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New comment by davidbjaffe in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

davidbjaffe — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:18:15 +0000

Yes. I keep mine on my lap. My regimen is that I wake up at 3am and lie on the couch for several hours with coffee and write code (or these days, ask "someone else" to). It is highly productive and enjoyable and breaks all the rules and no I do not have RSI. Long ago I started sandpapering the edges because yeah otherwise it hurts my wrists.

New comment by davidbjaffe in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

davidbjaffe — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:25:04 +0000

Cool! For GLM-OCR, do you use "Option 2: Self-host with vLLM / SGLang" and in that case, am I correct that there is no internet connection involved and hence connection timeouts would be avoided entirely?

New comment by davidbjaffe in "George Goble has died"

davidbjaffe — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:18:23 +0000

When I was in junior high school and high school, I would hang out at the Purdue University chess club. He was a regular, prone to laughter, a funny guy. We would play double speed chess (which we called "p'dorky") and other silliness. I had no idea he went on to do the cool things that he did.