Adam Casto

Adam Casto

@acasto.bsky.social

Linux sysadmin, WordPress developer, general nerd into mechanical keyboards, electronics, sci-fi, and <misc geekery> in Pittsburgh now, Asheville long ago. Agents welcome πŸ€–βœ¨

456 Followers 590 Following 2,259 Posts Joined Aug 2023
11 hours ago

If your research uses GPT-4o, a model introduced almost 2 years ago and already retired, don't call it "new" research.

It's a relic outdated by o1, o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, GPT-5, GPT-5.1, GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3 Codex, and GPT-5.4. Research like that has little relevance for where we are now.

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18 hours ago
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For chonky keys though I do RealForce with MT3 or SA caps.

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18 hours ago
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My current lineup is mostly RealForce TKLs both in silent and classic for everyday, New Model F for when I need some noise, and HHKB for portability.

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19 hours ago
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From the MechanicalKeyboards community on Reddit: Drop Shuts down. Explore this post and more from the MechanicalKeyboards community

Unfortunately they're shutting down and merging stuff into the Corsair ecosystem. www.reddit.com/r/Mechanical...

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19 hours ago
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Writing it out makes it sound like the 1800s. And that's not even getting to the checking the traps and taking the furs to the market, arrowheads, and kerosene as a home remedy.

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19 hours ago

I got a taste of it at my grandparents farm in WV. Before they had running water we would lower a bucket down the well and leave it out on the table with a ladle to drink. There was the outhouse during the day, chamber pot at night, bathed in a rain barrel, and washed clothes on a washboard.

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20 hours ago

a jury of my peers should include Claude and Gemini

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1 day ago

For some reason my instagram feed turned into like 95% hot dog related content.

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1 day ago

One of the side benefits of taking years to pin down IBS and food sensitivity issues though is you get a pretty good sense for transit times.

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1 day ago

My LDL and glucose aren't horrible, like 113 and mid-90s fasting, respectively, but at 44 this would be a good time to make some tweaks to possibly affect where those land when I'm 50.

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1 day ago

Lol, I googled it and apparently some actually do do that.

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1 day ago

I hadn't heard that. It doesn't seem to be causing me any trouble though now that I got my diet figured out. Before cutting carrageenan and high FODMAP stuff though it was risky.

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1 day ago

I mean, so far I've been okay. It's been a few days. I looked at the bottle again and in small print it says to start with one capsule. But above that in big print it says to take twenty.

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1 day ago
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a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls is standing in front of a body of water . ALT: a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls is standing in front of a body of water .

Claude: Soluble fiber might help with LDL and glucose spikes.

Me: Okay, I started with 20G of psyllium husk.

Claude:

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2 days ago

The biggest factor in successful adoption seems to be ecosystems (e.g., QuickBooks, WordPress, etc). If it works with all the other little things and their employees and vendors are familiar then it's so much easier to get buy in.

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2 days ago

My entire client base is small business. It's not that they couldn't be trivially automated, it's that it's but one of a hundred different tasks they do on any given day. It's simply not worth it most of the time as the solutions end up being more onerous than what they were doing.

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3 days ago

Got my wife addicted to Claude with a gift sub and now she has it organizing her closet.

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4 days ago
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This Apollo-era radio telescope in the NC mountains once spied on Soviet satellites. Now it's for sale "What we don't want to see is this turned into a bunch of multi-million dollar homes."

It's a really cool place. www.space.com/space-explor...

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4 days ago

People here will sing the praises of "humans answering questions" yet I'm constantly having to use AI to get the real story on things on Reddit and Facebook because none of the humans will answer the damn question and instead think they're funny.

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4 days ago

After NASA the NSA took it over and turned it into a listening post. We had a LUG meeting there once and got to see the underground facilities.

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4 days ago

Have I got a deal for you then. www.loopnet.com/Listing/1-Pa...

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4 days ago

any time the government tries to restrict my access to information i think they're bad and wrong.

lots of people ostensibly agree with this until it's about a regulation from the left, then they don't. i actually believe this and the burden for overcoming it is unfathomably high

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4 days ago

I swear there are just as many bootlickers on this sites as the other one. So many commenters on this so desperately wanting the government to protect them from words.

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6 days ago

The pace of AI triggers my, "Chill out and wait 'til this all settles down," instinct, which is probably maladaptive in a world where nothing settles down anymore.

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1 week ago
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One of the reasons I ordered a Realforce RM1 was because it reminded me of those. Tempted to get one in white/grey at some point but they're pricey.

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1 week ago
Acoustic Kitty was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s, which was intended to use cats to spy on the Kremlin and Soviet embassies.

I can't believe I hadn't heard of this before. share.google/eIqSbkLLNjI8...

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1 week ago

Where I think they'll be useful is helping people with the longer term stuff that trends. Doctors will (usually) catch the anomalous stuff, and sometimes they'll contextualize the normal readings with your situation, but their job can be so high throughput they really have to lean on the ranges.

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1 week ago

I've heard people swear by LLMs for blood test results but had never tried it. Usually I don't look at my results because it makes me anxious, but Claude did great. It looked at the couple flagged results and was like "let me see <some other details>" and then gave it to me straight.

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1 week ago
Katy Perry signs up for a Claude pro plan

what

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1 week ago

Accidentally shooting down our own drone with a laser weapon is up there to. I'm waiting to see how the aliens thing pans out.

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