bastawhiz

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by bastawhiz 5d ago
It's not really an alternative to Immich as the title says, it's a fork that's continuously rebased with each release.
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by bastawhiz 5d ago
This isn't a problem that existed 25 years ago. You could expose SOAP and give an agent WSDL. You could give it OpenAPI and JSON. That's just not the problem. Agents emit tool calls as JSON. Calling a REST API means emitting a JSO
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by bastawhiz 5d ago
Sure, it needs a REST API. And you need docs for the API. Not just per endpoint but how to accomplish tasks with the API in the context of the application it supports. But you don't want to just give any old agent raw curl access, so n
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by bastawhiz 5d ago
I can't tell if you're being willfully ignorant or not. The comment I was replying to was proposing banning C extensions: invoking native binaries that are not written in the host language and compiled in (at build or runtime). Wh
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by bastawhiz 5d ago
All of those are for non native code to call code in those languages. Nobody is saying "all Go code must never invoke native code". That would be wild and to my knowledge, there's no major language that forces such a constrai
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by bastawhiz 6d ago
At some point it just collapses into a sort of Huffman coding of every possible 4096 bit embedding vector.
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by bastawhiz 6d ago
Is there a single example of a language+runtime where this approach has ever been successful
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by bastawhiz 6d ago
PyPy makes tradeoffs that might not be acceptable. For anything that isn't a long running server, PyPy can be much, much slower since the JIT doesn't have a chance to warm up. PyPy also implements things differently: repeated stri
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by bastawhiz 7d ago
These are indisputably good results all things considered. But I have to wonder whether a more scientific and hands-on approach to working on the material would have been better. When I vibe code, I don't just hype the LLM up and tell
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by bastawhiz 10d ago
You're arguing to kill it, effectively. It's been being published to up until this month
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by bastawhiz 10d ago
If Linus Torvalds published it I don't think that would make it worth throwing millions of dollars at. When you stop paying for one thing and start paying for another, you're making a value statement about what you care about.
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by bastawhiz 10d ago
I realized I was scratching my Oura at the gym so I started taking it off. It fell out of my pocket one workout, I couldn't find it, and I didn't feel like I got enough utility from it to replace it and deal with the hassle of tak
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by bastawhiz 10d ago
CSS imports create a dependency tree of stylesheets. You can't render anything until all of the styles are loaded and parsed. Imports create a blocking serial dependency.
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by bastawhiz 10d ago
> The CSS Zen Garden worked because everyone was using a single markup file. In real life, it doesn't really work The dream of the CSS Zen Garden never really extended beyond itself. That wasn't the point. The point was to show
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by bastawhiz 11d ago
It's simple, really: the failure to monitor the agents appropriately should make OAI liable for the agents' actions. You can't have a tool of yours, which you designed and built, commit felonies and then expect to just get aw
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by bastawhiz 12d ago
The problem with Alexa is that by the time it appeared anywhere other than Echo devices, it was already deeply enshittified. Siri is in your pocket, on your wrist, and in your ears. Alexa was stuck on your kitchen counter asking you if you
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by bastawhiz 12d ago
I'm genuinely curious, because clearly they cared enough to ask it to be built, and happy enough with it to publish and promote it. I have every confidence the author has a use case for it. But for the life of me I simply don't kn
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by bastawhiz 13d ago
Who is this for? Who's looking at it? It seems like this is solving an engineering culture/process failure by introducing new engineering process. Like I'm trying to understand the circumstances where a) I don't have CI&
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by bastawhiz 13d ago
Why does a personal blog have or even need a cookie banner?
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by bastawhiz 13d ago
The comment I replied to said this: > As AI bans go, this one doesn't seem too stringent if you disclose AI and actually check what it's doing. I'm not arguing for or against the policy, but the policy as-written reads to
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by bastawhiz 14d ago
That doesn't seem to be the case. > All contributions are expected to be made by humans. AI tools may be used for research and learning, but all content in contributions must originate from and be understood by the contributor. This
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by bastawhiz 14d ago
By "they don't taste good" I wasn't trying to imply that they taste bad, though maybe they do to some folks. At least to me they don't taste like anything (they lack a good flavor). For me and probably many folks, t
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by bastawhiz 14d ago
I'm sure you could prepare almost anything to taste great. You can do whatever you think you'd enjoy. My point isn't to discourage you from doing it. If you want to eat apple stems or orange peels or horse chestnuts, knock yo
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by bastawhiz 14d ago
> Alex rightly points out that apple seeds do contain cyanide. Turns out, it’s not a huge risk for normal apple consumption. You don't have to eat them. There's no benefit to eating them. They don't taste good. They provid
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by bastawhiz 14d ago
I mean, of course we should be concerned about the goals of the companies. But that's a second, separate concern and it's important not to muddy the two together into a single point. We shouldn't take any of these companies a
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by bastawhiz 18d ago
It's great that they're working on this, but I am puzzled at how absolutely awful the forecasts are in the Google weather app for my area. The forecast will show no rain, the radar view shows nothing, meanwhile it's pouring o
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by bastawhiz 19d ago
Treat skills as runbooks, not as a way to turn your agent into an expert.
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by bastawhiz 19d ago
Exactly. Table salt has an LD50 of 0.5-1g/kg, 1.5-3x more toxic. I weigh ~85kg, I'd have to eat about 46 cubic centimeters of potassium ferrocyanide (on the conservative side) to consume an LD50 worth. If you're talking about
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by bastawhiz 20d ago
De Beers was founded by the guy whose colonial governance helped make the region as economically depressed as it was. When Debswana was founded, De Beers was taking something like 85% of the profits from Botswana's natural resources. T
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by bastawhiz 20d ago
> The venture began in 1969 and as difficult as the economic situation there is now, subsaharan africa was an even worse place then. False. The sixties were one of the better decades (economically) in sub Saharan Africa. The region was r

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