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by davely 5d ago
In 2004, I visited New Zealand. It was my first international trip as part of a 6 week long geology field camp. One of the coolest experiences was getting to visit the Fox Glacier and Franz Josef Glacier on the South Island. Checking this o
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by davely 15d ago
In my opinion, this is a bit disingenuous. They were _temporarily_ increased in May by 50% [1]. They continued to extend them through July and August (admittedly, their messaging around this has just been a complete mess and they frequently
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by davely 1mo ago
Perhaps! But I do think the vocabulary issue is real and I think LLMs are still sycophantic enough that they won’t really challenge someone or offer alternative ideas on how to implement something unless they explicitly ask. Interestingly a
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by davely 3mo ago
With the way subscription models and terms of use have been evolving over time, even if you buy a futuristic robotic assistant outright, you won’t really “own” it.
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by davely 3mo ago
Excuse me! I hide them in a rats nest under my desk like a civilized person.
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by davely 4mo ago
I built something similar awhile back [1] and used OpenAI’s tokenizer playground [2] to recalculate tokens on a giant block of lorem ipsum text. I feel like this gives a much more accurate representation. [1] https://dave.ly&#x2F
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by davely 4mo ago
Dear Cliff, I'm sorry to hear that you must have died right after we visited you in May of 2024 [1]. But I'm glad that you've figured things out and that you are now alive again! I imagine that's a much better state of a
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by davely 5mo ago
Haha! Instead, you’ll get a robot that will make you art, music, and tell you stories and you get to toil away cleaning the house.
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by davely 5mo ago
> With Airdrop you have trivially easy, "just works" sharing with people in proximity. Funny enough, I encounter so many problems trying to share things via AirDrop with friends, family, and even my own Apple devices that I jus
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by davely 5mo ago
I’ve been on the Claude Code train for a while but decided to try Codex last week after they announced the $100 USD Pro plan. I’ve been pretty happy with it! One thing I immediately like more than Claude is that Codex seems much more transp
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by davely 7mo ago
I’d be interested where you’re getting your data. SteamDB shows an accelerating trend of game releases over time, though comparing January 2026 to January 2025 directly shows a marginal gain [0]. This chart from a16z (scroll down to “App S
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by davely 7mo ago
Oh my, this brings me back! One of my fondest gaming memories involves a massive Civilization 3 PBEM match between a number of Civilization fan sites, where we all had private forums and ran these virtual nations against each other. This wa
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by davely 8mo ago
Point of clarification: llama.cpp is MIT-licensed. Using it downstream (commercially or otherwise) is exactly what that license allows, so calling it a rip-off is misleading.
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by davely 8mo ago
I've been using GLM 4.7 alongside Opus 4.5 and I can't believe how bad it is. Seriously. I spent 20 minutes yesterday trying to get GLM 4.7 to understand that a simple modal on a web page (vanilla JS and HTML!) wasn't display
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by davely 8mo ago
This is a bit reductive. For what it’s worth, I’ve used Vue and don’t like it (stuff like custom directives that are nonstandard html, not as explicit about event handling and data flow, etc). I’ve seen a lot of buzz (particularly on HN) ab
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by davely 8mo ago
I work on a React based web app in my Day Job and have genuinely enjoyed it. That said, it always feels like so much boilerplate to get up and running for a greenfield project (and things like NextJS or even TanStack Start add a lot of thin
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by davely 8mo ago
Been going at it since 2003! It's a blog but links to all my open source work, and as of late, I talk a lot of various projects I work on and random rabbit holes I fall into. https://daveschumaker.net
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by davely 8mo ago
This number can mean wildly different things depending on the size of your house (and location). I live in the Bay Area, CA in a 1,500 square foot house and consumed 7.8MWh in 2025 and 7.6 MWh in 2024. Digging a bit more into our solar syst
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by davely 8mo ago
It seems fine? After all, Claude, codex and Gemini-cli are all distributed via npm.
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by davely 8mo ago
Hah! I’ve done something similar. I created a bunch of pre-defined voice messages with Eleven Labs and then have a script that randomly calls them via the same hooks. https://github.com/daveschumaker/homebrew-claude-sou
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by davely 8mo ago
I’ve long felt the same way. I think this will eventually happen but there’s going to be a lot more starving artists and other producers of emotionally meaningful works before we get there. The interesting problem down the line will be how
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by davely 8mo ago
Claude Code provides a headless mode that you can do this exact same thing with: $ claude -p “fix the eslint in file XYZ”
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by davely 9mo ago
While I personally find that generative AI has helped me be more productive and even boosted my ability to learn things, I really _dislike_ that we’ve normalized this behavior: Whether a Jira ticket, an email, a yearly review, we feed bulle
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by davely 9mo ago
I gave a talk in 2015 that did the same thing with my tweet history (about 20K at the time) and how I used it as source material for a Twitter bot that could reply to users. [1] It was pretty fun! [1] https://youtu.be/rMmXdi
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by davely 9mo ago
Hah. I wonder how someone could miss that, but it does kind of look like one of those “sign up for our newsletter” types of elements. Maybe many of us are just subconsciously blocking those types of things out now because it’s so pervasive.
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by davely 9mo ago
Apple’s screen time parental settings are some of the most obtuse and frustrating features I’ve had to navigate on their devices (so much, that I honestly wonder if the people behind it even have kids). I’m glad they exist but they could be
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by davely 10mo ago
About a month ago, the mobo for my 5950x decided to give up the ghost. I decided to just rebuild the whole thing and update from scratch. So went crazy and bought a 9800X3D, purchased a ridiculous amount of DDR5 RAM (96GB, which matches my
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by davely 10mo ago
I think they are also absolutely addicted to cruddy pay to win mobile games and they don’t want to give up that sweet drip feed of IAP that they get a 30% cut of… which is substantial. For funsies, try searching App Store apps and find a wa
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by davely 1y ago
I don’t care all that much for the book, but I often think of a passage Samuel Huntington wrote in The Clash of Civilizations: “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority i
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by davely 1y ago
More and more, I am thinking all my local development environments for Node / JavaScript projects need to be setup in a sandboxed VM.

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