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I use the shell script pattern. In bash the case statement at the bottom of your example can be replaced with this though: “${@:-default}” || usage

Yes exe.dev is the first cloud provider I actually enjoy using. It's easy to manage with just ssh and they give me real disks. The lack of real (EBS is still networked) persistent …

This is a really ambitious and difficult idea. It would be awesome if they can pull it off! Since most people live near a coast this could power more than just data centers.

I recently “fixed” my bash history since the default experience when using multiple terminals sucks. https://dandavis.dev/the-bash-history-i-always-wanted.html I also use fzf to se…

I’m currently using sunshine and moonlight for remote access to ros2 development VMs with passed through GPUs. We needed an old version of Ubuntu hence the VM. And gpu pass through…

This is a little pedantic but the pictures seem to show failing support columns not beams. Beams are horizontal and columns are vertical.

GStreamer: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ is written in GObject which enabled some great tooling like gst-inspect-1.0: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/tools/gst…

This. You can get very far with just dataclasses, enums, and functions. I use dataclasses like I would use structs in C or go.

Incus is great when developing ansible playbooks. The main benefit for me over docker/podman is systemd works out of the box in incus containers.

I recently wrote a post for a coworker who asked the exact same question. https://dandavis.dev/llm-knowledge-dump.html

I’ve had a similar experience extracting transactions from my PDF bank statements [1]. GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini perform as well the janky regex parser I wrote a few years ago. The fa…

The combat system in Civ4 was deeper than you think. Stack composition, terrain, and positioning are crucial in MP games. This write-up [1] from a famous MP game where a 3v1 invasi…

I've been using OpenHermes-2.5 [0] and NeuralHermes [1] which are both finetunes of the Mistral7B base model. The only objective test prompting I do is asking the models to generat…

I have an odd usecase that I've yet to find a good solution to: Reading construction documents (Blueprints are always PDF). I've had much better luck parsing DXF (AutoCAD) files bu…

I am a custom home builder and we do this. It’s very handy when the drywallers cover up an outlet or switch.

Egg laying chickens (layers) are very different from meat chickens (broilers). Layers have been bred to be lean and put their calorie surplus into producing eggs. Broilers have bee…

The Open Library project https://openlibrary.org/developers has a free ISBN API. I used it along with tesseract OCR and a webcam to build a database of my physical books (218 total…