Bouncy Dog over here getting in a furious row with a car alarm.
hackers.town: 2025-03-23 Sun 12:49
@GeoffWozniak oh heck I remember having this argument in high school. I’m happy contributing to raise the baseline through taxes and social norms, because everyone needs food, shelter, and not to get punched in the face. Usually.
But I scoffed at “greatest good for the greatest number” because past the baseline we each need a different good. Averaging it out will just make everyone miserable.
Reading about project development on hosted devcontainers edited via github dot dev and — like, I get doing it when work forces you, but of your own free will?
“But I can’t get my project to run on my laptop! It’s too complex and / or computationally expensive!”
Well you picked your solution and now, as they say, you have two problems.
hackers.town: 2025-03-22 Sat 14:19
From an extended conversation about things like the risk of having offspring too similar to you.
#TIL#macOS System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Display Contrast is a slider.
That’s way more helpful than the “increase contrast oh heck not like that” toggle I had noticed up to now.
hackers.town: 2025-03-21 Fri 07:33
Starting to wonder if the blurry vision I’ve been experiencing lately is more related to the Strattera than to the inevitable wear and tear of age. I think I noticed a difference before and shortly after I took morning meds.
The open secret that Facebook and OpenAI were training off illegally acquired books? Thanks to court documents, that’s just kinda open now. Signed off by MZ (who I’m sure we’ll be told actually famed Sonoma County baker Mike Zakowski, just a total coincidence on the initials)
@deafferret It’s something I look for in the hip-hop I listen to (mostly very political): full of opinions, usually differentiate between venting and making a call to action, and the call is generally pretty clear.
I use them for: summarization, Info extraction, classification. Using 4bit quant of Qwen-2.5-7B for these. Anything that doesn’t involve reasoning/inferring more than basic information.
As a concrete example, I just used it on a pandas df with 50k entries to generate the column df[“inferred_quote_content”] = prompt( Given the content prefix, infer what the quote block ‘’’ … [QuoteBlock] … ‘’’ will contain)
Just a reminder to myself to persist notes that are useful for me. Maybe touch them up a bit for the idea of being published, but that’s it. I don’t need detailed topic pages for every domain. Just hooks for the useful bits.
Styling Polars DataFrames in Quarto
Polars + Quarto is producing some classless HTML. Worked around it with some clever Sass.
