shireboy

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by shireboy 2mo ago
When this first landed I asked what the fix could even be. Everyone needs a new ID at a minimum. But then I got to thinking: 1) is that the point? Conspiratorial thinking I know but “hey all Our ids got hacked I guess we need a national
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by shireboy 2mo ago
What even would be the fix for this? 153m people need new license asap and id verification systems need to block the stolen ones? Also what are some of the bad things this could cause: a risk malicious actors open verified accounts in the
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by shireboy 2mo ago
3d splatting takes on a different meaning in this context.
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by shireboy 4mo ago
Yeah, I mean the last 3 or four big releases of models have come with big scary news. I have to think there is at least some intentional marketing effort behind all this
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by shireboy 4mo ago
A maxim I’ve arrived at working w llm every day is “put deterministic things in code, non deterministic in llm”. I do wish the harnesses would be more helpful in this regard. For example I’ve seen tons of scheduled jobs that people wrote i
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by shireboy 4mo ago
What is the “middlest” Mac one could get for this? I’m in the market but keep going back and forth between a 64gb m5 pro or “lower end m5 air and screw it I’ll just pay for cloud tokens”. At current prices the 2-3k diff to try to run some
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by shireboy 4mo ago
Yup. I’ve been evaluating several on openrouter and find token cost meaningless for my work. I haven’t found a great alternative, though the “cost per task” he uses makes some sense.
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by shireboy 5mo ago
My thought process is that I don’t mind a slower model if it can work in background for me 24/7 fleshing out side gig ideas I have floating around but no time to focus on myself. I take your point though, and it’s why I haven’t bit the
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by shireboy 5mo ago
I’ve been considering a move to local llm setup, having been underwhelmed coat vs value of various online offerings. But at the same time worried anything I get will be obsolete in a couple months. And I don’t want to have to babysit it.
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by shireboy 5mo ago
We’ve been using aikido code scanning and pen test tools and been pretty impressed. Will have to take a look at this.
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by shireboy 5mo ago
I have thought that extremely accessible, portable, non-radiation imaging would be revolutionary. Imagine every doctor - or even every person - had a handheld thing they could wave over your affected area to get a high res 3d image of the
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by shireboy 5mo ago
I tried this but it took over my mic and people couldnt hear me on teams call until I turned it off. Nice idea but needs to share the mic w teams to be useful for me. Not sure if it’s teams fault or trace fault but either way…
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by shireboy 7mo ago
Maybe dumb question: One of the use cases is instrument reading of analog instruments. My brain immediately goes to "this should have some sensor sending data, and not be analog". Is having a robot dog read analog sensors reall
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by shireboy 7mo ago
This is my life goal right now. I have a bajillion ideas, know how to code them (even faster now), and just not enough time due to day job. A few questions: How do you market them? Is customer support an issue? Do you see risk since ai ma
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by shireboy 7mo ago
I get that it's annoying, but also don't know what else one would do? "FooPilot is our Office AI toolset, BarWonk is our code assist tool"? There are also a lot of Claudes and GPTs. Naming things is hard.
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by shireboy 7mo ago
Git is a distributed source control system. It's open source and you can use it to version source code on your drive and/or a remote git repository. Github is one of the most popular git repository hosts. In addition to source r
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by shireboy 8mo ago
I’ve often thought this would be a good business for college age kids or teens. My parents and other I know are hesitant to send off to a 3rd party online. I think if someone local came and either did mobile or took and brought back they w
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by shireboy 8mo ago
Similar. I regularly use Github copilot (with claude models sometimes) and it works amazingly. But I see some who struggle with them. I have sort of learned to talk to it, understand what it is generating, and routinely use to generate f
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by shireboy 8mo ago
I am a developer turned (reluctantly) into management. I still keep my hands in code and work w team on a handful of projects. We use GitHub copilot on a daily basis and it has become a great tool that has improved our speed and quality.
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by shireboy 8mo ago
Similar story. I’m a bit younger, but Amiga BASIC/VB3/VB6/ASP/.NET was my path. There was a joy when “Visual Studio” meant “you can visually drag a component on and that is the app” instead of editing text files. But g
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by shireboy 10mo ago
I was just thinking about this today. Apples lack of any 3rd party integration for things like this and iMessage is really annoying sometimes. In addition to a secondary backup, I’d love to automatically sync some photos from a certain alb
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by shireboy 11mo ago
I have used this in a “beta” feature for an enterprise app and really like it. In ~100 lines of code I have a secured OpenAI compatible endpoint that I can chat with, and write tools for in .NET. I have it doing natural language query ove
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by shireboy 11mo ago
Kinda get what he’s saying: provide more metadata with structured logging as opposed to lots of string only logs. Ok, modern logging frameworks steer you towards that anyway. But as a counterpoint: often it can be hard to safely enrich lo
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by shireboy 11mo ago
Fascinating llm use case I never really thought about til now. I’d love to converse with different eras and also do gap analysis with present time - what modern advances could have come earlier, happened differently etc.
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by shireboy 11mo ago
As we are in the holiday season it may enlighten readers to know St Nicholas, from whom we derive Santa Claus, was known for two things: secretly giving gifts to the poor and needy, and slapping heretic Arius at this council.
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by shireboy 11mo ago
AGUI sounds similar: https://github.com/ag-ui-protocol/ag-ui
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by shireboy 1y ago
I really want this but for Azure Devops. If you're not familiar, Microsoft owns both Github and Azure Devops, and both do similar: git repos and project management. I can use Github Copilot, Claude Code CLI, etc. against code on my di
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by shireboy 1y ago
Make an accordion
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by shireboy 1y ago
This could mean in the Drake equation ne -number of planets capable of life- is very small. A planet has to be hit with a comet big enough to deliver a large amount of water but not so big or fast to destroy it. And be in the Goldilocks z
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by shireboy 1y ago
Ig Nobel has been around a while. I wonder if there is an opportunity for them to add a feature whereby they (and donors) could _sponsor_ research in areas that would be considered candidates. Research that would otherwise be too trivial o

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