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by jameshart 1mo ago
One of the best furniture life hacks you can recognize is that you can replace the top panel of most self-assembly storage furniture items with a custom work surface suited to your usecase. Take two drawer units, and instead of putting the
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by jameshart 2mo ago
Yes, but this article is about TUIs
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by jameshart 2mo ago
I’m specifically talking about native apps. iOS apps built using UiKit are going to have first class accessibility support.
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by jameshart 2mo ago
Not requiring a mouse isn’t a magic pathway to ‘accessibility’ though. The fact that something can be used with a keyboard does not obviate developers from the need to consider other aspects of accessibility. Also: when I copy paste out of
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by jameshart 2mo ago
Huh > they have been observed in Alaska, Chile, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Uganda and Venezuela Well, today I learned, Venezuela has glaciers. Then I googled that, and… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/arti
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by jameshart 2mo ago
In the context of discussing TUI vs GUI (as the article does), the accessibility and keyboard control balance probably swings very strongly to native GUIs; in a TUI you’re at the whim of the TUI framework’s stabs at accessibility support, w
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by jameshart 2mo ago
I do wonder what the hit rate is in general for Claude finding a successful exploit when prompted with a rumor that leads it to assume the bug is there. “I’m told there’s a path traversal exploit in this package. Can you find it?” - probabl
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by jameshart 2mo ago
You can't just go from 'look how much trouble we have with race' and then say 'The last time this came up was about 400,000 years ago'. No, the last time this came up was... well, take your pick. Dred Scott? Wannsee
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by jameshart 2mo ago
That is not actually what that article says. It’s a common pattern to say ‘company X laid off thousands of employees but then applied for thousands of H1B visas’ which very much gives the impression that the company has just fired a few tho
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by jameshart 2mo ago
Employment based and immigrant are not opposite categories of visa - these are orthogonal axes. There are employment-based nonimmigrant visas like H1B and L1. Being a nonimmigrant visa means it doesn’t grant you a right to immigrate but som
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by jameshart 2mo ago
That seems like a bias you should work on.
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by jameshart 2mo ago
150 million a year? Why, at that rate NVidia will make their money back in just 86 years.
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by jameshart 2mo ago
One of the consequences of encountering a lot of LLM generated text which includes things the model vaguely remembers from its training is that honestly I have grown less tolerant even of human comments and documents that are based on mos
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by jameshart 2mo ago
I don’t think that’s the right way to think about LLM ‘knowledge’. They don’t have absolute recall of everything in the training set. They have been trained so that they have weights that can predict what those books might say - that is, if
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by jameshart 2mo ago
I think people also overestimate the need for full text search when the one doing the querying is an LLM. If your underlying data is structured records, like a customer database, while humans might not have time or skills to figure out th
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by jameshart 2mo ago
Embedding search is effectively machine translation into a single common ‘language’ - embedding space - and then searching that; cleaner and less lossy than translating everything into English for searching, but harder to debug when it goes
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by jameshart 2mo ago
Feels like the delay also gets implemented into displaying the tooltip on tap on a touch interface which is probably an error.
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by jameshart 2mo ago
You could spend 100 a month leasing one of these for three years and get the best of both worlds
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by jameshart 2mo ago
Sure, but then this becomes a bit of an irrelevant comment on a discussion of how WiFi 8 will focus on increasing reliability. Your old devices won’t magically get more reliable because WiFi 8 comes out. You will benefit from this after it
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by jameshart 2mo ago
Maybe those cargo cult guys were onto something
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by jameshart 2mo ago
Unfortunately I suspect web searches were critical to the models’ success here.
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by jameshart 2mo ago
Because the author wanted the ability to open and browse markdown files when you double click them on a Mac. How would a TUI better serve that purpose? There's more on this here: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026&#x
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by jameshart 2mo ago
Totally. The right way to approach an art gallery is definitely just to walk round until something hits you. Most astonishing time that happened to me was a wall-sized Rothko that just floored me, in a way I never would have expected a sl
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by jameshart 2mo ago
> dimensions are different from irrationals, vectors, complex numbers, etc, they are mostly a thing of their own. I harbor a terrible internal mental model of dimensions which I have never really validated or explored fully, where I like
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by jameshart 2mo ago
This is a great paper from NIST that gets into some of the problems with the limit of ‘dimensionlessness’ in metrology and the SI, and in particular issues like the fact that Hertz is considered a coherent SI unit but radian isn’t. https:&
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by jameshart 2mo ago
The reason for preferring functions defined over domains like R is that it’s a field, and so I can do things like multiply and divide and add and subtract inside it. If instead we start defining ‘amounts of distance’ as some set D and ‘amou
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by jameshart 2mo ago
When dealing with waves you often are dealing with turns - or, as they’re called in that world, cycles. A cycle is a turn is tau is 2pi. The SI unit for frequency after all is Hertz - cycles per second - which should really be considered
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by jameshart 2mo ago
You generally can’t apply functions to dimensional units. The only thing units can do is be multiplied or divided together. So I can multiply a mass by a distance or divide a distance by a speed, and I can multiply the result by a scalar; b
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by jameshart 2mo ago
In the author’s specific case of books, publishers always paid ‘coop marketing’ dollars to booksellers to get ‘face out’ placement on shelves, ‘end cap’ positioning where copies of the book would be positioned on the aisle-facing shelves us
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by jameshart 2mo ago
Mobile safari was overwhelmed with ads with minuscule ‘close’ buttons within seconds of arriving.

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