stevejb

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by stevejb 8d ago
I feel the same way. I don't like or dislike Stallman, and certainly disagree with him on a lot of stuff, but I can appreciate what he stands for and for GNU in general.
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by stevejb 9d ago
I distinctly remember my dad telling my "my .emacs file is older than you are." I'm 41!
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by stevejb 21d ago
I don't know enough about Github or Microsoft to say anything intelligent, but I agree with your sentiment in general. And, one thing is for sure - I have used Github for years, pushing many thousands of commits on personal, private pr
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by stevejb 22d ago
I have a Mac Studio M2 Max as my main driver. It's fantastic. I will get the best M5 Studio I can afford when the higher RAM options come out because I am very involved with local inference. I find that with Tailscale I can either use
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by stevejb 2mo ago
You can run GLM 5.2 at a reasonable quant on a cluster of DGX Sparks. On the link below, the guy is getting decent performance and links to a repo. An 8x Spark cluster can run it even better. A Spark cluster is about as good as it gets for
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by stevejb 6mo ago
Their bar graph showed that in almost every category except for accessories, the weights were pretty much identical.
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by stevejb 7mo ago
Yeah it seems like a cheap CNC drill which can drill holes in steel sheets would be something that would last basically forever. Something like this: TTC3018 CNC Router Machine 3-Axis Engraving Machine Metal Engraver GRBL Control with Built
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by stevejb 7mo ago
Hey I just did a bit of a deep dive into this. Wow, thanks for pointing this out. It seems like 'PEEK' would last the longest, but most printers can't do this. "Standard estimates for indoor PETG longevity are 10–20+ yea
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by stevejb 7mo ago
You can print QR code with different heights representing white or black. That piece of plastic would last a long time, and you could encode.....something. You could pint a version 40 (177x177) grid with a Prusa XL easily, and that would la
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by stevejb 7mo ago
Isn't this like saying that if better woodworking tools come out, and you like woodworking, that woodworking somehow 'isn't your craft'. They said that their craft is about making things. There are woodworkers on YouTube
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by stevejb 7mo ago
Hey! I built a Lego technic car once 20 years ago. I am fully confident that I can build an actual road worthy electric vehicle. It's just a couple of edge cases and a bit bigger right? /s
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by stevejb 8mo ago
Ah interesting. I have been using OpenCode more and more and I prefer it to Claude Code. I use OpenCode with Sonnet and/or Opus (among other models) with Bedrock, but paying metered rates for Opus is a way to go bankrupt fast!
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by stevejb 8mo ago
Is this still the case? Is Anthropic still not allowing access to OpenCode?
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by stevejb 8mo ago
Most AI agents have a 'bash mode' and, you can use Warp terminal which is terminal first, but easy to activate the AI from the terminal. For example, if you mangle a jq command, it will use AI to suggest the right way to do it.
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by stevejb 8mo ago
stephenbarr.ai
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by stevejb 11mo ago
Yeah, whenever there are human subjects there is an IRB which is necessary. But, beyond that, we didn't participate in the market in any way. We wanted to see if there was bias there, and how much of it. I think I may have used the wor
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by stevejb 11mo ago
Using the Propser.com data set (a peer-to-peer lending market), I used MTurk to analyze the images of people applying for a loan. This was used in a finance research project with 3 University of Washington professors of Finance. The idea wa
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by stevejb 11mo ago
On the show Full House S05E25 the character Michelle was learning to cook. She made tuna flavored ice cream. Uncle Jesse says something to the effect of "It's great that you like tuna and great that you like ice cream. You don&#x2
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by stevejb 11mo ago
> The sprinkler defaults to off to conserve water as the system is potentially unmonitored and a burst pipe could cause issues. I had a friend in Australia who ran cattle on his farm. Failing open would waste water, but failing closed wo
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by stevejb 11mo ago
It isn't clear that 'conserve water' is a reasonable default position. Perhaps 'keep doing what it was programmed to be doing' would be a better position?
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by stevejb 11mo ago
Amazon's revenue in 2024 was about the size of Belgium's GDP. Higher than Sweden or Ireland. It makes a profit similar to Norway, without drilling for offshore oil or maintaining a navy. I think they've got plenty of juice le
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by stevejb 11mo ago
I'm still on Carmen's Headline Viewer. I see no reason to swtich.
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by stevejb 1y ago
> "Blue text, while also a widely recognizable clickable-text indicator, is crass and distracting. Luckily, it is also rendered unnecessary by the use of underlining." Can someone explain this to me? I don't get the '
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by stevejb 1y ago
Isn't that completely circular then? E.g. "if there are no technologies which change $X, then we predict that $X will stay the same."
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by stevejb 1y ago
I use the Warp terminal and I can ask it to run —-help and it figures it out
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by stevejb 1y ago
I just saw Weird Al in concert, and one of my favorite songs of his is "Everything You Know is Wrong." This is the AWS version of that song! Nice work Corey!
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by stevejb 1y ago
> It's more a combination of a lack of a meaningful train system Doesn't the USA have the world's largest and most cost-effective rail freight network? This seems meaningful.
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by stevejb 1y ago
> Until we get superhuman autonomous coding agents the human in the loop grokking the generated code is still the limiting factor. They never get tired, work for pennies, can search the internet and your code base, follow rules, and iter
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by stevejb 1y ago
This is super cool. When I was doing a lot of math-related typesetting I found that I got really fast with Emacs + AuCTeX. I have no idea of the state of that project, but if you were fast you go at nearly the speed at which you could write
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by stevejb 2y ago
I think I generally agree with this take, with the caveat that I still hugely value AI generated art, even the kitsch stuff. Why? Because it's me. I wouldn't have been able to have a portrait of my wife and I together without find

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