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dodslaser··on Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser
Even closer https://github.com/chase/awrit

If you use a compatible terminal emulator.

dodslaser··on Python argparse has a limitation on argument groups that makes me sad
This can be done using click.
dodslaser··on GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
Yes they can. If the token you give the LLM isn't permitted to access private repos you can lie all you want, it still can't access private repos.

Of course you shouldn't give an app/action/whatever a token with too lax permissions. Especially not a user facing one. That's not in any way unique to tools based on LLMs.

dodslaser··on Claude 4
Can't
dodslaser··on InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel
That would be fiberboard, not plywood. Plywood is "plies" of wood veneer layered perpendicularly (cross-grained) to improve dimensional stability.
dodslaser··on What went wrong with wireless USB
Please do not give me more devices that need to connect to my WiFi for basic functionality. These devices add congestion, attack surface, and give manufacturers access to way more information than I am comfortable with. I already have to fight my washing machine, stove, refrigerator, etc. on this.
dodslaser··on AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu
>So does a card trick to a chimpanzee (there are videos of them freaking out when a card disappears).

FYI, the reactions in those videos is most likely not to a cool magic trick, but rather a response to an observed threat. Could be the person filming/performing smiling (showing teeth), or someone behind the camera purposely startling it at the "right" moment.

dodslaser··on Notion Mail is out
Do~~n't~~ be ~~evil~~ cool
dodslaser··on How University Students Use Claude
I'm like that too, but I don't think it transfers particularly well to LLMs. The problem is that you can just skip straight to the answer and ignore the explanation (if it even produces one).

It would be pretty neat if there was an LLM that guides you towards the right answer without giving it to you. Asking questions and possibly giving small hints along the way.

dodslaser··on LLM Benchmark for 'Longform Creative Writing'
Well, LLMs aren't just randomly spitting out garbled text either. Humans create and curate the training data, humans design the models, and humans train them.
dodslaser··on Show HN: Zev – Remember (or discover) terminal commands
There is a zsh plugin (zsh-github-copilot) that automates this process. Just type what you want to do, hit a custom keybind, and buffer is replaced by a command that does what you described.

You can also have a second keybind that uses a zle widget to show an annotated description of the command currently in the buffer.

It works surprisingly well, and has saved me from having to dig through manpages several times.

dodslaser··on A wild 'freakosystem' has been born in Hawaii
While this is technically correct, there is an important distinction to be made that we are the only species capable of even understanding the ramifications of our actions on an ecosystem, and choosing to change our behavior to have less (or more) of an impact on the environment we are in.

Any species could drive another species to extinction, or carry them from one location to another, but no other species are actively choosing to do so.

dodslaser··on Do women talk more than men?
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
dodslaser··on Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers
You mean dishwashers and washing machines?
dodslaser··on James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise
Did they also check in the northern hemisphere of the observable universe?
dodslaser··on A New Logo for Perl
Bioinformaticisn here. While Perl has been popular in the field, R, Python, C/C++, and recently Rust are more common these days. I think it mostly has to do with the fact that bioinformatics used to be mainly dealing with huge text files (FASTA, FASTQ, SAM, BED, GTF/GFF, etc.), and for that purpose Perl is not a bad choice.

As the cost of sequencing keeps coming down, we sequence deeper, and the computational demand goes up. Plain-text is replaced with binary formats, and most of the heavy lifting is now done by compiled libraries. The benefits of Perl aren't really relevant anymore, and given the choice most of us simply prefer writing Python or R.

dodslaser··on Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac
What else should you train for? If the benchmark dosn't represent real world scenarios, isn't that a problem with the benchmark rather than the model?
dodslaser··on Kamal Proxy – A minimal HTTP proxy for zero-downtime deployments
PimpLoopBackOff
dodslaser··on Peloton to charge $95 activation fee for used bikes
If you have clinical-ass depression or executive-ass dysfunction, lowering the barrier to exercise can be really important. Sure, $1400 with a $40 subscription is way too expensive, but there's definitely a case to be made for the exercise bike in front of the TV for a lot of people.
dodslaser··on Radiotrophic fungus
Speaking of radiation resistance, species such as Deinococcus radiodurans (bacteria) and Thermococcus gammatolerans (archaea) can survive doses in the 15-30 kGy range. They have evolved incredibly efficient DNA damage repair to handle the high rate of double strand breaks (DSBs) associated with such conditions.

What is interesting is that these high radiation doses don't really occur naturally to the point where such mechanisms would have evolved and then been maintained. Instead, it is believed that they evolved to confer resistance to desiccation, which also induces DSBs at a similar rate.

dodslaser··on Google Search: Roboto Mono
Graphic design is my passion

https://www.google.com/search?q=comic+sans+font

dodslaser··on Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
Enterprise suicide cult.
dodslaser··on A Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed
"Tenzing and Hillary have reached the summit!"
dodslaser··on New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
An M1 Max MBP should, according to Apple, support up to 4 external displays.
dodslaser··on New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
I tried a DisplayLink dock once with my M1 Max MBP. It was incredibly laggy, pegged my cpu at 40%, and didn't let me set the correct resolution/scaling level for either of my monitors (horizontal 4k 32" and a vertical 4k 27", nothing exotic).

A TB4 dock fixes most problems, but I have to hack the EDID to disable YCbCr and force RGB, or the colors look like absolute shit. The external monitors still look significantly worse under macOS than either Windows or Linux, and I have no idea why.

External display handling is easily the worst part of using a Mac for me.

dodslaser··on Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]
*bittersweet angle grinder noises*
dodslaser··on Show HN: Psfiles – a CLI tool to monitor file system activity of a Linux process
...cough, pneumonia, cough...
dodslaser··on Germany: Police seize bitcoins worth €2B
It would probably be a €500 Knippex adjustable torque wrench. Assuming a German would use a tool for anything except it's intended purpose.
dodslaser··on JetBrains CEO Transition
I wonder if in the future there will be some kind of demand for artisinal/hand-crafted/organic code written by someone using "their own mind". Maybe then all these anti-AI devs can corner the market.

To me it's just feels a really dumb hill to die on. Copilot has definitely removed a lot of the tedious work in my day to day.

dodslaser··on AI generated security reports about curl
Certainly!
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