Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

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  • 2 days ago I don't like LLMs
    One of my most successful life-hacks is to avoid people I don’t like or don’t trust. I decline to interact with them socially, and make a deliberate effort to avoid working with them too, even if they are doing much that is beneficial. I feel that hanging out with pleasant, capable people, the people with integrity, has made my life a far better one. Hence my visceral dislike of interacting with an LLM that’s not just making a pretense of being human, but also posing as the kind of human I walk away from.
  • 6 days ago hongnoul/gwae: gwae: niri's scrolling tiling for your CLI agents, in any terminal (daemon-free, MIT)
    gwae: niri's scrolling tiling for your CLI agents, in any terminal (daemon-free, MIT)
  • 6 days ago A Strategic Retreat
    It's okay to be wrong, but it's not okay to keep being wrong once there's enough stuff in retrospect to know you were wrong and update. Which is to say if you come to me with an unfounded or over-fit argument or article about AI, I will politely hand it back and walk off shaking my head. Because it's not fair to hand me such a lopsided situation where I would need to spend 10x or more effort addressing all the ways it's wrong before trying to salvage a point from it to discuss.
  • 1 week ago How The Oregon Trail became a generational icon | The Verge
    Whether you played it in the back of your classroom or on your computer at home, if you were a kid in the last 30 years you almost certainly grew up playing The Oregon Trail.
  • 1 week ago SPACESHIPS
    Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.
  • 1 week ago cocktail virgin slut
    quality versus quantity does not have to be a winner-take-all proposition.
  • 1 week ago It's time to talk about my writerdeck
    Of course, I'm a Linux user, and I have any number of options. I could have gone with a simple desktop or window manager and just not installed a browser, but I wanted something that really broke the desktop OS muscle memory and forced me into thinking about my words with intention. I opted for a tty-based setup, using Debian (Trixie at the time of writing). Console only- no x11 or Wayland, no desktop getting in my way.
  • 1 week ago Millionaires Love NY: New IRS Data Shows New York’s Millionaire Population Grew Years After the State Raised Taxes on the Rich - Groundwork Collaborative
    New York added nearly 2,000 millionaire tax filers in a single year, according to newly released IRS data. The agency’s 2023 Statistics of Income (SOI) data show the number of New Yorkers reporting more than $1 million in income grew about 3%, shortly after the state raised its top tax rate on high earners. Far from triggering the millionaire exodus warned about, the new figures cut at the heart of one of the most persistent arguments against millionaire surtax proposals.
  • 1 week ago The Wind, The Wind | blarg
    It looks like people are starting to come around about designing, planning and building houses by counting number of nails they used. It’s probably for the best; people sure went crazy about it for a year or two, though.
  • 1 week ago libvips
    libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. Compared to similar libraries, libvips runs quickly and uses little memory. libvips is licensed under the LGPL-2.1-or-later.
  • 1 week ago OpenSeadragon
    An open-source, web-based viewer for high-resolution zoomable images, implemented in pure JavaScript, for desktop and mobile.
  • 1 week ago Staff+ engineers must rebuild team culture - LeadDev
    AI is driving a shift to more autonomous work within teams, which means opportunities to establish culture that used to be automatic – time spent pairing, organizing work around shared goals, planning and designing together – now require deliberate choices.

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  • 1 hour ago
    Still playing a bit more WoW this week. All Horde toons. Only two things ever make me consider Alliance: Gnomes and the Deeprun Tram. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZoLXnX8nCQ
  • 21 hours ago
    Do you like terminals? Do you have too many terminals? Do you like things that go zoop zoop and move around? Check out my wideboi here. (I'm screwing around with building a terminal multiplexer because I'm a masochist) https://github.com/lmorchard/wideboi
  • 23 hours ago
    Been wanting to build this kind of trending topics thing in my personal feed reader for years, now. Turns out learning about embeddings and clustering has been handy!
  • 1 day ago
    Made a sandwich for myself wherein I slathered on toum (garlic sauce). I think I used too much. This isn't a problem for me so much as everyone around me. Thankfully, I work from home.
  • 2 days ago
    That thing when requesting a hold on a library e-book is more wishful thinking than practical operation
  • 2 days ago
    My inlaws are visiting, so I rewatched Project Hail Mary with my wife's dad last night. He's an old scifi nerd, so it was a good time. Also: turns out you can download some 3D models from the movie site. So, I printed the little Grace figurine that Rocky made. It's not xenonite, but close enough #3dprinting
  • 3 days ago
    Still poking around with World of Warcraft a bit. Put a few hours into WoW Classic with a new horde troll mage, kinda fun. Hopped over to WoW retail, realized my "main" character is almost 20 years old. That's... incredibly weird.
  • 3 days ago
    Didn't know where Minnaloushe went, hadn't seen him in awhile Found him curled up around a yoga mat inside this basket by the front door #cats
  • 4 days ago
    TIL the term "butt rock" - and, not having heard it before, it meant exactly what I guessed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4QeCs7uygk
  • 4 days ago
    So, i got a new work laptop and decided to use rsync to copy a bunch of stuff from old to new machine. I ssh'd from new to old machine to verify I could connect the two. Then I ran rsync. Turns out I never disconnected from the old machine. So that's where I typed the command. Thus, I just looped from the old machine back to itself, duplicating a directory the hard way. And I filled up the disk.
  • 4 days ago
    I think I might need this on vinyl for no good reason https://store.jesusjones.com/products/twilight-lp
  • 4 days ago
    THE NEW JESUS JONES ALBUM IS OUT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3nlUyXa9Es

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