We live in an interesting time.
I have been in meetings where the conversation has been 'my Claude has got feedback', 'great, I'll get my Claude to take a look'.
When do you just cut out the human middleware in that process?
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I have been in meetings where the conversation has been 'my Claude has got feedback', 'great, I'll get my Claude to take a look'.
When do you just cut out the human middleware in that process?
> What actually separates “I lost my keys” from “I have ADHD” was never the presence of the behaviour. It’s the degree of impairment — how much it’s costing you, how often, for how long, etc.
ADHD can be a real dichotomy. On the one hand, yes you can be successful and holding down a good job. But you may be doing so by existing on the edge of burnout and questioning when everyone else figures out you are faking the competence they see in you.
But people often don't see the frustration, despair or how much work finding systems to work with or around your brain has gone into it too.
Sometimes, the most helpful part of diagnosis is that you can name the experience. Otherwise you end up concluding you're worse than everyone else.
Permissions classifiers in auto mode are just models trying to guess if they're doing the right thing.
Claude Code will tell you that it went around a sandbox because the sandbox blocked it. At which point, you ask yourself the point of the sandbox.
I actually prefer non-resident U2F in some ways. You don't have to store anything on your key, you are just signing requests. This is relevant where U2F/FIDO keys have limited slots for 'resident' keys.
In principle, it's great. You have one good password to remember for the average user, and that's enforced by their device's probably good enough security posture.
They are resistant to being phished and they won't reuse the same one everywhere. They then don't end up going from hunter2 to hunter2! everywhere.
But my experience for users is that they worry they are giving their biometrics to Amazon or whoever and so the UX just confuses them.
The certification aspect was new to me too last time passkeys came up. Sites can require that a given passkey has been certified.
The patchy support for them is also frustrating. MacOS does not support NFC FIDO/U2F. iOS does.
Using my password manager to store 2FA codes is convenient, but it adds a layer of indirection if they are elsewhere.
But if you've compromised my password manager, you almost certainly have enough access to my machines to get to the alternatives.
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They are in commercial service already on the Irish Sea.
The BMW i3 used what was basically a scooter engine. The Ampera/Volt used what was essentially an Opel Corsa engine (from memory).
Toyota's approach of using a small battery and modified atkinson cycle engine seems to have paid off. Taxi drivers love them and fuel economy is pretty consistent. But the engine is a core part of the process. So it isn't dead weight a lot of the time.
The real question is whether an 'Extended Range EV' is using a motor intended to work efficiently as just a generator or whether it's another parts bin special.
The worst trigger is searching Google from the address bar.
Loading the homepage first makes the problem notably less common. Or getting a couple wrong.
In which cities are people favouring local parks over toilets?
Parasites can actually help with allergies. I am loosely aware of various attempts at treating allergies using parasites.
One of the approaches taken (under medical supervision) for kids with bad nut allergies is to gradually expose them to more of the allergen. Being able to survive a peanut or two without anaphylaxis is life-changing.
EcoFlow power stations draw somewhere around 30w with the inverter switched on with no load.
The idle power of a Mac Mini at the wall is a few watts total.
Games often run well when they aren't flagged as verified or playable too. The remapping UX via Steam/Steam OS is good enough that I've happily played a lot of keyboard and mouse-only games well too.
One of my favourite roles I've seen him in was as Trymon in the TV version of Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic.
It cannot be good for you for everyone to assume that you are somehow omniscient all of a sudden.
At either extreme, it isn't good. You start believing it and overestimating yourself more and ore, or you are buried under an ever increasing sense of impostor syndrome.
If I have something Claude wrote then I will offer the LLM output. But I generally prefer to at least give the option.
I have seen conversations where it has boiled down to an exchange of A's Claude responding to B's Claude with a retort and fixes from A's.
It multiplies both good and bad decisions. Both mine and it's 'own'.
I can get some things done 10x faster and it might even catch mistakes or help me solve something difficult.
But if I am being lazy or complacent then it bites me that much harder.
I finally went from Pro to Max after hitting another 5 hour session limit today.
They end up making good photo frames, especially for older digital photos.
I'd just end up being really annoyed about the downtime if it lands in the middle of a working day.
Suffering, absolutely. But I think there is more nuance to death.
You can go down a rabbit hole of dithering algorithms too, like Floyd Steinberg[1]
[0] https://github.com/makew0rld/didder [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Steinberg_dither...
You can't phish a passkey, and you don't rely on the user providing you 'hunter2' on every site.
As for vendor lock in? No. The specs are open. You can run the code on a microcontroller, or, you can keep it in your arm with something like the Vivokey Apex. Note that the FIDO2 for the Apex is an open source Javacard applet.
The UX on the other hand is not great. If you have a password manager, your OS may prompt you which target to store the passkey with.
As a side note, I do enjoy the bizarre bowling animations that the screens come up with.
Marginal pricing means that gas sets the price.
At time of writing, gas is only generating 6.9% of the UK's electricity. https://grid.iamkate.com/
One of the outcomes of COVID was more awareness of post-viral syndromes.
I have a GMKtec nucbox with an Intel N100 and an M5 Plus.
The biggest issues with them are around firmware and power consumption, especially idle. It's hard to get them as low as some of the bigger vendor devices.
The M5 plus sometimes resets its fTPM and won't boot without user input until that is resolved.
I can get the nucbox to idle around 4-5w and the M5 plus idles closer to 8w.
Most of the BIOS options are hidden or obscured for power saving.
The worst offender though is Beelink which idles at closer to 30w in the GTi14.
Charging Lithium, and converting to motive force in motors are both pretty efficient. (Both >90%).
An ICE vehicle has an upper limit on efficiency that is lower than what a modern fossil fuel plant can reach, and the ICE is less likely to sit at peak efficiency all the time. The world record, set this year was 48%. Previously, it was 41%.
Power plants are much more likely to be kept at or near their peak efficiency and have the space for systems like heat recovery (to recapture waste heat) and emissions controls. For a gas turbine plant, I think the record is ~64% sustained.
The form factor and Sailfish are a lot more appealing than 'apps blocked at a system level'.
Can it run the usual apps like banking apps which can be particular about Android 'trustworthiness'?
Unfortunately, a smartphone is a near-necessity for various things like that now.
Minor complaint is that it steals Cmd-Shift-P (Firefox Private Browsing shortcut) by default.
Easy to change in the UI though, so no big deal.
Admittedly, I haven't looked at any open-sourced firmwares either which could have improved things.
I have found the Sispeed USB KVM very useful, the convenience is well worth the $50 it cost me. The UX isn't great but you don't really need it to be. It works (most of the time) via WebUSB for the keyboard mouse.