Diffity has a “tour” feature that can be directed to explain a local code change. Walks you through the important bits of the change with explanations. https://github.com/nilbuild/diffity
Got it.
I know nothing about the reasoning behind the original decision from Synology, nor the internal politics at play, but typically the customer support tail is not wagging the dog of the rest of the company. Might be…
I’ve also struggled with over-analyzing where stuff should go. I’ve restarted a new Obsidian vault based on PARA [1], and am experimenting with using LLMs (both Cursor and Claude Code) to help me decide where stuff…
F1TV had some fun with it in their usual post-race programming: Joylon Palmer (F1TV announcer) did a deadpan "breakdown" of the Lego race during his segment, and Sam Collins analyzed the aerodynamics of the Lego cars in…
This is what I don't get. We don't have masses of unemployed people waiting in the ranks to fill a large amount of new jobs, as unlikely an outcome as that even is. Which means any large uptick in people working in…
Yeah, we've used CAPTCHAs to great effect as gracefully-degraded service protection for unauthenticated form submissions. When we detect that a particular form is being spammed, we automatically flip on a feature flag…
I agree, I love the Mazda approach to this in my CX-50. I'm not even sure if the display is touchscreen or not, because I always use the wheel-clicker thingie in the console to control it. This was an intentional design…
The paper calls out a few things that they didn't cover: > The CCC+TL model predicts the age of the Universe as 26.7 Gyr against the generally accepted value of 13.8 Gyr. This is of deep concern and needs the model…
The entire home-buying process (in the US, at least) seems to be built on shady-looking ways to nickel and dime people. I remember telling friends when going through it that it'd be easy to scam me because I got so used…
Yeah, I like that improvement/clarification. Good assertion. Now I wonder if it changes my stance: are the path modern LLMs are on ever going to replicate this environment for acquiring new information that humans…
I agree. A thought experiment I had recently: Let's say we could somehow train an LLM on all written and spoken language from the western Roman civilization (Republic + Western Empire, up until 476 AD/CE, just so I…
Yep, when I realized I was going deep down the money rabbit-hole of fine-tuning my homelab to grab and serve this stuff is when I just switched back to streaming. Monetarily it'll probably be a wash in the long run for…
Yep, that's exactly what sparked the idea.
Even with my racing sim rig, I find myself using my curved monitor more than the Quest 2. It's just such a pain to re-calibrate and update the software and tweak my graphics settings every time I want to hop in that I…
I was thinking the same thing. I know the price points are way different between what Apple's putting forward and what Meta was shipping, but Apple's vision and tech here blows Meta's out of the water. Meta seemed to be…
When I was house-hunting I ended up writing a console app for my wife and I to do a few things: - Pulled down applicable YNAB savings envelope balances and future income calculations from a Google Sheets spreadsheet…
The "hack" that a couple of the comments in this chain are referring to is only ever taking cabs _from_ a major airport into a city. Often you don't have to play the waiting-on-someone-to-show-up game, there's just a…
Not often, and I like it that way. I enjoy being around people who are demonstrably better in some dimension. It's a great way to learn something new all the time.
What sort of expectations are you seeing that you'd call absurd, out of curiosity? No agenda here, just also trying to sort through hype and reality.
Agree, and for things like cognitive behavioral therapy, where the "rules" are well-known and well-represented in its training corpus, it's amazing.
Related term I came across the other day: internal locus of control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control
Yep, this is my real problem. Install something that looks cool, then get wrapped up in the day-to-day and never make it muscle memory. Sounds like I should be focusing on "one new workflow thing a week" and make it a…
I've lived in a dense urban environment before, and my personal experience is that I don't get pissed off about noises like trains or ambulances (both of which were a large percentage of the noise). There's just…
I agree, I've never quite been able to figure out anything useful over alternatives. Like the usual "send me an SMS when the weather will be rainy" example - I use a highly customizable weather app that gives me more…
Diffity has a “tour” feature that can be directed to explain a local code change. Walks you through the important bits of the change with explanations. https://github.com/nilbuild/diffity
Got it.
I know nothing about the reasoning behind the original decision from Synology, nor the internal politics at play, but typically the customer support tail is not wagging the dog of the rest of the company. Might be…
I’ve also struggled with over-analyzing where stuff should go. I’ve restarted a new Obsidian vault based on PARA [1], and am experimenting with using LLMs (both Cursor and Claude Code) to help me decide where stuff…
F1TV had some fun with it in their usual post-race programming: Joylon Palmer (F1TV announcer) did a deadpan "breakdown" of the Lego race during his segment, and Sam Collins analyzed the aerodynamics of the Lego cars in…
This is what I don't get. We don't have masses of unemployed people waiting in the ranks to fill a large amount of new jobs, as unlikely an outcome as that even is. Which means any large uptick in people working in…
Yeah, we've used CAPTCHAs to great effect as gracefully-degraded service protection for unauthenticated form submissions. When we detect that a particular form is being spammed, we automatically flip on a feature flag…
I agree, I love the Mazda approach to this in my CX-50. I'm not even sure if the display is touchscreen or not, because I always use the wheel-clicker thingie in the console to control it. This was an intentional design…
The paper calls out a few things that they didn't cover: > The CCC+TL model predicts the age of the Universe as 26.7 Gyr against the generally accepted value of 13.8 Gyr. This is of deep concern and needs the model…
The entire home-buying process (in the US, at least) seems to be built on shady-looking ways to nickel and dime people. I remember telling friends when going through it that it'd be easy to scam me because I got so used…
Yeah, I like that improvement/clarification. Good assertion. Now I wonder if it changes my stance: are the path modern LLMs are on ever going to replicate this environment for acquiring new information that humans…
I agree. A thought experiment I had recently: Let's say we could somehow train an LLM on all written and spoken language from the western Roman civilization (Republic + Western Empire, up until 476 AD/CE, just so I…
Yep, when I realized I was going deep down the money rabbit-hole of fine-tuning my homelab to grab and serve this stuff is when I just switched back to streaming. Monetarily it'll probably be a wash in the long run for…
Yep, that's exactly what sparked the idea.
Even with my racing sim rig, I find myself using my curved monitor more than the Quest 2. It's just such a pain to re-calibrate and update the software and tweak my graphics settings every time I want to hop in that I…
I was thinking the same thing. I know the price points are way different between what Apple's putting forward and what Meta was shipping, but Apple's vision and tech here blows Meta's out of the water. Meta seemed to be…
When I was house-hunting I ended up writing a console app for my wife and I to do a few things: - Pulled down applicable YNAB savings envelope balances and future income calculations from a Google Sheets spreadsheet…
The "hack" that a couple of the comments in this chain are referring to is only ever taking cabs _from_ a major airport into a city. Often you don't have to play the waiting-on-someone-to-show-up game, there's just a…
Not often, and I like it that way. I enjoy being around people who are demonstrably better in some dimension. It's a great way to learn something new all the time.
What sort of expectations are you seeing that you'd call absurd, out of curiosity? No agenda here, just also trying to sort through hype and reality.
Agree, and for things like cognitive behavioral therapy, where the "rules" are well-known and well-represented in its training corpus, it's amazing.
Related term I came across the other day: internal locus of control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control
Yep, this is my real problem. Install something that looks cool, then get wrapped up in the day-to-day and never make it muscle memory. Sounds like I should be focusing on "one new workflow thing a week" and make it a…
I've lived in a dense urban environment before, and my personal experience is that I don't get pissed off about noises like trains or ambulances (both of which were a large percentage of the noise). There's just…
I agree, I've never quite been able to figure out anything useful over alternatives. Like the usual "send me an SMS when the weather will be rainy" example - I use a highly customizable weather app that gives me more…