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yapfrogon I wish tech companies knew more about me

My guess is that it's good for repeat purchases. You bought that blender, and if you really liked it, here is an ad to remind you of that model again, just in case you want to buy it as a gift for your relatives, or if you just want to buy a spare or something

yapfrogon Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model

The user actual answer vs the user actual answer after seeing the suggested answer are different points of data

yapfrogon Sonnet 5.5

From the graph it looks like I'd rather use Opus 5.5 High than Sonnet 5.5 at all

yapfrogon How to Write with an LLM

The placement of the "Those rethinks are load-bearing parts of your voice" sentence in the article makes me think the author intended the word choice

yapfrogon Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

I tried to do a similar thing last year to datamine a gacha game's assets and somehow did it without knowing the existence of tools like IDA/Ghidra. They're using a custom db format that was XORed with a key. Iirc it was a bizarre format, it's actually an archive where each column is a file containing all the rows of that column. So a table is just a folder full of these files. Maybe it's a common thing idk. I got a partially working XOR key so I used ImHex to look at the partially decrypted db file and manually looked at the decrypted hex values to "correct" them.

I wish I read something like this article at that time!

yapfrogon How Claude's text watermarking works

That will likely make the text output worse and you'll have to fix it yourself. Regardless even if you don't fix it, at that point you're not really using Claude to generate the final output anymore.

yapfrogon How Claude's text watermarking works

> How do I check if a piece of text was written by Claude?

> We will soon be offering a watermark detection API. We’re in the process of working out the details of its implementation.

Determining whether it's written by Claude will be possible in the future. But unless you know the LLM being used and the company behind that LLM offers a similar API, there's no easy way to tell if it's AI generated in general.

yapfrogon I hate compilers

"One of the easiest"

It's meant to be a trivial counterexample. Like saying "-1" to the claim "there's no number smaller than 0" to someone who's not familiar with math, the author is saying "build-dependent macros" to the claim "compilers are deterministic" to someone who might not be familiar with compilers.

yapfrogon A Trillion Characters

The idea of "Place but text only" seems too obvious in hindsight but somehow this os the first one I've seen. Works really well, kudos to the creator.

The next step would then be another clone of this but with a text representation of the world map as the starting point. Call it wfastserial or something

yapfrogon Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

Resource Hacker?

yapfrogon Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#Name

Surnames are optional in Italy at that time. Galileo is how he refers to himself and how people refer to him.

yapfrogon Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

"this attempted spin/gaslighting"

i.e. he worries that OpenAI employees could also be gaslighted by Altman

yapfrogon Where it's at://

Not sure if you already replied to a similar question but regarding this quote

> the actual server storing my data is currently https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network. I’m happy to keep hosting it there but I’m thinking of moving it to a host I control in the future

Is the process of moving hosts documented somewhere?

yapfrogon Amazon Vega OS and Vega Developer Tools

I don't think it runs APKs. They'd probably market that feature more prominently if it were the case. They have their own format called VPKG.

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/vega/0.21/app-submission.h... "You must have a VPKG file available as an app binary."