simonbw

6 ms·

31.
by simonbw 1y ago
I've been living in a rental for a while, and I have a woodshop in the garage. I've been really wanting to have a 220V outlet to run some bigger power tools, but if figured doing that would require hiring an electrician to come do
32.
by simonbw 1y ago
> We can't really do much with the information that x amount is reserved for MCP, tool calling or the system prompt. I actually think this is pretty useful information. It helps you evaluate whether an MCP server is worth the contex
33.
by simonbw 1y ago
There are driver's licenses and learner's permits. This could be the flying equivalent.
34.
by simonbw 1y ago
I think it's about optimizing for different types of reading. When you're reading the final text, you're reading to absorb the content. When you're reading the source text, you're reading to find edits you want to m
35.
by simonbw 1y ago
It seems like it would be much quicker and easier to just have a piece of plastic or something cut at a 76 degree angle that they can place on the laptop and fold the screen up to.
36.
by simonbw 1y ago
In a similar vein to "try medication", I'd like to add "don't write all medication off after one doesn't work". The first seven medications I tried had basically negligible effects, and then the eighth one
37.
by simonbw 1y ago
The article mentions "partially treated wastewater", which I take to mean "water that we're ok with dumping into the ocean, but not ok with drinking". I think you can generally read this as a way of gaining some uti
38.
by simonbw 1y ago
I have been imagining something like this would be perfect for working with Claude Code. I tried a couple other apps but they seemed to change too much without providing enough value for that change. This feels like just a nice clean simple
39.
by simonbw 1y ago
That works when you just do it once. Where you can run into problems is when you do that twice. One instance might change a file one way, and the other might change it in a conflicting way, then you have two Claudes getting confused about t
40.
by simonbw 1y ago
Inkscape is a vector editor that can export to SVG, but that's a bit different than an editor specifically for the SVG file type. I've often found myself wanting to edit SVG code directly while viewing the result. This maybe not t
41.
by simonbw 1y ago
It specifically says you are not allowed to commercialize the engine or a derivative, so that sounds like something that is not intended to be allowed, though I feel like it might take a lawyer to decide whether or not that is technically a
42.
by simonbw 1y ago
I use Kagi to search, but I usually use it with the a "?" at the end which triggers an LLM response in addition to search results. It gives me the answer I want like 95% of the time, and I don't feel the need to dig into the
43.
by simonbw 2y ago
I went to UW a decade ago, and back then it was pretty common knowledge that you don't fuck with software and the class registration system. Registering for classes was really competitive and they were really strict about making sure t
44.
by simonbw 2y ago
My understanding is that it's "don't call system.exit() until you have finished writing everything to system.stdout".
45.
by simonbw 2y ago
I think your math is off by a bit. A Calorie and a watt-hour are approximately equal. Humans need about 2000 Calories per day. So 2.9 watt-hours is more like the amount of energy a human needs in a minute. I think the confusion might come f
46.
by simonbw 2y ago
I believe it's referring to those links that your connections post.
47.
by simonbw 2y ago
I always found this argument underwhelming. Using a bidet isn't the equivalent of washing your hands with soap and water as we generally do, it's the equivalent of holding your hand under the faucet. You don't get the soap or
48.
by simonbw 2y ago
0. Forget everything you know about php and programming in general really. 1. Make a simple web page in an html file 2. rename it to .php 3. then throw in some <?php ?> tags 4. Look up [include]( https://www.php.net/man
49.
by simonbw 2y ago
I think some of this article resonates with me, but I also think a big part of it rubs me the wrong way. It seems to assume that everyone has a webserver running a LAMP stack. If you have a static site on a webserver running PHP then of co
50.
by simonbw 2y ago
It's been an incredibly useful pattern for me in game development. I have a hard time imagining making a game with any level of complexity without it. You can definitely go overboard with it, but I have a hard time even imagining how s
51.
by simonbw 2y ago
They also fly to Belize. I used my companion fare for that earlier this year.
52.
by simonbw 2y ago
I think it's actually about taking "medicine" that causes the same (the homeo part) dysfunction (the pathy part) as you're experiencing in the hopes of curing it.
53.
by simonbw 2y ago
Walls generally have studs that are 1.5" wide every 16", so more than 90% of points on a wall are not in front of a stud. You do need to punch a few inches away from the stud to account for the width of your hand and to get enough
54.
by simonbw 3y ago
Which one is which in this metaphor? Or is it just that they're different? My guess is that the wall is the startup, but I'm not quite sure.
55.
by simonbw 3y ago
It's about allowing a custom right click action more than just disabling it. There are plenty of use cases for making a custom action happen on right click. Google Docs adds a custom menu on right click. Games often have a use case for
56.
by simonbw 3y ago
For me it seems like the Previous Day and Next Day buttons have an off-by-one error. Next day keeps me on the same day and Previous Day takes me back 2 days.
57.
by simonbw 3y ago
ChatGPT/GPT-4 does it natively. You can say "Please generate me an SVG image of a unicorn" and it will spit out the SVG code.
58.
by simonbw 3y ago
I thought I was pretty good at TypeScript, but I can't imagine how I would write that function. Would you mind sharing that?
59.
by simonbw 3y ago
I made something almost exactly like this before. I needed to convert svgs to pngs and have them display the same way they looked in the browser. It turned out that spinning up chromium and taking a screenshot was the easiest thing way to d
60.
by simonbw 3y ago
Usually this could be solved with a "home copy" for each kid, then "classroom copies" for kids to use in class. Kids still carry their notes, but those weigh a small fraction of what hardback textbooks do.

More ›