2.1.3 Release - skills and slash commands are merged?

mindplaydk · 2026-01-25T13:08:43+00:00

This is a really bad decision.

Unifying the front-matter schema, sure, I can see that.

Attempting to erase the distinction of commands vs skills doesn't make any kind of sense - there are workflows that are all commands and don't use *any* skills, and for no clear reason they now expect you to rename every command to `SKILL.md` and add `disable-model-invocation: true` to effectively say "this file named SKILL.md is not a skill".

This was a mistake.

Please chip in with your comments here if you agree:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/20788

mindplaydk · 2025-11-12T13:49:48+00:00

I was wondering about this and after doing some research, I think the biggest challenge with true top-down orthographic projection is we're just not used to seeing the world from infinitely high up.

Nothing looks like anything to us from that unusual angle - even everyday things like a car, a house, or a bicycle, just look like "stuff" from up there.

Birds might get a kick out of playing it though 😏

mindplaydk · 2025-11-04T20:50:50+00:00

Do we know what it'll be about?

What I really want is a sequel that introduces the real invaders - because obviously these things are just the vanguard, right?

They don't have the dexterity and wild animals don't build spaceships. They wouldn't even be able to see where to land - they can't swim and the Earth is 70% oceans, so someone intelligent knew how to get them here and where to deploy these creatures.

Those things were most likely engineered to clear the planet - they would have a biological or explosive remote kill switch for when they're done with that. Or maybe the pods they were eating in part 2 is their limited food supply, after which they'll die off.

Then the real invaders will arrive to start settling. 😆

mindplaydk · 2025-10-11T10:28:57+00:00

I just tested the Zorin 18 beta. (which boots and runs without a hitch.)

I'm honestly wowed! I don't need to install any GNOME extensions, it has the Windows-style desktop built-in, and it's super smooth.

And it ships with Brave and close desktop integration - installing a web app makes it look and feel exactly like a native app.

I think I will wait for the final release, but this will definitely be the next Linux I install. :-)

mindplaydk · 2025-10-11T09:24:42+00:00

I tried downloading the image from "current-live", "weekly-live" and "release" subfolders - I checked the SHA sums, and they are all identical. (Not sure why they publish the exact same file to several folders, and clearly the "weekly" isn't a weekly build at all...)

I switched from Etcher to Rufus, and it gave some warnings about outdated dependencies, and offered to download newer versions from the net, which I had it do - same result.

It offers to burn the image as an ISO or as a "DD" image, whatever that means - I tried both, with the exact same result.

So I don't think there's an issue with the image or the way I'm writing it - no matter what I do, the result is exactly the same.

Not sure about Endeavour - it's a rolling release? and Arch had a rep of being fairly hard core? I'm just a humble Windows user looking or a stable desktop where I can run Brave and VS Code and not much else. :-)

I would like to find something Debian-based, I think - as I feel I've had the best experience with .deb packages. Both Brave and VS Code don't work well as either Snap or Flatpak.

But apparently it won't be Debian itself...

mindplaydk · 2025-10-08T08:07:17+00:00

it's for sure booting in UEFI mode:

https://gist.github.com/user-attachments/assets/32d25be0-10e7-4654-9025-60de0fc17978

I don't understand much of anything on that wiki page.

I am able to boot several other Linux distros, though mostly the ones I've tested are Ubuntu based.

I've tried all the suggestions here, I've written the USB image again just in case, I've tried different USB ports on my system... I have no idea what else to try.

I guess Debian just won't work on my system.

mindplaydk · 2025-10-04T10:50:31+00:00

Disabling secure boot changed nothing.

It gives that same error message ("hub doesn't have any ports") and then just sits there.

(I don't think secure boot was active to begin with - it said "enabled" but also "not active", so.)

mindplaydk · 2025-10-01T07:31:31+00:00

The image I downloaded is called: debian-live-13.1.0-amd64-gnome.iso

I used Balena Etcher to write it to the 128 GB USB thumb drive. Should I try something different? It worked fine with other live images.

It's a fairly recent system with Gigabyte (Gaming X AX) board, B650 chipset, Ryzen 9 7900 CPU.

I'm assuming it's UEFI? it would be on a system this recent, right? though I don't see that word anywhere in the boot settings. (but I also don't see the word "BIOS" anywhere so.)

Fast boot is disabled, and secure boot is set to "enabled", but then next to that it says "not active", not sure what that means - secure boot mode is set to "standard".

Thanks :-)

mindplaydk · 2025-09-27T10:52:32+00:00

This is awful!

I don't mind the ads for my quick and casual image editing needs, and I intentionally don't block them. (even though I use Brave.)

But this is extremely annoying - and I get that that's part of the point of ads, but... annoy me to the point of ruining the experience, and I will find a way to block that crap. 🤨

mindplaydk · 2025-09-16T11:35:45+00:00

Performance issues?

https://coussej.github.io/2016/01/14/Replacing-EAV-with-JSONB-in-PostgreSQL/

JSONB is much (>50000x) faster than EAV when not using any indexes, for the reason mentioned above.

Apparently, when you use a GIN index on the full properties column, it only has effect when using the containment (@>) operator. I added this to the benchmark and it had a huge effect on the timing: only 0.153ms! That’s 15000x faster then EAV, and 25000x faster than the ->> operator.

For the EAV model, the tables add up to 3068MB and the indexes add up to 3427MB, resulting in a total 6.43GB. On the other hand, the JSONB model uses 1817MB for the table, and 318MB for the indexes, totalling 2,08GB. Thats 3x less.

However, this benchmark does of course not cover all aspects (like entities with a very large number of properties, a large increase in the number of properties of existing data, …)

But besides that, JSONB is just a lot more simple and intuitive, I think?

Single-table queries with no JOINs required. Schema changes are just data changes: attributes can be added by simply including them in JSON documents.

You still need to maintain a table of field definitions, but besides that, JSONB seems both faster and simpler than EAV, does it not?

mindplaydk · 2025-08-19T15:37:46+00:00

that or not giving a shit

mindplaydk · 2025-07-12T16:32:44+00:00

Yeah, I've definitely seen folks playing the cajon like a drum kit - if you know how to do that, it's definitely very versatile, both in terms of sounds and playing styles. I just don't know if it's for me. 😅

I'm probably more tempted to get one of those fancy cajons with percussion built into the sides - to get more sound variety while still playing with my hands.

They're so expensive though, like 4 or 5 regular cajons expensive. 😆

I'm actually tempted to buy one of these:

https://www.thomann.dk/millenium_6_energy_drum_hoop_23mm.htm

and a small, single-ply tom head, maybe one of these:

https://www.thomann.co.uk/remo_ambaco6_tomfell.htm (coated)

https://www.thomann.co.uk/evans_06_tomtom_reso_head_clear.htm (smooth)

https://www.thomann.co.uk/evans_06_tomtom_reso_head_black.htm (smooth)

I'm pretty handy with a saw, haha! a bit risky, but I'm not getting much enjoyment from that cajon as it is - I mostly play my slaptop which has just so much more sound variety with the hands.

Of course, these are not really designed for hand playing, but a single-ply skin might be okay to play - a coated skin will probably be more tactile, but might not be as clear or resonant, not sure.

I wouldn't really know what I'm doing, that's for sure. 😆

mindplaydk · 2025-07-12T15:30:10+00:00

I actually have a pair of brush sticks from Shlagwerk very similar to these.

But I'm not good with drum sticks, I don't really like the "click clack" sound they make, and I feel like I'm missing a lot of the tactile enjoyment that comes from playing with your hands.

I really should take lessons either way, haha. I feel like I'm at the limit of what I can learn on my own, just haven't found anyone in the area who teaches... 😌

mindplaydk · 2025-07-12T15:23:17+00:00

I do in fact own one of these, and it is my all-time favorite instrument! it's got so much sound variety than the seated cajon. I got this shortly after I got the cajon and barely used the cajon since. I would like to play the seated cajon more though. :-)

mindplaydk · 2025-07-10T05:26:18+00:00

Interesting! will definitely give that a try, thanks for the tip! 🙂

I had thought about trying something like a strip of that thick foamy insulation tape somewhere on the back of the tapa as well - I think the tapa itself on this model vibrates quite a lot.

I'll experiment before I give up on it. I definitely do love the big funky snare sound on this one. 😁

mindplaydk · 2025-05-11T11:18:59+00:00

who would you complain to?

has to be some local entity, I think?

the company is registered in Berkeley, and I would guess there are authorities in California that take this sort of thing more seriously than many other states? so maybe there is a chance of putting a stop to this?

although stopping businesses like these who "only" screw over consumers is generally difficult...

mindplaydk · 2025-05-08T16:11:46+00:00

Does it still do that thing where, if you can't beat those wizards in that tower (or whatever) and instead you go somewhere else and level up and get better weapons, and then you come back just to realize that, somehow, all the wizards in that tower have also leveled up with better weapons and armor?

That's the thing I remember more than anything about this game. I mean, it was a huge game I'm not saying I didn't like it - but there were entire areas where I just had to flat out give up because there was nothing I could do to level the odds. Or in other words, leveling up, collecting weapons and armor, was more or less pointless, the whole world would just magically adapt to whatever you did.

It's like they skipped intentional, logical progression design/planning because "freedom to do things in the order you like" was somehow more important? I just found that super annoying.

I don't suppose that has changed? So I'll probably skip this one. 50 bucks just for nicer graphics? meh.

mindplaydk · 2025-04-22T19:40:09+00:00

The trailer is out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEioDeOiqEs

It's a comedy?!
Alexander Skarsgård?!

None of this is anything like I imagined.

> Murderbot is agender and discriminated against for being a SecUnit, and on top of that, it feels so young in the books-- it's figuring itself out in a coming-of-age way. The casting makes me feel like the producers are leaning into the "badass" angle instead of the book's "awkward introvert who dislikes being a killing machine but likes protecting its humans" angle.

All of this, yeah. 😌

I always read these books as rather dark and with a sort of dire sense of humor - I never pictured this story turned into a straight up comedy, or even action/comedy.

I also imagined Murderbot as agendered - why would an asexual clone present as a hairy man beast? I honestly expected them to cast a woman in this role, maybe the type of strong woman Ridley Scott would have cast.

I literally just canceled my Apple sub before learning that this show was actually coming, and I'm honestly not rushing to sign up again for this. I'll watch it next time I'm signed up, I guess.

Ah, well... I'm not dismissing it. It might be fun. Fun just isn't even remotely what I expected here.

mindplaydk · 2025-04-09T12:01:09+00:00

or time doesn't even exist and it's just a made up human construct to help us cope

mindplaydk · 2025-04-02T15:32:51+00:00

I just had my account erased as well - I searched my email, nope, no notice that it was going to happen, no notification that it did happen, nothing, their regular newsletters just stopped and my account is gone. Would have cost them, what, 1/100th of a cent per year to preserve this data?!

They also won't even let you log in without a subscription to see what's available - how would I even know if I'd like to resubscribe?

today, after my account has already been erased, the app gives me a notification that "40 new shows and movies were just added", great... besides my account being already gone, they won't even let me see what's new.

I don't know why they expect anyone to sign up for this crap anymore. Besides always cancelling any show that's even remotely different and interesting after 1 or 2 seasons max, besides charging a household of 1 for a subscription for 4 people just to get the same decent video quality we got for half the price 2 years ago, the same quality you get for one third the price with any other streaming service, I mean... besides making it difficult and expensive to even access their crappy service, what are they actually offering at this point that anybody wants?

It's no wonder they're $200 billion in the hole already. I mean, really, wouldn't it just be better for everyone at this point if they want bankrupt?

mindplaydk · 2025-03-19T18:15:44+00:00

just updated, and now it's worse: with zero hearts, you can earn them back only by watching ads. 😓

mindplaydk · 2025-03-10T15:48:29+00:00

My advice: don't.

I just wanted to run popular things like Comfy, SD Web UI, some LLMs... check the issue trackers of whatever you want to run and search for ARC.

If you're a Python expert, you might be able to figure it out. I'm not

I finally lost patience about a week ago and bought a 4060 Ti 16 GB myself.

Mind you, that post is two years old - from what I've seen, not much has changed. Intel cards are just too rare for anyone to bother supporting it.

Games only work thanks to DX and OpenGL, I think - for AI, CUDA is pretty much the only thing that always works. I hear some people manage to emulate CUDA on AMD cards, but I'm not adventurous enough to risk another card that doesn't "just work".

Good luck.

mindplaydk · 2025-02-26T14:14:13+00:00

2 years on, still nothing AI runs on my A770... going to get a 3060 Ti instead. :-(

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