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by finaard 1y ago
Personally I find MCP a bit limiting - I'm using Emacs bindings, and then provide LLMs elisp functions to call. I posted a demo here a while ago where I try to have it draw turtle graphics: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by finaard 1y ago
Maybe to get an impression that they'd be performing like them - but not actually performing. It helps me being lazy because I have a rough expectation of what the outcome should be - and I can directly spot any corner cases or other i
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by finaard 1y ago
If you're using kitty and have terminal related problems the easiest solution usually is just not using kitty.
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by finaard 1y ago
> If I had to choose a language that is furthest from Perl, it might be Lisp. The two languages I enjoy the most are Perl and Lisp - and the majority of my non-work related coding is split between those two.
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by finaard 1y ago
Today is probably a good day to make Jell-O without alcohol, for the kids, though I might have some explaining to do. Some years ago they asked me to have Jell-O, and - thinking of Lehrer - I replied that it's adult only, as you make i
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by finaard 1y ago
A transplant always is a life altering change. You'll be on immunosuppressants for the rest of your life which has a massive impact on your quality of life - and that's _if_ you get a transplant before you die. I have no idea how
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ChatGPT controlled turtle graphics in Emacs [video](youtube.com)
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by finaard 1y ago
This is GPT hooked up to a simple turtle graphics implementation so it can try (and often fail) to draw requested shapes in an Emacs buffer. Uses gptel, so also works with a number of locally hosted LLMs, as long as they have tool support.
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by finaard 2y ago
N9 was very close to launch when Elop came, so that went ahead, but the rest of the development got cancelled immediately to focus on Windows phone: N9 would've otherwise been the first in a series of devices to slowly take over from S
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by finaard 2y ago
I didn't write scalable, I wrote sustainable. By that I mean that the longer term impact on society will be negative, compared to options they've been replacing. One writeup about some of the airbnb issues is here: https:/&#
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by finaard 2y ago
> As always, their policies failed to account for context. So seems that's not a first for her - and that kind of experience is expected by any gig economy scam once they managed to reach a decent market share. So why is she still
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by finaard 2y ago
It's quite nice to see how technology has developed since then. A few years ago I wrote a wrapper around the openttd server to allow easier hosting (as well as putting it in a chroot) - now with docker/podman/... something li
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by finaard 2y ago
I was thinking child friendly, so using NFC tags isn't such a bad idea - plus I have a few hundred spare ones in nice plastic casings. I'd also just store IDs on them, and either have the media files preloaded (as seems to be the
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by finaard 2y ago
You can, by using the libhybris hardware abstraction layer I've mentioned. It is relatively simple, though still requires understanding of how low level stuff works. The main problems there are graphics and modem, both of which typical
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by finaard 2y ago
The problem is the hardware, not the software. Also, what you want as a paranoid person is your baseband not part of the SoC running your computer - this project hear does that, Jolla and others are using standard Android SoCs. Jolla added
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by finaard 2y ago
This is pretty interesting to me for two reasons. First, I just came back from Germany where I've seen that thing in a shop. Didn't have much time to investigate due to the kids, but guessed that it's just NFC chips with data
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by finaard 2y ago
I used a Blade 2000 as my main machine until the early 2010s. Doing UNIX work on Windows back then with cygwin was way more painful than it is nowadays, and the hardware was a lot nicer than x86 desktops (and workstations offering things li
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by finaard 2y ago
We're a tiny company doing ops as services for large corporations - with one customer now coming close to a decade. That solves the retaining problem as we have limited exposure to all that big corporation nonsense, and have the option
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by finaard 2y ago
The CPU would've been good enough for a lot of things (especially the later revisions) - but it has a lot of other flaws. A big annoyance is the screwed in acrylic sheet on the bottom - it looks cool, but it makes access very annoying.
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by finaard 2y ago
The correct one is the one that doesn't get you yelled at and possibly banned by the rest of the channel.
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by finaard 2y ago
Most of my money comes from companies unable to handle even simple setups - and having trouble to find the right people, so I somewhat agree too. But it's mainly an education problem - it's pretty much impossible to find good peop
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by finaard 2y ago
Thing is, by the time the cloud native stuff makes sense most companies are at a scale where it'd be cheaper to just hire a good devops team, and start building your own cloud infra on own hardware.
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by finaard 2y ago
> and Finally...... AMD. I don't think AMD would get enough out of that to make it worth for them. And that's before you take into account that a condition of that merger would be spinning off the x86 CPU business to a separate
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by finaard 2y ago
> Could be something relatively simple such as "testing passed, so lets mark the file with a version number and release it". I'd argue you shouldn't even do that. When I've been building CI systems pushing stuff
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by finaard 2y ago
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by finaard 2y ago
Long time ago I was working for a web hoster, and had to help customers operating web shops to pass audits required for credit card processing. Doing so regularly involved allowing additonal ciphers for SSL we deemed insecure, and undoing o
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by finaard 2y ago
I just remove cookie popups with ublock origin. Nobody annoyed me enough yet to see if they're compliant afterwards - pretty much all pages work properly after that, and they'd need to handle that case as selecting the refusal but
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by finaard 2y ago
A while ago I hooked up the ambient light sensor of android devices as morse input for Emacs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBrvhiiZyf8
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by finaard 3y ago
With the Centro it was pretty amazing when they dropped a maps application later on - as it didn't have GPS. In built up areas they managed pretty impressive accuracy just by cell tower triangulation.
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by finaard 3y ago
I still miss the calendar and contact apps from the Palm. I stuck with Palm up until the Centro - and haven't found contact/calendar apps I'm as happy with as the Palm versions yet. They're either missing some simple bas

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