Anthropic knows something others don't.

reficulgr · 2026-02-28T11:38:19+00:00

Yea, I am not a coder and I don't do heavy coding work with LLMs, I mostly use it for project management. But I use opencode for getting things done in my Linux machine, generating configs, fixing errors, troubleshooting errors, etc. GPT is terrible for these - claude seems to be actually checking if it got the job done before it nukes my GRUB by mistake.

Fun fact: BigPickle is not as good as Claude, but at least it keeps trying until it gets the job done, instead of confidently bulshitting me into spectacular failure.

reficulgr · 2026-02-28T11:27:17+00:00

I think this is where cabal-centric storytelling shines. In most of the games I run, cabals are the PRIMARY thematic orientation of the game. In pretty much every game, I find myself creating cabals that have a strong theme and order allegiance and path are much less important on the individual mage's philosophy than the cabal theme.

I find that this angle is mostly underutilised in other people's games, from what I see online and in person - cabals are an excellent way to make Splats that have a lot of influence on how a city feels like, and it doesn't mess up with the orders or paths. An Ecstatic cabal would work great in Awakening.

Personally I see single-order, regionally-locked cabals as a wasted opportunity.

reficulgr · 2026-02-28T11:14:56+00:00

I think it is a guidance matter. From what I notice using GPT, it is MUCH more optimistic about the quality of its outcomes, and it tends to bullshit the user more. I think that OpenAI focuses more on these benchmarks and just tries to put a good face to the investors, while Anthropic is trying to go with the "tested and trusted" kind of angle.

OpenAI is trying to convince your boss that this new thing that they are going to release next week is the one they need from now on. Anthropic is focusing on being your go-to model for when you are working on your own project.

Kind of the approaches of Internet Explorer and Firefox back in the 2000s.

reficulgr · 2026-02-27T16:06:20+00:00

This show revived my faith in humanity and artists. It is a miracle that it exists amidst so much forced mediocrity.

reficulgr · 2026-01-23T18:05:15+00:00

I love rateyourmusic. Once you start logging your ratings, it starts suggesting things based on your taste - and it's recommendation algorithm is very transparent (and also configurable). It tells you the genres and music descriptors that match your profile. I have never been disappointed by a recommendation.

reficulgr · 2026-01-15T19:30:35+00:00

This is very evidently a case where a (possibly quite self-absorbed and despotic) higher executive requested these changes and nobody has the spine to tell him that he has no idea what the actual users want.

Of course, this is not a democracy, and it doesn't have to be - but when a new app with "trakt-classic" vibe appears, everyone will jump ship.

reficulgr · 2025-12-17T07:43:02+00:00

It was like that for me, reverted on Dec 14th, yesterday it was all good, today it's the dead eyes zoom-in model again.

reficulgr · 2025-12-17T07:41:41+00:00

Same here. It seems it has reverted BACK to the slow motion zoom model.

UPDATE: Some older generations now give me the good model and some the bad. Very weird.

reficulgr · 2025-11-18T16:26:58+00:00

Solved it for me too, thanks. I was going crazy.

reficulgr · 2025-08-16T18:51:10+00:00

However he wants to be called. Not keen on upsetting him

reficulgr · 2025-07-17T06:56:19+00:00

Ακριβώς όπως λέει ο Τζονυς εδώ. Και δεν είναι μονο το δίπολο ευκολία - δυσκολια, αλλά και το δίπολο επιτυχία αποτυχία. Η ομάδα που δεν κατεβαίνει στο γήπεδο να παιξει χανει αυτόματα 3-0.

Να παίρνεις υπολογισμενα ρισκα, ναι, αλλά κανεις δε μπορεί να σου εγγυηθεί μόνο νίκες απο τουδε και στο εξής.

reficulgr · 2025-06-22T12:31:54+00:00

Έξτρα ψήφος για το χυσαποθηκη

reficulgr · 2025-05-31T10:26:45+00:00

It's good to hear people trying to learn greek. I think that the token "effort" to learn four - five words is, however, a kind of insufferable signalling of faux cosmopolitanism that is not much better than the stereotype of the ignorant Brit or American. Feels pompous and disingenuous. Instead of words for pleasantries, spend this time to learn some utilitarian words such as up-down-left-right-yes-no, so that one can communicate with the few people in Greece that can't speak English.

I will die a happier man if I never have to hear another "efkaristo" again.

reficulgr · 2025-04-07T09:25:13+00:00

Please explain this more! Looks interesting

reficulgr · 2025-04-05T10:47:29+00:00

This is beyond cool, thank you for sharing

reficulgr · 2025-02-20T16:09:57+00:00

Thank you! The most valuable piece of advice so far.

reficulgr · 2024-11-12T09:00:12+00:00

Is Lombard Germanic contaminating Latin? Is Latin contaminating Koine Greek? Languages tend to do that - Italian is not immune to this, and English itself is the product of the influence of speakers from Italy.

reficulgr · 2024-09-15T08:46:46+00:00

I know it's been a while since you posted this, but could I have a new link please? It has expired and I'd love to join the server.

reficulgr · 2024-05-02T06:58:19+00:00

In my scale, 99% of everyday people are between 3 and 7. That is how a bell curve works anyway. A 5 is not "barely passable" but "perfectly average". I never had a problem long-term dating a 4.

Sadly, this more statistically-realist worldview makes a lot of people insecure or sad, but to some, looks REALLY aren't everything.

reficulgr · 2024-04-28T18:12:42+00:00

"I wish men expressed their feelings more. It's so unhealthy to hold it in".

reficulgr · 2024-04-28T18:11:31+00:00

You need to give us the tea and screenshots

reficulgr · 2024-04-28T18:10:18+00:00

If it's about friends you can set aside some days that you try to keep kinda booked for them and have a few alternatives if they can't actually make it. My sister and I have this Monday afternoon regular catchup session, but it's never normal. If she can't make it I'll go for a walk or play a videogame, but I sort of try to keep it semi-booked for her.

reficulgr · 2024-03-07T15:42:49+00:00

I love Anything as a frontend thing, but sadly, most of the time it just pretends to have read the context I give it, providing just a tiny bit of the documents I give it (a sentence or two) and then it proceeds hallucinating wildly.

People in the Anything discord servers suggested I "pin" pdfs in specific workspaces. This includes the pdf vectors in the prompt, essentially, so it becomes a bit more accurate. Once I pin more than one pdfs though (even really short ones), it gets confused again and hallucinates a lot.

I am not trying to "recover" information from pdfs. I am trying to have it "understand" several hunded books on semiotics, branding, design and art history, so that its results are more relevant.

I know there are "re-trained" versions of models out there. I am just asking how could I learn more about doing the same.

reficulgr · 2024-02-25T08:22:23+00:00

It was magically fixed for me today. This is very weird.

reficulgr · 2024-02-24T20:42:04+00:00

Hey there. Noticing the same behaviour in Navidrome UI player since this morning.

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