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Interestingly, quite a few places that should treat query strings transparently make a lot of assumptions about their structure. We ran into that when picking a new CDN, some providers didn't handle repeat parameters (?a=1&a=2) correctly.

For completeness, there is also Peirce’s arrow aka NOR operation which is functionally complete. Fun applications iirc VMProtect copy protection system has an internal VM based on NOR.

Quick google seach brings up https://github.com/pr701/nor_vm_core, which has a basic idea

Big nod. I've been trying to register our company to sell customized products. It's been quite an ordeal with document rejections etc, and at the end they just said the rejection is final. No support, no appeals, no transparency. Yet those ALLCAPS companies seem have no troubles.

We battled https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1331370/... for over a year, and finally decided to move off since there was no any resolution. Unfortunately our API servers were still behind AFD so they were affected by today's stuff...

Loved Borland IDE at the time. I still miss Ctrl-KB/KK (IIRC?) style selections from time to time.

These days Far Manager (via far2l) or MC kind of scratch the itch for quick TUI edits.

Impressing, but I can't believe we went from fixing bugs to coffee-grounds-divination-prompt-guessing-and-tweaking when things don't actually go well /s

Would be great if they provided at least some guidance how to keep this thing on topic. Even the official demo https://chatkit.world/ is not restricted, it happily chats about whatever.

Like when Claude suddenly decides it's not happy with a tiny one-off script and generates 20 refined versions :D

I'm ok using a limited resource _if_ I know how much of it I am using. The lack of visible progress towards limits is annoying.

One problem I find is that a lot educational content has moved into YouTube and videos (monetization be damned). I have no time to watch 10mins of rambling and ads for a quick tip, LLMs are great at distilling the info. Otherwise, I agree, deep knowledge building only happens through doing stuff…

GLTF standard covers a lot of PBR (physically based rendering) properties for materials.

Since when "Add emojis for clutter and noise" became an USP...

Looks interesting! Reminds me of XMLSpy JSON Grid view - https://www.altova.com/images/json-editor-grid.png

Any plans to make an editor on top of this?

Took a bit of hunting to figure out what that is: makes tiny origami flowers: https://blog.rahix.de/flower-machine/#paper-flowers

Technically it's possible to see most of my code on github, but most of it definitely wasn't intended for sharing, mostly protection from losing it.

A number of SmartThings device handlers and arduino code for home automation (early Ambilight clone, light strips, sump pump monitoring, desk fans).

A janky pendant to run on RPi for my CNC (clockworkpi.com devices are cool btw!)

Reddit bookmarks manager that google somehow scanned so technically there are a few people using it... accidentally

Custom Mailspring build with themes and minor annoyance tweaks

Not counting various TamperMonkey scripts that fix some site annoyances

The pace of javascript ecosystem is annoying at times. The first issue is due to deprecation of md4 hash and can at least can be worked around which may allow to avoid upgrading _some_ dependencies - https://stackoverflow.com/a/72219174

Shout out to my go-to https://dotnetfiddle.net/

See ya from 54198743. Weird how I remember this one better than any of my phone numbers

Love that Thunderbird is moving forward. The UX work is great, and looks like they are finally getting to some more deeply buried issues too, like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479969 - my main reason why I can't switch fully back yet

I just wanted it to show a clock in a huge font so I could see when I needed to rush back into the "office" when taking a break or making coffee. Alexa Show became useless after a while because of all the non-disable content, and it barely even shows the time anymore.

I swapped it back to my old Echo Spot (the round screen one). It's great at being a clock.

It’s still quite monolithic. The issue is that it is a more complete engine than, let’s say Three, so the scene graph makes use of pretty much everything. Even you don’t use them, things like audio, webxr, node materials would get pulled in, despite tree shaking.

For our purposes, we filter out unused modules using webpack build. Things would crash badly if something would get used by accident, but we have a pretty controlled environment

There was Scaleform, and it looks like it's been discontinued along with Flash - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleform_GFx

Standard easing has one advantage being frame rate independent. Spring functions need some extra care to prevent things from... exploding.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37823805 (You probably shouldn't use a lookup table (2022))

I definitely consider NIME to be best BG album. They tried to replicate the same level of complexity in their follow up albums, but the sound engineering and mixing just never felt the same. NIME sounds crisp and clear and every after is too layered and muddy

The construction scene has people appearing out of thin air, changing jacket colors, and in general weird things happening

I don't want AI mediating social interactions

AI-based therapy tools that are popping up lately feel really weird to me

I am still Far as my primary file manager and quick viewer/editor when I'm on Windows, and I've tried far2l (which is great) but for some reason when I'm on macOS my brain just switches and I'm back in Finder.

Our primary issue is that our DB is a dynamic Entity-Attribute-Value schema, even quite a bit denormalized at that. The model has to remember to do subqueries to retrieve "attributes" based on what's needed for the query and then combine them correctly.

NLQ is a somewhat new feature for us, so we don't have a great library to pull from for RAG. Experimenting, I found that having a few-shot examples with some CoT (showing examples of chaining attributes retrieval) sprinkled around did help a lot.

Even still, some queries come out quite ugly, but still functional. I'm thankful that DuckDB is a beast when tackling those :D

Did you folks experiment with building an Agent-like interface that asks more questions before the LLM finally answers?

That's something I want to figure out next:

1) try to check if a generated query would work but would generate absolutely junk results (cause the model forgot to check something) and ask to rephrase

2) or show results (which may look "real" enough), but give an ability to tweak the prompt. A good example is something like "top 5 products on Cyber Monday" <- which returns 0 products, cause 2024 didn't happen yet, and should trigger a follow up.

For 2. we ended up stuffing the prompt with examples for common date ranges "this month", "last year", "this year to date" and some date math, and examples of date fields (we have timestamp, and extracted Year, Month, Day, etc)

  Current date: `current_date()`
  3 days ago: `current_date() - INTERVAL 3 DAY`
  Beginning of this month: `date_trunc('month', current_date())`
  ...