I had an annoying chatgpt-shell bug where sometimes the compose buffer's svg header would disappear while text was streaming into the Emacs buffer. There are a number of things that could have gone rogue when streaming and post-processing buffer text, so I wasn't quite sure where to start narrowing things down. I had a feeling I could maybe use something like after-change-functions hook to monitor changes, but that...

In this short video I report on some of the construction work I keep doing in and around the hut.

Claude Opus 4.1 and Opus 4 degraded quality Notable because often when people complain of degraded model quality it turns out to be unfounded - Anthropic in the past have emphasized that they don't change the model weights after releasing them without changing the version number. In this case a botched upgrade of their inference stack cause a genuine model degradation for 56.5...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs orders amid federal incursion threat: The mayor's executive order "urges" all federal law enforcement to follow Chicago police directives banning them from wearing masks on duty and requiring them to activate their body cameras at all times when ...

Cube (1997) is far more relevant to our 2025 shitshow than it has any right to be. "This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan." "What kind of fuckin' ...

Sometimes I think I should quit shooting film. But I never do.

I bought *All Systems Red* back in November 2023 but never got around to reading it, as there was always something else I fancied more. At around 150 pages, …

📷 ⚽️ 🟣🔵️ At Old Trafford, where Burnley visit Manchester United in the Premier League. How will Utd respond to Grimsby knocking them out of the league cup? 🪴 in #football

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LLMs are intelligence without agency—what we might call "vox sine persona": voice without person. Not the voice of someone, not even the collective voice of many someones, but a voice emanating from no one at all. — Benj...