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Think Deep Research could be great at tech support. My Apple TV was sometimes arbitrarily stuttering. This kind of thing is super annoying to solve because all you've got are hundreds of forum posts by people who's problem may or may not be the same, with answers from people who are just guessing, and content mill websites that suggest you turn it on/off again. Deep Research gave me a list of like 4 things to try, and I think it actually fixed it!

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I frequently feel like I want to branch out a conversation into multiple directions, and suspect that it'd get better results if I went back to replace an earlier message with a different prompt. Or maybe this is just cargo culting it. Would be interesting to see visually when stuff actually drops out of the context window.

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is anyone working on dark patterns to coax Operator into buying travel travel insurance?

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obvious feature request: a voice assistant should match the volume of the speaker; it's late at night, and I speak in a low voice, don't wake the whole house.

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The civil service isn’t the presidents play thing. It /is/ the executive branch. There is a century of Supreme Court rulings and laws passed by Congress that protect the civil service from political influence.

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am I programming the algorithm or is the algorithm programming me

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So you've got thousands of device identifiers like _TZE200_awnadkan _TZE200_3towulqd ... Which are sometimes the same, and sometimes just slightly different in their features.

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I briefly tried it built a custom quirk for this device, but it's no fun at all.

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Recently ran into a Zigbee device that you can pair, but wouldn't show any controls. Turns out that HA ships with an entire database of custom code for devices that don't follow the specs, called zha-quirks. One company, Tuya, just built an entire custom protocol on top of Zigbee.

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In trying to confirm this information I observed that all websites to track the ISS are really quite bad, but I did find "See A Satellite Tonight" which will render flight paths of satellites right where you are inside Street View, it's pretty amazing: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/

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The International Space Station has just passed over the Gulf of Mexico.

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Setup a Home Assistant Voice Preview edition. Huge improvement over the Atom M5 thing they had people build previously. It literally reacts when whispering from across the room.

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reminder of what we are missing out on in the LLM era

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I really thought someone built an on-chain PDF document generator in Solidity and was unreasonably excited for a moment.

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It definitely has moments of genius, like when it's internal browser failed to open the block explorer for some reason, and it figured out how to get the data it needed via the block explorer's API.

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If you proceed here, you lose more than half your money to slippage.

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It handled a simple stylistic change in a next.js frontend quite well; found the right right file to edit, and delivered a nice change set. It had a follow-up question that was pretty unnecessary though. I think this particular task would have been easier in something like Cursor in the end, but I can see Devin's interface enabling a new set of people to contribute.

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The first thing it asks is that you setup it's dev environment. This is a bit weird, because you'd think that Devin should be able to figure out how to run "npm install".

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Thanks for the link! I might try to just draw a floorplan on a piece of paper for starters :)

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Just subscribed to Devin. Let's find out if I can retire.

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