nswanberg

Joined 19 years ago

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Trying out this meet thing:

meet.hn/city/us-Boulder

Socials: - github.com/nswanberg

Interests: Privacy

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Comment · 4 months ago
Remove /search from the URL and browse away.
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Comment · 10 months ago
This is amazing. Works great, and so far the only useful iOS 26 feature. Thank you!
Comment · 10 months ago
I had that intro in my head for decades, and also rewatched the "making of" video a bunch of times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBtLZDPnYlM

an alarm on what? maybe the greatest gift an llm could give me is a youtube to iphone ringtone workflow

Comment · 1 year ago
A walkthrough would be nice, but he's got a lot of understandable material linked on that page. For example, here's an overview of the binary lambda calculus: https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html

And here's a readable and fascinating post on "the largest number that's representable in 64 bits": https://tromp.github.io/blog/2023/11/24/largest-number.

If you go through these and find some interesting things, it'd be worth posting to HN.

Comment · 1 year ago
Nice! How'd the local models do vs gpt4o-mini? Did you spend much time playing with datasette?
Comment · 1 year ago
Yegge wrote about the business idea version of this as "Shit's Easy Syndrome":

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legal...

It'd have been delightfully ironic had either of these Steves concluded their essays with a named methodology to "just" apply whenever faced with these "let's just" situations but alas...

Comment · 2 years ago
There's at least one in Boulder too, near Broadway and Baseline.
Comment · 2 years ago
That encrypted backup isn't available via Takeout, only via the Google Maps app. You can use that backup to load your history to various devices or a replacement phone.
Comment · 2 years ago
Making analyses like zdimension's, keeping a kind of automated diary, and occasionally looking up a spot I've been but can't quite remember.
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