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What is a "squat-length string"? I realize this is one of Claude's copy tells (using excessively hyphenated words) but in this case I can't figure out what it means.

I'm curious whether anyone has run into hallucinations with this kind of use of an LLM. They are pretty great at converting data between formats, but I always worry there's a small…

I've used OpenSCAD for a few small projects. The main draw for me is avoiding all the "fiddly mouse stuff". I figure it's a trade-off between simple stuff being more complicated, a…

This is a neat idea. I don't know enough about the underlying proof-of-work stuff to comment on how effective this could be, but I think it's pretty funny that the UI examples say …

Good to know, thanks for the explanation!

It's a pity they don't ship to other countries than the US. I looked through their website and saw some fun stuff, but no international shipping.

I'm probably just not thinking through the problem fully, but: Wouldn't this be better solved inside the coding assistants? They're the parent process and should be able to tell wh…

This is incredible, love how much further you've taken it than just the proof of concept as well. This is probably just my opinion, but I kept thinking that a better word for "driv…

I opened this on a mobile device, and it only shows the top and bottom topic buttons. I was pretty confused until I tried turning on "desktop site" in Chrome and saw the left/right…

What brand of toothpaste do you use for this? I often struggle to find a toothpaste that's SLS-free but still has fluoride.

> here are the empirical distribution functions (ECDFs) with 30ms added to each response time > The added constant seems artificial, but it's just viewing the results from the poin…

Doesn't this suffer from similar issues to a pie chart? e.g. https://scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/resources/data-visualisation-a... I'm kinda suspicious that any data visualization that u…

> The drones can be configured to scatter seed, spray pesticide, or spread fertilizer. It's right there in the article.

That's a great explanation, and pretty much exactly what I'd love to see instead of the original slightly mysterious comment :)

It's a statement that won't make sense to someone who's new to the topic. I don't think it's related to virtue signalling at all, the two just share the word "signalling".

The tone is entertaining, but some of the snarkiness around the code is bit frustrating at times. e.g. > # do i really need to say I'm not serious about this? Can you just come out…

I once inherited a codebase that did this, and it was a nightmare to learn. All the classes were named after types of alcohol for some reason. Naming things clearly is really hard,…

> 10GB is hardly enough. Once you import Pandas you’re on the limit. You can forget Pandas and scipy at the same Lambda. This sounds way off to me. 10 GB to install a Python librar…

Not quite to your specs, but have you tried https://www.room-assistant.io/ ?

Interesting that most of the top comments here seem to be about the day to day process of estimation itself, when the linked article is about how poorly the research on estimation …

This is a really nice one! What did you use for the board itself? Is it 3D printed?

Just a guess from the names, but these sound like debug plugins built in by the OpenAI developers, not real unreleased plugins.

Interesting that it seems to have no concept of the filmmakers they tried to include here - Tim Burton and Walt Disney didn't produce anything recognizable and look to me like the …

This looks really cool, and I would love to try it out on a hobby project before considering it for something more serious. Are you planning to make some kind of "hobby" tier below…

These sound like very positive changes! Would you consider going through past years and pre-emptively disqualifying people for their previous spam PRs as well? And is it obvious on…