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thund··on GPT-4.1 in the API
Hey OpenAI if you ever need a Version Engineer, I’m available.
thund··on YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)
I like using tags and avoid any doubt

!!boolean

https://dev.to/kalkwst/a-gentle-introduction-to-the-yaml-for...

thund··on Default styles for h1 elements are changing
Interesting stuff, great for Accessibility! Maybe some screenshots could have made the article more... accessible.
thund··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
Before announcing it he suggested to buy stocks, ie insider trading.
thund··on Public secrets exposure leads to supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL
there are ways to isolate code from CI from CD, it's just not as easy as setting up the classic repo. One can use multiple repos for example, or run CI and CD with different products.
thund··on Public secrets exposure leads to supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL
They probably have good reasons if it's still in preview, that could be serious bugs, security gaps, potential breaking changes that would cause more harm than good if rushed, etc
thund··on A 10x Faster TypeScript
a couple of commits merged yrs back, things I stumbled on that I used as an excuse to learn more about internals
thund··on A 10x Faster TypeScript
Honest q, which part is out of date and why? Thanks
thund··on A 10x Faster TypeScript
Too bad they didn’t choose Rust, would have loved contributing (not picking up Go, sry)
thund··on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers
Hate to be that guy, but it’s about time to stop advertising the User Agent. Where needed the same could be done exposing capabilities, and it wouldn’t have to be on every single http request. Benefits: less bandwidth, blocking by capabilities would require JS. Negatives: revisit screen readers, which could keep using UA, no more stats by browser (don’t care).
thund··on Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud
Nature article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213563
thund··on BM25 in PostgreSQL
<3 the license

https://github.com/tensorchord/VectorChord/blob/main/LICENSE

thund··on Microsoft is killing Skype
If true this will be another “we lost the browser war” “we underestimated mobile” story, and they will realize it only 10 years from now.
thund··on Microsoft does not release new version of mssql-Django to support latest Django
https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-django is a fork of https://pypi.org/project/django-mssql-backend/ which is a fork of https://pypi.org/project/django-pyodbc-azure/ which is a fork of https://code.google.com/archive/p/django-pyodbc/

Looks like the community is used to fork and fix forward.

thund··on [dead]
Down for over 12 hours - it's like a zero-day freeze locking users out of their money (checking, savings, 401k, HSA, stocks).
thund··on Ozempic increases risk of debilitating eye condition: studies
Different damages, one is on blood vessels, the other on optic nerve. So you could even get both
thund··on Ozempic increases risk of debilitating eye condition: studies
Different damages, one is on blood vessels, the other on optic nerve
thund··on An Italian town that built its own sun (2021)
Mirror: https://maps.app.goo.gl/soe6WX87ihvu4E1W9
thund··on Model Context Protocol
"OpenAI API" is not a "standard" though. They have no interest in making it a standard, otherwise they would make it too easy to switch AI provider.

Anthropic is playing the "open standard" card because they want to win over some developers. (and that's good from that pov)

thund··on Embeddings are underrated
Doesn’t OpenAI embedding model support 8191/8192 tokens? That aside, declaring a winner by token size is misleading. There are more important factors like cross language support and precision for example
thund··on ChatGPT Search
The answer though has so much info already that it reduces the need to visit the links.
thund··on macOS Sequoia is available today
nice, but still many things to be improved:

- iphone mirroring keeps going into "paused" mode, showing a "resume" button

- iphone mirroring doesn't unblock apps that need face Id, e.g. whatsapp says "passcode required" without prompting for some form of auth (auto auth is enabled, but no luck)

- iphone mirroring is not really "mirroring": one cannot use both app and phone at the same time, and see what is going on.

- window tiling shortcut requires dragging a window first, Rectangle is much more flexible ie the window only need to be active

- UX for security got worse with "ask every month". Apple doesn't trust us knowing what we're doing, ie there should be a "trust forever" somewhere if I want to

- tagging people in Photos is still extremely buggy

- sequoia is hard to spell (when googling for info) (just me? lol)

thund··on Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
some corps, with custom policies
thund··on Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
In case your antivirus is censoring the page: https://archive.is/90XGW
thund··on GitHub was down
it's starting to show now, about 10 minutes after the issue started
thund··on GitHub was down
after several minutes the status page is still showing all is fine.

For a service like GH, anything more than 30 secs is unacceptable

thund··on IntelliJ GitHub Plugin leaking credentials
better even, don’t use never-expiring tokens/credentials that need rotation.
thund··on Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards
It’s called monitoring and it’s all automated. When something triggers then of course someone is expected to investigate. It’s how you run a service responsibly. All big corps do that and things would be much worse otherwise.
thund··on GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
It still takes the goat first, doesn't seem smarter than GPT4.

> Suppose I have a cabbage, a goat and a lion, and I need to get them across a river. I have a boat that can only carry myself and a single other item. I am not allowed to leave the cabbage and lion alone together, and I am not allowed to leave the lion and goat alone together. How can I safely get all three across?

thund··on Localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs
from the parent:

> TBH I would just recommend using that and all its under-the-radar features (like grammar, and built in function calling support with Functionary).

I never heard about Functionary, this comment seems to say “I would use llama.cpp plus Functionary”. Now, since llama.cpp allows to plug in several models, I was wondering if Functionary works with several models too, ie is Functionary a library that allows to add function calling to models?

The following answer to my comment helped clarifying that Functionary is not a lib, but a specific model, or that is what I understand from the answer. So the answer is “no, you can’t use functionary with many models (eg it’s not like llama.cpp that works with multiple models) because Functionary is a model itself”

:-)

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