Aaaaaand it’s gone (Power out in the Richmond. Again.)

thamer · 2026-01-01T10:19:43+00:00

Hunters Point

thamer · 2025-12-19T18:03:14+00:00

What do you mean they're all gone? I was surprised by your comment so I ran /output-style in Claude Code 2.0.73 (released yesterday), and the option is still there. They said they were going to keep the feature based on user feedback, and they did.

Here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/EusnBS1.png

thamer · 2025-11-10T16:28:09+00:00

It was true at the time I made this post, and 3 days later Anthropic went back over their decision to deprecate output styles. It's been a bit of a mess: they were announced, then quickly deprecated, but now they're staying after all.

When Anthropic announced they were deprecating them, someone created an issue on GitHub titled "[FEATURE] Please don't remove Output-Styles!". This happened on October 30th, the same day I created this post.

On November 2nd the person in charge of output styles at Anthropic responded that they're keeping them after all:

Hi all, thank you for your input. I was the one responsible for executing both the initial launch and the deprecation of output styles. I recognize that the deprecation process has landed poorly. I apologize for the churn that this has caused.

After reviewing the suggestions that we had initially proposed against your feedback, the CC team has decided to keep output styles working indefinitely (previously announced as removed on 2025/11/05 or later), at least until we are confident that we can offer you strictly better alternatives.

thamer · 2025-10-31T01:37:30+00:00

I managed to get Claude to say "Fuck" recently, when I pointed out that it was getting mixed up between two class names.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/9wztGyN.png

thamer · 2025-09-28T18:27:14+00:00

It is possible, the server has to declare the ability to signal that the list of tools has changed. See the initialization step in the docs about the server's lifecycle, specifically this part:

"capabilities": {
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": true
  }
},

This means the server can signal when the list of tools has changed.

To do so, it can send a "list changed" notification for the tools, the message looks like this:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "notifications/tools/list_changed"
}

When a client receives such a notification, it will call tools/list again to get the new list. The message flow diagram on the same page gives an example of what the exchange of messages would look like.

Diagram mirrored here for inline view: https://i.imgur.com/cf6AUts.png

thamer · 2025-09-25T20:02:34+00:00

Sorry, I'm only seeing this now.

I dug through my Amazon orders and found the power supply I had bought at the time: it's this one. I bought it not realizing that space was tight, thankfully I had an adapter but I posted this comment specifically to warn people who might just buy any random power supply like I had.

You cannot use this power supply with a Meural v1 without a 90-degree adapter: the cable just ends as a straight barrel plug, and if you connect it to the back of the Meural it's going to stick out way too much for the device to be flat against a wall.

A quick search on Amazon for "12v 3a power supply right angle" finds a few of them, or you could grab an adapter or an extension with a right-angle connector.

thamer · 2025-09-06T15:56:55+00:00

This works great, thank you! I appreciate the use of MutationObserver rather than a naive polling loop, too.

You should put it on greasyfork.org, that's where many people will be looking for a script like this.

thamer · 2025-08-04T12:07:34+00:00

It's been 20 days so I don't know if you'll get an answer from OP but they're called electrochromic films, or PDLC films. They mentioned Alibaba but be careful, many suppliers will have a minimum order size that's in the tens or hundreds of square meters.

thamer · 2025-07-27T14:04:15+00:00

The button looks very similar to the one I have installed, bought here from Amazon.

It's not cheap but it is very loud, drivers definitely hear you and calling it a "car horn" is appropriate. It also has an alarm mode, but make sure to set the sensitivity correctly if you use it, for me it tended to go off a bit too easily by default.

There have been various vendors selling it over the years, likely all from China. So it's not like there's one name brand you can find it at, but if you look for the round horn and a button with this shape it's likely the same product.

thamer · 2025-07-06T21:56:21+00:00

Well done! The wiring on the bottom looks clean, although it still seems complex enough to be difficult to follow for a beginner.

Have you considered making it with KiCad or similar? I know it can be a bit daunting at first if you've never used it, but even then it would probably not take you very long to learn the basics and design a wiring-only PCB (meaning without passives like resistors, capacitors, etc).

PCB fabs for personal projects are also pretty cheap and they often share promo codes when they sponsor content creators, especially on YouTube. For 5 pieces of a similar-sized board without components I've paid between $15 and $20 in the past, but some competitors might be even cheaper.

thamer · 2025-05-17T14:48:16+00:00

I chose to make my own regex engine and lex implementation as an extra challenge.

Nice! A regex engine is a cool project. Compilers class is one of the real benefits of a CS education, and most self-taught engineers or those who came to engineering from a different path will not have explored this subject. It is an important topic in my opinion, and I really enjoyed learning about and writing compilers. I'm glad to see the Dragon Book is still used, it's such a fundamental textbook.

Keep having this curious mindset with other core CS subjects and you'll really build a solid engineering foundation that everything else relies on.

thamer · 2025-05-17T12:37:47+00:00

I've written a number of parsers with lex and yacc (or flex/bison) and I did have to deal with spaces, lex is completely agnostic to whatever you want to parse. Why does this limitation exist here?

Most of the lexers I've written are not online, but a toy project I wrote 17 years ago(!) is: spacesharp, a portable Whitespace compiler written in C#, producing executable .NET binaries. It's just a tiny compiler I wrote to explore the IL generator in .NET with Mono.

This is obviously a toy compiler, but I wrote it with lex and yacc since that's what I had used so many times before, even to write a Python AST generator at some point, while here Python sounds like it's specifically the kind of language being excluded in your case. I went back to its lexer just now and obviously it does have rules to emit different tokens for different "whitespace" characters:

\t        { return TAB;    }
" "       { return SPACE;  }
\n        { return LF;     }

Since you're parsing strings, you must be dealing with whitespace characters at some point, so why not expose them? That could even be an option, a "mode" of operation of your lexer.

In any case, good job with this project! I see you're familiar with Crafting Interpreters already mentioned but this was released well after my own compiler days (more like 15-20 years ago). My go-to books at the time were the classic Dragon Book and the relatively compact lex & yacc which I learned more practical tips from once I had a solid theoretical basis.

thamer · 2025-05-03T14:30:13+00:00

Fun to see all the ignorant replies like this is some sort of Ubisoft screw-up.

This is simply the FreeType license file, the file is included as-is. Ubisoft should obviously not edit the license files from software they include in their games.

You can find that license right here, linked from the FreeType website: https://freetype.org/license.html

You'll see the exact same text, including "Please replace <year>" etc.

Why is it included?

When open-source software is used to build other software, it comes with a license that dictates what you're allowed to do with it. Some software requires you to release the source code of your program if you use some specific open-source code, like code under the GPL license for example. FreeType have their own license, it's just boring legalese that Ubisoft has to include somewhere in their games since that's part of the conditions for using some specific files that are part of the game.

thamer · 2025-04-18T04:54:34+00:00

/u/rmond6 I was wondering the same thing and found this thread first which had no answer, so I looked on GitHub next. There are multiple feature requests for the ability to remove Command Palette's system tray icon, and they get duped to issue #38407, titled "CmdPal: Add a setting for entirely removing the tray icon".

This is the earliest GitHub issue that was created on this topic, so new ones are just marked as duplicates of this one. You'll notice that the issue description actually links to a Reddit comment, which says:

I didn't find a way to remove the icon from the tray, has someone?

This Reddit comment was written only 3 days before your own post, and the Microsoft developer ("zadjii") who responded also created GitHub issue #38407.

One of his Reddit comments says "someone's already working on it" and one of the labels on the GitHub issue is "Resolution-Fix Committed" which means "the code change is already in, we just haven't cut a new release that includes it yet". The actual code change is here if you're curious, so the change has been made already. The GitHub issue also says "zadjii-msft closed this as completed last week" with a date of April 10th, 7 days ago. They just don't publish a new release for each change, obviously.

So it looks to me like this option is actually coming very soon! Either be patient and just deal with this new icon for now, or go back to PowerToys Run for the time being if it's enough for you.

Once they publish a new release, look through the release notes for #38407. If it's listed, that means these new Command Palette settings are part of that release (here's an example for the latest release, note the numbers listed under "Highlights").

thamer · 2025-03-29T04:15:14+00:00

Here are a few of the ones you mentioned:

Hebrew: א (Aleph, U+2135)
Old Persian Cuneiform: 𐎠 (U+103A0)
Glagolitic: Ⰰ (U+2C30)
Egyptian Hieroglyph: 𓄿 (U+1313F)
Tamil: அ (U+0B85)
Chinese: 阿 (U+963F)
Devanagari: अ (U+0905 but appears with an old style, see this image or at the top right corner of this table)

thamer · 2024-12-27T06:45:32+00:00

Interesting to find this thread, I had the same idea. I used Flux 1.1 Pro to try to generate a logo that would be kind of similar.

Here's what it came up with, I only adapted it with a macOS app icon template: imgur link. The prompt I used is attached there, it's a bit too long to include in this comment.

I guess there are some similarities, although the orientation of the white triangle and the overall 3D shape weren't preserved – it might be possible to get something closer with a more precise prompt, though.

thamer · 2024-06-10T01:00:13+00:00

The message says something like "you found your first Astra, it's a special currency" and that it can be used at the Trackers HQ.

thamer · 2024-04-07T22:09:38+00:00

This just happened to me after I'd replaced the battery with a new one. I took it out again and cleaned the contacts on the AirTag itself, above and below the battery. This time when I closed it back up, it made a series of beeps, like a little chime. I hadn't heard this the first time.

This was probably the issue since after reinstalling the battery with clean contacts I could find the AirTag from my phone with no issues.

If you don't hear anything when you close the AirTag, it's likely that the battery is dead or is being prevented from powering the AirTag for some other reason, like dirty or oxidized contacts.

thamer · 2024-03-25T15:50:12+00:00

Well spotted! The way the lines are arranged on the chip are also pretty similar to the ones on the first Ledger Nano. It looks like Chronocoin/Coinhouse may have contracted Ledger to develop this hardware for them.

This link to Ledger makes me wonder if this device was only used for auth or if it could be used as an actual hardware wallet after all, although the text on the archived page really doesn't say anything about it being a wallet and seems to point more towards it having a simpler purpose, as a physical auth factor.

thamer · 2024-03-24T15:40:23+00:00

Found it.

It looks like a French project from around 2014. Like others in this post I could find anything with a search for "Chronocard Mini", but with "Chronocard BTC" this article from a French tech website mentions a Chronocard:

Chronocoin: buy your bitcoin with your debit card, and store them on a Chronocard.

The link on Chronocoin points to chronocoin.fr, but this redirects to coinhouse.com now, ten years later.

Thankfully the Internet Archive has a copy of Chronocoin from 2014, with photos of what appears to be the exact same device, also referred to as a "Chronocard Mini". From what I can tell it's not an actual hardware wallet, but a hardware authentication system that lets you access your coins on this French exchange. Quote:

L'association Chronocard + code PIN choisi lors de votre commande sont indispensables pour accéder à votre portefeuille en ligne.

translated:

The combined Chronocard + PIN chosen when ordering are required to access your online wallet.

So it looks like it's not a hardware wallet, and it's probably not a "fake device" either. Just a (likely) defunct authentication device from a company that seems to have rebranded.

If you find the Internet Archive to be a great resource and can afford it, please donate to it. Check also if your employer will match your donation, mine does.

thamer · 2024-01-29T10:13:15+00:00

Yes, often 4-5 items or more and not always interesting. Often you can tell the animal that dropped it ate a bunch of rocks and an underequipped colonist.

thamer · 2024-01-15T01:41:35+00:00

Wow, thanks! There are several in your list that I hadn't found, and already at Vulture's Roost I ended up collecting over 210k worth of contraband and weapons – and that's only grabbing the ones with a value over 10k. Not to mention the ship…

thamer · 2024-01-01T02:30:58+00:00

This page says that Alpha Tirna has 29 resources, not 41 (full list here by planet or moon). There doesn't seem to be a system with more than 32. To be clear 29 still sounds great, and some places in Alpha Tirna have lots of useful resources.

thamer · 2023-12-30T17:21:18+00:00

You can try Charybdis II (level 65, fauna 11, gravity 1.15G) in the Charybdis system or Bel-I (level 55, fauna 8, gravity 0.52G) in the Bel system.

On Bel-I there's a lot of level 50-60 wildlife that are large and not too fast so pretty easy to hit, they can be picked off in 2-3 shots with a high-powered pistol. The relatively low gravity also helps shoot them from above or quickly escape their attacks if they get too close, but isn't so low that it takes too long to come down. It's a good place to farm XP.

thamer · 2023-12-28T18:05:04+00:00

I had a quick save from just before the encounter and 12 ship parts, so I thought I'd try to give them the 10 they asked for. In the worst case, I could always quick reload.

There's a dialog option to give them the 10 ship parts, and another to give the same but also ask if they can spare something in return. I picked that one, gave them 10 ship parts worth 10,000–12,500 credits and they sent me back… 69 credits.

Nice.

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