Tallain

5 ms·

1.
by Tallain 8d ago
Sounds like you fundamentally misunderstand the thing people have against using AI for these pursuits. If your imagination or capability needed LLMs in order to unlock their full potential (as in, if you waited until AI removed the barriers
2.
by Tallain 17d ago
I don't know if this is aimed at me or not. I don't use this workflow; in fact I'm pretty bog-standard in many of the ways I use my computers. In any case, I don't see how expecting to be able to bring up a context menu
3.
by Tallain 20d ago
In this case it's not a context menu, it's just a menu. User experience is degraded, see GP's case. There is an expectation and a common paradigm which is intentionally ignored because the OS developers thought they knew bett
4.
by Tallain 20d ago
A few years back I threw Mint plus this theme on my old Thinkpad T430s. My intent was to use it for one thing and one thing only: writing. The theme helped me trick myself into thinking the machine was unusable for anything else.
5.
by Tallain 20d ago
This just in: multiple factors can contribute to the same result. Shocking!
6.
by Tallain 20d ago
I switched to Mint and never looked back. It's one of the easiest transitions IMO, and if you really miss Windows, you can bring the aesthetic with you: https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/themes/view/Chicag
7.
by Tallain 21d ago
It sounds like you haven't touched (or heard of?) any of the recent DOOM games.
8.
by Tallain 23d ago
I've driven from Mukdahan to Kanchanaburi to Trang provinces so my experience is not centered around the major cities at all. I don't know what poor luck or exotic adventures you may have had, but I never once struggled to find a
9.
by Tallain 23d ago
For the most part, yes, but I've gone much longer stretches without seeing a gas station in the US. To be fair, there's also no point in building gas stations at regular intervals in the desert or the many other long stretches o
10.
by Tallain 23d ago
In every part of Thailand I've been to outside BKK, there's a gas station almost every few kilometers on every major road. Almost every gas station has a public restroom that's open 24/7, unattended. The ones that don&#x
11.
by Tallain 28d ago
I mean, Raymond Chen has been writing The Old New Thing consistently for over 20 years. Nearly every single entry is interesting, informative, and illuminating, aimed at every facet of software engineering, old and new, over the decades. He
12.
by Tallain 29d ago
It's not that hard if you put in the effort and practice. But if you don't want to and still want to use an LLM, there are low-bar choices you can make (using a technical writing skill, using ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical Englis
13.
by Tallain 1mo ago
Yeah, a lot of non-visual components still require (or want) you to drag-and-drop them in the builder and edit many or most properties there. It's a weird thing to adjust to, and it often leads to a very cluttered view if you have a lo
14.
by Tallain 1mo ago
The RAD environment makes it insanely quick and easy to throw together a reasonably functional desktop app. Think WinForms on steroids. For all its age and the many cracks and seams, it's still very fast, easy for beginners and pros al
15.
by Tallain 1mo ago
In my experience, the parent's view and your view are an example of the divide between the Silicon Valley / startup mindset -- it doesn't need to last, it just needs to get us a paycheck so we can go on to the next paycheck -
16.
by Tallain 2mo ago
Radio Paradise ( https://radioparadise.com ) has been my go-to for years. Discovered a lot of great new music through here.
17.
by Tallain 2mo ago
You don't need it. The mouse functions perfectly fine without it. And you can even switch DPI when the mouse has a button to do that. The software allows for fine-tuned settings, button remapping, etc. It is awful software, to be sure,
18.
by Tallain 2mo ago
Thanks! I hate it! In awe at whatever inspired this though
19.
by Tallain 2mo ago
The death of what.cd was also the end of an era for me. I know "replacements" have popped up but the real value of what wasn't in the piracy, it was in the community. It was the best on the internet and nothing has taken its
20.
by Tallain 2mo ago
It's published but I would doxx myself by posting the link here -- I can email you if you'd like. Also, full disclosure, because this was written entirely for myself, the code behind it is 100% LLM generated. I set the specs and d
21.
by Tallain 2mo ago
Two things right now: 1. A music recommendation tool based on Last.fm scrobble history. It's graph-based, no ML or "fancy" techniques, but I've had good results with it so far. It builds recommendations based on a listen
22.
by Tallain 3mo ago
Another recommendation is LinearMouse. It lets you fix pretty much every problem that MacOS inflicts on mouse users: pointer acceleration, scroll behavior, click/button behavior. This and Karabiner make the OS much more usable for me.
23.
by Tallain 4mo ago
Very interested to know how you built this; I'd like to see similar data for my own dump even though I quit Spotify some time ago.
24.
by Tallain 4mo ago
There's also Reverse Shot: https://reverseshot.org/ The Dissolve alumni are all (mostly) writing at various publications: https://thedissolve.com/ While David Bordwell sadly passed, his blog is still a
25.
Simple Sabotage of Agents(alexschroeder.ch)
11 points by Tallain 5mo ago|3 comments
26.
by Tallain 5mo ago
Maybe silly is the wrong word. But sometimes I think I would make things easier on myself if I allowed some shade variants. It's good for me to keep the constraint though. I've been spending some time creating a Visual Studio them
27.
by Tallain 5mo ago
I do wish there was more conversation around the levels of blackness for dark modes. Black screen and white text is physically painful for me. I usually have to resort to reader mode, or open up dev tools and change colors myself, to make a
28.
by Tallain 5mo ago
This continues to be the most tiring response to any criticism of LLM output. It's pretty much guaranteed to show up at this point. I guess with similar enough input tokens, we're guaranteed the same output...
29.
by Tallain 5mo ago
Since when is a simulation equal to real world performance?
30.
by Tallain 6mo ago
In my experience, Codex / ChatGPT are better at telling you where you're wrong, where your assumptions are incomplete, etc., and better at following the system prompts. But more importantly, as a coding agent, it follows instructi

More ›