Simon @spoltier@qoto.org
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
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https://www.europesays.com/fr/234842/ À Lausanne, Photo Elysée expose un travail sur le papet vaudois – rts.ch #arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsEtDesign #ArtsEtDivertissement #ArtsVisuels #CantonDeVaud #Culture #Design #Divertissement #Enquête #Entertainment #ExpositionArtistique #FR #France #Lausanne #PhotoElysée #photographe #Photographie #RomainMader #Suisse #Tourisme
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Would you watch a stream where I try to use vibe coding tools?
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Nat, do not work for Meta. Build your own. Be your own person. Under no circumstances should you ever join their cult of hot or not. Nat, call me. I'll work with you.
@akamran @noplasticshower I want a t-shirt that says "a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor"
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@noplasticshower "Lone star ticks are aggressive and can speedily follow a human target if they detect them. “They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,” said Sharon Pitcairn Forsyth, a conservationist who lives in the Washington DC area."
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@nic221 newspapers are not universal enough (Spotify/Netflix*) or specific enough (substack newsletters with a dedicated audience of 'true fans') to work as a subscription business. I personally would like to be able to pay a small amount per article, instead of all-you-can-eat or nothing, but I'm not sure if this is a widespread desire. For now newspapers are mostly losing the game of chicken with search engines (they make the whole content of the article available to crawlers, so I can read it for free on https://archive.today et al). In my home region they don't do it, which I imagine leads to very low organic growth, but maybe they don't care.
* seems to be showing its limitations with the proliferation of TV subscriptions...
@niconiconi of course! And a cat is like a netcat, but without the network
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You see, optical fiber is a kind of a very, very long catwalk. You drop the cat in New York, and it walks all the way to Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And single-mode fiber works exactly the same way: you send the signal here, and it arrives there. The only difference is, the catwalk is so narrow the cat has to squeeze into a very specific posture to fit in - called the mode.
@david_chisnall @kim_harding the conflict is with the budget airlines, who would be just as opposed to mandating any kind of checked baggage allowance. The traditional ones already offer both checked luggage and more generally included board luggage.
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A town that's proud of its home grown game designers #nocturnal2 #lausanne
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I'm really impressed by the new Gemma 3n
I tried a 7.5GB model from Ollama and a 15GB model through mlx-vlm - they seem very capable, and this is the first model of that size I've tried that can handle both image AND audio input in addition to text! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/26/gemma-3n/
@grimalkina you might have heard of the fedi - bsky bridge, which allows users to interact with each other between bluesky and Mastodon.
People could get confused between your Mastodon / bsky selves - I don't have to deal with that as I don't use bluesky.
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My notes on Gemini CLI, including poking around in their system prompt which I've extracted into a more readable rendered Gist https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/25/gemini-cli/
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@tedunderwood.me I know you're half joking, but when I catch myself "goldplating" like this for some throwaway /noncritical personal tool, I consider it a kind of procrastination or self-soothing behavior.
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On the heels of @bcantrill’s blog post about the similarities between aspiring college athletes finding a team and entrepreneurs raising a round of capital, Robert Bogart joined us to discuss his own experiences with both, and the life lesson accrued along the way. https://youtu.be/3z_TQxe9jx4
@ahl @binjip978 @bcantrill Let me help you out: I noticed a pointed lack of chime when Bryan mentioned a certain capillary topic that appeared in a previous episode.
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I’m angry. But I went through considerably more agony in 2003, because I still identified with the country then and a war of aggression was still shocking to me. In 2025 I’m already aware that I’m living in a rogue nation well on its way to police state.
@bert_hubert re: smart outsourcing, this also came to mind: https://danluu.com/nothing-works/
"... mid-sized tech companies, we can see that they often need to have in-house expertise that's far outside what anyone would consider their core competency unless, e.g., every social media company has kernel expertise as a core competency."
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
