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Diffity has a “tour” feature that can be directed to explain a local code change. Walks you through the important bits of the change with explanations. https://github.com/nilbuild/…

Got it.

I know nothing about the reasoning behind the original decision from Synology, nor the internal politics at play, but typically the customer support tail is not wagging the dog of …

Aren't warnings always positioned as being a more immediate threat than watches? https://www.weather.gov/safety/tsunami-alerts

I’ve also struggled with over-analyzing where stuff should go. I’ve restarted a new Obsidian vault based on PARA [1], and am experimenting with using LLMs (both Cursor and Claude C…

F1TV had some fun with it in their usual post-race programming: Joylon Palmer (F1TV announcer) did a deadpan "breakdown" of the Lego race during his segment, and Sam Collins analyz…

This is what I don't get. We don't have masses of unemployed people waiting in the ranks to fill a large amount of new jobs, as unlikely an outcome as that even is. Which means any…

Yeah, we've used CAPTCHAs to great effect as gracefully-degraded service protection for unauthenticated form submissions. When we detect that a particular form is being spammed, we…

I agree, I love the Mazda approach to this in my CX-50. I'm not even sure if the display is touchscreen or not, because I always use the wheel-clicker thingie in the console to con…

The paper calls out a few things that they didn't cover: > The CCC+TL model predicts the age of the Universe as 26.7 Gyr against the generally accepted value of 13.8 Gyr. This is o…

Unfamiliar with academia here, and I can't quite figure it out from TFA - does a retraction always imply wrongdoing, instead of mere "wrongness?" Or are papers sometimes retracted …

The entire home-buying process (in the US, at least) seems to be built on shady-looking ways to nickel and dime people. I remember telling friends when going through it that it'd b…

Yeah, I like that improvement/clarification. Good assertion. Now I wonder if it changes my stance: are the path modern LLMs are on ever going to replicate this environment for acqu…

I agree. A thought experiment I had recently: Let's say we could somehow train an LLM on all written and spoken language from the western Roman civilization (Republic + Western Emp…

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I've used YNAB for almost a decade now, but wish it were more powerful for things like investment tracking. I tried last month to get into the ledger sy…

Cannot wait for my Intel MBP to be refreshed into an M2 at work. Running Docker turns it into a jet engine. Like having a white noise machine with an unpleasant tone that also gene…

Is there a commonly-recommended introductory text for IFS? I've always found it interesting, and it resonates with me, given my internal monologue(s).

Yep, when I realized I was going deep down the money rabbit-hole of fine-tuning my homelab to grab and serve this stuff is when I just switched back to streaming. Monetarily it'll …

Yep, that's exactly what sparked the idea.

Huh, I had an idea recently to make an API-only game like that. Would let people build their own tools/GUIs and go as crazy as they'd like with building their own AI to control the…

Even with my racing sim rig, I find myself using my curved monitor more than the Quest 2. It's just such a pain to re-calibrate and update the software and tweak my graphics settin…

I was thinking the same thing. I know the price points are way different between what Apple's putting forward and what Meta was shipping, but Apple's vision and tech here blows Met…

When I was house-hunting I ended up writing a console app for my wife and I to do a few things: - Pulled down applicable YNAB savings envelope balances and future income calculatio…

The "hack" that a couple of the comments in this chain are referring to is only ever taking cabs _from_ a major airport into a city. Often you don't have to play the waiting-on-som…