cbabraham

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Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
hi! Does this bring us closer to a gemini-cli like experience using a local modal that can run on a macbook pro? It felt like gemma3n was already 'smart' enough it just wasn't tuned for tool use.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've lived car free in SF for 12 years it's very walkable! Just start out in the mission for max socializing and transit access and then you can live somewhere else when you've gotten to know the city.

You can take bike share and the bus everywhere, housing is expensive but less so than nyc!

Comment · 10 years ago
Any time you specify an sRGB color for the web you are building on 80+ year old work to standardize color specification.

I wrote a thing to get anyone interested in color science ramped up on some basics, enjoy!

Comment · 10 years ago
Visualizing this dataset has been my end of year side project for a few years now.

The hardest part was matching hundreds of friend's various usernames across different services to the same person. It's a process that's difficult to automate, even with some helper scripts it took a couple days to manually curate the mapping.

The svgs for the grid are in pre-rendered static files made with node/jsdom, which was pretty fun to write.

Data sources:

Skype history file

Facebook data download

Google Voice and Google Hangouts data download

Email (for oldschool gchats)

iPhone backups, for SMS/iMessage

Slack API

Comment · 11 years ago
it worked!
Comment · 11 years ago
https://medium.com/@cba/film-photography-for-rationalists-64...

I wrote this to address exactly this intuition about film.

But tl;dr, the experience of shooting film and digital have huge differences and the photos you get at the end are influenced by the process of taking them. They are not just pixels that exist in a vacuum.

Comment · 11 years ago
He is using the neighbor's guest hotspot not his own.
Comment · 11 years ago
I think you can connect to your neighbors xfinity hotspot without using up any of their private bandwidth allocation. The hotspot connection gets its own.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago

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