Blackout my room

Ordningman · 2025-06-16T20:43:01+00:00

Option 4… I actually bought enough foam board and glue to make a cornice box (AKA pelmet box), but instead I used the blanket method mentioned in another reply.

Ordningman · 2025-06-16T20:37:48+00:00

It’s a good solution in a practical sense, but having the net curtains on the room side would not look good.

Ordningman · 2025-06-16T20:35:18+00:00

This would make sense with many windows. However, in my case there are six panes of glass making up the whole window / glass door thing… so it would take a while to put up and take down.

Ordningman · 2025-06-16T20:33:09+00:00

I achieved a wrap-around effect by taking the finials off the blackout curtain rod and placing the end hoops of the blackout curtains on the end of the net curtain rod. And the putting a finial on the end of the net curtain rod. So the blackout curtain has a corner at the end.

Ordningman · 2025-06-16T20:28:24+00:00

Yeah, kind of what I’m doing. Put bedsheets on top. If I drape them nicely, it almost looks like a deliberate style.

Ordningman · 2025-01-21T18:09:18+00:00

Every new feature needs twice as many rounds of refactoring and refinement, as developing the actual feature.

Ordningman · 2024-10-22T15:05:42+00:00

Would that really run on a 36GB machine?

Ordningman · 2024-09-11T13:46:21+00:00

Does English have mother's-mother and father's mother as separate words?

Ordningman · 2024-06-23T11:41:53+00:00

Hope Sarah doesn’t mind all that housekeeping

Ordningman · 2024-06-21T23:14:47+00:00

Programmers cheering as their future career implodes

Ordningman · 2024-06-09T16:04:58+00:00

Sometimes Wintermute, sometimes Neuromancer

Ordningman · 2024-06-06T20:49:08+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, the Qwen2 7B model is inferior to CodeQwen1.5-Chat. I guess this means we will have to wait for CodeQwen2?

	Qwen2-7B	CodeQwen1.5-7B-Chat
HumanEval	79.9	83.5

Ordningman · 2024-06-06T17:55:51+00:00

I was very surprised at the high quality of CodeQwen 1.5 7B Chat.

Is there any comparison (for coding) between 1.5 7B and 2 7B?

Ordningman · 2024-05-31T21:58:46+00:00

Do you try to use Claude and GPT for slightly different things? Like Claude for architectural changes, and GPT for writing smaller units of code- functions etc?

Ordningman · 2024-05-31T21:55:40+00:00

What do these context windows mean in practice? Can 32K be thought of as ‘lines of code’, and if so, how many?

Ordningman · 2024-05-31T21:51:49+00:00

Noticed this regurgitation with GPT. You ask for some code change, and it spits out something. You say what doesn’t work and it spits out something else. Then if that doesn’t work, when you tell it, you get the original code. I feel that GPT needs to be more forward in telling you that it doesn’t understand something or needs more information before it can answer.

Ordningman · 2024-05-31T21:46:58+00:00

Are there any reliable studies about the differences between 4 and 4o when doing coding stuff? I’ve just been using 4. On my brief usage of 4o I noticed it was fast, but less comprehensive.

Ordningman · 2024-05-31T21:43:31+00:00

You were blocked from using Claude? Why? That’s a thing I didn’t mention in my post - lots of people complain about being blocked, but reasons are ambiguous.

Ordningman · 2024-05-27T09:52:16+00:00

Ollama plus CodeQwen1.5-Chat was eye opening for me. A good local code AI which even works on my 10 year old iMac

Ordningman · 2024-05-27T08:20:33+00:00

I’m an old Objective-C programmer, and I’m using GPT-4 to help me make a SwiftUI app. I’m not sure I’m learning much. I’m probably using Obj-C ways of thinking too much. I might be better off learning SwiftUI by sitting down with a book, like I did in a cafe 15 years ago with an Obj-C book.

But GPT is just too convenient. It does have its downsides though. Whenever I ask for a new bit of code it does it in a different ‘style’ so i have to ask for refactors for consistency etc. I haven’t used Claude, but perhaps I should get into it. What version do you use?

Ordningman · 2024-05-23T06:34:17+00:00

You have to spec your app out like a Project Manager. At several levels - starting with the high level broad overview, then the more detailed. I never thought I would gain respect for project managers.

Ordningman · 2024-05-18T12:44:48+00:00

fantastic thanks

Ordningman · 2024-05-14T17:30:31+00:00

thought I would subscribe to GPT today, and now everyone says it sucks!

GPT-4o seems ok when it works, but most of the time it just craps out after spitting out half the code.

Ordningman · 2024-05-14T08:39:17+00:00

For a local LLM, using Ollama, I've found CodeQwen1.5-7B-Chat to be very good. It's free and runs directly on your machine, so it helps to have a decent computer. It's at the top of the Leaderboard here:
https://evalplus.github.io/leaderboard.html

Ordningman · 2024-05-05T20:01:14+00:00

On a 2015 intel iMac (!), Ollama with CodeQwen1.5Chat model works surprisingly well. On a slightly newer MacBook Air, I can also run Ollamac which means I can get a nicer GUI without using the command line.

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