All that said, I still find the smaller locally hosted Gemma 4 models incredibly impressive, and want to explore code generation a lot further with them.

It's the late 1980s, and a rambunctious teenager with limbs like twigs is shooting hoops by himself in his driveway in Kelso, Washington, mere miles from the Oregon border. Up in the second-floor bedroom window, a boombox is blaring a cassette of "Licensed to Ill," the groundbreaking debut Beastie Boys record. Young Tommy can play "Brass Monkey," "Paul Revere" and "She's Crafty" as loud as he wants; there's not a neighbor within 300 yards of the Lloyd family home.

"In the country, the sticks," Lloyd said, thinking back on the first album he ever loved. "I would listen to it all the time."

The Beasties were Lloyd's first musical love, and nothing's changed since. The NYC trio's punky appeal to a lanky kid in Kelso was similarly felt for millions across the country in the 1980s. Diehard Arizona fans know the nod to his fandom that is the unofficial start to every Wildcats home game, when "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" is played on the loudspeaker as he emerges from the locker room and walks onto the floor.

I had no idea about this side of Tommy Lloyd, and I already liked him, but this adds a whole new layer to my appreciation of who he is. It's particularly cool to find out that he's been able to develop a genuine friendship with the Beastie Boy's long time DJ, Mix Master Mike in recent years.

To summarize, Claude will now periodically try to clean up and organize the notes and information accumulated by the "Auto Memory" functionality to reduce accumulated noise, vague references, and contradictions.

It seems like a sensible approach to maintaining quality, but as some pointed out on Reddit, yet another automated background process to burn through your tokens.

It's wild to me that this has been dependent on one guy, Bill Burke, the entire time. A long-established and successful community event like this should have transitioned to a sustainable model with multiple contributors and shared governance that could continue on indefinitely years ago.

Comics were 25¢ when I started going to Mister Grocer after school. Which meant all I had to do to get a comic was to find a quarter somewhere. And quarters were kinda magical as a kid. They didn’t come around every day. But every few days you’d come across one in between the couch cushions, or just minding its business on the kitchen table, or left on the edge of the bathroom sink by my father as he prepared to go out for the evening. Quarters weren’t given. They appeared. And they quickly disappeared. Into my pocket. To be traded for a comic at Mister Grocer the next day.

Comic books were still in the 65¢ to 75¢ range when I fell in love in the 80s. I spent a lot of lawn mowing money on my collection.

My three-device lifestyle for the last decade has been a MacBook Pro (anchored to a Studio Display at my desk at home, and in my briefcase when travelling); my iPhone; and an iPad Pro with a Magic Keyboard for use around the rest of the house. This last week testing the MacBook Neo, I haven’t touched my iPad once, and I haven’t once wished this Neo were an iPad. And there were many times when I was very happy that it was a Mac.

This is a killer observation to me. The only thing I regularly use my iPad Pro for is watching YouTube videos during my lunch. I could easily do the same and so much more with a cheaper MacBook Neo.

It worked!

Phase one of building the new performing arts center is predicted to cost $32 million and would be 45,000 square feet, with 463 seats at the main stage, 220 seats in a studio theater and an acting conservatory area, according to Johnson.

Lembeck Appraisal and Consulting found that SVST’s revenue projections and historical data were inaccurate. The appraisal found that the theater was overengineered and would only be worth much less than its construction cost.

Yeah, this project is dead in the water, considering there are already two 700-seat venues in downtown Spokane (The Bing and Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga) directly competing with it to bring in outside acts. There's no way a 453 seat community theater venue can produce the yearly revenue required to pay back the amount of construction debt they're talking about, and the fiscally conservative Spokane Valley City Council is going to laugh in their faces.

It did!

So I added a manual sync button.

I like the way my emoji + [tags] titles look in NetNewsWire on iOS, but I'm not completely sold on them in the desktop application. I got the idea from how Microcosm displays posts (originally just on index.html, now all archives as well). Might turn it into an optional setting down the road.

Update: It worked!

🤖 MAR 02 13:39
I guess all the Claude ads I've been seeing have been working because I decided to sign up and see what kind of microblogging system it could build for me based on a variety of specifications.