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by petercooper 7mo ago
Quite, I threw a so-so photo of an old, long receipt at Qwen 3.5 0.8MB (runs in <2GB) and it nailed spitting 20+ items out in under a second. AI is good at many things, but picking modern dependencies not so much.
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by petercooper 7mo ago
Upon seeing the entry for Marie-Antoinette’s private theater, I felt an urge to proclaim the Amargosa Opera House as Death Valley's "Mona Lisa". I was lucky enough to get a private tour and it was like stepping into one of
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by petercooper 7mo ago
My assumption also, but once this thing spat out those images by accident, I started to wonder if maybe broken code ended up in the firmware of these cameras and just.. stayed there :-D Might be a fun project one day if I can get hold of on
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by petercooper 7mo ago
Yes. The size is slightly different here to show it off better, but compare left and right in https://peterc.org/misc/queen.png (both are the same "quality" and file size but the right hand one has incorrect
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by petercooper 7mo ago
I feel some "commoditize your complements" (Spolsky) vibes hearing about these acquisitions. Or, potentially, " control your complements"? If you find your popular, expensive tool leans heavily upon third party tools,
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by petercooper 7mo ago
Not allowing AI assistance on PRs will likely decimate the project in the future, I can't help but wonder if this matter could result in an io.js -like fork, splitting Node into two safe-but-slow-moving and AI-all-the-things worlds.
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by petercooper 7mo ago
Context is important, but isn’t HN’s social context, in particular, that the site is entirely public, easily crawled through its API (which apparently has next to no rate limits) and/or Algolial, and has been archived and mirrored in
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by petercooper 7mo ago
I don’t know how their behavior differs but I live in a country with patchy mobile coverage and Spotify and Apple Music are night and day with how they cope with this. Spotify is far more robust and I assume prefetches more aggressively.
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by petercooper 7mo ago
The interesting thing about the situation I mentioned is that while the encoding algorithm was wrong, the actual output was valid JPEG that simply didn't look quite visually correct. But you're right, invalid encoding can be a p
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by petercooper 7mo ago
I've been working on a pure Ruby JPEG encoder and a bug led me to an effect I wanted. The output looked just like the "crunchy" JPEGs my 2000-era Kodak digital camera used to put out, but it turns out the encoder wasn't
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by petercooper 7mo ago
As for you, OP, I have no idea why age is a factor to consider to this. This is one only data point but my dad was a programmer and frequently complained about cognitive decline once he hit his mid 50s. From talking to him, he remained sh
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by petercooper 7mo ago
Yes, if I go to Slackbot we get this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HCowV2GXsAAmpXN?format=jpg&name=... - there's no X and no way to get rid of it. Just an ad for their pro plan every time. This is on whatever t
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by petercooper 7mo ago
Or, you know, Vibe code your own. Right. If these tools are so good (and they are) there should be numerous better-than-Slack apps by now that let you do exactly what you want. It doesn't take Anthropic to make it. (At our company, w
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by petercooper 7mo ago
The actual meaning of a "clean room implementation" is that it is derived from an API and not from an implementation I know you were simplifying, and not to take away from your well-made broader point, but an API-derived impleme
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by petercooper 7mo ago
Common for them. Even for projects on the main google GH org more often than not there'll be stuff like "not an official Google product" and "it is just code that happens to be owned by Google" in the README.
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by petercooper 7mo ago
Or even a 5 minute shower. About 2500 queries.
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by petercooper 7mo ago
I think 8GB with Tahoe will lead to a lot of griping in a month or two, but I've bought one for family use. We have some old iMacs with various issues issues and this ticks all the boxes for basic family use. Plus, the sickly color wil
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by petercooper 7mo ago
Not using, but I still have it. I get it running every couple of years and it's striking how dim it is compared to modern monitors. Yet I just can't bring myself to dispose of it or the 2007 Mac Pro it's attached to, despite
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by petercooper 7mo ago
So prompt goes in 4x as fast but generates tokens slower. I'd take that tradeoff. On my M3 Ultra, the inference is surprisingly fast, but the prompt processing speed makes it painful except as a fallback or experimentation, especiall
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by petercooper 7mo ago
It's not the whole answer, but SO came from the .NET world and focused on it first so it had a disproportionately MS heavy audience for some time. GitHub had the same issue the other way around. Ruby was one of GitHub's top five l
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by petercooper 7mo ago
It may also depend on where you're from. I'm British, have travelled around the US, and never had problem engaging in chit chat with all sorts of people, big cities or not. But there's a strong disarming undercurrent of &quo
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by petercooper 8mo ago
Nano Banana 2 has an image search tool that looks up pictures of things and uses them in the context (and arguably, an agent could eventually figure out who jacquesm is and hunt for a photo). However, I tried "a picture of jacquesm pla
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by petercooper 8mo ago
"Instead, employers will likely increase their reliance on temporary workers with fixed-term contracts" It's no quick fix. The new six month (previously two year) unfair dismissal rules from January 2027 already impact annu
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by petercooper 8mo ago
Seconding Latent Space . Very high signal. I listen to the audio version but it's on YouTube here as well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEAb1SXhjlfkEF_PxzYH...
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by petercooper 8mo ago
"large pothole" .. Oh sweet summer child, I can think of at least ten bigger than that in my small British town. It seems they're doing something in LA, even if asphalting over half the width of a road isn't ideal. Ove
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by petercooper 8mo ago
“I don’t find their actual search engine very useful at all.” (me in 2009) I'm quoted on here so I thought I should give an update! :-) I still don't think DDG was very useful in 2009. A noble idea, but the quality wasn't
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by petercooper 8mo ago
Implementation of this stuff must be very patchy then as both are off on my top 5 provider until I use a VPN. Which makes me wonder why any of the ISPs bother blocking at all, if they can just pick and choose?
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by petercooper 8mo ago
Others have already posted, but the biggest domestic British ISPs block a variety of things, like SciHub, Libgen, Pirate Bay, or Anna's Archive. Coverage varies a lot though, so I assume ISPs have some discretion and enforcement is pat
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by petercooper 8mo ago
For those in countries that censor the Internet, such as the UK where I live, this page basically says what Anna's Archive is (very superficially), shares some useful URLs to accessing the data, asks for donations, and says an "en
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by petercooper 8mo ago
> AI optimism requires believing that you … are not among those who will be driven to psychosis, to violence, or even to suicide by LLM usage. At the very least, this means you feel secure in your own mental health This has echoes of mor

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