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adammarples··on Bring Your Agent to Teams
When I click on my calendar inside teams it sometimes just goes blank for about 15 seconds. When I open a link on teams it opens in edge despite edge not being my default browser, because teams has its own default browser settings. When I make a numbered list in teams it indents 1. but when I enter onto line 2. it indents it slightly more so the number don't align and I cannot undo this and I have never found out how to stop it happening. When I open an excel spreadsheet link in teams it opens it in a janky teams view, instead of Excel, the only truly great Microsoft app. When I insert a code snippet in teams I can sometimes exit it out of it by pressing down, sometimes not, and I just have to send the message and continue writing in a new one. If I start teams on anything other than my work machine there's a 90% chance it won't work and I'll be better off using the Web view. These are just everyday off the top of my head annoyances.
adammarples··on Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms
Maybe they take issue with the word "glowing", which doesn't usually refer to invisible electromagnetic radiation
adammarples··on A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)
Incredibly easy to explain this without trying hard. The subject has some sense of movement forwards, and the brain rationalises it, like we do in dreams, imagining a tunnel or a canoe or whatever familiar thing is associated with that feeling of drifting or flying. So we can conclude that maybe near death experiences cause a feeling of falling or drifting, and is a bit like dreaming - not that objective reality should be rejected.
adammarples··on Codex for almost everything
I don't think so, because Anthropic now has your question, the steps it tried, and the solution that finally worked, all in text form, already on their servers thanks to your claude session. Claude usage is itself a goldmine of training data.
adammarples··on Claude Opus 4.7
They didn't describe the model, they described (accurately) the behaviour. They are useful descriptors of behaviour.
adammarples··on Claude Opus 4.7
Don't forget that you can also write code by hand
adammarples··on The Seasons Are Wrong
I thought the article could have been interesting if it cross-referenced with temperature, sadly it was quite basic.
adammarples··on The Seasons Are Wrong
No, late february is not the depths of winter, it's the very end of winter
adammarples··on Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
they don't fit, because 'yes' was not supposed to be used in the context of 'yes it is a mistake', yea was. Having two words helped stop that ambiguity.
adammarples··on LittleSnitch for Linux
This is brand new open source software with like 3 stars on github
adammarples··on Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026
The UK has positioned itself almost uniquely poorly in Europe. That is why its government bond prices are trading at a premium to the others.
adammarples··on 12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)
Maybe they can now overturn that judgement
adammarples··on Taste in the age of AI and LLMs
Agree but arcteryx is from vancouver
adammarples··on Some Unusual Trees
You're probably right I'm no expert
adammarples··on Some Unusual Trees
Well, no, what we're saying here is that if you use a rigid, hierarchical catergorisation system (cladistics) you can say that there is no such monophyletic grouping as a fish. Ie there is no grouping with a common ancestor that encompasses all the things, and only the things, that we commonly call fish. That system hasn't failed, it's fine, its purpose is to categorise things in terms of evolutionary descent. However, under that system humans are reptiles and trees and fish aren't useful categories. There exist other systems of catergorisation, which are polyphyletic or paraphyletic, which fit better with commonly used language, and we get back fish, trees, non-avian non-mammalian reptiles. Neither of them are wrong, they're just differently used and differently useful. It's like knowing that a tomato is a fruit, but nobody wants it in a fruit salad. People tend to struggle when things exist in multiple naming systems and categories for some reason.
adammarples··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
It's not a problem at all, you get subsidised to use it
adammarples··on The German state (Schleswig-Holstein) trying to break free from Microsoft
No, they are moving to Linux. Read TFA.
adammarples··on Show HN: Sundial – a new way to look at a weather forecast
Dates would be nice I got lost
adammarples··on Trust signals as sparklines for Hacker News
I don't know what trust signals or sparklines are
adammarples··on The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
Who else is supposed to aquire and submit the records? If I'm getting free money for five years and all that's required is a fax every five years, I wouldn't consider that particularly burdensome. I have to fill in a timesheet every week.
adammarples··on Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Yes, you can get books. I have hundreds of ebooks on my Kindle with pretty much any other book a moment's download away. Even LLMs can regurgitate 95% of Harry Potter with a single prompt.
adammarples··on The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos
This isn't a conspiracy... "They" are the EPP, a democratically elected party acting fully in public with their names attached to everything.
adammarples··on Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts
The only man who has 100% cybersecurity, respect
adammarples··on I love my dumb watches
But the sleep score tells you nothing. I wake up and I always know roughly what it will be because I already feel it. If my feelings and the watch disagree, the feelings are correct. I get both pieces of information at the same time. The only reason I track it at all is as a kind of memory of how I've been doing, but I could equally well make a note of my feelings.
adammarples··on The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure
People may not realise how bad uk planning law is unless they are here. Anybody can veto a development for any reason, and there is no disincentive to do so even if it is found to be spurious. They can just do it again. A development isn't just building either, it can be as simple as changing the use of something or making an improvement to it. On top of that are all the actual regulations, newt surveys, listed buildings restrictions, etc, and the many months of associated delays and costs with each one. In London the body set up after Grenfell now has a 10 month backlog and approval rate of 30%, so nothing is built in London except storage centres.
adammarples··on MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)
The control is where you have the medical staff around but not the drug. I believe placebo control groups are pretty common.
adammarples··on XML is a cheap DSL
Row separator is great, until you find that someone has put one in a data field. Like your comment. It just moves the problem (control and data mixed together) to a less-used control character.
adammarples··on Neural Boids
Potentially though there's nothing stopping someone from writing the original three rules using cuda
adammarples··on Python: The Optimization Ladder
Same problems, same Apple M4 Pro, real numbers.
adammarples··on 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
It's not sophisticated at all, he just uses a model to make some documentation before asking another model to work using the documentation
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