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by chrbr 2mo ago
Diffity has a “tour” feature that can be directed to explain a local code change. Walks you through the important bits of the change with explanations. https://github.com/nilbuild/diffity
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by chrbr 3mo ago
Got it.
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by chrbr 11mo ago
I know nothing about the reasoning behind the original decision from Synology, nor the internal politics at play, but typically the customer support tail is not wagging the dog of the rest of the company. Might be bias/anecdata from th
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by chrbr 1y ago
Aren't warnings always positioned as being a more immediate threat than watches? https://www.weather.gov/safety/tsunami-alerts
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by chrbr 1y ago
I’ve also struggled with over-analyzing where stuff should go. I’ve restarted a new Obsidian vault based on PARA [1], and am experimenting with using LLMs (both Cursor and Claude Code) to help me decide where stuff should go. Been a big hel
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by chrbr 1y ago
F1TV had some fun with it in their usual post-race programming: Joylon Palmer (F1TV announcer) did a deadpan "breakdown" of the Lego race during his segment, and Sam Collins analyzed the aerodynamics of the Lego cars in his. The d
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by chrbr 1y ago
This is what I don't get. We don't have masses of unemployed people waiting in the ranks to fill a large amount of new jobs, as unlikely an outcome as that even is. Which means any large uptick in people working in manufacturing w
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by chrbr 2y ago
Yeah, we've used CAPTCHAs to great effect as gracefully-degraded service protection for unauthenticated form submissions. When we detect that a particular form is being spammed, we automatically flip on a feature flag for it to require
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by chrbr 2y ago
I agree, I love the Mazda approach to this in my CX-50. I'm not even sure if the display is touchscreen or not, because I always use the wheel-clicker thingie in the console to control it. This was an intentional design choice from Maz
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by chrbr 2y ago
The paper calls out a few things that they didn't cover: > The CCC+TL model predicts the age of the Universe as 26.7 Gyr against the generally accepted value of 13.8 Gyr. This is of deep concern and needs the model validation agains
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by chrbr 2y ago
Unfamiliar with academia here, and I can't quite figure it out from TFA - does a retraction always imply wrongdoing, instead of mere "wrongness?" Or are papers sometimes retracted for being egregiously wrong, even if their me
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by chrbr 3y ago
The entire home-buying process (in the US, at least) seems to be built on shady-looking ways to nickel and dime people. I remember telling friends when going through it that it'd be easy to scam me because I got so used to urgent reque
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by chrbr 3y ago
Yeah, I like that improvement/clarification. Good assertion. Now I wonder if it changes my stance: are the path modern LLMs are on ever going to replicate this environment for acquiring new information that humans currently operate in?
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by chrbr 3y ago
I agree. A thought experiment I had recently: Let's say we could somehow train an LLM on all written and spoken language from the western Roman civilization (Republic + Western Empire, up until 476 AD/CE, just so I don't mudd
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by chrbr 3y ago
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I've used YNAB for almost a decade now, but wish it were more powerful for things like investment tracking. I tried last month to get into the ledger systems (beancount, specifically), but it's a h
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by chrbr 3y ago
Cannot wait for my Intel MBP to be refreshed into an M2 at work. Running Docker turns it into a jet engine. Like having a white noise machine with an unpleasant tone that also generates a ton of heat.
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by chrbr 3y ago
Is there a commonly-recommended introductory text for IFS? I've always found it interesting, and it resonates with me, given my internal monologue(s).
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by chrbr 3y ago
Yep, when I realized I was going deep down the money rabbit-hole of fine-tuning my homelab to grab and serve this stuff is when I just switched back to streaming. Monetarily it'll probably be a wash in the long run for me.
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by chrbr 3y ago
Yep, that's exactly what sparked the idea.
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by chrbr 3y ago
Huh, I had an idea recently to make an API-only game like that. Would let people build their own tools/GUIs and go as crazy as they'd like with building their own AI to control their empire. Just feels extremely niche, even if i
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by chrbr 3y ago
Even with my racing sim rig, I find myself using my curved monitor more than the Quest 2. It's just such a pain to re-calibrate and update the software and tweak my graphics settings every time I want to hop in that I usually just don&
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by chrbr 3y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I know the price points are way different between what Apple's putting forward and what Meta was shipping, but Apple's vision and tech here blows Meta's out of the water. Meta seemed to be app
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by chrbr 3y ago
When I was house-hunting I ended up writing a console app for my wife and I to do a few things: - Pulled down applicable YNAB savings envelope balances and future income calculations from a Google Sheets spreadsheet (which included stock pr
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by chrbr 3y ago
The "hack" that a couple of the comments in this chain are referring to is only ever taking cabs _from_ a major airport into a city. Often you don't have to play the waiting-on-someone-to-show-up game, there's just a lin
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by chrbr 3y ago
Really enjoying the Wikipedia rabbit-hole this led to. Never knew the Normans made it that far south.
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by chrbr 3y ago
Not often, and I like it that way. I enjoy being around people who are demonstrably better in some dimension. It's a great way to learn something new all the time.
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by chrbr 3y ago
What sort of expectations are you seeing that you'd call absurd, out of curiosity? No agenda here, just also trying to sort through hype and reality.
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by chrbr 3y ago
Agree, and for things like cognitive behavioral therapy, where the "rules" are well-known and well-represented in its training corpus, it's amazing.
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by chrbr 3y ago
Whomst among us hasn't made the old "accidentally let the SSL cert expire" mistake?
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by chrbr 4y ago
Related term I came across the other day: internal locus of control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control

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