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thadk · 2026-10-17T21:07:27 1792271247

Can anyone share syllabi for these?

thadk · 2026-10-17T19:22:15 1792264935

On macOS, I wanted to be able to paste HDR HEIC screenshots straight into GitHub in Safari and have them get converted automatically to these HDR-capable formats. Normally, when you switch Screenshot.app to HDR, paste to GitHub stops working.

I put together this Hammerspoon spoon with a few brew libraries and some inline Swift code.

You paste twice quickly to trigger it, and you can iterate formats with a keystroke. https://gist.github.com/thadk/8b178aa93dafcab92ca579825f8191...

thadk · 2026-10-17T12:55:54 1792241754

It is nice to have simulated confirmation of the M4 Max 128gb limitations on Gemma4 31B vs Gemma4 26B A4B at Q4:

Time to first token (TTFT) on 5,687 tokens, like pasting a short code block into the prompt, takes 36 seconds vs 4.7 seconds. It also breaks down the seconds for each step like KV and prefilling.

Gemma4 31B TTFT on the M5 Max 128gb with same setup is showing as 19 seconds.

thadk · 2026-10-11T13:02:41 1791723761

vgr's waldenponding is about the "And I mourn what we don’t get to hear from them."

An ineffable game happens that one's retreat diminishes.

https://www.econtalk.org/venkatesh-rao-on-waldenponding/ https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/against-waldenponding-ii

thadk · 2026-10-02T11:15:03 1790939703

2006 article by Quinn Norton that was linked in USRP's Wikipedia: https://www.wired.com/2006/06/gnu-radio-opens-an-unseen-worl...

thadk · 2026-08-21T21:26:46 1787347606

Reminds of this HN classic, with gratitude to the author for recounting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17694032

thadk · 2026-08-20T17:29:18 1787246958

Well, seems like this indicates another long-time and discerning user profile for Apple's pricier XDR display products.

thadk · 2026-08-14T17:50:16 1786729816

Would OpenPangram's LoRa fine-tuning training be able to pick up on the patterns of green left behind by LLM vendors? https://huggingface.co/pangram/editlens_Llama-3.2-3B

thadk · 2026-08-14T17:54:38 1786730078

Would OpenPangram's LoRa fine-tuning training be able to pick up on the patterns of steganography left behind by LLM vendors? https://huggingface.co/pangram/editlens_Llama-3.2-3B

(pardon for reposting just now from off-front-page thread on https://declaude.org/watermarking/, just thought of question)

thadk · 2026-08-13T03:28:25 1786591705

Still reading but I like how Cat Hicks in Psychology of Software Teams (2027) confronts this dilemma on page 9: "Agile Manifesto said, 'Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.' DevOps made the argument that cohesive processes in software development needed to be invested in... Agile, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or DevEx, every engineering organization I've ever met with is struggling with implementing these ideals in the real world."