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simlevesque··on Google I/O
"we can't wait to see what you'll ask our models to build !"
simlevesque··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
I'm confused too as to how my comment can be interpreted as a personal attack on anyone.

I was indeed talking about Bun as a whole and not any particular person. I'd even include the Bun community in my "them".

But I'll take dang's word for it and will watch what I say.

simlevesque··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
They've been shady since day one, claiming wild performance improvement compared to their competitors and never proving any of them.
simlevesque··on Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
SQLite isn't a moving target like DuckDB is. It's scope is very well defined.

I'm not knocking Quack or DuckDB but I'm starting to get a bit confused.

simlevesque··on Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
MotherDuck is very expensive.
simlevesque··on Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
I like DuckDB but I'm not sure what it wants to be. There's always new ways to use it and it's not easy to see what's the right one.
simlevesque··on Dav2d
Then how can there be a decoder if it's not final ?
simlevesque··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
I went with MiniMax. The token plans are over what I currently need, 4500 messages per 5h, 45000 messages per week for 40$. I can run multiple agents and they don't think for 5-10 minutes like Sonnet did. Also I can finally see the thinking process while Anthropic chose to hide it all from me.

I'm using Zed and Claude Code as my harnesses.

simlevesque··on The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
But then every rotation would break production, wouldn't it ?
simlevesque··on Introduction to Obsidian
Haha now your comment might make it seem like I was trying to advertise for you, hence the downvotes.

As a disclaimer, no I wasn't paid and have never been contacted before by Syncding, just a happy customer.

simlevesque··on The Orange Pi 6 Plus
The N100 is way larger than a OrangePi 5 Max.
simlevesque··on Introduction to Obsidian
I recommend using syncthing. It's very easy to self host but I actually use a SaaS for it: syncding.com. It gets me 100gb to 1tb of disk in which I can create folders and keep them synced with my 2 laptops, my phone, my server etc... I have an Obsidian vault with Meld Encrypt to encrypt some files, a keepassxc file I share across my devices and my todo.txt

It's simple to setup and will work forever instead of paying for different providers that might shut down or increase their prices.

simlevesque··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
Phoenix was a literal trap laid by the Conservative government just before leaving knowing it would be a shit show for the Liberals in the coming years.
simlevesque··on Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
Empty ? Why call it that? It's proactive.

Also it's naive to think they announce their intention to move somewhere. They try to cover it and never tell a soul until it's a done deal.

simlevesque··on Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes
I'm gonna look at your plugin. My email is in my profile.

Honestly I think that Markdown with LateX code blocks would be the most efficient representation but when doing it with Pandoc I kept having issues with loss of information and sometimes even syntax error.

simlevesque··on Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes
I'm trying to make a go library that implements a wide ranges of MOT algorithms and can gather metrics for all of them.

Reading all the papers once isn't the same as this. I find it very useful.

I can ask an LLM to do the basic implementations, then I can refine them (make the code better, faster, cut on memory use), then I can ask the LLM if I'm still implementing the algorithms as they're described in the paper.

simlevesque··on Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes
reStructuredText: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/...
simlevesque··on Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes
I've been making skills from arxiv papers for a while. I have a one for multi-object tracking for example. It has a SKILL.md describing all important papers (over 30) on the subject and a folder with each paper's full content as reStructuredText.

To feed Arxiv papers to LLMs I found that RST gives the best token count/fidelity ratio. Markdown lacks precision. LateX is too verbose. I have a script with the paper's urls, name and date that downloads the LateX zips from Arxiv, extracts it, transforms them to RST and then adds them to the right folder. Then I ask a LLM to make a summary from the full text, then I give other LLMs the full paper again with the summary and ask them to improve on and and proofread them. While this goes on I read the papers myself and at the end I read the summaries and if I approve them I add it to the skill. I also add for each paper info on how well the algorithms described do in common benchmarks.

I highly recommend doing something similar if you're working in a cutting-edge domain. Also I'd like to know if anyone has recommendations to improve what I do.

simlevesque··on Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
I really don't like OpenCode. One thing that really irritated me is that on mouse hover it selects options when you're given a set of choices.
simlevesque··on Claude Code Down
It shows issues now. Probably not when the person you're replying to wrote their comment.
simlevesque··on Cursor 3
Here's how to use MiniMax v2.7 for example: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/token-plan/claude-code

You just add this to your ~/.claude/settings.json:

  {
    "env": {
      "DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER": "1",
      "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://api.minimax.io/anthropic",
      "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "YOUR_SECRET_KEY",
      "API_TIMEOUT_MS": "3000000",
      "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC": 1,
      "ANTHROPIC_MODEL": "MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed",
      "ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL": "MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed",
      "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL": "MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed",
      "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL": "MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed",
      "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL": "MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed"
    }
  }
simlevesque··on Cursor 3
You can use almost any model with Claude Code.
simlevesque··on Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity
Well, then something's wrong. I click on different pages in the documentation and the whole page gets rerendered. Seems like it's not delivering what's promised.
simlevesque··on Show HN: Cerno – CAPTCHA that targets LLM reasoning, not human biology
I did it correctly with a mouse and was rejected. Then I drew a straight line and was rejected. Then I closed the tab.
simlevesque··on GitHub's Historic Uptime
It could even be both % and offline hours per year. To me the percentage is simpler to understand.
simlevesque··on Stripe Projects: Provision and manage services from the CLI
Yeah, I hate this trend. AWS did it too with CDK: https://constructs.dev/
simlevesque··on Ball Pit
Beware: this might totally freeze your computer like it did for me.
simlevesque··on Why I forked httpx
And you don't handle errors at all...
simlevesque··on France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
It can also go over any part of the globe. The aircraft carrier is limited to non-shallow water.
simlevesque··on Marvin Hagemeister, Luca Casonato, David Sherret and Phil Hawksworth left Deno
Thanks, I added them to the title.
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