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aaronscott commented on Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices   github.com/actuallymentor... · Posted by u/rahimnathwani
aaronscott · 7 months ago
This is awesome!

Thanks for explaining the reasoning behind implementing your own version instead of using Al Dente. The straightforward UI is really appealing.

I paid for an Al Dente license long ago and have been very happy with it, sail mode and temperature sensitive charging are great features (although I’m not sure how big of an impact sail mode makes).

It’s great to see alternatives available though. Having command line access is really cool.

aaronscott commented on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android   holdtherobot.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mikenew
asdev · 10 months ago
Apple is releasing Vision OS 2 which lets you do an ultrawide display on the Vision Pro. It looks phenomenal and has no lag
aaronscott · 10 months ago
They have an ultrawide mode available now. Personally I find it very uncomfortable. You have to move your whole head to see the sides, and the vision pro is heavy. Looking off to the side for a length of time is uncomfortable.
aaronscott commented on Web search on the Anthropic API   anthropic.com/news/web-se... · Posted by u/cmogni1
aaronscott · 10 months ago
It would be nice if the search provider could be configured. I would like to use this with Kagi.
aaronscott commented on How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me   ft.com/content/b9e419c6-a... · Posted by u/005vc16607
ClassyJacket · a year ago
I was looking at this game this morning, it sounds fantastic fun podcasts I've listened to, but at 50 Australian dollars it'd be the most I've ever paid for a game on Steam. Someone convince me it's worth it?
aaronscott · a year ago
They have a free demo that is fairly extensive. It should give you a good feel for whether the game is worth it to you.
aaronscott commented on Emoji History: The Missing Years   blog.gingerbeardman.com/2... · Posted by u/simonpure
aaronscott · 2 years ago
If you find this topic interesting, David Imel put together a fantastic deep dive. He spent four months of research, went to Japan to interview the creator of emoji, and put together a very good video on the topic[0].

[0] https://youtu.be/g-pG79LOtMw?si=htnop9jpjmE3kQ75

aaronscott commented on LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs   justine.lol/matmul/... · Posted by u/lawrencechen
aaronscott · 2 years ago
> I like to define my subroutines using a modern language like C++, which goes 47 gigaflops. This means C++ is three orders of a magnitude faster than Python. That's twenty years of progress per Moore's law.

This is great. I love the idea of measuring performance differences in “years of Moore’s law.”

Twenty years puts the delta in an easy to understand framework.

aaronscott commented on Lag in Cybertruck's drive-by-wire system   twitter.com/Factschaser/s... · Posted by u/nixass
yrral · 2 years ago
Is this even an issue? Presumably without a steer by wire system a human would not be able to turn the wheel this fast. Also the delay looks longer than it actually is because of the slow-mo. Say this is playing at 25% speed and it is delayed by 1/2 a second, that means at regular speed the delay is only 125ms.
aaronscott · 2 years ago
I agree with your observation, although it seems unpopular at the moment. It’s clear the video is slowed down and seeing how his hands respond at the end of his action, it looks like he’s throwing the wheel very quickly.

The tires start moving immediately, so it looks more like a limit in how quickly they change direction. It appears laggy because they don’t finish the movement when he does. They do respond right away when he shifts his arms a little in the middle of the video.

aaronscott commented on LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024   antirez.com/news/140... · Posted by u/nalgeon
anotherpaulg · 2 years ago
The code was written mostly by doing cut & paste on ChatGPT…

I am constantly shocked by how many people put up with such a painful workflow. OP is clearly an experienced engineer, not a novice using GPT to code above their knowledge. I assume OP usually cares about ergonomics and efficiency in their coding workflow and tools. But so many folks put up with cutting and pasting code back and forth between GPT and their local files.

This frustrating workflow was what initially led me to create aider. It lets you share your local git repo with GPT, so that new code and edits are applied directly into your files. Aider also shares related code context with GPT, so that it can write code that is integrated with your project. This lets GPT make more sophisticated contributions, not just isolated code that is easy to copy & paste.

The result is a seamless “pair programming” workflow, where you and GPT are editing the files together as you chat.

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider

aaronscott · 2 years ago
Like others, wanted to say thank you for writing Aider.

I think you've done a fantastic job of covering chat and confirmation use cases with the current features. Comments on here may not reflect the high satisfaction levels of most of your software users :)

Aider helps put into practice the use cases that antirez refers to in their article. Especially as someone get's better at "asking LLMs the right questions" as antirez refers to it.

aaronscott commented on Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators   resobscura.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/benbreen
ramboldio · 2 years ago
This is a cool project that implements role-playing AI:

https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents

aaronscott · 2 years ago
This is amazing, thanks for sharing it! I’ve been thinking about building something along these lines, so it’s great to see a working model.
aaronscott commented on Show HN: Open-source macOS AI copilot using vision and voice   github.com/elfvingralf/ma... · Posted by u/ralfelfving
thomashop · 2 years ago
Beware of it seeing a screenshot of my music set? OpenAI will start copying my song structure?

You can turn it on and off. Not necessary to turn it on when editing confidential documents.

You never enable screen-sharing in videoconferencing software?

aaronscott · 2 years ago
I completely agree. A huge business with a singular focus isn’t going to pivot into the music business (or any of the myriad use cases the general public throws at it). And if they did use someone’s info, it’s more likely an unethical employee than a genuine business tactic.

Besides, the parent program uses the API, which allows opting out of training or retaining that data.

u/aaronscott

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