silversmith

What stands out to me the most:

> Blog post written, PR'd, and merged in under 3 minutes.

It's close to or even faster than the time it takes me to read it. I'm struggling to put into words how that makes me feel, but it's not a good feeling.

But pleasant enough when viewed on a monochrome display.

I believe it's less about politeness and more about pronouns. You used `who`, whereas I would use `what` in that sentence.

In my world view, a LLM is far closer to a fridge than the androids of the movies, let alone human beings. So it's about as pointless being polite to it as is greeting your fridge when you walk into the kitchen.

But I know that others feel different, treating the ability to generate coherent responses as indication of the "divine spark".

This advice brought to you by the "change your oil every three months" crowd.

GDPR says you are not allowed to store my data just because. If you have a good enough reason, everything is allowed.

I'd counter that n8n (or most other workflow tools) can handle as much ambiguity as OpenClaw - it has a LLM call node. Stuff the ambiguous parts in there, but don't burn a rainforests worth of compute figuring out how to call the weather API each and every time.

Also, in the olden days of pre-AI, if our weather workflow did not notify us because conditions juuust failed to be met, we adjusted the thresholds. Uphill, both ways.

Don't get me wrong, I use a bunch of LLMs for automations. By prompting the model "here is what I want to achieve, here are the tools I have, figure out how to stitch them together". Actual workflows run (mostly) deterministically, with a sprinkling of "classify this image" or "summarize this text" nodes thrown in for a good measure.

I guess we are just boring and/or unimaginative. I don't get that many communications per day to require an abstraction level between me and the messages. The daily automations I need are more efficiently carried out by home assistant / n8n. I'm not in a position where I need automated briefs on every new company started in my area. I genuinely don't see how it could benefit me.

No jailbreak necessary - the tablet runs https://www.fully-kiosk.com/, and displays a web dashboard.

The dashboard itself is a react app talking to my Home Assitant instance over a websocket. The heavy lifting of bringing various data sources together is done by HA, I just wrote a react app because it seemed easier than learning to customize HA dashboards to the degree I wanted to.

The tablet itself runs https://www.fully-kiosk.com/ to display a web dashboard. Fully Kiosk has good Home Assistant integration, including screen on / off controls. I also have a bunch of Sonoff battry operated zigbee motion sensors scattered around the place. Then Home Assistant does what it was meant to do - act as a glue layer between various systems, firing screen control commands to Fully Kiosk as a result of select motion sensors triggering.

My solution was to buy a used Samsung tablet with OLED screen, and control the display on with motion sensors. It sits in the hallway, above the keys drawer. The screen is on only when someone's walking nearby, and around eye level when you go pick up the keys. Designed the dashboard based around muted colours on black background, with brights reserved for "hey pay attention to this" data. And most importantly, the screen is not visible from any spot you're likely to stay at for a longer time. As for mounting, I used calipers, 3d printer and some double sided tape. It's not completely seamless, but damn close for ~10% of the effort.

Light some incense, and you too can be a dystopian space tech support, today! Praise Omnissiah!

> All those people that lived under Soviet Russia occupation, they were better off dead in nuclear fire than living under said occupation?

As someone from a country that used to be under russia n boot - the fireball is preferable.

Are we really living in a world where you need to have the official app - any app! - to ride a train?

If I do a prank call, it's easy to see the intent to disrupt.

If I post AI generated images to twitter, and those get amplified by my followers (that might or might not be real people) enough to surface on some rail engineers feed, well, that's just me showcasing my art, no harm intended, right?

Less power, less heat. Less heat, less cooling required. At some point that allows you to go fanless, and that's very beneficial if you have to share a room with the device.

Groundwork most often is the work.

Just yesterday I was helping a family member install roofing. The roof was done up to slats, the roofing was big metal sheets, should be done in an hour. Except we spent good five hours on various little details before the first sheet was going up. And you cant exactly not do those, at least if you want the roof to stay there, and the weather to stay outside.

Wait, it really does say that in the article. Wow.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of an EU country that does not have some form of advance voting.

Here in Latvia the "election day" is usually (always?) on weekend, but the polling stations are open for some (and different!) part of every weekday leading up. Something like couple hours on monday morning, couple hours on tuesday evening, couple around midday wednesday, etc. In my opinion, it's a great system. You have to have a pretty convoluted schedule for at least one window not to line up for you.

That's the case if said employees have nothing better to do and are currently twiddling their thumbs. Usually the server maintenance hours come out of project development hours.

It's precisely why we moved from a self-hosted demo environment server to heroku - the developers that had both the skills to manage a server and enough seniority to have access accross all the different projects could bring in more by building.

Glad to hear grandmas approach of "just give them a bit of everything" has now been proven correct :)

The issue is that the field is still moving too fast - in 20 months, you might break even on costs, but the LLMs you are able to run might be 20 months behind "state of the art". As long as providers keep selling cheap inference, I'm holding out.

Here's an article - even Tour de France riders regularly use those: https://7seizh.info/tour-de-france-tales-quand-une-affiche-v...

There are times I do envy people living in stick houses with hollow walls.

Isn't that magic called "mouse cursor emulation"?

I think the most apt comment I saw on the announcement was "Looks like they brought it from 2000 all the way to 2003".

All the while foxes, deer and birds can still develop their dwellings there. Blatant disregard of the law, I say.

Worldwide, maybe. But in the "western world"? Couple weeks ago my mother asked me to compare the main LLM providers. And then for tips how to best use it. She is over 80.

Came here to comment this. Most of the flakey tests are badly written, some warn you about bugs you don't yet understand.

Couple years ago I helped to bring a project back on track. They had a notoriously flakey part of test suite, turned out to be caused by a race condition. And a very puzzling case of occasional data corruption - also, turns out, caused by the same race condition.

Hah, I know, been around forests since childhood, seen (and done) plenty of sketchy stuff. For me it averages out to couple days of forest work a year. It's backbreaking labour, and then you deal with the weather.

But man, if tech goes straight into cyberpunk dystopia but without the cool gadgets, maybe it is the better alternative.

Every now and then I consider stepping away from the computer job, and becoming a lumberjack. This is one of those moments.