Funnily, this is how I work, exactly.
I want to believe that by getting back on track from nothing to where I left off already helps a lot to understand the problem at hand, and maybe realizing issues that before prevented me of finishing the task.
Readit Newskmarc commented on “Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work vangemert.dev/blog/nothin... · Posted by u/spmvg
The readme suggests this is a Linux-first app and as HDR basically doesn’t work at all on Linux(?) I don’t think it’s very surprising that this app doesn’t handle it.
It does a great job for my purposes – describing which buttons to click over email or im.
Haven't used this app for ages, but yesterday I fine-tuned the HDR settings for my newly bought laptop under KDE/plasma, definitely on Linux. That readme might be outdated (or the tool doesn't work on KDE at all)
kmarc commented on Why do RSS readers look like email clients? terrygodier.com/phantom-o... · Posted by u/jasonpeacock
This was an interesting read for me. I'm mostly aware of the _problem_, however, never wondered how that could be fixed with other designs, I guess he is working on something that implements one of his proposals (river/window/bonfire)
I am one of the hoarders who has saved Inoreader items, a "Later" bookmark folder with (once thought as) interesting stuff in it, obsidian we clips for the ones what are so precious I for sure didn't just want to reference to but actually make a copy of. But it's under control. It doesn't give me anxiety knowing that I "should" go through them, because... I often do.
I'm surprised that the "first" of these layouts only appeared in 2002. I would have sworn I used Akregator since 1999
kmarc commented on The hidden engineering of runways practical.engineering/blo... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
Here's the one-minute version from the FAA.[1]
Runway overrun areas marked with diagonal stripes have an Engineered Materials Arresting System. There are several different materials used. One is pumice embedded in styrofoam, with a thin concrete layer on top. Large aircraft weigh enough to break through, and the pumice is crushed to powder, absorbing energy. This yields a surprisingly short stopping distance. The aircraft landing gear will be damaged, but the rest of the aircraft is usually intact. The overrun material comes in prebuilt blocks, and after an overrun, only the ones damaged need to be replaced.
It gets a lot of use. The FAA has logged 25 overruns stopped by EMAS, out of 161 runway ends so equipped. That's surprisingly high.
It's a simple, clever system.
Hah, I guess this is the same then as in formula 1 (and possibly other motorsports). After the end of a straight (speeding) section, just before the curve they have 150/100/50 (m?) distance indicators. Sans the concrete block at the top. That would obviously shave the driver's head off.
When a driver hits these, they evaporate as dust.
Alien Clay is also fantastic. I don’t want to spoil anything, but I think it gives the best intuition I’ve seen for a scientific concept that can be difficult to really grok otherwise.
Just finished it, and while I loved the whole plot, the adventurous expeditions away from the base, somehow this one with the waaay too long paragraphs seemed... Unnecessarily boring?
My first Tchaikovsky was children of time and TBH none of the sequels nor his other space operas were as captivating as that one for me.
Yet, I will read this one too. I believe that his ideas and stories are great in books and would never be able to make them into movies. So unique.
kmarc commented on The latest Firefox version broke ChatGPT website old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/... · Posted by u/vanni
Unfortunate; This morning my firefox profile didn't start up, draws the empty window, and spins the CPU. I started my workday with downgrading FF and restoring my previous profile from a backup.
Now this.
FWIF, for this particular problem, the workaround from the linked reddit post works:
Edit 3: This workaround seems to fix it:
type about:config in the URL bar
search for network.http.accept-encoding.secure
replace gzip, deflate, br, zstd with gzip, deflate, zstd
kmarc commented on Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode cy.md/opencode-rce/... · Posted by u/CyberShadow
I liked aider initially, but I keep running into problems, as the project seems largely unmaintained. I wanted to install OpenCode yesterday, but this somewhat turns me off. Are there any good model-agnostic alternatives? I am somewhat shocked there is not a lot of good open source CLI LLM code assistants going around.
I'm in the same boat.
Apparently a group of devs forked it: https://github.com/dwash96/cecli
Haven't tried yet
kmarc commented on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/... · Posted by u/mchro
I clearly remember my grandfather telling me how much it physically hurt to learn a few years before his death. He was highly motivated and figured out a lot on his Android tablet but could only really try to learn for a few minutes every few hours.
I'm 40 and sometimes I feel the same. Should I be worried...
kmarc commented on Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith catalinionescu.dev/ai-age... · Posted by u/cionescu1
I built a similar system for php and I can tell you what is the smart thing here: accessing data using tools.
Of course tool calling and MCP are not new. But the smart thing is that by defining the tools in the context of an authenticated request, one can easily enforce the security policy of the monolith.
In my case (we will maybe write a blog post one day), it's even neater as the agent is coded in Python so the php app talks with Python through local HTTP (we are thinking about building a central micro service) and the tool calls are encoded as JSON RPC, and yet it works.
I had to do something similar. Ruby is awful and very immature compared to python, so I "outsourced" the machine learning / LLM interaction to python. The rails service talks to it through grpc / protobuf and it works wonderfully.
I was surprised that a guy who shills Apple for a living still uses a 5 year old MacBook. It goes to show how the longevity of laptops has increased over time. I'm also on a M1 Macbook and find it hard to justify an upgrade.