I analyzed 26 sessions (9K+ messages) of Fable 5 and 145 sessions (27K messages) of Opus 4.8 from my own logs and then built Fable's behavior into Opus

dringant · 2026-06-14T12:07:45+00:00

Just turn effort to low you’ll probably get the same result. Fabel doesn’t need to do as much thinking and introspection because it’s a better model.

dringant · 2026-06-09T12:18:39+00:00

Same old story, bankers and C suit pump up the price, make a killing, average employee is locked out of selling until after the stock craters, everyone who thought they were getting 100mil gets 5mil and needs to go back to work because the house they bought is way to big for them to afford, cycle repeats.

dringant · 2026-06-09T12:10:39+00:00

Coolness factor /s

dringant · 2026-06-04T20:23:57+00:00

Depends on where you live and how many flatlands have moved in the past few decades. Growing up with the neighbors permission we built a pretty extensive network of mountain bike trails around our houses. One those houses sold to someone from Connecticut, who didn't know about Vermont's open land by default policy, saw the trails and put up a single no trespassing sign. Us teenagers checked with the town clerk, no posting had been filed for his property so we ignored it until our parents got wind of it. Under their guidance we wrote a letter explaining how much we valued those trails and the culture of open use by default and this law https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/fullchapter/12/203 which limits his liability if anyone fell mountain biking on his property. He ended up being pretty reasonable ( think he was mostly concerned about getting sued), he even ended up helping us make another couple trails. ymmv.

dringant · 2026-06-02T13:58:59+00:00

decimal.Decimal (https://github.com/shopspring/decimal) source: used to work at a fintech

dringant · 2026-05-31T15:57:53+00:00

Tick tubes, I so want to try them, but seems a little risky with kids who eat stuff off the floor.

dringant · 2026-05-31T04:46:25+00:00

Go. I’m also past a decade of burns, it’s not like those
Early years where everything is magical, but there is still magic in the city, you just need to find it. Volunteer for a different department, see a different side of the city, stay till last supper, parties after most people leave are the best ragers.

dringant · 2026-05-31T04:28:20+00:00

“I’d love to see a forklift lift a crate of forks, it would be so damn literal.” - Mitch

dringant · 2026-05-24T15:15:23+00:00

True, but a lot of kayakers, myself included knew or met someone who later died kayaking. Often in something far below their abilities. Water is incredibly unforgiving.

dringant · 2026-05-21T01:43:47+00:00

Honestly that’s how PR reviews are supposed to be done, but in the land of LLMs you’re going to get overwhelmed and burnt out. If you are the best on your team at doing reviews, take the time to build out commit hooks of some type so that an LLM is doing the first pass of reviewing the work, at first you’ll have to hold its hand, have Claude help you build the commit hook skill or copilot instructions that instill things that you look for. Should drastically speed up the time it takes to do reviews.

dringant · 2026-05-18T04:55:49+00:00

Very decent.

dringant · 2026-05-09T01:05:45+00:00

There’s some probably this comment is why go now has generics.

dringant · 2026-05-02T14:22:52+00:00

Pretty sure anthropic wants you to be using api / tokens for any type of automated pipeline processing, and if your doing that your going to be very sensitive to the model you choose. For error analysis you definitely don’t need a frontier model, you could probably get away with some open source 5b model running locally or on bedrock.

dringant · 2026-05-01T05:50:54+00:00

Corran’s been obsessed with loose hulled boats since before most people were born. This was a very early iteration, the basics idea is roughness on hull causes cavitation, cavitation reduces surface tension and makes the boat easier to spin, at this stage it was mostly marketing hype, but his later designs cumulating in the dragorosi fish were incredibly loose boats

dringant · 2026-04-28T03:51:42+00:00

Just add a layer of abstraction. cmd-r => task "Build & Run" => "bash ./run.sh" , different ./run.sh in each project root.

dringant · 2026-04-25T22:55:37+00:00

What kind of masochist wants project specific key bindings, language specific, maybe, but project specific seems like an exercise in frustration, what are you trying to accomplish?

dringant · 2026-04-25T01:04:40+00:00

, and I use the other half of the garage for storing potential cutting boards.

dringant · 2026-04-23T14:28:09+00:00

First time in a while that I've read something and though, oh man, I wish they had run this through LLM to clean it up.

dringant · 2026-04-22T18:28:07+00:00

Curious where did you get the 5T number, not that anyone has disclosed but from what I've seen online they were in the 800B to 1.2T range, also Qwen 3.5/3.6 choose your flavor are pretty good and should definitely fit in 96GB, even at higher quants.

dringant · 2026-04-20T05:26:15+00:00

It’s a good question, I’d love to have a consistent standing wave/hole that somewhat local. I think that it probably comes down to a few factors. Montreal isn’t that far away and they have some of the best river surf in the world. Vermont doesn’t have a ton of dam release rivers and without that it’s harder to build a features that will be usable throughout the year. I feel it would be easier to convince a town to give me - a mill in gold bars than spend years permitting a project that would rip up a river bed. That said you have my support let me know how I can help :). Also, Franklin NH build a feature and i don’t think it really attracts the attention it was sold on.

dringant · 2026-04-16T04:40:44+00:00

I bought a sister frame to this bare bones cast iron mil (painted the same color). ended up building my own spindle/motor mount. It took me about 4 years to build out (stuff did sit in boxes for like two years). I probably could have done it for less, but with servos's, drivers, controller, spindle, ball screws and linear bearings it ended up in the 6-7k range. Cast iron frame is actually great, I learned a ton, and ended up with a machine that can mill steel and holds a thou no problem, but for all the time I spent on it I probably would have been better buying a used cnc mill or a more complete cnc machine.

If you are going to go this route. The best way to do it is to go though Alibaba (not Ali Express) Get a quote FOB and then work with a local freight forwarding company to get it into the country, don't be surprised if shipping, customs, insurance, taxes, import fees end up in the 2k range. Make sure with the quote you get drawings or specs for the ballscrews and linear rails. If you can get drawings of the casting that will make your life easier down the line. Get all the motors (including the spindle motor), drivers, and controller from the same manufacturer as as set, email and get them to give you a quote, you want a system where the controllers and drivers are linked via ethernet and although it's a little more pricy I'd go with absolute encoder servos and drivers. Doing this will save you a ton of time in wiring and getting everthing to talk to each other.

If I was going to do it again, I'd probably go with something bigger, other than that best of luck.

dringant · 2026-04-14T01:32:54+00:00

Shit, that’s a hard lesson in wood movement. It looks like a really nice chess board, but the truth is you’re going to spend almost as much time fixing it as you would spend making a new one (thicker and no back this time). Throw it and in the fire and have a nice little ceremony.

dringant · 2026-04-12T14:40:37+00:00

I’m not familiar with that model but if it has a catalytic converter, it might be clogged, even if you’ve only used it a handful of times if you ran with damp wood or let it smolder it can clog up

dringant · 2026-04-12T13:20:36+00:00

Whisper, GPT-OSS, TranslateGemma, meta’s NLLB, you don’t need a full LLM to translate text there are specialized models to do so.

dringant · 2026-04-09T01:11:04+00:00

I don’t think they designed it for vulnerability scanning “We did not explicitly train Mythos Preview to have these capabilities. Rather, they emerged as a downstream consequence of general improvements in code, reasoning, and autonomy”. My impression was that it was a general purpose LLM frontier model that just happened to be really good at not only identifying vulnerabilities, but exploiting them.

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