I know everyone here is telling you not to hyper optimize, but I've found drafting a prompt for an AI agent (Cursor/Devin/Codex/etc) and letting it run and then using the remaining time to do a quick body weight set (pushups, squats)
Readit Newsthesandlord commented on Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? · Posted by u/pea
thesandlord commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter
What I'd really like is a TV with DisplayPort. How is this not a thing? IIRC you cannot buy a display with DP that's larger than 45 inches, give or take - they just don't exist. I think this is really weird. Like, I'd pay an extra $100 for that port, but I'm just not allowed to have it.
New Hisense TVs have USB-C DisplayPort support. Pretty cool, but realistically I don't see how it's different from HDMI from a usefulness standpoint.
Edit: It is cool I can plug my phone or laptop into the TV with one cable, no adapters, and get some power as well. For some reason it didn't work with my Steam Deck which was strange.
There are DOZENS OF US!
Picture me in 2007. "The iPhone. Psh. Like I'm going to switch to Cingular and pay thirty dollars for a data plan!" (Keep in mind that's $47 in today's dollars!)
I would use my N800 and Bluetooth-tether to my Verizon flip phone when on the go. It was mildly useful for things like LiveJournal and I'm sure the Twitter of that time would have worked on whatever browser Maemo had. But I had to admit by 2008 that I wanted a smartphone instead of this second device with a stylus.
In those days though, browsing the web as though you were on a desktop was thought to be the goal to aspire to. Even the iPhone launched with the default behavior in Safari being showing whole desktop webpages, and you zoomed in to the parts you wanted to use. It took a year or two for people to figure out 'responsive' and within 4 years most sites were starting to be designed for small portrait screens. At that point the landscape N800 style was at a disadvantage since the mobile sites being designed to be a little leaner, were the wrong layout, but the desktop sites were pretty heavy for a mobile device to handle. And as "apps" ate the world that probably put the final nail on our little N-series.
I remember running around campus looking for WiFi hotspots with my N810, using Google Voice to text my friends ($0.10 per text, no thank you!). Learned so much Linux admin skills that became so useful later in life. Favorite device ever! Eventually moved to Android smartphones but the ease of hacking, the amazing community (internettablettalk.com, looks like its gone now :( unfortunately...)
Is this primarily for building chat based agents? What if I want to trigger a workflow via API or webhook and the wait for some sort of human in the loop verification? Do you have an example for something like that?
The visual UI + code is really cool, addresses the weaknesses of both approaches.
thesandlord commented on Using a laptop as an HDMI monitor for an SBC danielmangum.com/posts/la... · Posted by u/hasheddan
Reminds me years ago of having a Nintendo Gamecube but no actual TV and just playing it on a computer with a TV capture card.
I played all of KOTOR2 on Xbox using a capture card without sound. Good times.
thesandlord commented on Using a laptop as an HDMI monitor for an SBC danielmangum.com/posts/la... · Posted by u/hasheddan
If you have an iPad with a USB-C port, you can use the free Orion app to do this too
thesandlord commented on Use the Gemini API with OpenAI Fallback in TypeScript sometechblog.com/posts/tr... · Posted by u/l5870uoo9y
I've been using using [BAML](https://github.com/boundaryml/baml) to do this, and it works really well. Lets you have multiple different fallback and retry policies, and returns strongly typed outputs from LLMs.
thesandlord commented on Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense greptile.com/blog/how-we-... · Posted by u/dakshgupta
This makes me want to delete the post.
Don't do that! This was a great post with a lot to learn from.
The fact you came to a very similar solution from first principles is very interesting (assuming you didn't know about this before!)
thesandlord commented on Invoice OCR with type-safe LLM calls mercoa.com/blog/building-... · Posted by u/ashwin_a_kumar
CTO here, using BAML in our stack has let us use LLMs a LOT more in places that wouldn't make sense without the type-safety. We started using it for line item tag prediction and classification, false-positive checking on our fuzzy match algo, and forecasting. Especially with models like 4o-mini and Gemini Flash, its now actually cost effective to do this at scale.