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seemazeon Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Save 65% of Tokens? We Test

Isn’t spoken language in general and English in particular famously 50% redundant? Does that not provide the same (if not more) benefit to the model when narrowing the scope of intent?

seemazeon The lost civic life of movie rental stores

Be kind, rewind.

seemazeon How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025)

A quick tip: with more than (3) anchor points, make your anchor positions non-planar. This imparts a constant curvature and thus constant tension on the membrane and goes a long way to stabilize its position in moderate to heavy winds. Or less flapping.

seemazeon How old is Ann?

That's pretty much how I approached it;

                   A1   M1
              A0   M0
    +----+----+----+----+----+
    0    6    12   18   24

seemazeon Gpiozero Flow

It's a good onramp to building a programmatic intuition, but you're correct that it very quickly gets left behind once the 'magic' is understood. If you do a quick image search for , e.g. Rhino3D Grasshopper, Blender Geometry Nodes, Vectorworks Marionette, Autodesk Dynamo, ComfyUI, you'll quickly see the implementations of the real world procedures users are crafting become unwieldy rather fast.

I can't tell you why an 80 column wall of characters is easier to reason about than a visual graph, but I assume it has something to do with the reason Mitch Hedberg does not like arrows[0]; look, a function.. let's got that way.

[0] https://youtu.be/EI1DBRz3JLk?si=DCLNkbeCGWyw-Ceu

seemazeon Darktable

VPD - virtual private developer. Sell off parcels of developer attention by the hour!

seemazeon The coolest use for the Vision Pro

Are there any productive tools or workflows you employ for modeling directly in VR? Or is it more useful for review and evaluation of models developed on traditional workstations?

I'm AEC adjacent and am trying to talk myself into picking up a pair strictly for personal architectural projects..

seemazeon The coolest use for the Vision Pro

Do you find the value of VR/AR to be in the communication of design intent to clients unfamiliar with traditional 2D representations, or do your designers leverage VR/AR during the design development process as well?

seemazeon Securing Services with Rootless Containers

The '--userns=auto' argument is a useful isolation method in both rootless and rootful Podman containers. This allows rootful Podman to orchestrate privileged capabilities while running the container processes in an unprivileged namespace.

See the discussion here:

https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/discussions...

seemazeon We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles

Yuck, get some cast iron. At yard sale if necessary, their useful lifetimes are measured in (human) generations.

Chris young has a great comparison of the physical differences between various metals used in pans. [0]. Maybe if you're on the right side of the AI bubble, you could spring for a solid silver version[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdORIBH3R88

[1] https://duparquet.com/products/solid-silver-cookware

seemazeon Turn And Face The Strange

Macs let you disable suspend just like (or possibly better) than any other operating system. The point being made is that it's the wrong tool for the job, precisely because of the user desired compromises made to create a great mobile computer.

seemazeon So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

Request desktop site on mobile

seemazeon Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver

AMD Strix Halo was half the price at launch, same 128GB unified memory and nearly identical memory bandwidth. It is x86, so run whichever OS your heart desires.

You give up 200GB networking, but anyone 'daily driving' one of these things are probably not needing to cluster multiples of them at high speed..

seemazeon Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

I use bitwarden[0]. It covers all cases and devices in question.

As a bonus, I self host using the open source vaultwarden[1] server implementation, which is packaged in alpine linux.

[0] https://bitwarden.com/ [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

seemazeon Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men

Serve your country and join the war against malady by enlisting as a front line high 'T' tactical germ fighter today!

seemazeon Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)

In 20 years of archviz, I've only encountered ambient occlusion as a shortcut to save on compute; such as real-time viewport effects or to constrain resources on large render jobs. I've never heard anyone argue that it was physically realistic, realism was always the domain of ray tracing.

seemazeon Who Is America's Homer?

Simpson

seemazeon 42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support

The premise of TFA along with the entirety of the comments are eloquently embodied by the misfit troubadour and grunge philosopher Todd Snider in Statistician's Blues [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUK6zjtUj00

seemazeon I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time

I hit the back button before the page finished loading

seemazeon Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

Mechanical timepieces are a luxury item, and these students are essentially artists in training. Wrist time was solved in the late 1970's with the commoditization of quartz movements. These 'jobs' will get replaced by AI at approximately the same pace as your local sculptor.

seemazeon AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

I dropped a Framework mainboard in rack mount case and use it as a speedy low power x86 homelab as well as an inference server.

seemazeon Strange Balls found on Queensland beaches could be toxic 'space debris': experts

May the Schwartz be with you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711604

seemazeon Q&A with Micron's VP and GM of Memory

What is Apples share across all memory delivered? How does that compare with the 40% of wafers locked up by OpenAI?

I don’t know the answer to either. On the surface I would estimate Apple a large, but not majority consumer overall.

seemazeon Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students

>This isn’t to say don’t follow passions or pursue things to a moderate extreme, just don’t ever let it consume you.

Just moderate your moderation! It’s turtles all the way down

seemazeon Q&A with Micron's VP and GM of Memory

Explain how this works when their phones only capture roughly 20% market share, and their computers only 10%. That is to say nothing of the demand for server memory.

It seems like they only represent a fraction of the demand side, but wield an outsized influence over supply?

seemazeon Meta caps internal AI token spending

Absolutely this. Never try to parse a native PDF document with any expectation of coherence or consistency.

seemazeon Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

I was interested to see that Qwen3.5-122B-A10B narrowly beat Qwen3.6-27B on Donato Capitella's SWEBench-verified-mini run with a similar 128GB UMA architecture.

https://pi-local-coding-bench.dev

seemazeon US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to 'trusted partners'

Having an a collective economy governed by the “free market” is like having a pile of stones governed by gravity. There exists a primary directive force, but if you want to construct a cathedral or a bomb shelter, you need to impose some constraints, lest you revert to the angle of repose.

seemazeon Why Does Everyone Hate AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732

For example..

seemazeon Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

Base iPad went up almost 30%, including refurbs. Was recommending one to my parents for $299 - now it’s $379.