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SoMomentary··on Grok 4.7
I created a custom output style based on this (borrowing some from github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish) and I've found it to be better than the default or concise output styles, but still not as good for me as current GPT or Gemini models when it comes to communicating.
SoMomentary··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
They said 6 billion tokens, which isn't as much as I thought it might be.
SoMomentary··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Unfortunately I don't see this particular view paying off in the age of AI, as many prove they have nothing at all to say but say it anyways. Which isn't to say people shouldn't write if they enjoy writing, but I for one will stay a discerning reader.
SoMomentary··on Disruption with Some GitHub Services
At this point it feels like it would be more honest for this to be titled "Disruption with Some GitHub Service".
SoMomentary··on WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents
This isn't for when you are looking at the restaurant booking page, it's for when your agent is on that page. Personally I don't need an agent to help me with this specific problem, but I could see it being a real boon for people with accessibility needs.

Sometimes it helps to not think of why we should reject things but instead to think of why someone might accept them.

SoMomentary··on A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
I still use it everyday, but it is definitely a love/hate relationship. I imagine I'll switch to an ergonomic keyboard with trackpoint someday soon.
SoMomentary··on A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
I'm unfortunately really unimpressed with the Trackpoints coming out of Lenovo today. I have a brand new ThinkPad that suffers from drift everyday, so it's easy for me to see why other companies aren't including Trackpoints on their products.
SoMomentary··on Cerebras CS-4
Sometimes I wonder if mistakes are now used to indicate the possibility that a human actually wrote it.
SoMomentary··on Degraded performance for multiple models
AWS? Cloudflare? Your imagination is the only limit!
SoMomentary··on Incident with Github.com
I'm not sure I understand the significance of them having almost no American born engineers. Do we think it would be meaningfully different if they were? I tend to believe that Americans can be just as incompetent as the next guy!
SoMomentary··on Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions
That makes sense to me. The output styles work the same way.
SoMomentary··on Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
Sometimes even cheaper if you can score a locked one. They are fairly trivial to unlock if you know what you're doing.
SoMomentary··on Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery
I just set up Bookbridge (https://github.com/cporcellijr/bookbridge) to do this. It's so new that I can't even endorse it as I just don't know if it works well yet, but this is at least one solution.
SoMomentary··on Anime User Interfaces
I think it's still showing an absurd UI if it is flashing like that, and it certainly does show the monitor.
SoMomentary··on Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours
Doesn't the "potential for toxicity from repeated doses" make this sort of doubtful?
SoMomentary··on Elevators
Sometimes I think "stupid" questions like these are just a way to break the ice, something that gets used to kindly acknowledge the momentary existence of others in our lives before we continue down our separate paths.
SoMomentary··on Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
Anyone tried this as an output style and not just as a skill?
SoMomentary··on They Stole Your Attention
Right? It's strange to me to have an article that seems set to rail against attention span bankruptcy, but then is written by AI in a way that just feeds right back into it.
SoMomentary··on Writing by hand is good for your brain
I'm personally extremely confident. Those Remarkable tablets are very hackable. I pay for their sub, but I've also whipped up my own app for syncing content between my RM2 and my home server so that I can send news articles to it, mark them up as I see fit and archive them.
SoMomentary··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
I thought the Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite response was quite telling myself. I personally like the Pelican SVG test, to me it is still a charming snapshot of model performance anecdata. No one would argue it's rigorous but I don't think it was ever intended to be.

I get people burning out on the pelican SVG test alongside the rest of the AI burnout, but I guess for myself I'm just choosing to keep enjoying it while I still can.

SoMomentary··on Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future
Why not go direct to the source instead of paying an extra 5.5%? Seems like it'd be trivial to have AI wire up connections to your preferred inference providers and save yourself some money over time.
SoMomentary··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
All I know is I have dsygraphia and their system worked for me. I took tons of notes on mine in school.
SoMomentary··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
What really irks me about it is that the palm pilot I had 20+ years ago actually had BETTER hand writing recognition than the software on my devices today!
SoMomentary··on Should DayQuil Be Legal?
Huh, looked this up as Acetaminophen is one of the only OTC painkillers I can take. I thought NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine) sounded familiar and low and behold I already have some I've purchased as a supplement.

Anyone can buy this stuff, no need to make it sound like it's some controlled substance. I will say if I take to much Acetaminophen I'll just head to the hospital instead of winging it!

SoMomentary··on How do wombats poop cubes?
I think the 4 inches is in relation to the size of a human poo and not about the size of wombat poo.
SoMomentary··on Superpowers 6
I've loved Superpowers right along. I think a lot of what it does has been ingested into Claude Code proper now so I'll be interested to see if this release actually changes things up.
SoMomentary··on Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown
You could have your Coding agent use this to do it for you! Really though it's about using the right tool for the job, and this seems like a better choice to use a tool like this so you don't have your agent burn tons of tokens imperfectly working through all your documents at a slower pace.

Personally I'll be giving this a whirl as part of my note distillation process. I end up with hundreds of pages of PDFs and docx files that I'm sure would be easy to convert with a dedicated tool.

SoMomentary··on Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
The speed was impressive when I tested it but unfortunately the accuracy left a lot to be desired. Be interesting to do the math on some of my normal workflows to see where the break even is between them, assuming the tasks you have can tolerate a couple of failures.
SoMomentary··on Steam Machine launches today
Just today I was thinking about threading the needle on that and making my own Steam Machine with an AMD BC-250 board. Maybe I still will, it'd be a 10th the price and I do love to tinker.
SoMomentary··on I Stored a Website in a Favicon
I actually feel the opposite of what most people are saying here. I thought your writing style was great. It felt like you respected my time as a reader and got to the fucking point.

I thought the lack of fluff was refreshing!

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