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New comment by kalb_almas in "Self-updating screenshots"

kalb_almas — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:52:56 +0000

I'm sometimes getting

NoMethodError at /self-updating-screenshots undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass

Ruby title-for: in handle, line 12 Web GET interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots

followed by a very detailed traceback when I try to access the page

New comment by kalb_almas in "GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card"

kalb_almas — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:09:39 +0000

This seems kind of irrelevant? Humans have General Intelligence while having a context window of, what, 5MB, to be generous. Model weights only need to contain the capacity for abstract reasoning and querying relevant information. That they currently hold real-world information at all is kind of an artifact of how models are trained.

New comment by kalb_almas in "C. Elegans: The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack"

kalb_almas — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 11:27:41 +0000

Can't continuousness be simulated by lazy evaluation? Also you're assuming the simulator is bound by the same physical limitations that exist inside the simulation which seems unreasonable to me. Simulations are usually vastly simpler than the substrate they run on.

New comment by kalb_almas in "Numbering should start at zero (1982)"

kalb_almas — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 05:01:15 +0000

Funny. I like my numbering to start at one for the same reason.

New comment by kalb_almas in ""We're building a new static type checker for Python""

kalb_almas — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:11:51 +0000

Is anyone going to tell them how bad that name is? Especially considering their other project is called ruff...

New comment by kalb_almas in "macOS Sequoia Preview"

kalb_almas — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:30:26 +0000

Dude thank you SO MUCH for sharing this. I use Rectangle to tile windows and I've been looking for a way to switch between windows based on their position on my screen rather than their type for probably about a year now.

New comment by kalb_almas in "Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’"

kalb_almas — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:21:06 +0000

> Somebody would put up a website about their favorite pet topic and when the search engine unearthed it, that's what you got.

The difference is that reading someone's blog post forces you to take their trajectory through the material and it might not go over the exact points you're curious or confused about. With a forum like StackOverflow you often have to settle for problems that are merely close enough to your own that the solutions apply to it.

Models like ChatGPT allow you to ask for blog posts on any topic on demand and then ask for follow-up blog posts about whatever aspect of the previous blog post you want to elaborate.

New comment by kalb_almas in "Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional"

kalb_almas — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:40:17 +0000

Even with improved support for parallelism, what role will Python have in the future if Mojo makes good on even half of its promises?

New comment by kalb_almas in "Young people are flocking to astrology"

kalb_almas — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:07:25 +0000

MBTI

New comment by kalb_almas in "Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin"

kalb_almas — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 05:34:32 +0000

THC affects people very differently in my experience. It can really run the gamut from sedative to stimulant to psychedelic depending on the person. I don't think the sativa-indica dichotomy can fully explain this because the same variety of effects can be seen from a single bowl or bag of edibles.