jgrahamc

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by jgrahamc 7d ago
Thanks for reposting that. Re-reading my own words made me well up a bit at the memories of that time and working with him. And the final technical meeting I had with him where I couldn't understand why he was being oddly stubborn abou
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Don't Stick Your SidePulse Pro in a Mac Studio(blog.jgc.org)
2 points by jgrahamc 7d ago|0 comments
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by jgrahamc 8d ago
I parodied this sort of thinking via my alter-ego, Brad Bradstone [1], in a post called "My Treadwater Desk" ( https://web.archive.org/web/20190802085907/http://doublestea... ). --- My Treadwater
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by jgrahamc 9d ago
Yeah. I own an LG TV also of about the same vintage. It doesn't get to talk to the Internet.
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by jgrahamc 10d ago
My worry is that if people can't express clearly, in writing, what it is they want to say then an LLM won't help them much. I've seen LLMs get the wrong end of the stick over and over and produce a huge chunk of text that&#x2
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by jgrahamc 10d ago
I take a different stance on your final point. I think people should absolutely not use AI tools for functional communication as a crutch because they struggle with writing clearly. They need to learn to write clearly. I believe there&#x2
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by jgrahamc 10d ago
I think the most important line in this post is: But LLMs are also lousy writers and (most importantly!) they are not you. When I was editing the Cloudflare blog I imposed very little in terms of style so that the style of each individual
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by jgrahamc 20d ago
One of the "evils" of premature optimization is how much time you spend on the optimization vs. the benefit you get from it. If your goal is correctness and shipping fast and you're not memory constrained then spending time u
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by jgrahamc 24d ago
Sure, but given that you see what the average looks like you understand that that perfect body is an exception.
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by jgrahamc 24d ago
"Being exposed to average bodies, to average humans, makes you readjust your perspective about what is normal, and what is acceptable, and what is beautiful," says Rachitskiy. I'm sure that's the crux of it. My own exp
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by jgrahamc 28d ago
Who knows? It's really weird. They made is so much worse... they even removed the red/blue colour coding for the yes/no buttons which made so much sense.
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For no apparent reason Oral-B removed flossing from their app(blog.jgc.org)
4 points by jgrahamc 28d ago|3 comments
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by jgrahamc 29d ago
Yeah. The formula isn't terribly complicated: don't eat crap and move your body in different ways. Despite doing exercise (including high intensity stuff like spin class) I was overweight and had a HOMA-IR of 3.8 (Moderate Insulin
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The Elevator Button Problem(blog.jgc.org)
11 points by jgrahamc 2mo ago|3 comments
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by jgrahamc 2mo ago
It also depends on the person understanding what the elevator button does: https://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/elevator-button-problem.html
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by jgrahamc 2mo ago
I get the same set of IPs when hitting 1.1.1.1, 1.1.1.2 and 1.1.1.3. Radar doesn't show it as classified as bad: https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/opencode.ai
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by jgrahamc 2mo ago
Huh?
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by jgrahamc 2mo ago
In the middle of my doctorate I had a mini-crisis of "I'm not smart enough and I'm never going to manage this", got mononucleosis, and decided the cure was the US equivalent (the USA Rail Pass: https://www.amt
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by jgrahamc 2mo ago
I have an Apricot with the little LCD display on the keyboard. Six membrane keys just under the LCD and each of those keys has an LED in the bottom left corner.
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by jgrahamc 2mo ago
https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai
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by jgrahamc 2mo ago
I've tried this with my own blog posts from blog.jgc.org and the result was... not good. It basically wrote something that read like a parody.
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by jgrahamc 2mo ago
I agree. It's very clearly a research prototype and they are talking about getting it working to do body composition.
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24 years today: "Dilemma" and the Nokia 9210 Communicator(hollawhenyougetthis.com)
3 points by jgrahamc 3mo ago|0 comments
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The eerie interface of man and machine (Life Magazine, October 1967)(blog.jgc.org)
2 points by jgrahamc 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jgrahamc 3mo ago
I am here but I retired from being CTO of Cloudflare in March 2025 [1] and the current CTO is Dane Knecht (dknecht here). What advantage does decoupling Cloudflare Containers from Cloudflare Workers have? [1] https://blog.cloudfl
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Growing the Cloudflare AI Team with Talent from Ensemble AI(blog.cloudflare.com)
2 points by jgrahamc 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jgrahamc 3mo ago
It's blog.jgc.org and you should read it if you like a mixture of electronics, programming, history of computing and just plain randomness.
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Kryptos(paradigm.xyz)
2 points by jgrahamc 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jgrahamc 3mo ago
More great on screen code moments (I haven't got round to Superman III, yet): https://behind-the-screens.tv But Superman III is not just REM statements.
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by jgrahamc 3mo ago
It was 100% not Excel: https://blog.jgc.org/2023/07/unfortunately-kelly-rowland-cou... Also, we're really close to the 24 year anniversary of "Dilemma": https://hollawhenyougetthis.com

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