errantmind

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by errantmind 1mo ago
What does this mean? I'm not plugging anything.
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by errantmind 1mo ago
Long context windows reduce performance and exceeding your context window is impossible. It should be a given that deleting context.. is just that. You do it when you must to preserve your session without compaction.
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by errantmind 1mo ago
The regular /prune command leaves tool call 'receipts', which includes the command executed and whether it succeeded or failed, but not results. The extended prune removes both. The how is important, but I've found all o
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by errantmind 1mo ago
In my experience, the best approach to compaction is to never get to the point where you need compaction and to generally stay below about 30% context window utilization. Even for long agentic workflows this can be accomplished for quite a
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by errantmind 5mo ago
You can be frugal without spending a lot of mental energy on your expenses. It seems contradictory but it is possible to 'live' frugally without thinking about money all that much (assuming you aren't broke and have positive
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by errantmind 5mo ago
You can also get excellent results with User Scripts that connect to a local language model. 1. Run LM Studio (download the Gemma 4 model), which has a 'local server' w/ API. 2. Use a more powerful LLM to write User Scripts (
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by errantmind 10mo ago
The best part about choosing a simple WM is you never have to think about it again. I installed and configured DWM many years ago and it just works. Never had a single issue after the first week. It is like when you buy an appliance and it
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by errantmind 1y ago
This article fails to mention that a lot of current commercial scale battery co-locations' purpose is to capitalize on rare but highly profitable periods where demand spikes and spot prices go up by, sometimes, multiple orders of magni
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by errantmind 1y ago
As someone who has used Firefox since 1.0 (~20 years ago), I fully support returning Mozilla's sole focus to its users. Huge amounts of 'free' money has a tendency to de-focus organizations.
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by errantmind 2y ago
This will lead to a game of 'homeless hot potato' among neighborhoods in larger cities as each pass ordinances that ban various 'homeless activities' in their borders.
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by errantmind 2y ago
Some interesting facts: * ERCOT (Texas) has more renewables generation than every other ISO, including CAISO (California) * ERCOT is setting new renewables records almost every month, as new renewables sites come online. Source: https:&#x2
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by errantmind 2y ago
I had the opportunity to hear a guest lecture of his in Colorado a little over 15 years ago which inspired my further study of philosophy at the time. He had a keen mind and will be missed.
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by errantmind 2y ago
For info, I checked and it looks like none of my AGPL licensed repos are included in The Stack. Neither are my private repos.
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by errantmind 3y ago
There is no evidence patents increase innovation. I suggest reading 'The Case Against Patents': https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/wp/2012/2012-035.p...
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by errantmind 3y ago
I've never gotten ads on Youtube with Firefox nor my Chromium-based browser. Maybe they didn't roll the adblocker-blocker out to everyone.
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by errantmind 3y ago
Seems weird to be writing about croissants here but the Costco croissants are no where near the quality of a croissant made by a skilled baker, to the degree it is hard to call them a croissant in anything but form. The ingredients, flavor,
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by errantmind 3y ago
Lifetime Pricing going to sink you. Best of luck though otherwise.
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by errantmind 3y ago
IMO, Suckless is about providing the minimal feature set possible. If you patch in an extra feature, that is what you get and nothing else. You always end up with exactly what you need and nothing more. Compare this to software where you on
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by errantmind 3y ago
People seem to forget the web existed before widespread advertising. Ads are not necessary for all content on the web and, personally, I'd be fine if every last ad supported site on the internet disappeared.
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by errantmind 3y ago
The statement is that it is shameful to grab for powers that invade the privacy of law abiding citizens.
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by errantmind 3y ago
> If you require the absolutely lowest latency possible though and don’t care about screen tearing then X without compositing, with VSync disabled is a better fit for you. You can re-evaluate once the possibility to have VSync disabled i
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by errantmind 3y ago
It is unfortunate but forced vsync means I will never adopt Wayland. I do not want a frame+ delay when I'm gaming. I do not want v-sync lag when my framerate occasionally drops below my 240hz refresh rate. I don't even especially
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by errantmind 3y ago
I live in the middle of a large city, in an old building, and don't really have noise issues. However, if I did I'd sound-proof my office. The noise insulation works both ways.
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by errantmind 3y ago
This post: A long article about weight loss that is built on a calorie-centric approach to food instead of questioning that fundamental premise and differentiating between types of fats and carbs and their effects on body weight. I've
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by errantmind 3y ago
> I even briefly used a tiling window manager before very quickly returning to the floating ones; the appeal of such utterly inflexible window management I will simply never understand. The author mentions this design in passing but I th
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by errantmind 3y ago
It means 83% of reviewers gave it a 'passing grade' which is defined as a 6/10+. The formulation is a way to collapse precise scores into a binary classification of thumbsup or thumbsdown. So, another way to put it would be 8
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by errantmind 3y ago
Living in the US, I often fantasize about living somewhere I can bike freely in the sense the article describes. Somewhere bikes are actually prioritized over cars, not just accommodated. Preferably no cars at all. So far, my search had com
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by errantmind 3y ago
Good to know and, yes, that was the issue (grub-mkconfig without grub-install). Somehow I've never had this issue in Arch before now and wasn't aware of this idiosyncrasy.. but now I know.
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by errantmind 3y ago
The parameter was unrelated to the issue with grub but I thought I'd mention the grub issue in case anyone else gets surprised like me.
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by errantmind 3y ago
The Linux mitigation can be disabled with gather_data_sampling=off in the kernel boot parameters. Be warned, apparently Grub had some kind of problem back in August 2022 and this pre-existing bug broke my boot completely when I updated grub

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