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It's also because exercise requires exertion, which is effortful, and most people who need the exercise would rather spend money to not have to exert. Does it pain me to say it? Na…

I'm convinced this is true, and think music piracy in the classical sense will be mostly dead in the near future, thanks to AI, which already absorbed most of the pirating and has …

Here's one that I just ordered myself: https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-epaper-1.54.htm temperature, humidity, audio in AND out!!!

Ouch, shade on the SensorPush. I had 2 and I got 2 more. It requires an app, but they're quite well made imho. But yes, open source would be better. If physical portability is not …

I'm really happy to see these rewrites. It shows what's possible, especially as the projects get more and more complex. And maybe Remacs will get reactivated https://github.com/rem…

q3dm17 in the browser... what a time to be alive

this is low key one of the few things that I think of doing for the rest of my life, though my bias is towards seaweed farming and related ecosystems

Somewhat related is stavros's method to compress 500KB to something like 50 bytes https://www.stavros.io/posts/compressing-images-with-stable-... main drawback is that it's not los…

Another potential weakness that isn't immediately clear from this experiment is if the experiment was run much longer (disregarding cost) then perhaps then the agent's memory could…

If the threat model was weighted by the stakes, then I wonder how the author would reassess their comfort level. Put to the extreme, the experiment could be whether the AI assistan…

In my interpretation, 躺平 (tang ping / "lay flat") and 摆烂 (bai lan / ..."let it rot" I guess) overlap in meanings in the "do nothing" aspect, but in the tang ping / lay flat case, i…

Somehow the Chinese phrases 内卷 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijuan and 摆烂 ("let it rot" https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%93%BA%E7%88%9B ) are quite appropriately used, even …

I recently sifted through a bunch of tagged entries in a text file, where each entry had a json array of image names, but the images resided on a remote server. I basically wanted …

I work a lot in the terminal and so vim/nvim is what I open the most, but the rise of LLMs has actually increased my use of Emacs recently. It fits in a niche of rapid interactive …

wait, I'm intrigued, it says the blog itself is lean code. How? It's rendered, like pollen?

I'm a little sad that VSO languages didn't start the computing revolution because if they did, we would all be writing LISP. But instead, we are relegated to Python and JavaScript!…

I think another part of it is culture. Outside of Western tech circles there's far less a culture (it feels) to invent new languages. To my knowledge Ruby's Matz is the only notabl…

Circa GPT-3.5 to GPT-4o I was involved in some research in figuring out how to make LLMs funny. We tried a bunch of different things, from giving it rules on homonym jokes [1], dou…

What sillysaurusx said, good on you.

I spent some time reorganizing the code in my gist into a repo for better change tracking at https://github.com/whacked/inline-interactive-forms.el I also pulled vui.el into the de…

I haven't thought through the entire use case. But it loosely revolves around the interaction designs provided by org-mode, ipython/jupyter notebooks, atuin desktop, aka "interacti…

Here's a rust one: https://github.com/BeaconBay/ck I haven't used it extensively, but semantic grep alone was kind of worth it.

I played with vui.el's hello world code earlier today, and it's a great showcase! Is there a simple way to achieve in-buffer forms? The jsf-- stuff was instructed to make the widge…

The tradeoffs are very shallow, mainly I just wanted the maximum chance of seeing something working ASAP. Staying vanilla reduces dependencies, which also makes testing easier duri…