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benatkin··on Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx
You replace it with your domain.
benatkin··on Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
These example prompts seem soulless. Should I feed this document to another LLM that's OK with me being informal so I can have it give me prompts that Claude will find acceptable without contorting myself to talk like this?
benatkin··on Apple Pass Designer
OK, NFTs are like loyalty cards too then. Because these digital wallets don't need to be like physical cards. That's just an artificial design constraint.
benatkin··on Apple Pass Designer
I mean this design aspect. To me it felt like it was a bit over the top, and I could imagine them to start making limited run series of them. Looking at it again, it says that there are templates, so maybe this art was made by designers, rather than AI images generated on the fly, but I imagined that they were the latter.
benatkin··on Apple Pass Designer
These are reminiscent of NFTs, they are things you can collect, mass generated.
benatkin··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
I doubt that with the speed of thought dramatically increasing due to AI, that the door will stay closed just because it's being closed now. That decision will be revisited.
benatkin··on Meta VR Glasses
There isn't a very direct comparison of Oculus products to game consoles like PlayStation, Nintendo, XBox, or those in the distant past. It is interesting, and they have a lot of the same market forces at play, but I don't think they behave by the same rules.
benatkin··on Meta VR Glasses
CV1 was as a Facebook subsidiary. Acquired 2014-07-21, CV1 announced January 2016 and released March 2016. https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/21/facebooks-acquisition-of-o... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift_CV1
benatkin··on Meta VR Glasses
It wasn't though, a full price would have been more, to cover not just components and assembly but the cost of R&D.
benatkin··on Meta VR Glasses
Not really. Pre-release baked into the name.
benatkin··on Meta VR Glasses
Neither qualifies.
benatkin··on I don't want to read what you didn't write
I'd like to know how to type it with voice dictation.
benatkin··on I don't want to read what you didn't write
> I don’t want to live in a world where you use AI to summarize something important into unreadable text, and then I use AI in an attempt to decipher it. I want to hear you, imperfections and all.

It doesn't fundamentally change the equation if I use AI to prepare and then write it myself. If I'm using AI effectively, it's likely that you won't be able to tell.

This sort of post is increasingly coming off as high and mighty, where the user thinks they are being exceptionally creative and other people who are using AI are using it mindlessly.

benatkin··on How big are factorials?
To me it feels like a smuggled exponentation. If I take half of 52 and raise it to itself and add a base unit to it like grams or meters, that's an incomprehensibly large amount.
benatkin··on CSS-Tricks in Limbo
In this case you can judge for yourself if it's an overreaction. https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a
benatkin··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
They're losing business that they don't want. Silicon Valley culture has embraced saying no, firing clients and customers, choosing the right audience, etc. This even fits into finding product-market fit. You don't try to please everyone, and find a well-defined segment. So to Google it might not seem like it's getting bad at all. To them, maybe the trash took itself out, they got rid of that annoying customer who complains about their marketplace, whereas they appreciate the quiet reporting of an ad that's against the ToS...
benatkin··on Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"
> What about some kid buying a goofy mall katana they are going to put on their wall?

Or a kitty keychain...

benatkin··on Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster
Y combinator helped people notice it when they invested in a company called Automatic https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/automatic However now that it's been acquired that reminder of Automattic not being named Automatic is gone.
benatkin··on Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster
It would have been just a matter of time before he displayed his power with the nonprofit and wordpress.com which he controls personally, independently of the Automattic board. Maybe that is part of why the board gave him his control of Automattic back so quickly.
benatkin··on Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster
If you replaced it with Zig, the situation changes.
benatkin··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
Wow, that's amazing. I was about to tell it to make the helmet similar to the human one, with the gold visor, but thought it wouldn't convey it as well, but not only is it obvious, it still has the feeling of being a horse.
benatkin··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
To me it sounds like they are simply taking social moon shots. They tried to do a phone, tried to make a kitchen videophone, tried to make their own cryptocurrency, and tried to dominate open source AI, and now this is trying to make something like a digital robotic assistant. It might have reached a peak with the metaverse, when Zuck thought his corporation was destined to be the ruler of a Snow Crash style metaverse, to the point of renaming it. Maybe that's still the plan and they are looking for something that will lead to another metaverse play.
benatkin··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
Earlier today I couldn't get ChatGPT to draw a horse on the moon. Idea taken from Stable Diffusion's wikipedia page. I tried three times with that prompt, "a photograph of an astronaut riding a horse" and again with a horse on the moon. I got it to do another image. However, the original prompt just worked, though it didn't happen to choose the moon, it didn't say the moon.

Edit: finally, I have my horse on the moon. https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa0627e-b168-83e9-98e5-d5ad5a9cad... Though the horse doesn't have a spacesuit, neither does it have one in the Stable Diffusion wikipedia page.

Edit 2: finally got the kind of result I wanted https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa06813-4818-83e9-9c19-8c8ac9a348... https://chatgpt.com/s/p_359c0c38939c81918addaaa9de196f4e

benatkin··on bzip3
It isn't really the go-to compression format, because it isn't ubiquitous like gzip and zip, there are a variety of compression tools out there for different purposes, and there is image/audio/video compression. There is also specialized compression like what git does with its rolling hashes. I think of it as there not being a go-to compression format.
benatkin··on bzip3
Not really, it's a popular dictionary-based compression format.
benatkin··on Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
That isn't part of the language though. That's just input that it doesn't handle properly. The author acknowledged it lacks error handling.
benatkin··on Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
Indeed, for some code, CPython and this interpreter produce identical output. I gave it an upboat.
benatkin··on Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
I like python subset. However, many don't see it that way.
benatkin··on GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
The rate at which the value accumulates depends on release of new models and admittedly it's a small community, so you may be in for a wait! But I still mean it, it is a small but enduring stream.
benatkin··on GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
Hmm, the face makes it not work as a one shot artifact.
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