spdustin

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by spdustin 3d ago
When all you have is a drawer-full of hammers, get yourself a mythical hammer. Clever name.
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by spdustin 3d ago
Excellent update, very speedy on upgrades now. Amazing what a little (safe) concurrency will do. Homebrew.app, however, has a show-stopper for me. "Failed to decode Homebrew JSON output" on the installed/upgrades panel. I&#x2
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by spdustin 5d ago
I have fond memories learning about Logo from Mr. Wizard!
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by spdustin 5d ago
Well... were , anyway.
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by spdustin 5d ago
I just have to say: I _hate_ with a white-hot fury the growing usage of html-load and error-report dot com bullshit on these sites. I block those domains for gratuitous ad-serving, and sites just cycle a modal error now. (I know, I could di
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by spdustin 10d ago
⇧˖⌘˖. (Shift-Command-Period) will show/hide hidden files in Finder
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by spdustin 12d ago
I'm so weary of seeing Claude-isms everywhere. It makes everything so much more of a cognitive burden to read, whether you're reading for leisure or comprehension.
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by spdustin 12d ago
ZDR = Zero Data Retention — they don't store your inputs/outputs.
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Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America'(macrumors.com)
14 points by spdustin 15d ago|5 comments
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by spdustin 18d ago
This is a lovely way to explore the sights! My feedback: 1. I wish the time scaling was persistent; I wanted to jump between solar system objects while keeping the accelerated time. A way to persist the scale would be lovely (maybe a slider
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by spdustin 20d ago
Please write your own posts on publishing sites like Medium. I really wanted to engage with this story, but the Claude-isms were just _so_ off-putting.
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by spdustin 22d ago
I legit spent 30 minutes just playing with this. Beautiful work.
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by spdustin 27d ago
Based on its indecisive and far-too-lengthy thinking traces when given complex instructions that span system and user messages, as well as a rudimentary stylometry (POS ratios in thinking traces, mainly) comparison with latest non-stealth m
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by spdustin 4mo ago
- “(The) honest caveat:” (or “genuine caveat:”, both with the colon) - “(The) honest answer:” (again, with colon) - “The thing to internalize:” - “The smoking gun:” (really, sentences that start with “The <tag suggesting the next clause
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by spdustin 7mo ago
It’s just still so trivial to jailbreak even the latest Anthropic models (via api, and not talking about the silly ENI or Pliny breaks) I don’t understand where the safety teams are doing their work. Is it in the default chat-trained model?
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by spdustin 1y ago
CarPlay is essentially a conditional pair of video inputs. Any system that supports on-screen rear-view camera and that has a wheel speed sensor can support CarPlay.
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by spdustin 1y ago
Well done! I’ve built this same sort of thing for my family to play with. My advice for the best results: 1) Structure the choices offered by the LLM; add “choice_type” and add instructions to the LLM on what those choices should do. E.g. a
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by spdustin 1y ago
Have to sign up even to see one response? Sorry, man. Good luck, though.
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by spdustin 2y ago
My answer to this in my own pet project is to mask terms found by the NER pipeline from being corrected, replacing them with their entity type as a special token (e.g. [male person] or [commercial entity]). That alone dramatically improved
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by spdustin 2y ago
From the /original/ repo [0]: Exercise vigilance regarding copycat or coat-tailing sites that seek to exploit the project's popularity for potentially malicious purposes. It is imperative to rely solely on information from h
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Verizon's mobile services are down across the country(theverge.com)
11 points by spdustin 2y ago|2 comments
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by spdustin 2y ago
Please don't do this. It's not substantive or helpful. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by spdustin 2y ago
One note: For truly "responsive" text (and other measures, like padding/margins), I often use relative units of measurement. At the very least, rem/em, but more and more I'm using viewport¹ (including dynamic) and c
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by spdustin 2y ago
Can confirm. My family has (collectively) cashed about $1,000 in settlement claims.
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by spdustin 2y ago
Well, my wife and I have been on a months-long experiment. We have HomePod minis, Macs and iPhones/iPads in the house. They are able to access the internet without restriction (other than using my own DNS resolver for ad/malware b
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by spdustin 2y ago
Or heaved out from freeze-thaw cycles, an excellent sign that it was nowhere near long enough in the first place.
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by spdustin 2y ago
It storms a lot here. And kids are notorious for not hearing things that are obvious to the rest of us. :) My kids aren't paranoid, they don't freak out about the storms. It's just a natural thing, and a reminder that there&#
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by spdustin 2y ago
Nobody's frightened. We enjoy the storms. :)
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by spdustin 2y ago
I learned long ago not to trust corporate homebuilders.
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by spdustin 2y ago
A similar one changes my LED-filled floor lamp (running WLED) to a pattern that matches the current weather conditions. Falling rain, lightning, heat "rising". Sort of an ambient notification system. Another warns my wife if her c

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