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I've found myself with this problem, as I've used LLMs to accelerate solving problems I've wanted to solve, only to find myself unable to share them back, because LLM usage has "po…

That's actually neat, I can finally do a full sweep of something I found after the recent post about Lobsters migration, I came across a query that evaluates differently in MariaDB…

Duckdb CLI is a powerhouse, it can load files as diverse as gzipped json lines, so you can stuff compressed logs straight into a directory yet still easily query them with SQL when…

And the official auth URLs are always such random crap that I'm surprised people don't get phished left right and centre.

I call this genre of game, "Illusion of choice" games, but to be fair to cyberpunk 2077 it still does it better than any other games of its type. If you think of it as a tree and e…

No-one mourned when that one went to the Google Graveyard.

The CSS animation of the encrypted message overwriting the plain is utterly cool.

Indeed it makes no sense at all, because Windows 2000 even came out before Windows ME.

I've got so many projects I'm simultaneously working on, but the one I really want to get over the line is "Todo driven development" - An edit to the gleam test-runner gleeunit tha…

A big shift I've noticed in the past few years is how much Windows is increasingly a second-class citizen for developer focused things. Increasingly you'll see a new tool or librar…

Right, but the new phenomena is that we've lost a signal. Used to be if a game looked that good it probably had time spent on the game part too.

It's a mix, because some stuff tends to just use `T`, but there's better descriptors elsewhere. There's IList but Task There's Action but also Dictionary and Map This stuff kind of…

The expenses tracking revenue does rather paint a picture. No individuals should be donating to wikipedia, it is clear that any donation will be spent as rapidly and as wastefully …

Are we saying that it's now a problem that we're not getting scraped? This appears to be a new generation of "SEO", marking itself as a service for getting into AI results? This is…

The benchmarking seems a little bit suspect. It links to the bench.cy, but nothing explains how the others were measured. It seems that they're including some start-up time in some…

A few days ago Claude swore blind to me, "I'm approaching my context window, so you should do...". It was at ~300k / 1M. Very strange behaviour to observe.

Fable was good at instruction following but opus 5 seems awful for taking shortcuts to achieve a goal. From a conversation yesterday: > You're right, and it's the same miss again. …

In 2019 that'd be impressive.

My preference for visualising disributions is violin plots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_plot Similar to the ridgeline plot, you can see the distribution better without hav…

I think it's kinda cool, it's Gibsonesque, and that usage is old enough now it's rolled from awkwardly dated back to cool, especially now that people no longer tend to talk about "…