cptcobalt

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alexguichet.com

I work in renewable energy, and I build mobile apps for consumers joining the renewable energy revolution. We need to do more to address climate change, today!

I'm here to talk about renewable energy, apps, EVs, LGBTQ+ identity, leadership, games, realtime rendering, AI & Tech politics and policy, curating content, and...whatever else seems interesting.

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Comment · 2 months ago
GPT-3 is a different model than gpt-oss and is therefore not an answer to the question.

I cannot stand using gpt-oss, but I miss some of the creative spark of GPT-3 davinci dearly.

Comment · 2 months ago
If you haven’t experienced suica, it’s like magically fast. Faster than NFC, faster than Apple Pay, faster than tap to pay, faster than Disney magic bands, faster than your work badge. It absolutely floored me every time I used it in Japan and it’s a full payment transaction.
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
man, I dont even use Figma for personal & side projects because its so expensive. I still occasionally fire up sketch or freehand it.

Figma is a work tool only and I'm disappointed by its MCP tooling which feels late and behind where it should be, I just feel forced to use Figma Make which stays in their walled garden without practical utility and connections to my actual codebases

Comment · 7 months ago
honestly this should be updated to the main link, the Anubis at difficulty 8 is astonishingly hostile
Comment · 7 months ago
There are two factors I see with this:

I sometimes like having my content editorialized. Some of the LLM writing tropes are ok to me—I'd delete them if I added this prompt to my instructions (but I wouldn't). But my editorial preferences—the sense of voice and tone I want the LLM to make—are rarely these tropes. Instead, I have a positive prompt of the angles I do enjoy.

However, what is cloying about these tropes for many is that they're becoming empty words. Instead of tack-sharp summaries or reductions to simple understanding, the model is spilling extra tokens for minimal value—I don't need to read "it's not X, it's Y" for the n-th time today. I'd really prefer tighter, more succinct reading that actually directly quotes sources (which modern models rarely do to avoid copyright traps).

Comment · 8 months ago
it seems like the Pro Display XDR is discontinued. The webpage for that now redirects to the Studio Displays XDR
Comment · 9 months ago
The point of the comment is that this is not something we should have to tolerate or worry about in a seemingly high-trust society.
Comment · 9 months ago
You can usually save more by generating solar locally and using it to power the home and charge the battery, then discharging the battery during peak hours (usually around and just after sunset) to earn the most. Obviously higher upfront capex.

Pure grid cycling is also frowned on by some utilities.

Comment · 9 months ago
Not all homes are made equal: different appliances & electronics from different vintages, etc.

I have 2 EVs (Tesla and BMW), an electric oven, and a homelab rack (but no HVAC), and my usage was 34.4 MWh last year — with 100% from Solar and Powerwall.

Comment · 9 months ago
> Notably, about one-third of users stopped taking the medication during the study period.

This isn't always the patient's choice—my insurance/PBM (CVS Caremark) dropped coverage for the GLP-1 that I was taking (Zepbound) and had several rounds of prior-authorization shenanigans over a few months before they approved the previous-generation GLP-1, Wegovy. Now I've had to start the ramp-up of a different medication again, which hurt and stalled progress. Evil.

Comment · 11 months ago
I think it's a pretty reasonable wish for more macOS + Apple Silicon support of games, including more native FEX & Proton ARM support within the steam client. (We're lucky Steam works, it's a better games client than the Mac App Store dreams to be, but that's also not saying much either.)
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve been following this game on twitter, and I’m probably going to lose my entire weekend to playing it. We need more sweaty simulators like this—the genre doesn’t have enough entries.

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