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by jedbrooke 8mo ago
Oof, off topic but the trains were out of service here for my commute last night so I though from the headline this meant that somehow all trains everywhere just stopped working. Glad to see it’s just some Saas product that’s down
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by jedbrooke 8mo ago
the windows version is playable on macos through wine. Even modern version, I got it running on a m2 mac mini on Macos 15 sequoia EDIT: this was for HL1 I’m not sure about HL2
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by jedbrooke 8mo ago
so many times I catch myself asking a coding agent e.g “please print the output” and it will update the file with “print (output)”. Maybe there’s something about not having to context switch between natural language and code just makes it _
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by jedbrooke 8mo ago
I've found that a 250w incandescent bulb (can be had for ~$10) paired with a 4000 lumen LED produced decent results on a budget. Search for "reptile" or "chicken" lamps, they are usually red. You can feel the HEAT f
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by jedbrooke 9mo ago
maybe he’ll stop, maybe he won’t. There’s no way to know
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by jedbrooke 9mo ago
I still don’t know how openAI thought it was a good idea to have a model named "4o" AND a model named "o4", unless the goal was intentional confusion
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by jedbrooke 9mo ago
the author mentions they’re using haiku for the model, but I wonder if the travel query -> place transform could be done with a tiny local model. But that’s the bitter lesson I guess, unless there’s a reason to go fully local (extreme pr
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by jedbrooke 9mo ago
For me there’s something about context that shapes my dark mode vs light mode preference. Code and terminals is dark, documents/web/chat is light. For some reason I can’t stand dark mode slack/discord, but dark mode IDE is pr
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by jedbrooke 9mo ago
Thanks for bringing back memories of the Netflix Wii Channel. At the beginning it was on a disk. We used the Netflix wii channel until the day they dropped support. Our Wii long outlived its life as a games console by continuing on as a net
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by jedbrooke 9mo ago
I wonder if the RGB strip layout has some downsides, and why such a no brainer idea hasn’t been tried before. If I had to guess it could be something in the manufacturing process is more difficult.
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by jedbrooke 9mo ago
I had to do a double take on the repo author here :) this tool also looks super useful, I spend so much time at work looking at json logs that this will surely come in handy. It’s the kind of thing I didn’t even know I needed, but now that
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by jedbrooke 10mo ago
I still miss it. Worse was they didn't just remove the hardware on newer models, but older models that did have the hardware available had the functionality removed overnight by an iOS update. If I recall it was over some licensing&#x2
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by jedbrooke 10mo ago
re: > since it uses paid AI APIs for the words replacement, I couldn't make it 100% free (server costs are real, unfortunately) is there a possibility of using local llm endpoints for this?
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by jedbrooke 10mo ago
where do you think the corpus of training data comes from?
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by jedbrooke 10mo ago
to be fair minecraft Java edition isn’t exactly known for having great performance. It will run on a potato, but still runs like a potato even on fast hardware. This is also not mentioning that the by far more popular version of the game (b
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by jedbrooke 10mo ago
I’ve had a similar (likely non original) thought too that eventually LLMs could lead to something more akin to a compiler that would take human language instructions and go straight to a executable binary, possibly even with more traditiona
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by jedbrooke 10mo ago
I’ve seen so many SO and other forum posts where the first comment is someone smugly saying “just google it, silly”. Only that, I’m not the one who posted the original question, I DID google (well DDG) it, and the results led me to someone
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by jedbrooke 10mo ago
oh man, I remember hearing about this back then and I got excited that there had been an update. From what I hear he’s gone off to college now but will hopefully be back to cooking up semiconductors once he graduates
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by jedbrooke 10mo ago
> Consumer electronics naming is very simple. Make a good product with a simple name. “iPhone”, “comma”, “Z Fold”. Then every year or two, add one to the number of that product. If it’s a small refresh, you can add a letter after the num
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by jedbrooke 11mo ago
https://github.com/chr15m/runprompt/blob/main/runprompt#L9 seems like it would be, just swap the openai url here or add a new one
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by jedbrooke 11mo ago
I got tripped up by this one (sorry for spoilers): > Bees collect pollen from flowers and make honey. They also drive tiny cars to get from flower to flower! The explanation given is that it’s not factually correct, therefore it’s AI slo
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by jedbrooke 11mo ago
have you heard of the phase “like a kid in a candy store”? there’s just something about the in store experience that’s different than online. Microcenter is also known for having better prices than online retailers, but they don’t ship for
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
for the OpenAI 4o model on the octopus sock puppet prompt, the prompt clearly states that each tentacle should have a sock puppet, whereas the OpenAI 4o image only has 6 puppets with 2 tentacles being puppetless. I’m not sure if we can call
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
you can “remove” the notch on the Macbook by setting the resolution to one of the 16x10 aspect ratio resolutions. Go to Settings > Displays. In the list of resolutions you need to enable “Show all resolutions” then you can select one tha
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
I would offer ‘swipe’ keyboards as one example of something new. “better” is subjective, they are certainly not faster than normal typing, but offer much more flexibility for typing with one hand. But even then they still rely on the old qw
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
that’s true, this would be pretty convenient for local environments
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
I’m skeptical of “no ssh” being a benefit. I’d rather have one port opened to the battle tested ssh proc (which I probably have already anyway), than open a port to some random application. I suppose it’s trivial to proxy a http port over s
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
I feel like we kind of got monkey’s paw’ed on USB-C. I remember during the 2000’s-2010’s people were drowning in a sea of disparate and incompatible connectors for video, audio, data, power, etc. and we’re longing for “One Port To Rule Them
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
> I tried to ask GPT-5 pro the other day to just pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on, and I’d carry out whatever physical world tasks it needed me to, and all it did was just come up with project plans which were rehashes of m
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
cool art! seeing datamoshing like this always impresses me at how much motion is encoded in modern video codecs

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