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voidUpdate··on UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025)
One of my pet peeves is people using the letter "u" to mean micro. Its a greek letter mu, "μ", and seeing as the entire thing is capitalised here, it could also be "Μ" (uppercase greek mu, not uppercase latin M)
voidUpdate··on Writing Postcards with a 3D Printer
CNC is CNC, if you can put an attachment on it, it'll probably work. If you replace the hotend with a router and make the extrusion wires turn the router on and off, you have a CNC router. If you use a swivel knife, you have a vinyl cutter
voidUpdate··on Use AI for reviewing code especially when the diff is huge
I can't tell if the title is a joke or not, the article seems to give some very good reasons why you shouldn't use an LLM to review pull requests
voidUpdate··on Shape Suffixes – Good Coding Style
We've reinvented hungarian notation from first principles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
voidUpdate··on Help I accidentally a wigglegram
I believe there have been camera specifically designed for this, where they have multiple horizontally spaced lenses that all take a picture at the same time, or literally just holding several cameras right next to each other and triggering them all at once
voidUpdate··on Fable Converted Pylint to Rust
no, its "rewrote x in rust and now it's blazing fast". I still dont know fast "blazing" is. 10x? 100x? any increase at all?
voidUpdate··on Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette
For you maybe, but I've never heard of this site, my only reference for "datasette" is the commodore 1560
voidUpdate··on Fable Converted Pylint to Rust
and hopefully I never have to work with you if you think that every single second must be spent coding, no seconds allowed for stuff to process in the background when you save a file
voidUpdate··on Fable Converted Pylint to Rust
Then have it run asynchronously when you save
voidUpdate··on I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M
mildly amusing that the model was instructed to generate it in the style of a "wide angle film still" but it seems to have gone for a painting instead
voidUpdate··on Fable Converted Pylint to Rust
Do you generally pylint an entire codebase at once though? Why not just the file you are actually working on? Based on the homeassistant results (10.3 hours to lint 17.5k files), it only takes about 2 seconds to pylint a file, which doesn't really feel like enough of a wait to need an entirely new linter
voidUpdate··on We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall
So over 10% of the time, it fails? That's not a great search engine
voidUpdate··on We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall
For someone who isn't super familiar, what is "R@10", and is 0.89 good? It's impossible to google for
voidUpdate··on About ASCII art and Jgs font (2023)
The font is definitely... unique, too. I thought it was going to build up to that font being the ascii art one, but that one looks much more pleasant to read than what the article is actually written in
voidUpdate··on Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction
I believe before the "name" attribute is set, the name in the dialog is "barista", but once it has a "name", it displays as that instead. Technically, no, the barista didn't have a name until that selection was chosen
voidUpdate··on I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle
I think carpenters might cry if a company went around shoving every single piece of carpentry they could find into a machine, and then when you press a button on that machine, a chair comes out, and then they go around saying that this machine will replace carpenters forever, and they made this machine with no help from other carpenters, and furniture makers all went "who needs carpenters anymore, lets just use the chair machine"
voidUpdate··on Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
I wonder how much is actually needed to create an automated rubber duck. How well would ELIZA work? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) (might need some adjustment to not talk like a therapist, but you get the idea)
voidUpdate··on Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!
I've done a couple on a debit card and it's gone pretty smoothly. I paid around £200 for an online service who they effectively ghosted me, so I submitted a chargeback to my bank, and they said they'd get in contact with the provider. I never heard back about it other than getting my money so I'm guessing they ghosted my bank too
voidUpdate··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
Apart from when they're talking about AI generated videos or images, or the marketing people talking about an AI powered rice cooker https://tefalph.com/cooking-appliances/easy-rice-plus-rice-c... or people watching films where an AI takes over
voidUpdate··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
Maybe if marketing people stopped using the incredibly generic term "AI", and started actually saying what something is, it might work better. When you say "this app is powered by AI", do you mean Skynet, an LLM, or a basic machine learning system?
voidUpdate··on 4× RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell on Water, and the One Card That Wouldn't Behave
Is that little computer training LLMs from scratch all by itself? That must take years to get any kind of progress, given the scale of training other providers do. Where do you get the training data from?
voidUpdate··on Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
I watched the whole thing, and I think it sort of went off the rails over time, probably to keep upping the ante. I think you're fine just watching the first season
voidUpdate··on 'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today
Well luckily, there's a nice article here that you can read to find out all about it
voidUpdate··on Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
I'm guessing the website is currently being hugged to death, but the images take a while to load, and I'm on a pretty good connection. Maybe try webp with some decent compression to shrink down the filesize?
voidUpdate··on I wrote 5000 lines of assembly because I was angry
If you click the little "vibeSwitch" text in the bottom left, then click the small toggle in the bottom right of the popup window, you can turn off the animated background, and the website runs a hell of a lot better, on my browser at least
voidUpdate··on War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now
They did both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
voidUpdate··on MapComplete: Maps about various topics which you can contribute to
I opened this up, and immediately saw a contribution I could make. Created an OSM account and fixed it =)
voidUpdate··on HTML is a native image format, hear me out
Luckily, you can embed raster images inside SVGs https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/E...
voidUpdate··on Lines of code got a better publicist
> "Augment surveyed 219 engineering leaders and asked them to define “AI-native engineering” . They got 219 different answers."

I mean, if you give 219 people a free text box and ask them to explain anything, you're extremely unlikely to get the exact same answer twice...

voidUpdate··on HTML is a native image format, hear me out
That's pretty much what I was thinking too. "A way to create an image, with parts that can be edited using tags, that an LLM can deal with... this sounds like SVG"
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