watches and bibles.

I just can't believe how weekly, or sometimes daily, I share these wild stories and videos with some friends and they keep behaving like anything about this is normal. There are so many things that would make me go WTF even without the context of the constant grift it all comes with.

bayesianbot commented on Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link kennedn.com/blog/posts/ta... · Posted by u/kennedn

bayesianbot · 5 months ago

> SIDENOTE: If you want 2 way audio to work in frigate you must use the tapo:// go2rtc configuration for your main stream instead of the usual rtsp://. TP-Link are lazy and only implement 2 way audio on their own proprietary API.

Annoyingly when this is in use, I can't use ONVIF which seems like the only way to pan and tilt the camera using open tools. So if I want to use two way audio and also control the camera, I have to stop the process reading tapo:// stream, start onvif client and rotate, turn off onvif client and start streaming using tapo:// again

bayesianbot commented on Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex openai.com/index/gpt-5-sy... · Posted by u/wertyk

EnPissant · 5 months ago

My experience with Codex / Gpt-5:

- The smartest model I have used. Solves problems better than Opus-4.1.

- It can be lazy. With Claude Code / Opus, once given a problem, it will generally work until completion. Codex will often perform only the first few steps and then ask if I want to continue to do the rest. It does this even if I tell it to not stop until completion.

- I have seen severe degradation near max context. For example, I have seen it just repeat the next steps every time I tell it to continue and I have to manually compact.

I'm not sure if the problems are Gpt-5 or Codex. I suspect a better Codex could resolve them.

bayesianbot · 5 months ago

I definitely agree with all of those points. I just really prefer it completing steps and asking me if we should continue to next step rather than doing half of the step and telling me it's done. And the context degradation seems quite random - sometimes it hits way earlier, sometimes we go through crazy amount of tokens and it all works out.

bayesianbot commented on Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex openai.com/index/gpt-5-sy... · Posted by u/wertyk

bayesianbot · 5 months ago

I've been extremely impressed (and actually had quite a good time) with GPT-5 and Codex so far. It seems to handle long context well, does a great job researching the code, never leaves things half-done (with long tasks it may leave some steps for later, but it never does 50% of a step and then just randomly mock a function like Gemini used to), and gives me good suggestions if I'm trying to do something I shouldn't. And the Codex CLI also seems to be getting constant, meaningful updates.

bayesianbot commented on iPhone Air apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte

pdntspa · 5 months ago

Why do we need a folding phone?

bayesianbot · 5 months ago

I would never have bought one before but nowadays it could actually be useful. You could have Codex or Claude Code in your pocket, and every ~15min check the work and write a new prompt. Tablets are too big (for me) to constantly carry around for this, and phones annoyingly small for that use.

bayesianbot commented on Jeena's Hyprland Demo tube.jeena.net/w/2EpbXJnM... · Posted by u/jeena

jeena · 5 months ago

It looks similar with the difference of scrolling. Kind of interesting, and you still can have stacks of windows. But how does it decide on how wide a window should be?

bayesianbot · 5 months ago

Usually you'd have some predefined widths, like 33%, 50% and 67%, and use a shortcut to cycle between them. And you can define window rules to start some applications with different width than your default.

edit: and as fellow niri user, I recommend people try it. I think it's one of the easiest tiling WMs to get into, it feels very natural within minutes.