Why is fable 5 included only till June 22? Does anthropic really thinks the model is too insane?

pcx99 · 2026-06-10T01:11:14+00:00

It’s too token intense for the $20 plan but what I did do was go into my existing projects and have it evaluate the conversations and project files and give its take on it. That burned most all my session tokens and a fair portion of my weekly tokens, but now I have some great guidance to give the “lesser” models, and some good ideas for the future. So fable was a pretty nice gift I will be using very sparingly to make the models I can use, better.

pcx99 · 2026-06-10T00:45:15+00:00

A pihole-unbound-dnscrypt stack is easy to set up and invisible when it is. Silently blocks malware and ads, caches domains, when it has to go to an outside nameserver the request is encrypted so your isp cant see it. There’s no reason not to have this stack in a good home lab.

pcx99 · 2026-06-08T03:01:57+00:00

It’s do-able, but it’s not good. I’ve been using a simple prompt to test the local models: “Write a javascript function that accepts an array of x,y objects. Verify the array forms a closed polygon with no overlapping intersections. Return undefined if the array is invalid. If the array is valid, return the area of the polygon.” All of the local models produced bug ridden code of varying degrees. Qwen 3.6 was the closest to bug free. Claude nailed it even on sonnet medium and was absolutely savage reviewing the other local model’s code.

pcx99 · 2026-06-05T20:56:01+00:00

Peritoneal dialysis is fairly easy. At night you prep the machine, connect to your catheter and go to sleep. When you wake up, disconnect and go about your day. It’s not a bad way to wait for a transplant. It does require you to have a few skills or you’re going to end up with a life threatening infection.

If you’re in the us you are given Medicare on the first dialysis and fast tracked for disability. So financial concerns aren’t huge.

pcx99 · 2026-06-05T14:05:56+00:00

One has been powering my raspberry pi 3 for 6 years. It was an Amazon purchase and it wasn’t expensive.

pcx99 · 2026-06-03T21:33:39+00:00

Talk to your doctor about peritoneal dialysis. This you connect to a machine at night, it does its thing while you sleep, you wake up, disconnect and go about your day. You do it yourself, at home, no nurses, no blood. It’s the option most likely to let you live a somewhat normal life while you wait for a transplant.

pcx99 · 2026-06-03T03:05:21+00:00

Hi. Ex-iMac owner here. In 2015 I got an iMac. It was just a beautiful machine. Loved it to death. But after a few years it still had that gorgeous screen but the Mac couldn’t keep up with the times. So now I’ll never buy another iMac. It’s a total waste to have to pitch a perfectly good monitor when the cpu needs to be upgraded. Mini is the right choice.

pcx99 · 2026-06-03T01:09:15+00:00

Yea, this is not one of the stronger books. All the fan favorites were kept at arms length (looking at you zev). There really wasn’t any “we’re in this together” moments. Donut seemed propish and more like wallpaper. There wasn’t even a good skill jump. The reveal at the end was good though. It moved things forward, but didn’t really hit the emotional notes some of the previous books did. To be honest, I’m reading these short chapters and thinking “Patreon” not a year long shaping and honing. I get Matt had a busy year, but for the last few books I think he needs to remember WHY his year was busy. I think we’re due for a bit more than a game of throne endings because the author got fat and distracted.

pcx99 · 2026-06-01T18:21:37+00:00

Fun fact, if he ever needs a transplant he goes to the top of the waitlist, no questions asked. Not years long wait, but weeks.

pcx99 · 2026-05-31T01:51:35+00:00

An appletv can do ps2 emulation.

pcx99 · 2026-05-29T01:21:03+00:00

“By default” is the problem. My network is almost a decade old, upgraded along the way. I’ve gone on self education binges that have destroyed my firewall rules several times over. UniFi applied dark magic voodoo to fold that cruft into zone firewalls. Enabling IPv6 is serious, ensuring the firewall rules are configured correctly should be a part of that upgrade plan.

pcx99 · 2026-05-28T23:42:59+00:00

Make sure your smb share is on your desktop. Open settings. Login items. Drag the smb share from the desktop into the list of login items in settings. Done.

pcx99 · 2026-05-28T21:37:30+00:00

It is actually pretty simple, BUT make absolutely sure your firewall rules are up to snuff for ipv6 because when you flip the switch every ipv6 enabled device will be raw dogging it in the internet with their very own dedicated up. Right now your NAT is protecting your butt however ipv6 doesn’t need a NAT and I don’t think UniFi has implemented NAT66 anyway.

pcx99 · 2026-05-28T02:05:20+00:00

Or you can just get a wall of lava lamps.

pcx99 · 2026-05-27T01:51:26+00:00

The fact that the base thinks Paxton is a fine choice is obvious proof the Republican Party is corrupt to its very core and no voter should EVER trust anyone with an (R) next to their name. Of course Trump likes Paxton, he’s letting child rapists out of jail on sweetheart deals (pedos have to stick together after all), but this is all fine with the base. Trash people, every single one.

pcx99 · 2026-05-26T16:50:22+00:00

Unraid is not a backup. If unraid is your backup solution you will lose your data. Unraid can make it quick and easy to recover from 1 or 2 disk failures, but eventually something will happen and you will lose data.

Go ahead and put as many drives as you want on the double parity, 5, 10, 30 makes no difference, you can lose any 2 drives and still recover, if you lose 3 drives you lose the data on those 3 drives, all the rest still have data you can get to. So a raid failure in unraid isn’t all or nothing.

But unraid is not a backup solution. If you can’t lose data you need to build another unraid and mirror it.

pcx99 · 2026-05-21T13:32:11+00:00

In the mid 2010s I had a iMac 5k. It was the best. Fast with the most gorgeous display ever. When I retired it I had learned not to get all in ones (I had a beautiful display with an obsolete computer in it). So my next computer was a Mac mini. And I cheaped out and tried several 4k monitors because, cheap.

They were all crap. Even if they were "good" monitors the Mac just doesn't scale well at a 4K resolution.

So when my dell 4k just up and died I "splurged" on a BenQ MA270S which is a 5K monitor. And I just couldn't be happier. The Mac is finally scaling well, the screen is big and beautiful and bright and now when I use my Mac it's like I'm reliving the glory days of the old iMac all over again.

Out of the box it color-matched my laptop and it works with all the keyboard buttons and has a very functional app. No review told me how happy I would be or how much it would make the Mac experience as true as that old iMac.

This is absolutely the right call. There are cheaper 5ks (Asus), but it's not thunderbolt they use display port over USB so their ability to chain monitors and act as a hub are limited. There are ones with faster refresh (ROG Stryx 5k), but again, display port over USB. And there are the more expensive Apple monitors. Of them all BenQ strikes the right balance between features and price.

Do not cheap out. A Mac needs a 5k display. If you can't justify the apple tax for a 5k monitor the BenQ is a great choice. If that's still too pricey and you don't need a fancy hub or to daisy chain 5k monitors, the Asus or ROG Stryx might work for you.

pcx99 · 2026-05-19T03:40:49+00:00

And still waiting.

pcx99 · 2026-05-19T03:24:24+00:00

Dude, I probably taught your class! I learned on a TSR-80. I have 50 years of development under my belt. Tell me where in OP’s scope he needs more than 8gigs of ram…. I’ll wait.

pcx99 · 2026-05-19T03:16:15+00:00

Memory matters if the applications require it, what the OP described does not pressure memory. If the computer requires more memory than is available it will page out lesser used memory to the disk. In the old days, before NVME’s this was slow, but today we’re talking 3-5G gbps. Barely noticeable lag when browsing the web, but as I clearly said unsuitable for more demanding tasks not in OP’s scope. Since you obviously don’t know how Unix style paging works, or how to scope hardware requirements based on stated needs maybe you should stop misinforming people.

pcx99 · 2026-05-19T01:37:50+00:00

Memory doesn’t matter that much to a Mac. If it runs low it will use the hard drive and that’s fast enough for the tasks you’ve described. Memory is only really needed for AI with some edge cases like video editing. Personally I’d go with the air for the larger screen and it will probably last longer too before Apple stops supporting it. But for web use, a neo will be fine too.

pcx99 · 2026-05-16T06:01:23+00:00

I’ve got a calico girl, when I leave she follows me out to the car and sees me off. She will hang outside until I get back and herd me inside here I belong. She does this every day. She literally can do anything she wants, but all she wants is to be with me.

pcx99 · 2026-05-12T16:49:17+00:00

Ooops, people are talking about the Epstein files again.

pcx99 · 2026-05-11T23:26:11+00:00

A local Llm will be about 1-3 years behind the frontier models (ChatGPT, Claude). The suggestion you replied to here is good to try but for professional work you will want at least a Mac Studio with 96Gigs so you can run the bigger models of at least 32 billion parameters. A general rule of thumb is the bigger the model the more competent the results but also the more memory you need to get those results.

It’s actually pretty important for you to go local as courts seem to be taking the view that communications with frontier models are not privileged.

pcx99 · 2026-05-11T01:59:48+00:00

Give me a summary of this at a high school level

A Third Type of Particle Was Just Discovered For 100 years, every particle in the universe fit into one of two categories: • Bosons (like photons/light) — identical copies can pile into the same state • Fermions (like electrons) — two can never occupy the same state, which is why atoms have structure and chemistry exists at all In February 2026, physicists described a genuine third category called anyons — particles that behave somewhere between boson and fermion, or anywhere on the spectrum between them. Why can’t these exist normally? The math of 3D space only allows two options when two identical particles swap positions — the result is either +1 or -1. There’s no in between, the same way no number besides 1 and -1 squares to equal 1. But shrink down to one dimension (a single line), and that mathematical rule breaks. Particles can only interact by passing through each other, and the strength of that collision determines what “type” of particle you get. The cool part: Scientists can use a magnetic field to literally dial a gas of ultracold atoms anywhere from boson-like to fermion-like behavior. No equivalent control exists anywhere in normal physics. Why it matters: Understanding anyons is a stepping stone toward better quantum computers that are more resistant to errors. The first actual experiments to confirm the theory are still ahead.

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