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Just let me pay to not get ads and for all tiers keep them external to the LLM output

lol can never resist call to plug: read my blog! https://www.jasonthorsness.com/ My favorite articles to write are on crafts like the below, I just got a Prusa CORE One kit (not pu…

The descriptions of the problems make it sound a little like algorithmic puzzles but your only tool is Excel instead of some programming language… Excel is pretty amazing in what y…

OpenSCAD is great! I used it to create a bunch of things to cut on a CNC router over the years. Best achievements were a scale model of Mount Rainier and some one-piece picture fra…

Recently I’ve had the best results with Gemini; with this I’ll have to go back to Codex for my next project. It takes time to get a feel for the capabilities of a model it’s sort o…

C#'s runtime (dotnet runtime) adds overhead compared to Rust with GC and other stuff too. This is true even with single-binary AOT compilation, the runtime is still there (just lik…

This isn't true at all anymore for years! Microsoft acknowledged Linux won for server-side and since C# is primarily used as a server-side language they made everything work incred…

This one is an apt pick. I only worry it’s early and the true wave of slop is not yet upon us.

I can’t handle the swipe up to switch apps gesture with reduced motion it becomes too jarring. I set the glass to “tinted” and that’s about it. I wish they had a stronger disableme…

This is great! I’m going to try the melting carnauba wax in tung oil one. I tried pure tung but it’s too matte for what I want.

I love unstyled UI components since you get complete visual control but accessibility still works and that's so easy to screw up and not notice it's broken. I've used Tailwind head…

I have it now

When a data tree is tightly coupled (like a complex sample of nested data with some arrays from a sensor) and the entire tree is treated like a single thing by writes, the JSON col…

This is the typical practice for most index types in SingleStore as well except with the Multi-Value Hash Index which is defined over a JSON or BSON path

Does anyone have it yet in ChatGPT? I'm still on 5.1 :(.

I don't and have never gone very often, but it's a lot of fun to see certain films in enormous theaters like IMAX. I will definitely see the Project Hail Mary film that way. And my…

And here I am in Washington State still over $4

You can run the compiler with a flag that shows all the escapes with -gcflags “-m” and there’s also support in goland and vscode to show the escapes as inline annotations in the ed…

It is handled on the Unlurker front page (you will see a little note that says “time adjusted for second chance”). The replay doesn’t do any adjustment for it, but I think that mak…

It's fun to read some of these historic comments! A while back I wrote a replay system to better capture how discussions evolved at the time of these historic threads. Here's Karpa…

Sounds like a step in the right direction. I would like to see an all-up dashboard of everything in the shared state, and good control over upgrades (maybe a mode where in-progress…

The distributed state associated with workflow systems like this makes observability and code upgrades a challenge compared to just having an application orchestrating workflows wi…

If you like this sort of content, I recently found Sandy Petersen (Call of Cthulu, Doom, Age of Empire, Halo) is extremely active on X. Lots of interesting tidbits about game desig…

ha what an incredible consumer-friendly outcome! Hopefully competition keeps the focus on improving models and prevents irritating kinds of monetization

"AI overview" has become a running joke in my kids middle school due to this sort of thing :P. This one is particularly good