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by vidarh 4mo ago
I don't know about "fond" memories of a flip phone, but I grew up with a C64, and my first phone was a flip phone, so in terms of age group I don't think it's too far off. I'm not looking to go back to a flip p
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by vidarh 4mo ago
The big red flag should be giving github access before signing any contracts.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Yeah, the camera off thing has happened to me too, and it should be a red flag to anyone if an interview situation.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
This is a common one. I've had at least half a dozen of them. If I'm bored, I play along, and then play difficult and dumb and see how long it takes until they give up. Some of these will happily get on "interview" calls
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by vidarh 4mo ago
The converse: Most itches will either be idiosyncratic, and not get you much attention, or lots of people will be scratching them and it's hard to come out "on top". I scratch lots of itches, but I also know that most of them
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Languages evolve. Nobody I know goes around bothering saying "terminal emulator". The last time I touched an X terminal was 30 years ago - I have no intention of bothering with the distinction.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
I find I have to specify this for some of these projects, because rewriting basic stuff like this often has a lot of people asking what the point is... But I love small rewrites (this is <3k lines of code for the terminal itself; the fon
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Yeah, it's languished for years. I did a stint last autumn to get it to start passing more of Rubyspec, but haven't had time to take it further. github.com/vidarh/writing-a-compiler-in-ruby It's self-hosting apart f
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Thanks. I just re-targeted my editor to use this code to render using the text-based-backend or optionally using the X11 backend, so now I can layer the same renderer even more times...
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Sort of, if you squint right. The EU is in some ways closer to a confederation, but with various "hacks" - in the form of various treaties - to try to work around the problems that led the US to abandon it in favour of a federal m
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Show HN: A pure-Ruby X11 terminal(github.com)
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Agree with this. Occasional coasting is great. Sometimes you need to recharge. Sometimes it's when you'll get inspiration or find time to do that experiment that feels like leisure because it's fun but ends up paying off mass
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by vidarh 4mo ago
I agree we shouldn't, but until we're at a post scarcity point, we kinda have to at least keep it somewhat in check. But if you're standing around because there isn't anything positive you can contribute at a given mo
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by vidarh 4mo ago
The challenge is to distinguish "think about hard problems for a long period of time, only speak up when you have something positive to contribute" from slacking. I am not arguing for bullshit metrics - I personally love working o
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by vidarh 4mo ago
People who don't want the hassle. A lot of Openrouters selling point is removing hassle, and providing things like this can move them up the value chain for people who aren't very cost sensitive and are happy to pay to get better
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by vidarh 4mo ago
They don't even need to know they are. You can assume that if the model becomes available again, a lot of people will find themselves working for companies distilling these models that just happens to ultimately do work for foreign ent
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by vidarh 4mo ago
I have a (self-hosted, but buggy and wildly incomplete; don't try to use - jRuby or TruffleRuby are better - and far faster - options) Ruby compiler that was partly born out of wanting to figure out what this would take, and the answer
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Love seeing this. I'd be interested in seeing how much more could be shaved off by doing things like offering an xcb/xlib shim that moves more functionality to the client side (e.g. server-side font support are trivial to move cli
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by vidarh 4mo ago
They are from my own runs, with reliability measured in terms of passing extensive test suites. So caveat is that this applies for my specific use and might well vary greatly.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
I just ran a report from a project I'm working on that uses a mix of models, and GLM 5.1 trumped Sonnet over the last week, so I'm excited to now turn on 5.2. This is based on completion only - not quality, but that includes p
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Harness certainly matters a lot, though GLM is pretty forgiving. I just had Opus tell me that based on numbers over the last week, from quite a few billion tokens total across half a dozen providers, GLM 5. 1 has been more reliable for one
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by vidarh 4mo ago
It's hard to tell. Training it with lots of examples of ffmpeg would not be surprising, and training it on screenshots would also make a lot of sense. It's not inconceivable at all they'd train it on "figure out a video
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Kimi works great in their CLI, but their CLI has a number of workarounds for quirks of their models, including detecting when the model gets into a loop, and reverting to a checkpoint but letting the model compose a "message" to i
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Claude Code can process images by reading the files. And as I found out the other day, it also knows ffmpeg well enough to process videos even though it has no native video capabilities... While debugging, it asked me to pass it a video fr
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by vidarh 4mo ago
At least AWS egress pricing is a very high multiple of market rate.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Try Kimi in Kimi CLI and Claude Code and try saying that again. Kimi quickly collapses into tool calling loops without measures in their CLI but not in Claude Code and is largely useless for any long running tasks in harnesses not taking th
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by vidarh 4mo ago
It wasn't that interesting. I had a healthcare appointment near Victoria and had a half day off and decided to walk home. I regularly do 2h walks, so it wasn't a big stretch... It wasn't a particularly exciting walk - mostly
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by vidarh 4mo ago
I take public transport a lot and walk a lot (I live 3h walk from central London - I know because I've walked it, for fun), but I still also use Uber regularly because sometimes I simply don't have time. If I lived in the centre I
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Everything. It's nice having more text and bigger images visible.
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by vidarh 4mo ago
A single one is sufficient evidence that calling out a single em-dash as evidence of AI use is flawed. Especially when it is from the same magazine . There are also em-dashes in a huge number of their articles. I didn't spend time pic

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