ryanianian

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by ryanianian 11mo ago
The "enshittification" hasn't happened yet. They'll add ads and other gross stuff to the free or cheap tiers. Some will continue to use it, but there will be an opportunity for self-hosted models to emerge.
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by ryanianian 11mo ago
I absolutely adore TextMate, but it hasn't kept up. It will often fail to respond to the `mate` terminal command, or it will take many seconds to start even on my mostly vanilla M4 Max.
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by ryanianian 1y ago
I really want a fixed-width font. I know most people dislike writing prose with monospace fonts. But I'm a developer, and proportional fonts always feel wrong.
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by ryanianian 1y ago
Chicken feed can be nutritionally complete. We've industrialized chicken nutrition.
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by ryanianian 1y ago
Not sure if it's still in use, but for a very long time, AWS billing relied on getting usage data via rsync.
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by ryanianian 1y ago
Watt is not a unit of energy but instead a unit of power. A brain may need 20 watts, but it may use 20 watts for a lot more time than ChatGPT would. The brain may ultimately be more power-efficient, but the units you want are watt-hours.
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Why is it "abusing," and what would you suggest as an alternative?
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Could there be a different smell or air-flow coming from one side versus the others? My apartment building has identical elevator lobbies. I thought my dog was smart by not leaving the elevator on seemingly identical incorrect floors. But a
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Really cute. But I really want the ability to put the different tabs -- Brief, Workspace, Schema -- side-by-side. I know SQL and wanted to play with this, but the UX was frustrating enough to drive me away, even though it is really pretty.
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by ryanianian 2y ago
I get you're being snarky, but I'll politely push back. I remained skeptical for a long time. Then I got one. I absolutely love it. In particular, the ability to have multiple notebooks with me and cross-linking via tags. And &quo
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Recruiters and agents have been solving this problem for years. Firms hire a recruiter for jobs that they actively want to fill. Applicants hire a job agent. Those two meet. Very little incentive for spam in this relationship. The problem,
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by ryanianian 2y ago
FWIW there are several third-party mobile applications that work just fine to operate Sonos equipment. The speakers expose a few SOAP-based APIs to any clients on the LAN. Those allow for track control, grouping, etc. They don't allow
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by ryanianian 2y ago
PHP trivially scales up to multiple nodes behind an LB. You're really only limited by your backend storage connection count and throughput. Go and friends may make for more efficient resource utilization, but it will be marginal in the
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Frodo's eating a green-screen-like blob that your TV erases to add in a Big Mac. The car Vin Diesel is driving gets automatically replaced by the 2035 Audi. The actor just mumbles a thing, and the TV replaces it with company names in t
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Even if you don't click it, you still receive the message. A big part of marketing is repeating the same thing over and over again in multiple forms so it sticks with you long enough to inform a purchasing decision.
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by ryanianian 2y ago
A "correct" implementation would give you a temporary IAM role or something (STS) based on a JWT or other authn mechanism. This is not that difficult if you're already invested in an identity ecosystem, but a right pain witho
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Magic wormhole is great for live, peer-to-peer transfers. But it is not great if you want to distribute a file multiple times, asynchronously, or with other functionality gained from centralized storage. This is where people typically use e
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Please elaborate.
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by ryanianian 2y ago
For anyone curious about the vulnerabilities, this Ars article from November 2024 is a good read: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/11/micro...
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by ryanianian 2y ago
std::move is just a cast operation. A better name might be std::cast_as_rvalue to force the overload that allows it to forward to move constructors/etc that intentionally "destroy" the argument (leave it in a moved-from state
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Even zooming on desktop (firefox on macos) is broken. I want to zoom in to see the street names and investigate the images, but the site makes it impossible. I can download the images to my desktop, but they are low resolution. What a cool
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by ryanianian 2y ago
This is fun. The UI and concept are well-executed. I wish it did farnsworth timing, though. The idea is that the individualy characters play at full 30 words per minute speed, but the characters are spaced to be at your target listening rat
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Obligatory warning that SSRI withdrawals can be extremely dangerous. I was on Lexapro for a minute. It worked for a bit, but then I started to not care about anything. A certain amount of anxiety/emotional swing is important for my hum
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by ryanianian 2y ago
It is largely unenforced by the FCC directly, but ham operators can (and do) use directional antennas to find you in many cases. Once reported the FCC does take violations seriously.
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by ryanianian 2y ago
> workflow engines are somewhat of a design smell Probably so, but the real design smell seems to be thinking of a workflow engine as a panacea for sustainable business process automation. You have to really understand the business flow
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Google no longer (hasn't in a while) respected quotes. It's very hard to get Google to actually say there aren't any results even when in fact there are no matching results.
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Sometimes you really do want exactly that "random" string. This is common with error messages, model numbers, build hashes, etc. If I'm searching for B9GDSIGH as the model number for my refrigerator, I really don't want
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Humans are really good pattern matchers. We can formalize a problem into a mathematical space, and we have developed lots of tools to help us explore the math space. But we are not good at methodically and reliably exploring a problem-space
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by ryanianian 2y ago
Sure, but those are heuristics and feedback loops. They are not guaranteed to give you a solution. An LLM can never be a SAT solver unless it's an LLM with a SAT solver bolted on.
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by ryanianian 2y ago
(Not an AI researcher, just someone who likes complexity analysis.) Discrete reasoning is NP-Complete. You can get very close with the stats-based approaches of LLMs and whatnot, but your minima/maxima may always turn out to be local r

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