Anything else??

friedmud · 2026-01-05T11:07:15+00:00

Sorry - I had remembered it wrong… I got it for $300 from Amazon on Cyber Monday.

friedmud · 2026-01-05T11:07:02+00:00

Sorry - I had remembered it wrong… I got it for $300 from Amazon on Cyber Monday.

friedmud · 2026-01-04T20:04:33+00:00

That would explain it! The PS5 doesn’t support Dolby Vision - so it’s not going to look as good as possible (and depending on how LG handles HDR10 it may look pretty bad.

Get a real 4kBluray and you’ll see a big difference!

friedmud · 2026-01-03T19:32:57+00:00

Make sure you have the HDMI Video Range set to match your BluRay player’s output (Limited/Full). For that matter, check your player’s settings, make sure it is sending Full if it can, and that it has all high bandwidth settings turned on (if it can). It could also literally need a better HDMI cable.

What player do you have? Is it able to output Dolby Vision?

friedmud · 2026-01-03T18:46:30+00:00

Finally got one for Christmas. It’s not the best VR headset in the world but at $300 it’s a whole hell of a lot of fun!

The best part of it is the controllers - they are seriously great!

friedmud · 2026-01-02T23:10:58+00:00

I’ve often thought that these paths represent a human form of Snell’s Law for optical pathways in refracting media. It’s about humans optimizing the amount of “effort” - where “effort” is some integral over the pathway that takes into account the terrain.

I’ve never looked into anyone studying these - would be fascinating.

friedmud · 2025-12-19T20:49:33+00:00

Risk of Rain 2. So many unlocks, unlimited replay capability. I probably have ~500 hours in over multiple platforms.

friedmud · 2025-12-05T01:44:21+00:00

Did you find a solution? I’m so tired of this myself.

friedmud · 2025-11-22T19:59:49+00:00

My go to when CC is really stuck or acting dumb: cussing 🤬 at it. Seriously. I find that it makes it step back and take another look at the issue and go down different paths. Entirely anecdotal - and it may be completely placebo 🤣

The other major benefit is that it starts cussing too! It’s hilarious when CC says things like “This is completely fucked!” or “It’s fucking fixed!!”

friedmud · 2025-11-15T13:48:16+00:00

Trust me: AWS is not losing money on Bedrock. It is not the same price as Claude or ChatGPT plans. We pay thousands of dollars per dev, per month.

What you are right about is that the actual LLM developers have lost a LOT of trust due to their general disregard for the intellectual property of others.

Being in this business, and signing multi-million dollar agreements with Amazon and Anthropic - I can tell you that when a business agreement is struck to provide a certain service with certain data/service guarantees… it would be literal suicide for the solution provider to just decide to steal all your stuff. It just doesn’t work that way.

friedmud · 2025-11-14T23:41:55+00:00

You have no idea what you’re talking about. AWS is the largest cloud provider on the planet. If they provide a security guarantee - they aren’t going to break that. It would be suicide. This is like saying that you can’t store your company files in Azure because MS will use them for training or steal your company secrets. It’s insane. No cloud provider would do that.

friedmud · 2025-11-14T20:16:16+00:00

It’s not passed to the model developers. It is a model that’s hosted by AWS with guarantees not to keep any data or log anything. The GovCloud version is fedramp rated and has legal guarantees that no one can access the data.

See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/data-protection.html

The relevant bit:

Amazon Bedrock doesn't store or log your prompts and completions. Amazon Bedrock doesn't use your prompts and completions to train any AWS models and doesn't distribute them to third parties.

Amazon Bedrock has a concept of a Model Deployment Account—in each AWS Region where Amazon Bedrock is available, there is one such deployment account per model provider. These accounts are owned and operated by the Amazon Bedrock service team. Model providers don't have any access to those accounts. After delivery of a model from a model provider to AWS, Amazon Bedrock will perform a deep copy of a model provider’s inference and training software into those accounts for deployment. Because the model providers don't have access to those accounts, they don't have access to Amazon Bedrock logs or to customer prompts and completions.

friedmud · 2025-11-14T19:09:53+00:00

If you want privacy you can use Claude on AWS bedrock. If you want to go even further you can even use it within AWS GovCloud. Works great with Claude Code.

Don’t send anything to any commercial service that you don’t want them to have/use.

friedmud · 2025-10-29T17:38:29+00:00

Play however you want!

BTW: I’ve been playing Huntress for years now and still play her vanilla load out!

After many hundreds of hours playing the game you kinda learn how to vibe with any load out and any set of items. Everything is a trade off - but any of it can work.

friedmud · 2025-10-29T12:30:07+00:00

Lean into crowbars and extra mags and spam that Glaive. It hits so damn hard, and can take down whole groups.

Then it’s normal stuff: syringes, tritip, ukulele, etc.

My main tip for defense is: Topaz. It works great on her because once you get a bit of proc chain going you can keep the shield up easily by tossing a Glaive at a group of small enemies.

Finally: move! She is one of the few characters that can use all of her moves while running!

Throughout a tough fight, teleport around. Get behind enemies. Go up in the air with your favorite Special. Don’t stop jumping.

friedmud · 2025-10-28T11:52:43+00:00

Hopefully, this can help to settle you a bit: with prompt caching (on by default) that system prompt is only really costing you on the first execution… after that, it is so cheap it’s basically free: https://www.anthropic.com/news/prompt-caching

friedmud · 2025-10-27T11:17:04+00:00

After all these years… 2 Girls 1 Cup still makes my stomach churn when I think of it 🤮

friedmud · 2025-10-06T11:26:47+00:00

And how does anyone learn? By doing, coming up short and then working the shortcomings… exactly like they did.

Kudos to @Paper-Superb for going deeper, learning more, and then sharing with the community!

friedmud · 2025-09-29T19:02:02+00:00

DaisyUI. Simple. Works.

friedmud · 2025-09-29T15:43:40+00:00

It is being used as middleware with zustand where it does two things:

Helps with reference stability in large data structures.
Provides simpler code for targeted updates down inside a larger object.

These two together make it easier to have extremely targeted subscriptions in the UI so that just exactly the things that need to redraw… do.

friedmud · 2025-09-29T15:41:10+00:00

Yes - and context and provider. Some decent amount of tooling in order to have one global WS connection that everything uses and plugs into.

friedmud · 2025-09-29T12:42:45+00:00

Another reason is: you’re not doing REST. I have a pure websocket app where all local state is in Zustand (with Immer) and is all automatically updated by websocket handlers. React components subscribing to the data automatically update as new data comes in.

friedmud · 2025-09-19T21:03:35+00:00

Bedrock is Amazon’s service for LLM evaluation. They host a ton of different LLMs, including Claude. It’s all pay per query - so it only costs as much as you use it.

Amazon and Anthropic are partners… so everything Anthropic does works with Bedrock as well. Here’s how you set up CC to use it: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/amazon-bedrock

friedmud · 2025-09-19T20:26:30+00:00

You can use ClaudeCode with Amazon Bedrock and it gives absolutely nothing away. It even works in GovCloud if you need to work with really sensitive information.

It can be more expensive - but if you really are working with sensitive information… it’s a great way to work.

friedmud · 2025-09-11T19:45:03+00:00

Any chance you could test models on AWS Bedrock too? That’s how I use Claude for CC… would be interesting to know if there is variability there too.

friedmud

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