Posts by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
(DIR) Post #Ab774yrV2luKLaWOrg by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2023-10-19T22:30:03Z
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Quoted for truth: "If it won’t damage a car, it won’t protect a bike lane."https://mastodon.social/@docpop/111264021857924542
(DIR) Post #AbKlUM0C27raxoGduK by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2023-10-30T22:00:03Z
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I'm spending some time trying to figure out how to effectively talk to GPT (and if it's possible).Having spent entirely too long exploring what Eliza and the "Animals" approach to expert systems could do back in the days of BASIC, I'm increasingly perplexed over the enthusiasm for this latest generation.
(DIR) Post #AbKo86EOHxMRXgzKUK by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2023-10-31T16:24:33Z
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@simon thanks! We're reading your stuff religiously. It's doubly difficult to apply it to our use case, I currently have an application that gets a page from Wikipedia and uses the categories to make user suggestions, there's notion of replacing that with an LLM.But, of course, that relies on the LLM knowing something. And if we ask the LLM for direct recommendations of links or resources, of course you know what happens...So a lot of trying to figure out what it can do.
(DIR) Post #Aba7944bgAEsT8ncAa by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2023-11-08T01:38:19Z
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@mjg59 as someone on MacOS right now, though, I would *love* to be working back on Linux. Heck, even my non-technical wife, who's on MacOS because we both want to be running work project, is going back to her decade old Linux laptop from her Air because the OS is is just a nicer place to be than Mac's "let's strong-arm you into subscription everything and abstract where your files are".
(DIR) Post #Ac6jqrqHmifkEIaUHg by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2023-11-23T19:15:48Z
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@simon I'd just do it in C with Peg or Leg or whatever combo it is. The example calculator grammar makes it pretty easy to start.
(DIR) Post #AhFXJzAezflPj07ltA by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2024-04-25T14:35:02Z
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Seriously, if anyone has recommendations for USB-C power cables that last any amount of time, please mention them. I'm, down to one 3' long one that I bought because it was $20 vs the $15 for the other ones, the original Apple one died, the magsafe connector on this M2 MBP seems to have died, and I'm sick of shoveling money down the USB-C hole.
(DIR) Post #AhFXbPpn74NjLJfrwO by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2024-04-25T14:40:17Z
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@shalien Rampow? They certainly look cheap enough to just order a stock of 'em so when they fail I can move on...
(DIR) Post #AhFZ4tdVUOl67jY9GS by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2024-04-25T14:56:49Z
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@shalien dang! Okay, that's an endorsement. I hate to Amazon, but...
(DIR) Post #AkCcT7xub3fu0WkooC by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2024-07-22T21:25:02Z
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Conversation at lunch about progress in computing, and "Southwest runs Windows 3.1" came up, and I got to thinking: What have we really got since '94? Most new web browser capabilities and increased memory and graphics are used to deliver ads.Word processing and spreadsheets are pretty similar (Emacs is still my editor of choice). We have nicer photo and video editing, and MP3s have replaced WAVs, but... it's amazing how much of modern computing doesn't feel like actual progress.
(DIR) Post #AkCcTA4Mm21gX7n09A by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2024-07-22T22:02:10Z
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Looking at my current filtering on Mastodon, and thinking about what my old Usenet killfile used to look like, and realizing that so much of modern computing is about both enabling and then filtering advertising.We've got glorious 4k 24 bit displays that we can update in real time, capabilities I would have *loved* in the early '90s, and we're using it to autoplay ads for shit I already bought.
(DIR) Post #AkfZngK9tbpY5C6hgu by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2024-08-05T21:43:40Z
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@ErikUden I realize you have a lot of answers already, but: "Üüöä" encoded in UTF-8 is \xC3\x9C\xC3\xBC\xC3\xB6\xC3\xA4You can look up those characters as 8859-1: C3 is "Ã", I'm not sure how it's getting the "œ" (though 9C is in a blank area, so...) but the ¼ is BC, ¶ is B6, and so forth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1
(DIR) Post #Ali3V0LSfMrlPsA6Rk by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2024-09-05T22:12:40Z
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@ariadne I mean, isn't that kinda like any language?I like the mantra of the Scary Devil Monastery: All computing sucks. Some of it sucks less, for particular purposes, but it all sucks in one way or another.
(DIR) Post #Am8N3cUOIuLCnpW3xQ by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2024-09-18T16:59:38Z
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@ErikUden answered "Maybe", because I sometimes think I'm the most vanilla monogamous cis person on the planet, and yet I try to celebrate otherness.and I wear the gayest glasses on the planet, and programmer socks, and...
(DIR) Post #ApieNGpm9cmxRusTtA by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2025-01-03T18:50:02Z
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I was smirking, until I hit their footer, and now my office-mates are looking at me weirdly 'cause full-on guffaw. https://getfullyear.com/
(DIR) Post #Auy2pahdy5hKFsemhM by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2025-06-09T22:14:42Z
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@futurebird also: My stupid gas stove draws 6 freakin' watts at idle, presumably to power that stupid clock.Of all of the reasons to go to an induction cooktop, that one sits there, blinking in my face.
(DIR) Post #Av8NUrteHestw7YUyW by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2025-06-14T21:41:13Z
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Holy shit. It's real. From https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/no-kings-protests-bay-area-underway/I mean, technically it is "hundreds", but that picture alone has at least tens of hundreds.
(DIR) Post #Awx9dztt2monwfhTxA by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2025-08-08T04:10:02Z
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is distinguishable from bullshit.
(DIR) Post #AyZMsnvHXKNLzyDW4G by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2025-09-25T00:45:02Z
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The thing about this European Chat Control issue is that this is exactly the sort of thing we used to be horrified by when the Soviet Union registered typewriters and such.
(DIR) Post #B0B7UzOfbryQ0fsCcy by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2025-11-12T18:58:47Z
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@futurebird caveat: It's in the bedroom, with a Chromecast, and I don't think it's seen more than 5 hours per month of use in the 17 years we've had it...
(DIR) Post #B0NeFETtXrukmjuI0e by danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host
2025-11-18T19:55:37Z
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RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115572250479334748Theres this thought that scammers use ridiculous come-ons to not waste their time with people who aren't susceptible to the scam, seems to me that we're seeing similar plays with click-bait now.