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There's one at the bottom of the page -- ugly, as you might have expected.

I had GLM-5.1 via Claude Code create a macOS driver for an unsupported USB gamepad with a proprietary protocol. I answered a few questions and then let it run while I was away at w…

Some modern 35mm emulsions can record ~500 megapixels worth of detail, but good luck getting all that detail in a digital scan. https://www.adox.de/Photo/films/cms20ii-en/

It seems like one could just shoot film and make darkroom prints and accomplish the same thing?

SCOTUS has life-long appointments because it is designed to move and operate slowly and be the least political of the branches. Parties that try to legislate from the bench when th…

If you want to make a new internet and take all the trash that is on the current one with you to the new one, please do! It will make the current one much more tolerable for the re…

Humanity is not an infection. And how many of those millions of planets can you name?

Jesus taught Paul everything he knew about Christianity, by the way.

Most people don't hate trans people, they just think they believe things that do not correspond to biological reality; ie. they have an illness that is negatively affecting their m…

Assuming the hue and saturation components stay the same, changes in lightness would result in various shades of the same “color”. I think. Maybe. The problem is that in real life …

Yeah bought some Ultramax 400 last week. Two rolls….$25. Yikes. Might switch to bulk rolling soonish. Portra 400 is about 16-18/roll at the moment. It’s crazy.

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Same. There's a difference in texture, primarily in the trebles, but there's also a general muddiness and lack of separation. Everything feels like it's been smoothed over, but not…

Code output from is Claude pretty good. It seems to hallucinate less than o1 for me. It's been a struggle to get o1 to stop referencing non-existent methods and functions.

Here’s o1’s answer: The function `fizzbuzz(n)` returns a value based on whether `n` is divisible by 3, 5, both, or neither. Let's break down the function step by step for an input …

It's like a glass of pure water. If there is anything else in the glass, it can no longer be called a glass of pure water. Likewise, the presence of evil of any quantity or quality…

I understand your perspective, but I maintain that "good" (morally pure) isn't a category any of us belong to. We're all lying, hateful people to one extent or another, and lying h…

The problem isn't society or profit motivation. It's people. Humanity itself is corrupt. There aren't "good people" and "bad people". There's only "bad people." We're all bad peopl…

Using the term "justify" is very common outside of web. It's been used for decades in print ("left justify / right justify / center justify"). This is indeed a web project though, …

I think it is that the elements alternate in height between the left and the right columns, creating a weird kind of feeling of instability as you move down the page. The vertical …

This seems similar to the type of intrusive thoughts associated with OCD. It's like someone pretending to be God inside your mind, making commentary on all the things you want or t…

I fairly regularly hyperfocus on something that isn't the thing I should really be hyperfocusing on and end up spending hours fleshing out a less-than-supremely valuable idea witho…

I buy computers that run macOS for a couple reasons: - it’s generally smooth and stable from a UI standpoint - it has mostly sane defaults - it has great font rendering - the video…

For clarity's sake, the proverb is: "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evils."