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dgrabla commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file   al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez
dgrabla · 6 months ago
Taskwarrior is perfect. Give it a try.

  > t stats | grep -E 'Oldest|Total' \n
  Total                      7675
  Oldest task                2014-07-24

dgrabla commented on How large are large language models?   gist.github.com/rain-1/cf... · Posted by u/rain1
ljoshua · 7 months ago
Less a technical comment and more just a mind-blown comment, but I still can’t get over just how much data is compressed into and available in these downloadable models. Yesterday I was on a plane with no WiFi, but had gemma3:12b downloaded through Ollama. Was playing around with it and showing my kids, and we fired history questions at it, questions about recent video games, and some animal fact questions. It wasn’t perfect, but holy cow the breadth of information that is embedded in an 8.1 GB file is incredible! Lossy, sure, but a pretty amazing way of compressing all of human knowledge into something incredibly contained.
dgrabla · 7 months ago
Back in the '90s, we joked about putting “the internet” on a floppy disk. It’s kind of possible now.
dgrabla commented on MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System   worksonmymachine.substack... · Posted by u/Stwerner
dgrabla · 8 months ago
If MCP gets used this way I see big trouble when people hardcode stuff and then the provider updates the endpoints. MCP does not have versions as the list-tools is a living document, you are supposed to fetch and read the current version. AI would be totally fine with it because it would be able to reason the change and adapt, but the hardcoded app is going to break badly.
dgrabla commented on Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball   blog.ploopy.co/the-classi... · Posted by u/namanyayg
donatj · 10 months ago
I personally like trackballs with a large central ball where I can use all my fingers. I am aware Ploopy offers one. This style however has fallen out of popularity, but I've been using them since the mid-90s.

Just using your thumb for all navigation seems like an RSI waiting to happen.

Also I don't know who in the last couple years decided it's a "Trackball Mouse" it's just a Trackball in the same way it's just a "Trackpad" and not a "Trackpad Mouse"

dgrabla · 10 months ago
Indeed I have a ploopy 1 on the drawer because it gives me strong RSI on the thumb.
dgrabla commented on A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C   github.com/SAT-R/sa2... · Posted by u/bane
saturn8601 · a year ago
>Ocarina of Time is able to play natively on just about every system system imagineable (pretty sure native PS1 builds exist)

You got me curious so I googled it, are you confusing it with a port for the Playstation Classic? Thats a modern console that uses a Android phone chip and emulates the PS1. I couldn't find any references to the original PS1 and I don't think any amount of wizard coding could get that game to run on such a resource constrained hardware. There is so much of that game that was only possible on N64 level hardware or better.

dgrabla commented on Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget   ewintr.nl/posts/2025/buil... · Posted by u/thm
dgrabla · a year ago
Great breakdown!. The "own your own AI" at home is a terrific hobby if you like to tinker, but you are going to spend a ton of time and money on hardware that will be underutilized most of the time. If you want to go nuts check out Mitko Vasilev's dream machine. It makes no sense if you don't have a very clear use case that only requires small models or really slow token generation speeds.

If the goal however is not to tinker but to really build and learn AI, it is going to be financially better to rent those GPUs/TPUs as needs arise.

dgrabla commented on How to Store and Dry Your 3D Filament: Full Guide   syntaxglow.com/2025/02/01... · Posted by u/TheLordKesh
dgrabla · a year ago
It all depends of your location and the filament. I had PLA from 2018 that printed flawlessly last year and I had new, sealed PLA and PTEG spools that were brittle or printed a stringy mess unless they spent a night on the drier. The problem comes because there are so much variety and no way to know for the consumer what the composition of each filament is. It does not seem to have much to do with price. This inconsistency across manufacturers, filament types, colors and batches is why people have favorite brands they stick with to minimize the risk.
dgrabla commented on Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect   wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wi... · Posted by u/pabs3
dgrabla · a year ago
I have Bambu, Qidi and Creality printers. Qidi is a good compromise between open and 'print-quality-out-of-the-box'. My Q1 pro is easy to hack, but I have not done anything to it because it prints pretty much as well as Bambu.
dgrabla commented on Why don't grocery stores stock pawpaw fruit?   theatlantic.com/science/a... · Posted by u/fortran77
dgrabla · 2 years ago
It seems to be an elusive fruit in America. It is however a very common fruit in Spain (Chirimoya) and you will find it in all supermarkets - it is not particularly expensive. Orchards are in southern Spain and canary islands.
dgrabla commented on Debian discusses vendoring again (2021)   lwn.net/Articles/842319/... · Posted by u/goranmoomin
dgrabla · 2 years ago
My solution: Debian + Flatpak for the few applications you need at the latest version

u/dgrabla

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