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New comment by gazpachotron in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

gazpachotron — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:44:15 +0000

Or create an agent or subagent that just looks at images, and specify a vision model for that agent.

New comment by gazpachotron in "Claude Code 2.0"

gazpachotron — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:31:31 +0000

I'd recommend the chrome-devtools-mcp for that: https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/

It's pretty new, but so far it's been a lifesaver.

New comment by gazpachotron in "Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement"

gazpachotron — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:57:51 +0000

Offering a contrasting opinion: I enjoyed the book, and I don't think the author comes off as "sour grapes" at all. Instead, she joined Facebook out of an unwarranted and frankly silly idealism that FB could be a transformational force for good in the world. Even she admits this in the book. However, Meta execs came off far worse in this book than they already seemed, and that's saying a lot. Mark's indifference to Meta's impact on elections was horrifying to read about. And the chapter "Lean In and Lie Back" put a deeply disturbing bow on all the awfulness about Sheryl Sandberg.

New comment by gazpachotron in "Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person'"

gazpachotron — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:00:17 +0000

I've been to a lecture he gave, and Q&A session. I was left with no doubt that his ethos of joy and honesty predate his wealth and are entirely independent of it.

New comment by gazpachotron in "Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]"

gazpachotron — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:16:16 +0000

This is terrific to see. I was an original Pebble kickstarter backer and had a tremendous amount of fun developing apps for my Pebble. Also, I saw you present at a Meetup at Evernote's HQ, and the story you told about Pebble's inception was fascinating. Keep up the great work.

New comment by gazpachotron in "Thnickels"

gazpachotron — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:40:21 +0000

One of the best things about FrontPage is the book that Charles Ferguson wrote about starting it, building it, and selling it to Microsoft: High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars.

New comment by gazpachotron in "A deep-learning search for technosignatures from 820 nearby stars"

gazpachotron — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 04:11:30 +0000

More taxpayer-funded research that’s behind a very expensive private paywall.

New comment by gazpachotron in "Tech Is Allowing Businesses to Overcharge You in Tips"

gazpachotron — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 03:54:41 +0000

The way to fight this is to devise some kind of certification for service businesses that says, “This establishment pays livable wages, provides excellent service, and does not accept tips.“.

New comment by gazpachotron in "Deep learning for twelve hour precipitation forecasts"

gazpachotron — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 01:05:37 +0000

“Huh. Management isn’t going to like this,” said the data scientist. “Tell you what, let’s just agree it’s an outlier, and delete it. I’ve got tickets to close and the sprint ends tomorrow, I don’t have time for this.”