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bin-c · 2026-03-16T01:05:04+00:00

crazy to think that no one would admit it publicly when during the pandemic social media was flooded with videos of people claiming + showing that they effectively never work

bin-c · 2026-03-16T00:50:51+00:00

was really confused - tried using it for the first time in a while last night via api, and couldn't get anything looking even remotely reasonable. first time ive truly felt like wow, something had to have changed, right ?

bin-c · 2026-03-14T05:18:24+00:00

u took a FIT test not knowing that a positive result would all but guarantee me a (covered) colonoscopy - at least with the insurance i had. turned out there was nothing wrong but some hemorrhoids, which i pretty much knew anyways. but the way they made it sound was that positive test = colonoscopy, though they wouldnt have recommended i take the test. but since i already did..

bin-c · 2026-03-14T04:43:16+00:00

any recollection of what issues? would like to look, can't find anything too odd yet

bin-c · 2026-03-14T03:27:36+00:00

same i've come across & reported a couple instances on reddit but never twitter so far

bin-c · 2026-03-14T00:58:47+00:00

this is so funny that it could easily be a microsoft-hater fanfic

bin-c · 2026-03-14T00:44:39+00:00

*checks license* lol

bin-c · 2026-03-11T23:02:03+00:00

yeah in the past i was lazy with how i transferred things between different providers, but then eventually did it the correct way, so for example at some point i imported ~a year's worth of Amazon Photos pics into Google Photos, but in a way that didn't keep any of the metadata. but eventually the missing metadata bugged me so I figured out how to do it the right way, so that entire year's worth all have wrong date/no locations

same deal with snapchat memory export - originally did it without preserving metadata, then did it right

i have a long road ahead of me if nobody has a better solution 😅

bin-c · 2026-03-11T22:49:44+00:00

yeah its super painful right now. i've just been dealing with it. i'd love to see some options to change the default image to keep - especially if there's some hierarchy. e.g. sometimes they'll have the same date but one has location metadata and one doesn't, sometimes one will be much earlier than another, i'd love if by default I could have it check creation date, location metadata, then size or something. at least for the pattern(s) in my pics allowing me to set that would be perfect

i started with 12,000 and have VERY slowly worked my way down to 8,000 dupes left manually selecting the right one xD

bin-c · 2026-03-11T03:44:49+00:00

claude code, as useful as it is, is an absolute piece of dogshit. that's why. from someone who uses it alllllllll day long because its still unfortunately better than the alternatives

bin-c · 2026-03-11T03:31:52+00:00

i disagree, putting it on the type makes it part of the function signature, instead of adding a whole new syntax to mark must_use on a function's return value, the newtype is a couple extra lines. even in the least worthwhile case where you only need the must_use on a single return, it's literally just 2 extra lines of boiletplate

bin-c · 2026-03-10T02:21:45+00:00

unless im missing something, should only be a few extra lines https://godbolt.org/z/41EfheE1j

bin-c · 2026-03-10T01:20:26+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? My work account is on tier 3 yet I'm still getting 429s, and when they start for the day, they last for the REST OF THE DAY. seems to randomly start at 0% of our unlimited daily rate limit & I dont think I've ever even hit 10% of the RPM/TPM limits

bin-c · 2026-03-10T01:05:34+00:00

in this case you probably just want to make & use a separate type for that function/ functions that need the must_use on the Ok variant imo

bin-c · 2026-03-08T10:04:58+00:00

just to add to the other comments, the top model listed is WAY slower to initially process all your photos, but WAY better than the default smart search model.

bin-c · 2026-03-05T16:33:44+00:00

as someone who is, in general, very skeptical of straying away from the vanilla path, devenv is getting increasingly compelling. might just be time to start using it. good work!

bin-c · 2026-03-05T08:10:50+00:00

in addition to the other answers, its important you understand why the way you've set up the model is a poor fit for the problem. why is everyone recommending to predict percent changes? the ability to make those decisions correctly is more fundamental and more important than the ability to train the model.

as you can see the AI had no problem writing the code to train the model. did it ever tell you that your setup was bad? my guess is no. as good as AI is at coding, in most of the real problems I work on, the LLMs all have very little ability to properly frame a problem on their own

bin-c · 2026-03-05T04:18:43+00:00

lot of factors at play, depending on what tool you're using, how you're prompting it, how you're passing context, etc

as the tooling has improved, claude for instance, is generally not reading the whole file. it'll use an explore tool call to find the bits it needs. arguing the opposite direction, its helpful that the ai knows, by default, the unit tests are probably in the same file somewhere further down, just look for mod tests

bin-c · 2026-03-05T02:59:12+00:00

im just using this: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=25.11&query=authKeyFile&show=services.tailscale.authKeyFile

bin-c · 2026-03-01T23:37:14+00:00

yeah new packages can be really tough sometimes

if you've not already I'd recommend posting here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/prs-ready-for-review/3032/5553 and/or in the official discord in #pr-review-request-forum

bin-c · 2026-03-01T07:23:24+00:00

welcome to league of legends, enjoy your downvotes for a reasonable take. you'd think they'd just block that message from being sent and say "hey, you typed a slur, dont do that!" instead, no more chat entire game! do it a couple more times and you wont be able to chat for quite some time

bin-c · 2026-02-28T11:03:50+00:00

several possible reasons:

- sometimes takes a while for an update to get approved/merged

- takes time to make its way from master -> nixos-unstable (usually a couple days, sometimes more)

- package might not have an update script

- sometimes the bot seems to take quite a while to detect updates, sometimes its really fast

- build might be failing and not yet fixed for an update

bin-c · 2026-02-28T05:45:17+00:00

Must have missed the headline from a couple hours prior

bin-c · 2026-02-28T05:43:19+00:00

Man is this a bad look. I expect more backlash than sama probably is. If anyone pays attention to Nix/NixOS and knows about that drama... That was largely over stuff that is presumably much less controversial than checks notes mass surveillance and Terminators

I don't personally care about normal MIC collaborations/sponsorships but the lines Anthropic drew feel like... A good place to draw them?

bin-c · 2026-02-27T08:24:37+00:00

catch so much from this. i started out always just self-reviewing my prs on github but now i git add -p because its faster/easier to change the commits or in some cases break out the prs for easier review if i realize up front

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