cafeinux (u/cafeinux)

cafeinux commented on Exploding Cucumber en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc... · Posted by u/KolmogorovComp

fragmede · 4 months ago

Good idea! I added a sentence explaining where the name comes from to the Wikipedia article.

cafeinux · 4 months ago

And I removed what I can only think was a typo in your sentence :-).

>The name comes from the ~~seeds~~ fact that ripe seed pods explode when touched to disperse seeds widely.

cafeinux commented on Basic Social Skills Guide improveyoursocialskills.c... · Posted by u/sogen

yoz-y · 4 months ago

While I’ve yet to meet somebody into fishing or hunting, I agree about cars and sports. Unfortunately since I have interest in neither it can be hard to fit in sometime.

Weirdly, as somebody non interested in these common topics it also feels like it’s up to you to figure out a topic of common interest and it really isn’t.

About sports also, most people super “into” sports don’t do any. Which is ironic because a conversation about technique is something I’ll gladly have.

cafeinux · 4 months ago

For the few times where I had to speak to someone about topics I don't care much about, I found that simply asking questions to learn about them ( as well as the person I'm speaking to) is enough.

"What team do you support? Has it always been the case? How do you think they compare to <well-known other good team>?" "What car do you drive? Any particular reason for that car model? What's the brand's best and worst things? Oh, that piece tends to break easily; pardon my ignorance, but what's the purpose of it?" "Any key difference in the way you hunt/fish this or that animal, or the time of the year during which you hunt/fish? I don't know that word, what does it mean? Do you have any anecdotes about some hunting/fishing you did?"

Those have to be adapted to the person and situation, but they are pretty good to keep a conversation going. People love to speak about their interests, and a lot love to even teach about them. Putting yourself as the listener makes them perceive you as nice, and you might even gather interesting information to yourself, or at least gather enough knowledge to have an easier time speaking about it next time..

cafeinux commented on Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020) mymodernmet.com/totoro-sc... · Posted by u/NaOH

ANewFormation · 5 months ago

And don't forget the inevitable graffiti. The uncreative will simply spray random words and letters, but the deep thinkers among us may have the wit to draw a penis on it.

cafeinux · 5 months ago

Ah, I see you're a man of taste as well.

cafeinux commented on Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020) mymodernmet.com/totoro-sc... · Posted by u/NaOH

colpabar · 5 months ago

No it's not. "thing, japan" implies that the "thing" wouldn't be special outside of japan. Where else is there a totoro bus stop?

cafeinux · 5 months ago

I concur. This would have been awesome anywhere. The fact that this is in Japan is not surprising, although it's clear that if one were to go check out a lifesize Totoro statue, having in Japan makes it nicer because it's its "natural" environment.

cafeinux commented on AI is not our future procreate.com/ai... · Posted by u/alexharri

dostick · 7 months ago

Easy for them to say that. The product is about manual drawing. It’s difficult to imagine where would you insert the AI in that process.

And maybe a smart strategy? If they add AI that will learn how you draw, and after couple of drawings will be able to draw for you, that may kill the product because artists will lose interest or reason to spend time with their product.

Maybe they realise that and just want to push away inevitable for as long as possible.

I wonder, they probably have same stance about AI coding, and have no need for that either.

cafeinux · 7 months ago

Why do you say they "push away the inevitable"? Why would it be inevitable to have quality apps without AI integration? I would even argue that in a lot of cases, no AI integrationadds quality to the app.

cafeinux commented on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better domenic.me/fsrs/... · Posted by u/domenicd

amluto · 7 months ago

> Is that not what anki does? You have a collection of cards, each card can be in one or more decks derived from the cards.

Kind of? As far as I can tell (and I haven't spent enormous amounts of time digging in), there are decks, and a deck contains the notes, the templates (and the cards, which may or may not have any sort of independent existence outside the notes and templates that generate them?), and a deck also contains the scheduling information.

One can export the textual and markup contents of decks, but not the media, into a text file, and one can re-import it, supposedly losslessly. One can also export a deck minus scheduling information for sharing purposes. I'm not sure that one can re-import it.

Then there is a collection, which is the whole world: decks along with their scheduling info.

> That's also decks. You can have your 'Japanese' deck, and then the 'Japanese::writing' subdeck for the subset which require you to have your writing materials handy.

I'm guessing that, if I start by importing a Japanese deck from some other source (because, for example, there's a source with high-quality notes), and then I split it into a writing subdeck, and then the original source adds new notes for new words or makes changes or whatever, that merging the results is basically unsupported.

> > Anki doesn’t seem to separate these layers at all. Everything is a monolithic database.

> Decks are separate files which can be shared, edited, created, studied, and reasoned about independently.

Yes, but only as monoliths (again, as far as I can tell). I can export an "Anki Deck Package (.apkg)", but checking that into git would result in a bit of nonsense. I can't export my scheduling information and templates separately from the underlying notes (or, if I can, I failed to find this option).

>> Export is unpleasant. Sharing is unpleasant

> It's just files (zip files really). What's unpleasant about it?

Excel and OpenDocument sheet files are also zip files. But the respective tools are less limiting and don't expect the users to unzip those zip files. (And their merging and text import/export facilities are also weak, and that's unfortunate.)

I could be wrong about most of this. But Anki doesn't seem friendly to a decomposed workflow in the way that modern programming lanuages are.

cafeinux · 7 months ago

> I'm guessing that, if I start by importing a Japanese deck from some other source (because, for example, there's a source with high-quality notes), and then I split it into a writing subdeck, and then the original source adds new notes for new words or makes changes or whatever, that merging the results is basically unsupported.

Splitting a deck in subdecks can be done through tags, and every card has a unique ID field (usually the front, but you or the creator of a deck can define another one). Assuming tags is the only field you change, when you re-import an updated deck into your collection, Anki will match the IDs and you can define it's behavior when it comes to new or already existent cards.

cafeinux commented on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8x... · Posted by u/lleims

api · 8 months ago

I remember years ago someone scanned the Internet IPv4 space for open unpassworded VNC servers. Many of them looked disturbingly like industrial control systems.

cafeinux · 8 months ago

Just take a look at https://infosec.exchange/@shodansafari. A lot still look like that.

cafeinux commented on GPT-4.1 in the API openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/... · Posted by u/maheshrijal

lxgr · 8 months ago

As a ChatGPT user, I'm weirdly happy that it's not available there yet. I already have to make a conscious choice between

- 4o (can search the web, use Canvas, evaluate Python server-side, generate images, but has no chain of thought)

- o3-mini (web search, CoT, canvas, but no image generation)

- o1 (CoT, maybe better than o3, but no canvas or web search and also no images)

- Deep Research (very powerful, but I have only 10 attempts per month, so I end up using roughly zero)

- 4.5 (better in creative writing, and probably warmer sound thanks to being vinyl based and using analog tube amplifiers, but slower and request limited, and I don't even know which of the other features it supports)

- 4o "with scheduled tasks" (why on earth is that a model and not a tool that the other models can use!?)

Why do I have to figure all of this out myself?

cafeinux · 8 months ago

> 4.5 (better in creative writing, and probably warmer sound thanks to being vinyl based and using analog tube amplifiers, but slower and request limited, and I don't even know which of the other features it supports)

Is that an LLM hallucination?

cafeinux commented on The blissful Zen of a good side project joshcollinsworth.com/blog... · Posted by u/ingve

lupire · 9 months ago

It almost certainly would be useful for someone other than you. Everything you described automating is something at least thousands of people also do. And most of them don't care about the code quality if it works.

cafeinux · 9 months ago

I'm really not sure: it's highly specialized to scrape the pages of that particular course and output it in my own HTML and CSS classes. Luckily for me, their format is quite standard across chapters, but may not be across courses, and I didn't write the code to be modular or adaptive given my need (and the fact that I'm learning Python, not application design).

Still, the code lives in a git repo, so it's not excluded that I'll make it evolve to something more generic and maintainable in the future. But today, it's my own little dirty code that I will jealously keep and hide like that lewd drawing I did when I was a teenager.