{"channel":"cities","content":"yesterday:\r\n> test ChatGPT's new \"custom voices\" feature. ( can it do a *xantham*-y voice?)\r\n\r\nThe voices are ... good, but not good enough. I can't see myself building a product on top of this version. Maybe the next version. The API is simple enough that it would take about 2 days to come up with an MVP.\r\n\r\n> test Gemma3:4b and Gemma3:1b locally\r\n\r\nThe results are good, but not magical. They are tuned for chatting, but struggle more than Gemma2 on mechanical tasks ( copy the misspelled word from this sentence). They do fairly well on the accuracy / time tradeoffs ( because the hardware is the same, \"time\" is an accurate way of measuring \"cost\")\r\n\r\n> get the << greenland >> quals to be available on the public internet ( I still haven't chosen a domain for it. Should << earlyversion >> have file hosting? Probably not.)\r\n\r\n> look at some old EA game repos ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197131 for commentary) and download some to << universe >>.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nWhat is << universe >>?\r\n\r\nIt is my archive of Git repositories, or similar.\r\n\r\n<<< 1372_ea_games % du -hs\r\n286M\tCnC_Red_Alert\r\n673M\tCnC_Renegade\r\n 51M\tCnC_Tiberian_Dawn\r\n>>>\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nfor today:\r\n\r\n> a \"watchdog\" for Atacama? the machine has become wedged twice in 3 months. both fixes were of the \"just restart the server\" persuasion. ( well, actually, the problem is that the lexer has an infinite loop on a single unpaired asterisk.)\r\n> more blogging, less << technical >> work","created_at":"2025-03-24T18:37:04.627601","id":323,"llm_annotations":{},"parent_id":null,"processed_content":"

yesterday:\r

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  • test ChatGPT's new \"custom voices\" feature. \n \ud83d\udd25\n ( can it do a xantham-y voice?)\n \r
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The voices are ... good, but not good enough. I can't see myself building a product on top of this version. Maybe the next version. The API is simple enough that it would take about 2 days to come up with an MVP.\r

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  • test Gemma3:4b and Gemma3:1b locally\r
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The results are good, but not magical. They are tuned for chatting, but struggle more than Gemma2 on mechanical tasks \n \ud83d\udca1\n ( copy the misspelled word from this sentence)\n . They do fairly well on the accuracy / time tradeoffs \n \ud83d\udca1\n ( because the hardware is the same, \"time\" is an accurate way of measuring \"cost\")\n \r

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  • get the greenland quals to be available on the public internet \n \ud83d\udd25\n ( I still haven't chosen a domain for it. Should earlyversion have file hosting? Probably not.)\n \r
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What is universe?\r

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It is my archive of Git repositories, or similar.\r

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1372_ea_games % du -hs\r

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286M\tCnC_Red_Alert\r

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673M\tCnC_Renegade\r

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51M\tCnC_Tiberian_Dawn\r

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for today:\r

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  • a \"watchdog\" for Atacama? the machine has become wedged twice in 3 months. both fixes were of the \"just restart the server\" persuasion. \n \u2694\ufe0f\n ( well, actually, the problem is that the lexer has an infinite loop on a single unpaired asterisk.)\n \r
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  • more blogging, less technical work
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