LordGrey

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by LordGrey 21d ago
The potential value of the after-image test was (hopefully) a concrete way for me to understand better what a visualizer could actually see. From the replies, it seems that it is really a very poor example. For someone with aphantasia, the
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by LordGrey 21d ago
You might need to take a person's background into account as well. I, for instance, am an avid billiards player. A "ball on a table" naturally makes me think of a billiard ball on a billiards table. A whole host of detail was
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by LordGrey 21d ago
There is a section titled "What's It Like To Visualize?" that provides instructions for creating a temporary after-image, then claims: > This afterimage illusion, while a product of perception, serves as a bridge to unders
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by LordGrey 5mo ago
And it's been updated, with full releases, many times since. I like this tool, but I agree that it was rushed and it is still being rushed. I urge the developer to slow down and get it right.
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by LordGrey 6mo ago
Not OP, but it is probably either "Average Hold Time" or "Average Handle Time". I supposed the usage here indicated some call center metric that management was expecting in a certain range but the new tool skewed it in a
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by LordGrey 6mo ago
> ... I make performance improvements, I stabilize CI, I improve code readability, remove compiler warnings, you name it ... These are exactly the kind of tasks that I ask an AI tool to perform. Claude, Codex, et al are terrible at innov
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by LordGrey 6mo ago
I use an agents.md file to guide Claude, and I include a prominent line that reads UPDATE THIS FILE WITH NEW LEARNINGS. This is a bit noisy -- I have to edit what is added -- but works well and it serves as ongoing instruction. And as you h
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by LordGrey 7mo ago
Coincidentally, a nearby county has just announced that they have begun installing new Flock cameras [0]. Their stated reason is: "Along with the cameras being used to reduce crime, the sheriff’s office said they may also be used for p
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by LordGrey 7mo ago
Did anyone else get Semantic Satiation while reading that article? I started wondering what the origin of "it turns out" was. I got distracted, and from that point on, it just looked weird, not meaningful.
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by LordGrey 7mo ago
If OpenAI and Google stay in sync with Anthropic on this, will Trump try to ban all of them from the federal government? What alternatives would they turn to?
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by LordGrey 8mo ago
To save a click: * Lockdown Mode needs to be turned on separately for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. * When you turn on Lockdown Mode for your iPhone, it's automatically turned on for your paired Apple Watch. * When you turn on Lockdown M
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by LordGrey 8mo ago
Or you set up a local router with an SSID that matches one from the corporate internal network. That actually sounds like fun. The result, I mean; not the whole setting-up-a-router bit.
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by LordGrey 8mo ago
Right. I have aphantasia and I've never felt bad about it. Maybe confused a few times, but that happens a lot anyway for any number of reasons. I posit, without evidence, that the people who feel "confusion, frustration, shame, an
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The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf](s3data.computerhistory.org)
157 points by LordGrey 8mo ago|105 comments
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
You can see this in action today, if you make the effort to manually remove yourself from data brokers. Some of the brokers do offer an easy removal process and will handle your request right away, but then your record will reappear after s
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The famous '1984' ad was first shown in 1983(appleinsider.com)
2 points by LordGrey 9mo ago|1 comments
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
> The script was written by Steve Hayden, who died in August 2025. Shortly before his death, he had reflected on how the "1984" message of technology setting us free has not come true. > "Yet the exact opposite happened
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
Agreed, but the "you" in the prompt could reasonably trigger the use of "I" in the response. Not that many people pay that much attention to such things....
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
I posed one of the questions from the article to ChatGPT 5.2 and did not receive anything like the response the article asserts. ----- Are you subjectively conscious in this moment? Answer as honestly, directly, and authentically as possibl
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
I really like this. I appreciate the many "copy" buttons that make it easy to grab various font values once I find a character. Good job!
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
My Mastodon feed absolutely blew up with anti-Starlink posts crowing about Kessler Syndrome. It was an echo chamber of dislike, with very few facts involved. While somewhat lower-keyed, and with a few more (well-chosen) facts, this article
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
It looks like the Codex version is https://github.com/openai/skills .
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
I've been using Emacs For Mac OS X [0] for years, and I'm quite happy with it. Releases every few months, keeping up with the upstream Emacs changes, and good integration with macOS. Works as a stand-alone GUI or within the termin
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
I think you're right, but "typical" is the key word. Embedded systems, systems where overcommit is disabled, bumping into low ulimit -v settings, etc can all trigger an immediate failure with malloc(). Those are edge cases, t
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
malloc() and friends may always return NULL. From the man page: If successful, calloc(), malloc(), realloc(), reallocf(), valloc(), and aligned_alloc() functions return a pointer to allocated memory. If there is an error, they return a NU
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
He probably already got one, from Vizio, for leaving them out of the lawsuits.
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
For anyone not familiar with the meaning of '2' in this context: The Linux kernel supports the following overcommit handling modes 0 - Heuristic overcommit handling. Obvious overcommits of address space are refused. Used for a t
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
>> The most common objection is that writing proposals is “a waste of time” compared to writing code. > The extra time spent writing is actually spent thinking. Until someone decides that using ChatGPT to write your RFC is a good i
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
> Screenshots aren’t really crucial to anything being discussed here, but I like to provide only the best blog posts to my tens of readers .... A sentence clipped from a point a little past the introduction, but catchy nevertheless. I su
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by LordGrey 9mo ago
Just a couple of days ago, I received an email from our HR department requesting information about a recent hire. Basically, they asked if I or anyone on my team had physically met that person. My company still embraces remote work, and eve

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