jwr

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by jwr 5d ago
> there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown terminal agent I disagree. Adding " https://mcp.linear.app/mcp " and having everything happen (discovery, usage, updates to the API, etc
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by jwr 5d ago
I wonder how these would do filtering my spam. I have been using 27B-class models for a while now, and they are nearly perfect at determining what is spam and what isn't. The only disadvantage is computational cost.
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by jwr 7d ago
How do you export from a phone you no longer have?
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by jwr 7d ago
> they still reek AI conformity and I feel sick looking at them I bet you would not feel sick if you didn't know ahead of time they were AI-generated. Some really are quite good.
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by jwr 8d ago
> One reason to strongly prefer Apple over Google is that (as I understand it) you can still walk into a store with ID and recover your online identity. Is this true? If so, in what countries? (Poland has no Apple stores, for example, fo
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by jwr 9d ago
How would moving your number to a new phone help? We're talking TOTP here, not SMS "auth".
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by jwr 10d ago
> Small fender benders and sideswipes are much more frequent Do you have any data on this? Everything I've ever read about them points to exactly the opposite conclusion. They actually reduce accidents and by a significant margin. M
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by jwr 12d ago
Sorry, it was a thinko — I meant "solar panels".
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by jwr 12d ago
Inverters are indeed expensive, so are batteries (and you will need batteries to make good use of solar; otherwise, you will be getting the ridiculously low energy company rates for what you over-produce). Being far north is somewhat compen
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by jwr 13d ago
Complaining on HN :-) More seriously, I have not found a solution.
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by jwr 14d ago
Every ad system I tried resulted in nearly 100% bot traffic to my site. Google and LinkedIn give you "tools" that will show you various numbers, but I implemented my own conversion tracking, because I didn't trust their numbe
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by jwr 16d ago
I find it rather sad that the original posts have been posted on an open site, where anyone can read them, while the HN post points to an increasingly dubious site that doesn't even show the post unless you create an account and log in
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by jwr 17d ago
I always thought it was enough to switch off the "Improve the model for everyone" setting on chatgpt.com: "Allow your content to be used to train our models, which makes ChatGPT better for you and everyone who uses it. We tak
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by jwr 18d ago
I also have a lifetime pass, but I'm becoming increasingly annoyed with Plex. Why do I have to regularly turn off their "recommended" stuff that is just ads for movies I can buy online? Why does it appear and re-appear? Also,
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by jwr 18d ago
I have an LG TV. It has been pestering me with those licensing agreements from time to time, but interestingly enough, I was only required to agree to fairly reasonable basics, everything else I just ignored and left for later. I'm g
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by jwr 20d ago
I gave up on reporting spam. Almost all of the spam I get (and I get a lot of it!) comes from Google, Amazon and Microsoft. None of them care much, none of them make reporting easy, and it seems they don't follow up, because the flood
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by jwr 20d ago
Acceptance rate is good, but MTP doesn't help in my case because of my machine's memory bandwidth constraints (M4 Max). Turn out it's better to turn MTP off.
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by jwr 20d ago
I would (tentatively) agree — but that doesn't invalidate my argument: qualia are not objectively measurable, so you still can't tell if a machine is conscious.
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by jwr 23d ago
If there is any company that can "ban your account" which would result in big problems for you (because, for example, they host your E-mail which means you've just lost access to password recovery for every account you have)
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by jwr 23d ago
I think before we get to self-referentiality, we have a bigger problem to solve, and that's one that I did not expect: namely, at which point do we stop saying that a machine pretends to be conscious and start saying that it is consc
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by jwr 24d ago
For what it's worth, I've spent some time with Claude to develop a local runner for `llama.cpp`. I run Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP (fast!) and Qwen3.8-27B (20 tokens/s). This was definitely worth the effort. Benchmarking and testing
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by jwr 26d ago
I got so tired of every hardware device requiring cloud services, accounts, logins, privacy policies, etc. that I started building my own. I think the tipping point was a phone app to control a Panasonic air conditioner. It could just commu
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by jwr 28d ago
I spoke English and Polish to it. It produced Russian or Ukrainian as output.
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by jwr 29d ago
From what I understand, they also have no certifications (CE/FCC/VCCI and similar) and cannot really be sold as consumer products, only as kits.
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by jwr 29d ago
I used MacWhisper for a long time and then recently switched to the free TypeWhisper. Both work very well on a Mac.
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by jwr 29d ago
It's interesting that the results can be so different depending on the person, the use case and even the microphone used. I use dictation a lot, so I try to stay up to date with the latest models as much as I can. So far, for my needs,
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by jwr 1mo ago
I use cLaude cOde in my eMacs (through ghostel, which is unbelievably great!) to generate code :-) I then use mAgit to review it.
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by jwr 1mo ago
The problem is when you don't want to send your data to any provider. Private documents, health information, all that is something you don't want to send anywhere, even if the provider makes a pinky promise that they won't us
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by jwr 1mo ago
Shipping with their computers -- maybe not, but they did make FoundationDB open source (again) and are developing and maintaining it.
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by jwr 1mo ago
Hmm. What would be really helpful for me would be an enhancement of the TypeWhisper app for dictation that would be able to get the context of what I am dictating into and send it along with the prompt to an LLM. Probably much simpler and m

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