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ahknight
·11 दिन पहले·discuss
They made the guardrails tighter. Tight enough to capture more false positive requests, now. Yaaaaay.
ahknight
·11 दिन पहले·discuss
They won't. They're focusing on different areas for their models.
ahknight
·11 दिन पहले·discuss
I can vouch for Nebula. Just follow their recommendation to not get the 1x service if you want to use the data for medical reasons. The more passes they make, the more accurate the result.

Downside: those files are HUUUUUGE. Have a good reason to do it before pulling one down and trying to work with it.
ahknight
·19 दिन पहले·discuss
Streaming.
ahknight
·23 दिन पहले·discuss
Now if only Ubiquiti could solve the problem where everything is always out of stock.
ahknight
·23 दिन पहले·discuss
But the Internet nerds wish to blindly judge something they know nothing about so they can feel better with the assumption that they could have done better somehow. How will they be appeased if the document they will say they have read and understood (without having done either) is not available to point at? How, I ask?!
ahknight
·26 दिन पहले·discuss
That was on my short list, but I liked the look of the Seiko SBTM339 more (though it's a JDP model so I had to import it). Citizen has a model in that range as well. Then the Seiko Astron line has both radio time and GPS models if you're willing to pay 5x as much (they do look so much nicer, though).

And I can confirm the radio time app works. (For those curious, it plays the time signal over the speaker and the faint EM from the speaker is more powerful locally than the original radio signal at distance, as well as landing on the correct frequencies.)
ahknight
·26 दिन पहले·discuss
I love that there's not only the internals of a standard three-hand, but the automatic mechanism as well. If you're going pure mechanical, an automatic is the best way. As long as you actually move during the day the watch generally stays wound up (though a twist when you put it on is a good measure). There's a ton of great watches out there powered only by walking around, and it's fascinating to look at what they can do with that.

The mechanics of a six-hand are similar, using the mechanism that is described here for the date indicator.

Another fun device, though more from an EE POV, are the solar+radio/GPS versions of the same. Automatics can hold power for a few days and need walking around to wind. Solar needs light (any light, though sunlight is always best) and hold power for over a month. Many higher-end models can self-set over radio time or GPS signals as well.

When the world goes tits-up someday, both classes of watches will suddenly become essential, and are already essential for people who spend a good amount of time "unreachable" for work or pleasure.
ahknight
·पिछला माह·discuss
Podman is on macOS, FWIW. Uses the existing container framework to run the machine already. Root-full or not.
ahknight
·पिछला माह·discuss
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ahknight
·2 माह पहले·discuss
"Build an Oracle clone in Rust. Make no mistakes."
ahknight
·2 माह पहले·discuss
86% AI generated text. Seriously, does nobody write anymore?
ahknight
·2 माह पहले·discuss
It's that last S in SaaS that builds the moat around companies like this. Even if you can make the Software, it's on you to provide the Service as well if you go that route. Quite a lot of companies simply don't want to self-host yet another thing and make their IT group even larger (or more burdened). It's rarely the Software or the Platform that's the selling point as much as the Service.
ahknight
·2 माह पहले·discuss
It's a good thing chronic amnesia is a feature at the moment.
ahknight
·2 माह पहले·discuss
That's amusing, and I think it's something different than it appears. The models always predict over the existing context. If it's full of a certain tone, then the responses will carry that tone. I've been bored before and start responding in a voice (say, generic honor-bound warrior slaughtering evasive bugs) and I've noticed that comments, variable names, and even documentation starts to carry that tone for the remainder of the session.

The next session sees all of that, calls it unprofessional, and asks to clean it up. At which point I may or may not start in iambic pentameter to see where that takes us.

Prompting is boring.
ahknight
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Kindness is that, yes. Fundamentally, though, it's about being considerate in one's actions so as to not harm others. If someone truly believes that acting a certain way at any point risks their ability to reliably be kind in others, then it's a social kindness to be kind and considerate in all actions.

I'll not reach for the easy response and say "Be kind to the Earth" fails your definition without reaching for pedantry with "the Earth has living things" because the Earth is instead a wet rock that cannot understand kindness, yet we show it.
ahknight
·2 माह पहले·discuss
It's fairly straightforward. Create the source files. Iterate the linter checks until it passes. Finalize.

I'd bet they just spell it out at each step so there's something to point to when they do those final reviews and reject it. "Now go look at step 385 and try again."
ahknight
·2 माह पहले·discuss
The funny thing is that you can use both a style template and content template with the DOCX exporter of pandoc and _export_ custom styles. You just can't import them.

Works great on my MD -> DOCX/PDF/HTML workflows but not the inverse, alas.
ahknight
·2 माह पहले·discuss
If you use Markdown, then it almost doesn't matter because your converted output won't have a line break until you insert a single newline.
ahknight
·2 माह पहले·discuss
This is where I'm at right now and it works rather well. I have a glue script that automates some shorthand in the Markdown into LaTeX for PDF and pre-set styles for DOCX and HTML exports. It works rather well, and being able to tweak my own LaTeX shell for the content is quite nice as well.

It's ePub that gets the weak treatment right now. Which just has me wondering if I can have my tool output the input files this standardebook toolkit wants (probably) and get a reasonable output from it.