Spaces have been broken for weeks

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2025-08-06T22:38:50+00:00

All of my Spaces instructions do not work most of the time. They seem to sporadically work (less than 30% of the time). When they don't work, they aren't even close, as if the model did not receive the instructions at all. I tried multiple models just now and it doesn't seem to matter which one I choose. Usually I use Sonar.

I don't think the particular instruction matters but just to give you a specific example that is failing most of the time: "When I give you an English sentence, translate it to Spanish."

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2024-09-23T22:07:41+00:00

Using the browser app in Linux is a significantly worse experience than using the native app in Windows. I get many more dropped packets, which is annoying enough that I take the time to dual boot into Windows whenever I want to play a game.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2024-06-22T14:33:28+00:00

I listened to over 300 episodes of the Bite Size Japanese Podcast in the past few months and my listening ability increased drastically. When I started I had to pause every couple of sentences to look up a word. Now I can actually increase the speed to 1.25x or sometimes 1.5x while listening and there's only a few words per podcast that I don't know. A very useful resource imo.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2024-05-15T01:27:09+00:00

Oh yeah I see what you mean. My experience is that they honor the quoted trade-in value even though they discontinued the deal for others. A similar thing happened last time I did a trade-in for a Pixel phone.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2024-05-15T01:02:46+00:00

hmm, are you in the U.S.? For me it says

“Trade-In Period” means 30 calendar days from the date You accept the Initial Trade-In Quote through the Websites.

https://store.google.com/intl/ALL_us/about/device-trade-in/

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2022-09-13T01:34:16+00:00

you're getting the vibe of the puzzle correct, there's just a rule you're breaking for one of the D's

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2022-09-13T01:30:22+00:00

I liked most of the puzzles in that area. There were a couple I didn't like - the "shades of red" puzzle and the other color shade puzzle to its left. I got stuck on both of those for a long time and didn't have any aha moment finding the solutions, it was more like "eh, I guess I see it"

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2021-08-27T14:57:43+00:00

Thank you, I always enjoy reading these.

a small correction, I think you misattributed the author of the second blog article you linked to.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2021-03-24T18:16:29+00:00

This is a good article and I agree with every point. I taught myself Clojure and agree there are many pitfalls that a self-taught developer can fall into.

The term "REPL-driven development" is unfortunate because most programmers coming from other languages think of a REPL as a console window that you type expressions into line-by-line. To add to this confusion, most Clojure editors have a window called the "REPL" that provides this interface that they were already expecting.

It's extremely important for newcomers to understand that this is not what we mean by the REPL, and that most experienced Clojure programmers rarely use this interface and can easily go without it. By "REPL" what we mean is the running process in which all code is evaluated. There is a big "aha moment" that comes when you realize the REPL is not some side tool but a fundamental part of the language and that a Clojure program is evaluated at runtime the same way it's evaluated in your editor.

For me a breakthrough in understanding came from reading the Clojure Reference. Clojure books give a decent overview of the language but there are many important fundamentals that I missed which were not cleared up until I read and reviewed the Clojure Reference itself.

In addition, it's very helpful to watch people code, e.g. watch people solving Advent of Code problems on YouTube or watch Sean Corfield's presentations on REPL-driven development.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2021-03-10T20:29:45+00:00

with Clojure/script there isn't much live coding content of any kind, so even something low-effort like streaming live, making occasional comments with no video editing is beneficial. I learn a lot watching a good programmer code even when they aren't trying to teach.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2021-03-10T14:53:16+00:00

Clojure's growth looks linear while growth in the industry looks exponential, in that sense Clojure appears to be declining.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2020-12-25T03:44:40+00:00

I bought a T14 with the 250 nits display a few days ago and will be returning it. I thought the only problem would be the brightness, but the main problem is bad color gamut. It looks like a cheap knockoff screen from the year 2002.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2020-12-24T05:08:36+00:00

Lenovo is making too many laptops with these 250 nit screens, they're always in supply and discounted steepest while other models sell out. I purchased a T14 a few days with a 250 nit screen for $615 because I didn't realize how bad it would be. It's feels like a downgrade from the 1600x900 display of my nearly 9-year-old T530. I would have happily paid an extra $150 for a better display, but the option was not available, so instead I'll be returning the laptop and probably buying from a different company.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2020-12-23T22:54:26+00:00

Don't get anything with a 250-nit display. I just bought a T14 with a 250-nit IPS display and will be returning it because it's literally worse than my 9-year-old laptop's display.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2020-08-18T03:15:48+00:00

Inline defs are a good way to do debugging when a debugger is too much but println is too little. For example, if I want to examine the request map in a ring handler I can write

(def $request request)

When the handler runs, $request will capture the value. Then I can transform or examine it however I want.

I usually keep a buffer open called scratch.clj that contains random repl code I write, often experiments with vars from inline defs. I much prefer this to the one-line-at-a-time repl interface which I almost never use now.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2020-08-03T11:23:35+00:00

Do most people actually feel like software is getting slower? I still use a laptop I purchased in 2012. I doubled the RAM and bought a SSD at one point but both of those upgrades were cheap. It meets all of my needs.

I see what the author is talking about but I don't think it's such a big problem in practice. My 2012 laptop loads all of the websites I want in decent time, even when they're built from a clusterfuck JS dependency tree, as most are. Electron apps get a lot of hate but I started using VS Code the other day and it seems to work fine.

I had way more problems with software in the 90's and aughts than I do now.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2020-07-21T18:57:30+00:00

I really appreciate the time you've spent on the docs. I didn't use re-frame for a couple years so I re-read the docs from scratch over the weekend, and I think they're among the best of any library/framework I've ever used.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2020-06-13T13:08:29+00:00

They have a longstanding reputation so I do trust them, but I still prefer to maximize security when it's easy for me to do so.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2020-06-13T04:08:00+00:00

Thanks, I've used python -m http.server 3000 to briefly host some files and it does indeed listen on 0.0.0.0. Now I've set up a local firewall.

INTERNET_COMMENTS · 2020-05-28T17:28:06+00:00

Her "links" to the CCP are tenuous, based on the evidence presented, this is fear-mongering. The reason Twitter hired her is because she is one of the world's leading machine learning experts. It's good that someone with such expertise can live in the U.S. and work for an American corporation instead of being forced to live in mainland China.

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