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New comment by danofsteel32 in "Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history"

danofsteel32 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:03:58 +0000

I recently “fixed” my bash history since the default experience when using multiple terminals sucks.

https://dandavis.dev/the-bash-history-i-always-wanted.html

I also use fzf to search my history I believe you just need so source the right keybindings file to make ctrl+r use fzf.

New comment by danofsteel32 in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

danofsteel32 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:01:25 +0000

I’m currently using sunshine and moonlight for remote access to ros2 development VMs with passed through GPUs.

We needed an old version of Ubuntu hence the VM. And gpu pass through is needed for gazebo simulations.

I started with RDP but the desktop was super laggy and unresponsive. Sunshine/moonlight has made it usable.

New comment by danofsteel32 in "Midtown Manhattan blocks evacuated after beams buckling at construction site"

danofsteel32 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:43:24 +0000

This is a little pedantic but the pictures seem to show failing support columns not beams.

Beams are horizontal and columns are vertical.

New comment by danofsteel32 in "We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application"

danofsteel32 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:11:16 +0000

GStreamer: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ is written in GObject which enabled some great tooling like gst-inspect-1.0: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/tools/gst-in...

New comment by danofsteel32 in "Python classes aren’t always the best solution"

danofsteel32 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:55:25 +0000

This. You can get very far with just dataclasses, enums, and functions. I use dataclasses like I would use structs in C or go.

New comment by danofsteel32 in "Incus – Next-generation system container, application container, and VM manager"

danofsteel32 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:02:39 +0000

Incus is great when developing ansible playbooks. The main benefit for me over docker/podman is systemd works out of the box in incus containers.

New comment by danofsteel32 in "Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI"

danofsteel32 — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:00:57 +0000

I recently wrote a post for a coworker who asked the exact same question.

https://dandavis.dev/llm-knowledge-dump.html

New comment by danofsteel32 in "Extracting financial disclosure and police reports with OpenAI Structured Output"

danofsteel32 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:34:20 +0000

I’ve had a similar experience extracting transactions from my PDF bank statements [1]. GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini perform as well the janky regex parser I wrote a few years ago. The fact that they can zero shot the problem makes me think there’s a lot of bank statements in the training data.

[1] https://dandavis.dev/pnc-virtual-wallet-statement-parser.htm...

New comment by danofsteel32 in "Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay"

danofsteel32 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:54:56 +0000

The combat system in Civ4 was deeper than you think. Stack composition, terrain, and positioning are crucial in MP games. This write-up [1] from a famous MP game where a 3v1 invasion was repelled by superior play shows how good the system was.

[1] https://sullla.com/Civ4/RBPB2-5.html

New comment by danofsteel32 in "Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?"

danofsteel32 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:25:51 +0000

I've been using OpenHermes-2.5 [0] and NeuralHermes [1] which are both finetunes of the Mistral7B base model. The only objective test prompting I do is asking the models to generate a django timeclock/timesheets app. In this test they compare favorably to GPT-3.5. Also LMStudio [2] has a better UI than chatgpt and responses are much faster too (40tk/sec on my 2070).

[0] https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B [1] https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/NeuralHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-... [2] https://lmstudio.ai/

New comment by danofsteel32 in "Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy"

danofsteel32 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:18:23 +0000

I have an odd usecase that I've yet to find a good solution to: Reading construction documents (Blueprints are always PDF). I've had much better luck parsing DXF (AutoCAD) files but it's not always easy to get an architect to send them to me even if I'm the GC on the job.

New comment by danofsteel32 in "Writing documentation for your house"

danofsteel32 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:17:39 +0000

I am a custom home builder and we do this. It’s very handy when the drywallers cover up an outlet or switch.

New comment by danofsteel32 in "Tech aims to block hatching of billions of male chicks fated for culling (2021)"

danofsteel32 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:14:03 +0000

Egg laying chickens (layers) are very different from meat chickens (broilers). Layers have been bred to be lean and put their calorie surplus into producing eggs. Broilers have been bred to pack on weight as quickly and efficiently as possible. No one eats layer chickens they are usually turned into compost or pet food.

Source: My wife manages +100K birds on one of the largest egg farms in the US

New comment by danofsteel32 in "Where is all the book data?"

danofsteel32 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:26:59 +0000

The Open Library project https://openlibrary.org/developers has a free ISBN API. I used it along with tesseract OCR and a webcam to build a database of my physical books (218 total). I never had any rate limiting issues.