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- “(The) honest caveat:” (or “genuine caveat:”, both with the colon) - “(The) honest answer:” (again, with colon) - “The thing to internalize:” - “The smoking gun:” (really, senten…

It’s just still so trivial to jailbreak even the latest Anthropic models (via api, and not talking about the silly ENI or Pliny breaks) I don’t understand where the safety teams ar…

CarPlay is essentially a conditional pair of video inputs. Any system that supports on-screen rear-view camera and that has a wheel speed sensor can support CarPlay.

Well done! I’ve built this same sort of thing for my family to play with. My advice for the best results: 1) Structure the choices offered by the LLM; add “choice_type” and add ins…

Have to sign up even to see one response? Sorry, man. Good luck, though.

My answer to this in my own pet project is to mask terms found by the NER pipeline from being corrected, replacing them with their entity type as a special token (e.g. [male person…

From the /original/ repo [0]: Exercise vigilance regarding copycat or coat-tailing sites that seek to exploit the project's popularity for potentially malicious purposes. It is imp…

Please don't do this. It's not substantive or helpful. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

One note: For truly "responsive" text (and other measures, like padding/margins), I often use relative units of measurement. At the very least, rem/em, but more and more I'm using …

Can confirm. My family has (collectively) cashed about $1,000 in settlement claims.

Well, my wife and I have been on a months-long experiment. We have HomePod minis, Macs and iPhones/iPads in the house. They are able to access the internet without restriction (oth…

Or heaved out from freeze-thaw cycles, an excellent sign that it was nowhere near long enough in the first place.

It storms a lot here. And kids are notorious for not hearing things that are obvious to the rest of us. :) My kids aren't paranoid, they don't freak out about the storms. It's just…

Nobody's frightened. We enjoy the storms. :)

I learned long ago not to trust corporate homebuilders.

A similar one changes my LED-filled floor lamp (running WLED) to a pattern that matches the current weather conditions. Falling rain, lightning, heat "rising". Sort of an ambient n…

Building are different in different countries, and other geopolitical divisions. The UK authorities, for example, say it's safe to shower during a storm as long as your plumbing ha…

The risk of death of showering during a lightning storm could be the same as the risk of death going for a 15 mile drive[0]. A typical lightning bolt is about 300 million Volts and…

It largely centers on this template sensor: {% set distance = states('sensor.lightning_detector_lightning_distance')|int(999) %} {% set bearing = states('sensor.lightning_detector_…

As mentioned before, we don't worry. There's no judgment. It's a simple binary. And we spend the time enjoying the storm that we otherwise would've missed.

The difference in expected utility from showering (either during a lightning storm or not) is minimally affected by the choice to postpone it. That's why I'm content to call it a b…

Yes, especially in older homes or homes with poor grounding. Lightning can discharge through water supply lines[0]. There are even cases of toilets exploding due to lightning strik…

Yes, it's exceedingly rare. But it's one of those "avoiding this activity for an hour could prevent you from dying painfully" things, so we don't shower/bathe/wash dishes when ther…

From the repo: Data is served through a public MQTT server (dedicated to serve requests for this component) - thanks to geohash-based topics and some other optimizations it greatly…