I have been using systemd-nspawn recently through NixOS containers[1]. The combination feels quite powerful if you are in the ecosystem. Though it is slightly ironic that I find Nix more approachable with the help of…
We live in an interesting time. I have been in meetings where the conversation has been 'my Claude has got feedback', 'great, I'll get my Claude to take a look'. When do you just cut out the human middleware in that…
I'm not sure any of the other Arduino platforms would be able to do the computer vision parts this appears to.
I wasn't sure how I felt about this article but I think the author sums it up really nicely. > What actually separates “I lost my keys” from “I have ADHD” was never the presence of the behaviour. It’s the degree of…
Is it naive to assume that the agent will try and access anything on your disk, either accidentally or maliciously? Permissions classifiers in auto mode are just models trying to guess if they're doing the right thing.…
I am conflicted with passkeys. I actually prefer non-resident U2F in some ways. You don't have to store anything on your key, you are just signing requests. This is relevant where U2F/FIDO keys have limited slots for…
I always feel conflicted with this. Using my password manager to store 2FA codes is convenient, but it adds a layer of indirection if they are elsewhere. But if you've compromised my password manager, you almost…
Stena claim that their Flettner rotors (spinny sails) reduce fuel use by 9%. https://stenaline.com/media/stories/introducing-stena-connec... They are in commercial service already on the Irish Sea.
The REX issue is an interesting one. The BMW i3 used what was basically a scooter engine. The Ampera/Volt used what was essentially an Opel Corsa engine (from memory). Toyota's approach of using a small battery and…
I've found that I can often stuck in tarpits on Safari for iOS with Wipr and iCloud Private Relay. The worst trigger is searching Google from the address bar. Loading the homepage first makes the problem notably less…
Kids benefit from being kids and rolling around in the grass. In which cities are people favouring local parks over toilets? Parasites can actually help with allergies. I am loosely aware of various attempts at treating…
The idle cost of inverters can be quite high. EcoFlow power stations draw somewhere around 30w with the inverter switched on with no load. The idle power of a Mac Mini at the wall is a few watts total.
It's worth mentioning that the difference between playable and verified is sometimes just control mapping, or the wrong icons being shown, or default graphics settings need to be adjusted. Games often run well when they…
This is sad news, he was a very good actor. One of my favourite roles I've seen him in was as Trymon in the TV version of Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic.
In the article, Milton Friedman sums it up well I think by describing the attention is 'corrupting'. It cannot be good for you for everyone to assume that you are somehow omniscient all of a sudden. At either extreme,…
Friends don't make friends read slop. If I have something Claude wrote then I will offer the LLM output. But I generally prefer to at least give the option. I have seen conversations where it has boiled down to an…
AI is a force multiplier. It multiplies both good and bad decisions. Both mine and it's 'own'. I can get some things done 10x faster and it might even catch mistakes or help me solve something difficult. But if I am…
Sorry folks, my fault. I finally went from Pro to Max after hitting another 5 hour session limit today.
I really enjoyed playing with dithering to get good results from the eink spectra displays with 6 or 7 colours. They end up making good photo frames, especially for older digital photos.
These bursts of downtime are one of the reasons I end up with multiple smaller subscriptions between providers. I'd just end up being really annoyed about the downtime if it lands in the middle of a working day.
Is death in old age a 'problem' to solve? Suffering, absolutely. But I think there is more nuance to death.
Didder[0] is a good tool for dithering. I use it to pre-process images for the 6-color e-ink displays. You can go down a rabbit hole of dithering algorithms too, like Floyd Steinberg[1] [0]…
Passkeys are a mitigation against users being bad at password hygiene and phishing being a real issue to users. You can't phish a passkey, and you don't rely on the user providing you 'hunter2' on every site. As for…
I think that an overview of how the machinery works and how it interfaces would be interesting. As a side note, I do enjoy the bizarre bowling animations that the screens come up with.
Net Zero isn't what sets the price of UK electricity generation. Marginal pricing means that gas sets the price. At time of writing, gas is only generating 6.9% of the UK's electricity. https://grid.iamkate.com/
I have been using systemd-nspawn recently through NixOS containers[1]. The combination feels quite powerful if you are in the ecosystem. Though it is slightly ironic that I find Nix more approachable with the help of…
We live in an interesting time. I have been in meetings where the conversation has been 'my Claude has got feedback', 'great, I'll get my Claude to take a look'. When do you just cut out the human middleware in that…
I'm not sure any of the other Arduino platforms would be able to do the computer vision parts this appears to.
I wasn't sure how I felt about this article but I think the author sums it up really nicely. > What actually separates “I lost my keys” from “I have ADHD” was never the presence of the behaviour. It’s the degree of…
Is it naive to assume that the agent will try and access anything on your disk, either accidentally or maliciously? Permissions classifiers in auto mode are just models trying to guess if they're doing the right thing.…
I am conflicted with passkeys. I actually prefer non-resident U2F in some ways. You don't have to store anything on your key, you are just signing requests. This is relevant where U2F/FIDO keys have limited slots for…
I always feel conflicted with this. Using my password manager to store 2FA codes is convenient, but it adds a layer of indirection if they are elsewhere. But if you've compromised my password manager, you almost…
Stena claim that their Flettner rotors (spinny sails) reduce fuel use by 9%. https://stenaline.com/media/stories/introducing-stena-connec... They are in commercial service already on the Irish Sea.
The REX issue is an interesting one. The BMW i3 used what was basically a scooter engine. The Ampera/Volt used what was essentially an Opel Corsa engine (from memory). Toyota's approach of using a small battery and…
I've found that I can often stuck in tarpits on Safari for iOS with Wipr and iCloud Private Relay. The worst trigger is searching Google from the address bar. Loading the homepage first makes the problem notably less…
Kids benefit from being kids and rolling around in the grass. In which cities are people favouring local parks over toilets? Parasites can actually help with allergies. I am loosely aware of various attempts at treating…
The idle cost of inverters can be quite high. EcoFlow power stations draw somewhere around 30w with the inverter switched on with no load. The idle power of a Mac Mini at the wall is a few watts total.
It's worth mentioning that the difference between playable and verified is sometimes just control mapping, or the wrong icons being shown, or default graphics settings need to be adjusted. Games often run well when they…
This is sad news, he was a very good actor. One of my favourite roles I've seen him in was as Trymon in the TV version of Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic.
In the article, Milton Friedman sums it up well I think by describing the attention is 'corrupting'. It cannot be good for you for everyone to assume that you are somehow omniscient all of a sudden. At either extreme,…
Friends don't make friends read slop. If I have something Claude wrote then I will offer the LLM output. But I generally prefer to at least give the option. I have seen conversations where it has boiled down to an…
AI is a force multiplier. It multiplies both good and bad decisions. Both mine and it's 'own'. I can get some things done 10x faster and it might even catch mistakes or help me solve something difficult. But if I am…
Sorry folks, my fault. I finally went from Pro to Max after hitting another 5 hour session limit today.
I really enjoyed playing with dithering to get good results from the eink spectra displays with 6 or 7 colours. They end up making good photo frames, especially for older digital photos.
These bursts of downtime are one of the reasons I end up with multiple smaller subscriptions between providers. I'd just end up being really annoyed about the downtime if it lands in the middle of a working day.
Is death in old age a 'problem' to solve? Suffering, absolutely. But I think there is more nuance to death.
Didder[0] is a good tool for dithering. I use it to pre-process images for the 6-color e-ink displays. You can go down a rabbit hole of dithering algorithms too, like Floyd Steinberg[1] [0]…
Passkeys are a mitigation against users being bad at password hygiene and phishing being a real issue to users. You can't phish a passkey, and you don't rely on the user providing you 'hunter2' on every site. As for…
I think that an overview of how the machinery works and how it interfaces would be interesting. As a side note, I do enjoy the bizarre bowling animations that the screens come up with.
Net Zero isn't what sets the price of UK electricity generation. Marginal pricing means that gas sets the price. At time of writing, gas is only generating 6.9% of the UK's electricity. https://grid.iamkate.com/