Nice! How'd the local models do vs gpt4o-mini? Did you spend much time playing with datasette?
Readit Newsnswanberg commented on Systems ideas that sound good but almost never work hardcoresoftware.learning... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
It feels like problem with these aren't the ideas, rather the "let's just" approach/expectation in front of them.
For instance "Let's just add an API." I think the approach to an API as "just" a feature to your product will be about as successful as saying "let's just add a UI". To implement a successful UI one needs to be thoughtful, thorough, and bring in people who specialize in it. Why should any other interface for your product be any different? It's not that it's a bad, or good, idea, rather one that shouldn't "just" be done.
Yegge wrote about the business idea version of this as "Shit's Easy Syndrome":
https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legal...
It'd have been delightfully ironic had either of these Steves concluded their essays with a named methodology to "just" apply whenever faced with these "let's just" situations but alas...
nswanberg commented on How economical is your local Taco Bell? taconomical.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
There are still some Taco Bells that sell the Chili Cheese burrito (at least in the Mid-West US)! Unfortunately not as cheap as it used to be (its ~$3 here), but any time I go to a Taco Bell I always ask just in case.
There's at least one in Boulder too, near Broadway and Baseline.
nswanberg commented on What's in my location history? zdimension.fr/whats-in-my... · Posted by u/zdimension
> Follow the prompts to set up automatic backups.
> Options include keeping your data for three, 18, or 36 months, or indefinitely until you manually delete it.
So, if we Takeout our current data, we can squirrel that away on our own computer.
Also navigate the transition process perfectly, including the above settings, so history -- new history anyway -- will be preserved on Google servers. Will it then be available for decryptable download to the user's computer via Takeout? Or only to a replacement phone?
That encrypted backup isn't available via Takeout, only via the Google Maps app. You can use that backup to load your history to various devices or a replacement phone.
nswanberg commented on What's in my location history? zdimension.fr/whats-in-my... · Posted by u/zdimension
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nswanberg commented on What's in my location history? zdimension.fr/whats-in-my... · Posted by u/zdimension
I ended up losing nearly 15 years of my Google Location history during the switch to on-device, so if you're interested in doing analyses like this, be sure to back up your data on Takeout before you enable the on-device setting that nemo1618 mentioned. Once that setting is set, the data is no longer available on Takeout, and if the data didn't fully transfer to your device, which is what happened to me and to some others, it's gone: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleMaps/comments/1diivt3/megathr...
nswanberg commented on Ask HN: What is your approach for managing personal digital assets? · Posted by u/ben_hn
Has anyone done a (hopefully) systematic survey of the processes and software people use to store their stuff, sort of like a usesthis.com but just for storing assets, and how well that's worked over time? My guess is the successful strategies would look a lot like Brajeshwar's comment, a thoughtful plan that uses simple software and formats, some planning for the future, and, probably critically, regularly doing "digital chores".
There've been some efforts in the past to store everything and make it searchable, like the ancient Chandler project, and the possibly still alive Parkeep, none that have been more widely adopted than a strategy of put everything in Gmail, Dropbox, etc, and hope for the best, which is what I do, minus the regular diligence that people like Brajeshwar have.
Making and using anything more complex looks like it turns into a (very cool looking!) hobby in itself, like these:
https://thesephist.com/posts/monocle/
https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehous...
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
And yeah, the latter two also include storing and searching more than say email and photos, but maybe shows one's tendency to want to store and search everything.
And here's a readable and fascinating post on "the largest number that's representable in 64 bits": https://tromp.github.io/blog/2023/11/24/largest-number.
If you go through these and find some interesting things, it'd be worth posting to HN.