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Talking about being "tired", the phrase お疲れ様でした (otsukaresama deshita) is commonly used to express "thanks for the hard work" and it's a catch-all greeting for coworkers now, but i…

Japanese also has a word you say to the cook, ご馳走様でした (gochisousama deshita) but that's said after the meal as thanks.

The Smithsonian has a great book called "Wheels and Wheeling" that covers the early history of bicycles. Fascinating stuff. https://repository.si.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/02b…

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/9/claude-fable-5/ The bike is generally okay, apart from medium which derped hard. Max has correct diamond, correct head tube, and so on. Only ni…

Agreed. It's far from solved. Modern LLMs still generate pelican bike SVGs with obvious errors: * some omitted the bottom of the diamond which connects from the pedals to the rear …

Original founder of darktable, hanatos, went and made vkdt which fixes a bunch of my pet peeves with darktable: https://github.com/hanatos/vkdt https://jo.dreggn.org/vkdt/ * Vulkan…

I have a pet peeve that darktable-cli requires the GUI darktable to not be running. It would be nice to export photos using my script without having to disrupt my editing workflow.…

I use Darktable a lot for 10 years. It has improved vastly over the years. I love the new additions like AgX! However I tried out the new AI denoise and it still isn't great. I als…

iirc the bug that the R8127 patch was addressing was fixed in the R8169 driver upstream in kernel 6.18 and later. Not super sure what other patches there are and what the status of…

The Ampere cpu in that post has a "lack of single core CPU speed" despite ripping through compilation tasks with its 80 cores. But the DGX Spark's CPU has fairly decent single core…

It's an Orico 9948C3 with four Seagate Barracuda 24TB drives. They were on sale last year [1]. Unfortunately, the enclosure doesn't work super well on Linux. There is a weird bug w…

Sorry, my comment was confusingly worded, but I am precisely thinking about the head-space thing you are talking about. My point is: the fact that image generation models can gener…

The DGX Spark hits a sweet spot for me where it can simultaneously work for general computing and run local LLM inference fast enough for some hobbyist dabbling. The RTX 6000 Pro B…

Many other distros almost work out of the box (as in they boot and run without any modifications). The custom kernel patches you mentioned address mainly non-critical bugs such as …

I know. I'm just thinking about how to make AI create SVGs better... in theory, a sufficiently smart AI could "generate an image in its head", think about it, and then output the S…

I disagree with this in the blog post: > Every single one is a pelican, on a bicycle, first try. When every student gets an A, the exam has stopped grading. Numerous pelicans and t…

I feel like getting LLMs to spit out an SVG is akin to getting a human artist to draw something by just reciting a list of coordinates. It's insanely hard and unnatural. Image gene…

> in Spanish, there wasn’t an English version, but it will do I've just uploaded an English translation to: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moyen_Orient_13e_si%... If someo…

Yes I wrote the issue by hand and try to communicate well.

I totally understand the point of view from maintainers. Review fatigue of low quality slop is a legitimate issue. The worst ones are fully autonomous AI agents looking for open so…

Yeah, if I take a dense grid of photos near my house, it would reveal a 500 m circle. But in practice I don't take _that_ many photos in the neighborhood. Also, the circle isn't pe…

For my personal website I have a lot of photography-oriented blog posts [1], but I have special code to strip out GPS info from the location if it's close to my home [2]. EDIT: my …

* Wikimedia Commons upload: https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2026-03-25-uploading-to-wiki... * Image viewer that can handle really big photos + run scripts via custom keybindings + …

The NVIDIA DGX Spark that I use has a fairly decent ARM CPU that's roughly on par with the M3 Pro and AMD AI Max 395+ according to Geekbench, plus a GPU that's very powerful (RTX 5…

There's a Linux amd64 version and a Windows arm64 version. However, I use a Linux arm64 machine, and arm64 machines are going to be a lot more common going forward. I wonder if the…