I wish I could give o1 access to a regular Git repo and have it commit its changes in a branch, with my instructions in the commit message. Surely someone else has had this idea? Where can I buy this.
Charming captcha (is such a thing possible?) from LibraryThing
htmz is a neat hack
Finally able to give the Project Blue gift that I’ve been sitting on since February. Happy birthday Noah!
Ice crystals in the morning
Been a Gandi customer since at least 2009, maybe before. As of today, I’m fully migrated off. End of an era.
I think the funniest thing to me about the Apple privacy lawsuit which was just settled is the notion that guys wearing these things at this restaurant have tastes that could not possibly be predicted by a computer that wasn’t cheating.
[two Siri users] said their discussions about Air Jordan sneakers, Pit Viper sunglasses and “Olive Garden” caused them to receive ads for those products.
AI chatbot feature request: a button to summarize the current state of the conversation and any code or other artifacts into a single short message to send to a new chat conversation, to drop baggage of undesirable iterations and reduce token consumption rate.
Cool stats from the past couple of years
New Years Day brunch, mini baked potatoes and caviar
Every time I go on a bike ride or get in a pool it amazes me that the company from California has produced two biometric authentication technologies: one that is unusable when wet, and another that is unusable in direct sunlight.
it’s nuts how my entire generation got its feelings hurt so bad by intentional listicle ragebait that the cultural connotations are (still!) above the fold on Wikipedia for avocado toast
Baked-in-advance Christmas Day quiches (Christmas Eve whisky for scale)
btw, quiche is mega easy and the best way to elevate it is to make your own crust. I bastardize Martha by combining the ingredients and smooshing them into the bottom of the pan. Dreadful, I know. Tastes good though
noms de guerre
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Definitions
nom de guerre
noun
- pseudonym
- (historically) a fictitious name used in war
nom de ‘guerre
noun
- a fictitious name adopted by an actor or model
- (historically) a fictitious name adopted by the subject of daguerreotype photography
nom Daguerre
proper name
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 →
if i understand correctly, a.m. stands for after midnight and p.m. stands for pre midnight
“Signing in just got easier!”, the website threatened
The ecstasy of triumph / The agony of defeat
Bluesky has such a nice web experience (“even” on mobile), responding instantly and scrolling beautifully; I groan whenever I load a Mastodon or Twitter webpage. I do not have a Bluesky-shaped hole in my soul, but damned if the nice web experience doesn’t make me want to try it out.
For readability
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Defenders of short lines in source code have won the day when it comes to defaults from automatic formatters, but when I look at the results I don’t understand why. The last 6 lines here are the same as the first 14, and it looks much more readable to me.
For readability we recommend against using more than 80 characters
I don’t mind this as a proverb, but like many proverbs, it would benefit from an equal and opposite counter-proverb.
4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Perhaps:
For readability, break lines at 80 characters.
For readability, do not break statements into multiple lines.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 →
Are there any positive effects of a system full of demons which you can ward off with an incantation beginning with THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” ? If yes, what are they?