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nswanberg

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About nswanberg

nswanberg@gmail.com

Trying out this meet thing:

meet.hn/city/us-Boulder

Socials: - github.com/nswanberg

Interests: Privacy

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #48763436

    Remove /search from the URL and browse away.

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    Comment #47243146

    TrueSpace | Full-Stack Engineer | Denver, CO | Hybrid / Remote TrueSpace helps make second-stage businesses better. We're building TrueScore, a metric to assess a company's ability…

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    Comment #46504998

    It's more of a catalog than a deep dive, but Evan Collins and friends have been cataloging examples of these aesthetics: https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/utopian-scholast…

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    Comment #46494739

    This is amazing. Works great, and so far the only useful iOS 26 feature. Thank you!

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    Comment #46493196

    I had that intro in my head for decades, and also rewatched the "making of" video a bunch of times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBtLZDPnYlM an alarm on what? maybe the greatest…

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    Comment #45304534

    A walkthrough would be nice, but he's got a lot of understandable material linked on that page. For example, here's an overview of the binary lambda calculus: https://tromp.github.…

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    Comment #43244733

    Nice! How'd the local models do vs gpt4o-mini? Did you spend much time playing with datasette?

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    Comment #42560697

    Yegge wrote about the business idea version of this as "Shit's Easy Syndrome": https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legal... It'd have been delightfully ironic ha…

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    Comment #41515306

    There's at least one in Boulder too, near Broadway and Baseline.

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    Comment #40871065

    That encrypted backup isn't available via Takeout, only via the Google Maps app. You can use that backup to load your history to various devices or a replacement phone.

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    Comment #40870984

    Making analyses like zdimension's, keeping a kind of automated diary, and occasionally looking up a spot I've been but can't quite remember.

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    Comment #40870665

    I ended up losing nearly 15 years of my Google Location history during the switch to on-device, so if you're interested in doing analyses like this, be sure to back up your data on…

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    Comment #39807165

    Has anyone done a (hopefully) systematic survey of the processes and software people use to store their stuff, sort of like a usesthis.com but just for storing assets, and how well…

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    Comment #38452116

    Seems nice if you're using c# or java. It also supports python, but for that Simon's llm library is nice because he designed it as both a library and a command line tool: https://g…

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    Comment #37248680

    Triboulet: "A noble has threatened to hang me!" The Monarch: "Don't worry! If he hangs you I'll have him beheaded fifteen minutes later." Triboulet: "Well, would it be possible to …

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    Comment #35488652

    What did they look like before? Have any favorites?

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    Comment #33854862

    Carl Öst Wilkens did something similar on Day 3: https://twitter.com/ostwilkens/status/1599026699999404033 Cool hacks, both of them. Who's gotten ChatGPT to pontificate on the ethi…

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    Comment #21131966

    For what it's worth, Stephen decided that network was a better model for the universe than a cellular automaton, and thought that space might emerge as a property of that network r…

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    Comment #19692871

    Here is a post by Steve Yegge about his, written way back when glaciers covered most of North America: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/my-dot-emacs-file

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    Comment #18244247

    I'd like to give it a try: nswanberg@gmail.com

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    Comment #14378604

    "Fortunately, the meltwater did not reach the vault itself, the ice has been hacked out, and the precious seeds remain safe for now at the required storage temperature of -18C."

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    Comment #14369671

    It'll be cool to see what Qualcomm releases. Until then, there's already some released Tensorflow code that will run on the Hexagon DSP in a Snapdragon 820: https://github.com/tens…

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    Comment #13718938

    Other people are saying this in other ways in the thread, but the race is what someone makes of it. If what someone cares about is their place, and that's all that's important, I c…