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we recently added a `launch` command to Ollama, so you can set up tools like Claude Code easily: https://ollama.com/blog/launch tldr; `ollama launch claude` glm-4.7-flash is a nice…

Guessing you're talking about this interview? https://youtu.be/1UES4gQZH6o?si=X_zP2AKmvVrkpVi4&t=1069 I just saw it a couple of weeks ago, it's great. I linked to him trying to rem…

I came here to the comments to mention the shape "Cresti di Gallo", which I had for the first time recently and really enjoyed. I suspect it might just be another name for the same…

Cory Henry playing Stevie's "Love's In Need of Love Today" is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL50VnZY1Kk

The AirPods Pro already have a bunch of features that overlap quite a bit with hearing aids (e.g., importing audiograms), but it'll be interesting to how it evolves: https://suppor…

I think it's the same

turns out that Ken Shirriff is the technical reviewer for this book! (I saw this in the early access PDF)

I love both the show & Egan's writing, but Egan's stuff feels a lot more optimistic to me. I do like the theory that things are not quite what they seem in Severance and there migh…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

product-market fit

GoodReader on iPad has this (though you set it for the document manually). It even lets you choose a different view-time crop for odd and even page numbers.

"mils" often means 1/1000th of an inch

You can send an invisible push notification that tells an iOS app to wake up in the background and check for updates: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/..…

It falls back to IR, but will use HDMI-CEC if available. Can be pretty fiddly to get it to work

Most midrange A/V receivers come with mics these days to do this sort of calibration. For example, Denon's version of this is called Audyssey http://manuals.denon.com/avrx4100w/NA/…

Related: a 2014 paper on using timing side channels to detect being in a VM from within browsers https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot14/woot14...

it's very brief, but she gets quite a reaction from the band at around 6:10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SJIgTLe0hc

I think it's a three-finger swipe, isn't it? Though while trying it out, I did discover that a three-finger tap now shows another menu that makes undo/redo a little easier.

Same! I didn't realize it wasn't just circles cut on two sheets of metal until I saw this video on their design page: https://www.apple.com/105/media/us/mac-pro/2019/36178e80-30f..…

I've had good luck with Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens as a left hander. Surprisingly not very smudgy.

SF is a little under 50 square miles with a population of around 900,000

I believe the iPhone 1 didn't have an oleophobic coating, which I think is what normally gets scratched. IIRC it was just plain glass, which is a lot harder to scratch.

Persi Diaconis is fascinating, it's definitely worth reading through his biography [1]. A small preview: after leaving high school at 14 to travel as a magician, a little more than…