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New comment by ckuhl in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

ckuhl — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 23:04:09 +0000

https://www.ckuhl.com/weblog/

It's intentionally obtuse, like ripping out the first page out of a notebook, so that I don't have an excuse _not_ to fill out the rest of the pages. It's already ruined, so what is a bit more ruin, really?

I'm not trying to be the superlative at anything, but simply want to capture the traffic of anyone following in my footsteps, easing their path if that's possible.

Ask HN: Is there a DiffusionBee for chat LLMs?

ckuhl — Fri, 19 May 2023 02:25:49 +0000

I am not directly wired in to everything Large Language Model (LLM) that is going on. Still, I would like to play occasionally occasionally with whatever the new hotness is without generating an account and handing off my phone number to some other stranger.

For visual / image AI, DiffusionBee[0] has been satisfying that itch.

Is there a similar "know-nothing" application for large-language models / chat language models?

[0] https://github.com/divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35997060

Points: 2

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New comment by ckuhl in "Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water"

ckuhl — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 05:49:33 +0000

And yet, what is harder to attain and yet more necessary than the knowledge and impetus to implement such a project?

It may not be necessary, but the specific tools are't the part that are necessary.

New comment by ckuhl in "JFrog S-1"

ckuhl — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 21:18:55 +0000

I think the real problem is that in a lot of companies, there’s a huge institutional inertia towards adding a new supplier vs. paying an existing supplier slightly more.

New comment by ckuhl in "Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100"

ckuhl — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:36:12 +0000

I think the biggest advantage scooters have over ebikes is that for a lot of people, there’s a place to store a scooter at both ends of a commute (under a desk) but not necessarily secure bike storage.

New comment by ckuhl in "Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet"

ckuhl — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 16:24:34 +0000

My bad, tried to do math before consuming coffee.

New comment by ckuhl in "Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019"

ckuhl — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:59:05 +0000

Not paying a middleman a percentage of the transaction would have some value to it.

New comment by ckuhl in "When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop"

ckuhl — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:33:45 +0000

I think it definitely depends on your use-case. Like you wrote, if everything else you have open also churns through battery life, it's unlikely having Slack open will make a difference.

However, if your other applications are a terminal, other efficient text editor (e.g. Sublime), and other generally respectful apps, I've found having Slack open is the difference between having enough battery life to work all day, and not.

New comment by ckuhl in "Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server"

ckuhl — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 01:23:43 +0000

I can’t find a reference of the top of my head, but I recall s Logitech mouse(!) also installed a local web server.

New comment by ckuhl in "Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps"

ckuhl — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:54:21 +0000

It definitely negatively affects the battery life of my 2018 MBP. Using only native applications, I can get a full days work done. If I have Slack open, usually I can only work until noon.

New comment by ckuhl in "BMW is accelerating electrification plans"

ckuhl — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:04:35 +0000

The definition of what a suburban area is in North America vs. Europe are so different they really need different words.

A typical suburb in the US will have no public transportation, and be so sprawled out that bicycling or walking between places would be impossible for a working adult.

New comment by ckuhl in "Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defendants in lawsuits"

ckuhl — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:14:06 +0000

To me that argument doesn't make sense... It seems like arguing that because there are wheelchairs that can climb staircases, there's no need to make buildings wheelchair accessible.

I thing the problem with this argument is that it shifts the burden of serving all people (including disabled people) from the company providing the service to a person who is disabled. That's exactly what the ADA was supposed to prevent.

Racket News – Issue 10

ckuhl — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 17:32:54 +0000

Article URL: https://racket-news.com/2019/06/racket-news-issue-10.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20184854

Points: 3

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New comment by ckuhl in "Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working"

ckuhl — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:54:51 +0000

The problem is that _everyone else uses Google_.

Even though I don’t use Google for search, my friends do and they’ll gladly share AMP pages with me.

New comment by ckuhl in "Sign In with Apple [video]"

ckuhl — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:59:53 +0000

Do you ever wonder if Apple attracts the wealthiest mobile consumers because of the controlled user experience they provide?

New comment by ckuhl in "Apple Sign In"

ckuhl — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 18:15:20 +0000

Companies could absolutely disallow / block it.

However they most likely won't for the same reason that people who are upset about Apple's 30% App Store cut still develop apps for iOS: they have their customers spend far more on average than other phone / OS users.

New comment by ckuhl in "A request to drill for lithium near Death Valley"

ckuhl — Wed, 08 May 2019 16:02:30 +0000

From a nonexpert viewpoint, that sounds somewhat similar to how fracking works. Do you think there’s a similar risk of the ground settling as material is removed?

New comment by ckuhl in "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released"

ckuhl — Tue, 07 May 2019 14:16:41 +0000

Oh it definitely does. I remember seriously messing up a Linux Mint installation a while back because I upgraded all of the 3rd party dependencies that were preinstalled (because hey, newer is better, right?).

New comment by ckuhl in "Under-18s face 'like' and 'streaks' bans on social media"

ckuhl — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:21:46 +0000

I think compared to the war on drugs, this would be incredibly effective.

Social media is all about network effects - the more your friends are on social media, the more you want (/need) to be on it to keep up with them.

Putting up a barrier won't stop _everyone_ from accessing the sites, but I feel like it will easily stop _enough_ that the network effect deteriorates and so it's not worth circumventing anyways.

New comment by ckuhl in "Nanaimo bar gets Canada Post stamp, but critics question base-to-filling ratio"

ckuhl — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 04:34:22 +0000

I... I'm confused. They're permanent stamps. They always have the correct value.