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Mashimo··on Building Pi with Pi
I guess. I'm not sure if it's the exception, but for example "rust bucket" is mostly used against old vehicles.

Now I'm laying here, wondering if it's bad to be discriminating against objects.

Mashimo··on Building Pi with Pi
Pi is just the harness. I think in case of the article that is what they mean when they say agent.

You can write one in 200 lines of code. Just a TUI for an api.

Mashimo··on Building Pi with Pi
Fascinating. Is it that exact word, or rather any negative words towards llms? For example would calling my agent "piece of shit" be similar for you?

What about other objects like an old car?

Mashimo··on Building Pi with Pi
> Engineering-wise building agents with agent essentially is a different skill patterns than building software with agents

Why would that be different?

Mashimo··on Building Pi with Pi
What makes the two words relate so much for you?
Mashimo··on Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
I also know it happens. I still don't understand why.
Mashimo··on Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
You can also just tell any LLM service like ChatGPT, Gemini or claude to "proofread this text, don't change too much" and it will also work.
Mashimo··on Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
Why would a VPS choke hosting static HTML?

For 5 EUR you get 20 TB traffic on Hetzner.

Mashimo··on Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt
Speaking of weird Gemini behavior, anyone else observed it injecting the approximate time in the second to last paragraph at times?

> If you are already standing at the stove (say, at 11:51), you can simply put the pan on a burner with a little water and turn it on.

I assume the current time gets injected into the promt, and gemini thinks it comes from the user?

I had that a few times now. Always very close to the end of a longer response.

Edit: Never mind. My bad. I added "Please use 24-hour time in all our future chats." to my personalized settings. I got tired of it using AM / PM system, but forgot about it.

Mashimo··on Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)
And one of them you can watch for free on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDXrDXuDp9E
Mashimo··on Vivaldi 8.0
> still as bloated as ever?

That's their thing. Though a lot can be disabled.

> can't we just have tabs + tiling

Maybe Min or Zen Browser is more your thing?

Mashimo··on Vivaldi 8.0
> And how are they already on release 8.0;

First release was 11 years ago. Why not?

Also there is no standard for version releases. I mean there probably is, but none that you have to follow.

> how can you trust closed source?

Same as using Android or windows or iOS.

Mashimo··on Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
Well if it had all the ram, you still could not run it because you can't download it. It's hosted by them, just like chatgpt or claude.
Mashimo··on Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects
Well for one they did not have access to 4k 60 fps incest porn at a moments notice in your pocket.

You had to go to a special store where an adult checked your age.

But I guess the better option would be to give parents the propper tools. For example every OS could have the option to set up a child account, that gives the age range to the app store / website the user visits. And the app store owner and website owner (of a certain size? Not sure) have to implement it. Just like store owners can't sell alcohol or porn mags to underage customers.

Mashimo··on Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
I don't know about this model specifically, but other china models did not have the limitation. It was purely on the hosted end, tacked on as a self check while the text was generating. Did that change?
Mashimo··on Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users
Yeah, but it being in 2.99 / 3.0 means it was only in stable gimp since 2025, so one year ago. That explains why I did not know about it.

But nice to see that they finally added it.

Mashimo··on Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
> I’m honestly not able to run it

What do you mean? This is not self hosted, it's closed source. And any website that targets China or is hosted in China will probably censor Tiananmen Square.

Mashimo··on Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
That is understandable. Just don't do it. No need to announce it.
Mashimo··on Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame
This might have something to do with it:

> When the sugi and hinoki forests were first planted in the 1950s and 60s, they weren't meant to stand forever. At the time, it was assumed they would be gradually cut down and replanted over time, as had been the case before the war. But as Japan's economy boomed in the late 60s and 70s, major cities like Kobe and Tokyo grew rapidly, and it ended up being cheaper to import wood from other countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia.

Mashimo··on India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark
German scientist had a list with possible locations for the "endlager" final location. But politicians did not listen and on purpose chose a location not on the list, but one that was close too east Germany to mess with them. They overruled the scientist.

Until we clean it up and find a new endlager I think Germany should not build new nuclear reactor. Just not a good track record. Oh and before that we just dumped it into the north see.

Mashimo··on India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark
> Nuclear waste is solved by burying it in bedrock in a location with no groundwater.

But Germany did not do it. They on purpose put it in a salt mine close to the east Germany border and now we have to dig it up again, because ground water is seeping in.

A few weeks ago there were rumors that it's not possible to dig it up and we might have to flood it. It's such a cluster fuck.

Finland did it well though.

Mashimo··on India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark
> germany now using huge amounts of coal.

I tried to look that up, but all I could find is that it trends downwards: https://emvg.energie-und-management.de/filestore/newsimgorg/...

Not the best source, I think I have seen better where you can see all the different sources in one graph.

Anyhow, you still can't eat mushrooms in certain places in Germany. And some wild boar meet has to be tested (they eat the muschrooms) All because of nuclear. And it looks like they might not solve the Asse II problem. I'm not against nuclear, I'm against nuclear in Germany until we prove we have our shit together.

Mashimo··on Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users
Huh, 2.99 does that mean it was the beta for 3.0?

Because I think i have been using stable gimp a few times over the last couple of years and not seen it.

Mashimo··on Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users
I never used Photoshop, it was easy to use other advanced tools such as Davinci Resolve, Darktable etc. But Gimp is just horrible. Even when you don't compare it to Photoshop.
Mashimo··on Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users
> so overall UX for me is pretty bad

That's just normal gimp

Mashimo··on Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users
I don't know the current status, but at least last time I checked you could not have strokes/outline on text, and afterwards change the text :(

It's such a little thing that makes gimp annoying to use. And it affects a broad audience. Wedding cards or youtube title thumbnails.

Maybe it works now. I hope.

Non destructive layer resize works now, right?

Mashimo··on The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
Huh, never thought about QA writing unit tests.

In my limited experience they write test cases, test each story, do regression test, verify bugs from customers. All by hand.

At my current job I don't want to miss them.

Mashimo··on Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]
Interesting. Why not keep on a merge branch before review?
Mashimo··on The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
> Every modern image-generation model can generate a pelican on a bicycle trivially.

Mistral seems to be the exception. Their new model from a few weeks ago is worse then selfhosted gemma.

Mashimo··on Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
Are you sure it's the just western media and not the bigger western society in it's totality?
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