ericrallen

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by ericrallen 5mo ago
I may be a biased Genesis Kid, but SEGA was always ahead of its time.
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by ericrallen 5mo ago
Blocking Pinterest and those ad-riddled Stack Overflow clones that were everywhere has been a game changer. Only seeing the `old.reddit.com` domain is also much more pleasant. The search results page no longer feels adversarial.
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by ericrallen 7mo ago
The rate of Issues opened on a popular repo is at least one order of magnitude beyond the number of Issues whoever is able to deal with them can handle.
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by ericrallen 9mo ago
Just trying to triage and tag all of them can still be a full-time job’s worth of work in a popular repo.
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by ericrallen 10mo ago
ISPs also have different levels of service for different entities, and seem to just barely care about you as a customer. An ISP (like one that starts with the first letter of the alphabet and ends with a common abbreviation for an explosive
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by ericrallen 10mo ago
Not another one. The bears broke my brain enough the first time I encountered that “stain” where my memory clearly had it labeled “stein.”
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by ericrallen 11mo ago
I hate in-app browsers, too, but there is a Slack setting that will let you open in Chrome or Safari (choosing Safari opens whatever your default iOS browser is). You can change the Browser Application setting under Preferences after tappin
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by ericrallen 11mo ago
This seems to completely ignore, and maybe even dismiss, the lived experience of all the kids who weren’t diagnosed or treated but who developed coping mechanisms to survive school and adolescent life, then found those mechanisms incapable
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by ericrallen 1y ago
Switching search engines is a pretty low lift, especially if the one you are switching from is an ad-riddled mess where you can’t actually find what you’re looking for. Switched to Kagi awhile back and 10/10 would recommend. The cost i
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by ericrallen 1y ago
There are some pretty awesome small, unique bars in Boston, but there could be so, so many more if the liquor license laws and rent prices were more reasonable, though.
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by ericrallen 1y ago
We’ll just have an LLM write the tests. Now we can work on our passion projects and everything will just be LLMs talking to LLMs.
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by ericrallen 1y ago
Interestingly, the Kagi Assistant managed to find this thread while researching the question, but every model I tested (without access to the higher quality Ultimate plan models) was unable to retrieve the correct answer. Here’s an example
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by ericrallen 1y ago
Maybe there is some optimization logic that only appends tool details that are required for the user’s query? I’m sure they are trying to slash tokens where they can, and removing potentially irrelevant tool descriptors seems like low-hangi
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by ericrallen 1y ago
Do the project a favor and remove the sticky nav bar on mobile. It takes up almost half the screen and makes the content nearly impossible to digest.
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by ericrallen 1y ago
Good point! I forgot there was a smaller one out there already. OpenAI’s naming conventions have gotten out of hand. I believe the “o” is supposed to mean “Omni” and indicate that the model is multi-modal.
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by ericrallen 1y ago
Seems a bit unfair (or maybe just ill-informed?) to lump this in with the confusing mess that is model naming at OpenAI. The parameter count is more more useful and concrete information than anything OpenAI or their competitors have put int
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by ericrallen 1y ago
I know there is actual data and then there’s “anecdata,” but it’s hard to reconcile the “jobs go unfilled,” and the experience I know of everyone actually looking for a job right now (and having just recently finished looking myself). It wa
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by ericrallen 1y ago
I don't disagree with you, but one interesting consideration is that embedding it in a web page seems better than most other distribution mechanisms if you want average people to use it. Even among a technical crowd, most folks don&#x2
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by ericrallen 1y ago
This is a bummer. Went to Life and Trust in January and really enjoyed it. We were hoping to go back later this year. I only made it to Sleep No More once before it ended, and wish that I had gone a couple more times. The Life and Trust spa
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by ericrallen 1y ago
It’s probably worth noting that they do offer a refund of your subscription price if you don’t perform searches in a given month, which is pretty much the opposite of how every other company with a subscription works. It wasn’t a day one fe
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by ericrallen 1y ago
“Allowing zoom” and “being responsive” are not two states at odds with one another. Preventing zooming is a serious accessibility issue and it makes the content worse for every user. If you’re properly setting responsive widths, a large eno
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by ericrallen 1y ago
This is kind of a ridiculous take. Not going to speak for the author, but some of us just want to be able to write a blog post and publish it in our free time. We're not trying to "maintain systems" for fun. Some of those pos
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by ericrallen 1y ago
Based on the website, was this published in 2016? The job market in 2016 is unrecognizable to anyone who has had to look for a job recently. It is absolutely brutal out there right now, and this feels a bit detached from reality.
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by ericrallen 1y ago
Given the way accessibility is often an afterthought at best, this is a really good question. Would love to hear about some of the experiences that screen reader users and other folks who use assistive technology have with things like getti
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by ericrallen 2y ago
Just as a heads up, the Firefox iOS app makes it super easy to set Kagi to your default search engine. I think it might have even just sync’d over from my desktop settings? I never even thought about it, it just worked.
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by ericrallen 2y ago
This really needs some explainer text about what it’s proposing as an alternative and links to reference implementations, current research, etc. I’m sure most of us would love to see what comes next after LLMs have found their upper bounds.
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by ericrallen 2y ago
The article body uses “sycophantic” or some form of the word about a dozen times. It’s probably not an ideal word for an article title because - based purely on my own anecdotal evidence and conjecture - it’s one of those words that a lot p
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by ericrallen 2y ago
It sounds like that particular someone might have had a vested interest in maintaining the current (terrible) status quo around filing taxes in America. The rest of us hate it.
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by ericrallen 2y ago
Logging in to a search engine weirded me out at first, but after about a week I was so pleased with the results that I’ve been happily paying for almost a year now. I honestly feel like any major free search engine is probably doing more to
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by ericrallen 2y ago
This is sort of apocryphal - and also anecdotal because I have my own personal experience living in an annexed Boston neighborhood to draw on - but in a lot of the towns/neighborhoods that have been annexed by Boston, people still use

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