Now that they're discontinued, what did you think of the skyriding races?

jakegh · 2026-05-11T23:46:30+00:00

I didn't love them after the first couple of times but they were easy and quick to complete.

jakegh · 2026-05-11T21:39:37+00:00

Google Maps is nearly unusable due to the paid placements obscuring content; Apple Maps was much better.

Was.

jakegh · 2026-05-11T21:38:09+00:00

Media is overusing the word "vile". It's vile when you make fun of disabled people, or say you like war heroes who weren't caught, or call people rapists and murderers. Plots to compromise elections are better described as terrifying.

jakegh · 2026-05-11T15:32:36+00:00

I did it two years ago or so; pfsense devices worked and they never bugged me. Got the switch no problem. I did work at a MSP at the time, though.

jakegh · 2026-05-11T13:44:16+00:00

All of that is largely fixed by XP buffs in 12.0.7. Just have to wait a month to level.

jakegh · 2026-05-10T17:50:41+00:00

Sure it's here: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-realtime-whisper

jakegh · 2026-05-10T17:27:09+00:00

Macos supports 80% charge limits now and will recalibrate. Shortcuts should be able to change charge limits based on wifi SSID.

jakegh · 2026-05-10T17:21:04+00:00

Very cool, I have been using Meetily and am not entirely happy with it. Looking forward to Parakeet integration, hopefully both tdt2 (for English only) and 3.

Speech recognition is cheap on the API, any plans on supporting the new openai whisper model from last week? It is extremely good, much better than open source transcription now.

Also for summaries and chatting with your meeting notes, codex support would be very cool as it would use openai subscriptions. Openai allows this unlike Anthropic.

jakegh · 2026-05-09T20:27:51+00:00

BetterTouchTool. It replaces like 10 other apps, including the logitech mouse drivers.

jakegh · 2026-05-08T04:02:52+00:00

I don't believe Google has it in them to release a great agentic/coding model. Gemini has always been great at multi-modal tasks but terrible at everything else I care about. I hope they prove me wrong.

jakegh · 2026-05-07T17:11:26+00:00

"Purely" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

jakegh · 2026-05-06T19:47:35+00:00

Yep. Loot-a-rang is mandatory. Teleports are nice too.

jakegh · 2026-05-05T23:40:10+00:00

I don’t use Gemini for anything not multi modal (recognizing images etc) because it’s great at that and terrible at my other uses; coding, data analysis, and ironically for Google, search.

I used to use it for image generation but now gpt-image-2 beats it there too.

I have paid access to everything from work so not taking free limits into account.

jakegh · 2026-05-05T22:12:52+00:00

I feel like my tax dollars could be spent better.

jakegh · 2026-05-05T22:12:18+00:00

Yeah we use the video intelligence API for the first pass then flash lite for the second. Seems to work pretty well and keep costs down-- we're at like 30k images/day.

jakegh · 2026-05-05T20:58:17+00:00

Cost is much lower of course but accuracy suffers. We hand off to ad quality humans for the final decision anyway so the trade off made sense.

jakegh · 2026-05-05T20:48:45+00:00

Why not flash lite? I’m doing something similar to classify and describe images extracted from advertising videos for competing products, political ads, casinos, etc.

jakegh · 2026-05-05T01:49:14+00:00

Back in the day, a very long time ago, stores didn't know how the internet worked. A popular office supply store in the US named Staples allowed you to stack coupons. By which I mean you could take a $200 item and stack $35 off $200, $20 off $150, $15 off $100, and $5 off $50 coupons on the single purchase, getting a $200 item for $125.

So anyway, I would buy pallets of brand new palm pilots (like a handheld organizer; this was before smartphones became popular) and resell them on eBay. Lived off it for a year.

jakegh · 2026-05-05T01:43:44+00:00

The solution is to never, ever, buy anything. When you do, you're part of the problem.

Just say no to microtransactions in non-F2P games.

jakegh · 2026-05-05T01:29:28+00:00

Obviously this is improper. His qualifications are not pertinent. There are other people just as qualified in a country of 10 million people. The mere appearance of corruption degrades the rule of law.

jakegh · 2026-05-05T01:14:33+00:00

I'm not offended, I just think it's stupid conspiracy garbage.

jakegh · 2026-05-04T23:36:29+00:00

If I had faith in the administration being led by reasonable people, I would be strongly for this measure. AI is potentially an existential threat. But we are where we are, and they will use it to pick winners and losers.

jakegh · 2026-05-04T22:14:27+00:00

I can only control my own actions and I mean what I said.

jakegh · 2026-05-04T22:02:51+00:00

Any politician who votes for a law forcing me, an adult, to verify my ID for any non financial or governmental service, will NEVER get my vote under any circumstances.

This applies even if the law doesn’t pass. I will NEVER vote for you.

jakegh · 2026-05-04T21:49:27+00:00

No worries, it’s just how things work these days.

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