thuttinger

Claude/LLMs in general are still pretty bad at the intricate details of layouts and visual things. There are a lot of problems that are easy to get right for a junior web dev but impossible for an LLM. On the other hand, I was able to write a C program that added gamma color profile support to linux compositors that don't support it (in my case Hyprland) within a few minutes! A - for me - seemingly hard task, which would have taken me at least a day or more if I didn't let Claude write the code. With one prompt Claude generated C code that compiled on first try that:

- Read an .icc file from disk

- parsed the file and extracted the VCGT (video card gamma table)

- wrote the VCGT to the video card for a specified display via amdgpu driver APIs

The only thing I had to fix was the ICC parsing, where it would parse header strings in the wrong byte-order (they are big-endian).

Works great! However, i had Python 3.11 set up as default python3 in path, and since there is no wheel for torch for 3.11 yet, the script failed. With 3.10 it worked flawlessly.

Small improvement: the node script could check if the model files are already present at the download location and not download them again in this case.

I agree, ncdu is a great and easy to use command line tool.

On Mac OS, run for example:

   ncdu -x --exclude /Volumes --exclude /System/Volumes /

This scans the root filesystem but excludes the Volume mounts specifically (the -x option to limit the scan to the current filesystem doesn't work properly on mac os). Navigate through the folders, sorted by size, from there. Press d to delete a folder.

Interesting. I'll take a look at this, thanks!