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by whacked_new 3d ago
This is great! I remember being extremely impressed by Boris Johnson's "great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies" insult. How does one come up with such a string of words? I would've used this as a study resource.
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by whacked_new 10d ago
I guess there's going to be a perfume that breaks down 2-noneal on the market soon. Tangentially, in my 20s I was in an audience seating and sat next to an old person. And I smelled a new kind of odor. It was displeasing, but not like
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by whacked_new 2mo ago
It's also because exercise requires exertion, which is effortful, and most people who need the exercise would rather spend money to not have to exert. Does it pain me to say it? Nah, I'm numb :-/
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by whacked_new 2mo ago
I'm convinced this is true, and think music piracy in the classical sense will be mostly dead in the near future, thanks to AI, which already absorbed most of the pirating and has token-tumbled all the elements so that what most people
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by whacked_new 2mo ago
Here's one that I just ordered myself: https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-epaper-1.54.htm temperature, humidity, audio in AND out!!!
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by whacked_new 2mo ago
Ouch, shade on the SensorPush. I had 2 and I got 2 more. It requires an app, but they're quite well made imho. But yes, open source would be better. If physical portability is not a requirement, Xiaomi hygrometer 2 with this custom fir
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by whacked_new 2mo ago
I'm really happy to see these rewrites. It shows what's possible, especially as the projects get more and more complex. And maybe Remacs will get reactivated https://github.com/remacs/remacs/wiki/Pro
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by whacked_new 2mo ago
q3dm17 in the browser... what a time to be alive
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by whacked_new 2mo ago
this is low key one of the few things that I think of doing for the rest of my life, though my bias is towards seaweed farming and related ecosystems
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by whacked_new 3mo ago
Somewhat related is stavros's method to compress 500KB to something like 50 bytes https://www.stavros.io/posts/compressing-images-with-stable-... main drawback is that it's not lossless ;-) but this is great.
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by whacked_new 3mo ago
Another potential weakness that isn't immediately clear from this experiment is if the experiment was run much longer (disregarding cost) then perhaps then the agent's memory could be susceptible to more long term memory compactio
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by whacked_new 3mo ago
If the threat model was weighted by the stakes, then I wonder how the author would reassess their comfort level. Put to the extreme, the experiment could be whether the AI assistant could be trusted to keep a dangerous AI in a box a la htt
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by whacked_new 3mo ago
In my interpretation, 躺平 (tang ping / "lay flat") and 摆烂 (bai lan / ..."let it rot" I guess) overlap in meanings in the "do nothing" aspect, but in the tang ping / lay flat case, it is out of lea
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by whacked_new 3mo ago
Somehow the Chinese phrases 内卷 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijuan and 摆烂 ("let it rot" https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%93%BA%E7%88%9B ) are quite appropriately used, even in styl
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by whacked_new 3mo ago
I recently sifted through a bunch of tagged entries in a text file, where each entry had a json array of image names, but the images resided on a remote server. I basically wanted a program that could detect if the cursor was on an image na
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by whacked_new 5mo ago
I work a lot in the terminal and so vim/nvim is what I open the most, but the rise of LLMs has actually increased my use of Emacs recently. It fits in a niche of rapid interactive text processing. For example, I just found myself havin
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by whacked_new 5mo ago
wait, I'm intrigued, it says the blog itself is lean code. How? It's rendered, like pollen?
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by whacked_new 6mo ago
I'm a little sad that VSO languages didn't start the computing revolution because if they did, we would all be writing LISP. But instead, we are relegated to Python and JavaScript!
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by whacked_new 6mo ago
I think another part of it is culture. Outside of Western tech circles there's far less a culture (it feels) to invent new languages. To my knowledge Ruby's Matz is the only notable exception, and he's highly unusual as a Jap
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Vibenchmarking different JSON schema validator CLI tools(github.com)
1 points by whacked_new 7mo ago|0 comments
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by whacked_new 8mo ago
Circa GPT-3.5 to GPT-4o I was involved in some research in figuring out how to make LLMs funny. We tried a bunch of different things, from giving it rules on homonym jokes [1], double-entendre jokes, fine tuning on comedian transcripts, to
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by whacked_new 8mo ago
What sillysaurusx said, good on you.
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by whacked_new 8mo ago
I spent some time reorganizing the code in my gist into a repo for better change tracking at https://github.com/whacked/inline-interactive-forms.el I also pulled vui.el into the dev setup and basically instructed the a
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by whacked_new 8mo ago
I haven't thought through the entire use case. But it loosely revolves around the interaction designs provided by org-mode, ipython/jupyter notebooks, atuin desktop, aka "interactive documents", where the execution inten
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by whacked_new 8mo ago
Here's a rust one: https://github.com/BeaconBay/ck I haven't used it extensively, but semantic grep alone was kind of worth it.
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by whacked_new 8mo ago
I played with vui.el's hello world code earlier today, and it's a great showcase! Is there a simple way to achieve in-buffer forms? The jsf-- stuff was instructed to make the widget form read-only except for the interactive widget
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by whacked_new 8mo ago
The tradeoffs are very shallow, mainly I just wanted the maximum chance of seeing something working ASAP. Staying vanilla reduces dependencies, which also makes testing easier during iteration. I forgot which agent (CC or codex) I used for
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by whacked_new 8mo ago
I'm happy more people are interested in this critique! And thanks for d12frosted for joining the discussion. I was searching for what's the latest in emacs widgets developments because I was interested in using widgets. Emacs Cust
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The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study(d12frosted.io)
112 points by whacked_new 8mo ago|41 comments
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by whacked_new 10mo ago
The 2swap lambda calculus video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcVA8Nj6HEo ) is a masterpiece!

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