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by jwr 5mo ago
The blurry areas are 100% optics. I can turn the glasses OFF and look through them and see some areas waving. Not something software can fix. But overall, agreed. I am looking forward to future models from Xreal. I especially enjoy the fact
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by jwr 5mo ago
My problem was not the resolution, I could live with that. The problem is with optics: some areas of the screen are blurry. Depending on the particular unit you get (I had mine replaced once), the blurry areas are in different places. You m
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by jwr 5mo ago
I'm also curious. I bought the cheap alternative: XReal One Pro and… it is kind of as expected. It is a cheap alternative. Don't expect to use it for coding for several hours a day, in spite of what people keep saying. The optics
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by jwr 5mo ago
We are not talking about censoring anything here, just buying paid sources of index data. I am unhappy with money flowing into Russia, for reasons that should be obvious (and I will not respond to whataboutism-style baiting here).
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by jwr 5mo ago
I think that response increasingly makes no sense (as time passes). Mozilla prevents people from building apps that access their devices because it might be possible to do something malicious. I am so tired of being treated like a droolin
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by jwr 5mo ago
I had a chance to fly a simulator of the Beta Technologies VTOL airplane (they're a PartsBox customer). I went from horizontal flight into hover, and my guide said "oh, by the way, you are consuming a megawatt right now". A m
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by jwr 5mo ago
I did not, and I had no idea such a setting even existed. This could definitely change things. However, I don't see a way to set this in LM Studio, which is what I currently use to run models.
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by jwr 5mo ago
I have my own benchmark: a photo of filament boxes in my drawer. The task is to list (inventory) the filaments. It's not an easy task: the letters are small, the boxes are in various orientations, the labels have lots of writing on the
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by jwr 5mo ago
Agreed. Incidentally, in my testing, qwen models (qwen3.6-35b-a3b and earlier 3.5) are WAY better with vision than gemma4-26b-a4b. I would normally want to stick with gemma4 only (I use it for spam filtering), but it just doesn't cut i
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by jwr 5mo ago
I can't find the word "journey" — I'm disappointed.
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by jwr 5mo ago
> "run a model like Gemma 4 31b, which is almost anthropic sonnet levels of performance" I wish people stopped deluding themselves — I regularly try (and benchmark for my purposes) local models and they are NOWHERE near the hug
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by jwr 5mo ago
"Threat actor"… I love this "security" lingo. Threat actors, attack vectors, state actors :-)
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by jwr 5mo ago
After 35 years of building software systems I've learned to temper my hubris. These days I rarely assume things to be "definitely true". For example "Impossible travel": these days you can add your credit card to yo
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by jwr 5mo ago
I used to read USENET news in text terminals on X11 systems, and on 3270 terminals before that. It's amusing how we're coming full circle.
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by jwr 5mo ago
I am a solo entrepreneur. Don't. I learned that my business is unable to pass pretty much ANY certification or corporate IT security audit. Many of the questions simply do not apply to my business ("do you have documented procedur
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by jwr 5mo ago
I find this amusing: I'm from Poland, where after the VAT tax was introduced in the 1990s, there were famous "VAT carousel" crimes, with people ending up in prison. The basic idea was similar, except you also collected VAT re
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by jwr 5mo ago
Large scrollbars! Windows with borders! What a relief! This has become a forgotten art: we focus so much on CONTENT these days that we forget that people want to use the mouse to scroll, and use the mouse to resize windows.
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by jwr 5mo ago
Ok, so as a heavy user of Bambu printers: > I didn't understand what people wanted here Great: very few people care enough to actually try to understand! This is very much appreciated. > What users want is to "have their cak
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by jwr 5mo ago
> I don't really see why everyone is up in arms about this. You are able to print in LAN mode or directly through USB drives without going through bambus servers. This is in no way equivalent. You can't sync filaments, you can&
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by jwr 5mo ago
Also, LAN mode is NOT a substitute for the functionality you bought the printer with. My biggest annoyance is that I can no longer use OrcaSlicer to interact with my printers (e.g. sync filaments) and start prints remotely. I am still very
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by jwr 5mo ago
> OrcaSlicer supports Bambu printers already No, it doesn't. It used to, but then Bambu Labs "for security reasons" (as always) removed access to their "network plugin". There is a lot of confusion around this, s
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by jwr 5mo ago
Mostly faster progress with same working hours, as I'm trying to improve my app and beat the competitors. In a mature SaaS features do not map into more revenue quickly, so the effect on revenue can't be measured easily.
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by jwr 5mo ago
Simple sites :-) https://partsbox.com/ — it's an ERP/MRP for companies building electronics. Around 170k lines of Clojure and ClojureScript.
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by jwr 5mo ago
No, I built my own pipeline using pandoc+Typst. Works great.
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by jwr 5mo ago
> What do you do to reap orders of magnitude more? I don't know what Dario Amodei says, does, how Anthropic is run or structured, or what kind of people work there, so I can't comment on that. I do know about myself, though. Th
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by jwr 5mo ago
I re-read that book every 10 years and try to think carefully about whether what Brooks wrote still holds. The last three times I read the book, everything held. This time, I'm not so sure: AI does change things significantly. Perhaps
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by jwr 5mo ago
Or, you could do what I did, and process your markdown using Typst. The result is consistent, beautifully formatted documents, generated from your markdown, with mermaid diagrams.
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by jwr 5mo ago
At a first glance, it does much more than what I would want to. My status toolkit just extends the Cognitect anomalies to be statuses, adding ::failed (parameters correct, but could not perform request), ::ok, ::accepted and ::in-progress.
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by jwr 5mo ago
> has no inherent error model I'll pitch in here, as I've been doing a lot of thinking about this issue and ended up writing my own (tiny) tools for handling anomalies, modeled on the very well thought-out https://gi
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by jwr 5mo ago
Don't be afraid, it's great! I certainly wouldn't call it "obscure", I've been using it for 10 years now to compile a complex app into highly-optimized client-side code. And the community is very welcoming and

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