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by chris_st 2y ago
This reminds me of my days programming Lisp. Toward the end of the four years I spent coding Lisp full time, on Symbolics Lisp machines, I got to where I could say, "Hmmmm, I need to do 'X', I'll bet there's a funct
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by chris_st 2y ago
Did the same with Safari... which it reported as being from the future !
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by chris_st 2y ago
I use DaisyUI [0] for all kinds of controls; it's CSS only. 0: https://daisyui.com
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by chris_st 2y ago
The book, "Who we are and how we got here" is an excellent (but long, and detailed) look at the current knowledge of genetic history and the corresponding linguistic issues.
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by chris_st 2y ago
I have a M2 Air with 24GB, and have successfully run some 12B models such as mistral-nemo. Had other stuff going as well, but it's best to give it as much of the machine as possible.
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by chris_st 2y ago
I definitely see your point, but let's look at what Bitwarden does: 1. Back up my passwords on their server for a fee. Well, that's (alas) hackable, so if someone gets their password they will have everyone's password file. 2
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by chris_st 2y ago
This is why password managers are wonderful - let it make one for you, and then it remembers it for the next time you need to hit that site.
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by chris_st 2y ago
Loopy Pro does this as well.
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by chris_st 2y ago
FWIW, atuin has support for syncing to a server, but it's entirely optional. I've used it for quite some time without knowing that, and have never set up an account (since I didn't know I could and have no interest in doing s
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by chris_st 2y ago
mixtral-8b: "It would be entertaining to find out if you could conceal all of your remarks by running them through a run-of-the-mill LLM. I suspect that you could." nemotron-4-340b: "One might find it intriguing to observe if
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by chris_st 2y ago
If you like solving sudokus, and I'd be a bit surprised if you're here and don't :-), you might want try the app "Sumaddle" [1] available on (at least) iOS. It's a different kind of puzzle, but a very similar &
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by chris_st 2y ago
There's a great tool (and everything else hand-made) museum in Pennsylvania, The Mercer Museum [1]. > The Mercer Museum is a six-story reinforced concrete castle designed by Henry Mercer (1856-1930) and completed in 1916. Today, it
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by chris_st 2y ago
Fun game! Have you checked to see if the colors are safe for colorblind folks? There are great resources on the web for color sets that are good for everyone.
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by chris_st 2y ago
With flint, evidently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkQwsBhj8I
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by chris_st 2y ago
Wow, so cool to see the photo with an actual HP-25. I bought one in high school (massive outlay at the time) and loved it. Used it all through college.
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by chris_st 2y ago
Got a ARTinoise Re.corder (an electronic wind instrument, basically shaped like a recorder, but MIDI) for my wife. Works with an iOS app for basic sounds. She's spent very little time with it :-) The REAL rabbit hole is the astounding
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by chris_st 2y ago
Not sure who would fund this research? Perhaps the Procreate Dreams folks [0]. I'm sure they'd love to have a functional auto-tween feature. 0: https://procreate.com/dreams
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by chris_st 2y ago
When I got to go to Cycorp in the late 80's for training, I had some really interesting talks with the people there. They got funding from a lot of sources, and of course each source needed their own knowledge encoded. One person menti
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by chris_st 2y ago
I started my career in 1985, building expert systems on Symbolics Lisp machines in KEE and ART. Expert systems were so massively oversold... and it's not at all clear that any of the "super fantastic expert" systems ever di
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by chris_st 3y ago
I was on an early mastodon instance where the fifth glyph was prohibited. It was really tough for me to do posts, but there was a person who was getting their PhD in linguistics, and if you didn't know that they had to avoid that lette
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by chris_st 3y ago
Or: > [The novel] "A Void", translated from the original French La Disparition (lit. "The Disappearance"), is a 300-page French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without using the letter
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by chris_st 3y ago
Yeah, that's totally true (and probably for pottery too). I didn't mean to say, those are totally solved areas, just that we're really in the early days, and so we have a ton of learning and experimenting to do. It's a g
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by chris_st 3y ago
But, of course, some of us are in that lucky 10,000 [0] who haven't learned that particular lesson yet. 0: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by chris_st 3y ago
While we've been doing pottery for about 30,000 years, and woodworking for perhaps 10,000 years, we've only been programming (digital) computers for about 75 years or so. We're still figuring out how to do it . Trying new pr
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by chris_st 3y ago
The older hymnals used in Church of Christ congregations use shape notes as well, but the hymnals have different names.
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by chris_st 3y ago
I've occasionally thought it would be fun (not necessarily productive!) to do something like the experiments folks have done with Genetic Algorithms, having simulated robots learn to walk, etc. in a simulated physics environment. The i
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by chris_st 3y ago
I'm guessing the idea is that yes, it's disabled now, but if you really didn't want it, you remove it (except for AI, of course, which you can't). If you have it installed, why not keep it up to date, so when you decide
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by chris_st 3y ago
Thanks for this! I had no idea zoxide has this! Made my day.
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by chris_st 3y ago
A software meet-cute!
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by chris_st 3y ago
No, you don't have to register a domain with them. Sign up (or log in), and you'll be taken to your Dashboard. On the left is a bunch of options. Click on the one labeled "Workers", and on that page in the top right you&

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