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jxramos··on GitHub's new Git storage architecture
Agent scale is definitely on the mind around industry, I wonder what github folks would say in response to https://www.anthropic.com/research/redesigning-source-contro.... It's an interesting read to step back and consider source control from first principles and rebalance the tradeoffs for what qualities matter in this new regime.
jxramos··on Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not
I'm curious, what exactly in the DOM is not XML-compatible?
jxramos··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Low resolution conflation of things is a very understandable outcome. It’s a lot of vocabulary to absorb to speak precisely about UI in general. I’m glad your grandmother has someone like you in her life.
jxramos··on I'm becoming AI-blind
It is admittedly awkward to bend to the machine to get what you want. I see these kinds of constraints like given above as an impetus to push the LLM designers to rise to the occasion, assuming they’re listening to all the prompts funneling back their way. This may all be wishful thinking however but hopefully someday these kinds of prompt constraints will be satisfied.
jxramos··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
It’s not only more comfortable to file off those sharp edges but also makes the laptop less dangerous to carry around. Those sharp edges not only cause discomfort but can chip paint, damage furniture, and inflict damage in general. If you had to you could use it as a weapon I suppose.
jxramos··on The more evidence behind a therapy, the less the public trusts it
There’s an OBGYN we’ve long had a relationship with who takes on residents and cross pollinates with them for a win win knowledge transfer. They also volunteer overseas with charitable medical efforts. Those are probably interesting avenues for keeping up with things from the outside to some degree I imagine.
jxramos··on The more evidence behind a therapy, the less the public trusts it
The secret is to find independent doctors who have their own private practice and who have hospital admit privileges. Also physicians who take cash payment and operate outside a big health organization or who have affiliations with them but don’t answer to them.
jxramos··on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
I don’t know one way or another but what specifically are the pain points of deflation and how do those compare to the never ending inflation? I’ve lived under inflation all my life, it’s a slow creeping nearly sub threshold insidious process that erodes the value of money. Buy what is life like under deflation, is there pain but ultimate correction to a sane state? It feels like there is no correction to inflation.
jxramos··on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
What would it take to shift the balance of inflation to restore the purchasing power of the penny? Just out of curiosity how does a government and a people and their economy go the other direction?
jxramos··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
characterize it in terms of truth, clarity of truth, simplicity, and correctness. I think we should always evaluate things along those dimensions. Is it true, does it produce truthful things. It makes the evaluation very objective.
jxramos··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
every attempt I've attempted thus far has failed at first run, but it was close to a solution that could be adapted and fixed. This has been especially helpful in areas where I'm charting very unfamiliar territory for very narrow scoped problems.

But hearing your 10 line constraint gives me a very https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem vibe to the challenge.

jxramos··on Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown
maybe even epub, which is xhtml
jxramos··on I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
> On July 1, 2011, HP launched the TouchPad tablet running WebOS 3.0. > While Apple was selling 9 million iPads that same quarter, TouchPads were gathering dust on store shelves.

Ipad's first release was 4/2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_(1st_generation), we're talking a year later to enter the tablet market. Would folks agree that's still a pretty fresh market to enter into? What exactly differentiated PDAs from tablets?

jxramos··on Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
Ayasdi immediately came to mind too seeing this post. I haven't thought of them in a long time, looks like they got bought out in 2019, prepandemic too which was probably best since mid pandemic had a lot of poor valuations

https://www.symphonyai.com/news/financial-services/ayasdi-jo...

jxramos··on An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
lol, this interaction may possibly become known as "grooming the AI"
jxramos··on German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph
I can imagine these "relative text patches" could just commit as is written but could be committed with a corresponding metadata and referential locations array backed by some kind of encoding that lands in the same commit. That would unlock a visualization tool that could render a strikeout for the earlier precedent legal text or something like that in whatever way the modification applies.
jxramos··on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
it does leave the door open for pointing the finger for who's at fault when text groups with OS blends get all scrambled https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255769788?answerId=2607...
jxramos··on Half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya: new research
that term "gemanic tribes" comes to mind for sure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples
jxramos··on Show HN: I'm working on a Chrome extension for viewing EXIF data of images
checks out for me, just spot checked this image https://github.com/ianare/exif-samples/blob/master/jpg/Canon.... I loaded as an unpacked extension, works great so far.

Looks good too for imgur which typically has no metadata on the images https://imgur.com/i2iHgAI https://i.imgur.com/i2iHgAI.jpeg

Thank you for this useful extension.

jxramos··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
They're easy to spot too on account of them not being subject to shrinkflation like other products can. A dozen will be a fixed unit forever I imagine.
jxramos··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
good quip over here https://x.com/pmarca/status/1887003073530286569
jxramos··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
I think they're posting their daily updates on their X channel https://x.com/DOGE
jxramos··on Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries
that's an excellent verifiable test! I've been struggling to articulate the behavior too, advertisements and slanted search results have effectively gotten in-between my information retrieval and being steered to products and services. It's so hard to find what I'm looking for a times I often just give up and move onto something else.
jxramos··on Anthropic achieves ISO 42001 certification for responsible AI
I'm curious what the specific test criteria is precisely
jxramos··on The Aging Programmer
IA or AI?
jxramos··on I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone
we haven't done an experiment like that but I've had family know what medium certain topics were expressed and discussed over and those topics that landed in the ads that startled with their topic intersection were topics discussed only verbally vs typed into some search field or connected to some other web interaction etc.

That's kind of the smoking gun when you can create a disjoint set of topics and a disjoint set of mediums of communication delivery and see what shows up in the ad space from those discussion topics strictly expressed verbally.

jxramos··on Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly
this seems true and explains my inability to locate the plugin tooling for the latest version of Acrobat to develop some local extensions. My next move was to contact Adobe and ask directly where the corresponding SDK is to be downloaded for the latest local version of Acrobat. Sometimes companies give you some internal link that you can't find publicly or can't navigate to from the present version of their website.
jxramos··on Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
it's terrible, I often have to drive one handed for a short time while I hold up my other hand to block the light from whatever direction its source is. Sometimes this means shielding the side view mirrors which also get intensely bright from the reflection.
jxramos··on My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
it's legit, I just fought a flying snake and it was glorious
jxramos··on Extracting financial disclosure and police reports with OpenAI Structured Output
I'd like to see financial transactions and purchases abide by some json format standard, metadata and a list of items with full product name, quantity purchased, total unit volume/amount of product, price, and unit price.
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