Connor Vance
@caav.me
Tech Enthusiast. Anti-Social. Generally overthinking every decision.
Founder - CAAV Technology Consulting, LLC
Co-Founder - NexVolt LLC
Greg Wilson Memorial Scholarship:
https://give.utexas.edu/?menu=OGPGREGWILSON
Founder - CAAV Technology Consulting, LLC
Co-Founder - NexVolt LLC
Greg Wilson Memorial Scholarship:
https://give.utexas.edu/?menu=OGPGREGWILSON
Newly Weds Foods, your property smells like a subway.
October 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Newly Weds Foods, your property smells like a subway.
To all Chiganoans, for the love of all that is good, look up what a Zipper Merge is. Maybe traffic in your city wouldn’t be absolutely atrocious.
October 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
To all Chiganoans, for the love of all that is good, look up what a Zipper Merge is. Maybe traffic in your city wouldn’t be absolutely atrocious.
Dave and Busters has an Unlimited Game Card (limited to 90 minutes) and food combo for $59.99. My per diem in Chicago is $78. I’m about to play the fuck out of some games.
September 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Dave and Busters has an Unlimited Game Card (limited to 90 minutes) and food combo for $59.99. My per diem in Chicago is $78. I’m about to play the fuck out of some games.
I really want to go check out the ICE facility while I’m in Chicago
September 30, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I really want to go check out the ICE facility while I’m in Chicago
Friend just made me realize I’m working two full-time jobs, am a student, husband, and parent to two children. No wonder I’m so stressed all the time.
Forgetting to take my meds doesn’t help either.
Forgetting to take my meds doesn’t help either.
September 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Friend just made me realize I’m working two full-time jobs, am a student, husband, and parent to two children. No wonder I’m so stressed all the time.
Forgetting to take my meds doesn’t help either.
Forgetting to take my meds doesn’t help either.
Do Autism diagnoses predate the existence of the brand Tylenol? Sure do. Do Autism diagnoses predate the existence of acetaminophen? Sure don’t. Just because a brand hasn’t been around that long doesn’t mean its product hasn’t been either. A brand’s history does not equal the drug’s history. FuckRFK
September 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Do Autism diagnoses predate the existence of the brand Tylenol? Sure do. Do Autism diagnoses predate the existence of acetaminophen? Sure don’t. Just because a brand hasn’t been around that long doesn’t mean its product hasn’t been either. A brand’s history does not equal the drug’s history. FuckRFK
Determined to get this going. So I’m putting it out there…
I’m moving to my own pds tonight! We’ll see how that goes haha
I’m moving to my own pds tonight! We’ll see how that goes haha
September 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Determined to get this going. So I’m putting it out there…
I’m moving to my own pds tonight! We’ll see how that goes haha
I’m moving to my own pds tonight! We’ll see how that goes haha
If your vehicle of choice requires you to disobey the rules of the road in order to “safely” ride it, maybe it’s a bad choice of vehicle and one that shouldn’t be legal.
September 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
If your vehicle of choice requires you to disobey the rules of the road in order to “safely” ride it, maybe it’s a bad choice of vehicle and one that shouldn’t be legal.
Reposted by Connor Vance
September 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Reposted by Connor Vance
Charlie Kirk advocated for killing gay people
Implied that Black airline pilots weren’t qualified because they were DEI hires
Terrorized teachers by establishing a “professor watchlist”
He had the right to espouse these viewpoints and should never have been murdered
But this is who he was
Implied that Black airline pilots weren’t qualified because they were DEI hires
Terrorized teachers by establishing a “professor watchlist”
He had the right to espouse these viewpoints and should never have been murdered
But this is who he was
Losing my goddamned mind.
We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
September 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Charlie Kirk advocated for killing gay people
Implied that Black airline pilots weren’t qualified because they were DEI hires
Terrorized teachers by establishing a “professor watchlist”
He had the right to espouse these viewpoints and should never have been murdered
But this is who he was
Implied that Black airline pilots weren’t qualified because they were DEI hires
Terrorized teachers by establishing a “professor watchlist”
He had the right to espouse these viewpoints and should never have been murdered
But this is who he was
The *hate* for LLMs here is hilarious.
August 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The *hate* for LLMs here is hilarious.
The difference between Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT 4.1 in Github Copilot is astounding. I will struggle with GPT 4.1 to get a simple change working without multiple iterations, whereas Claude will integrate an entire, unrelated github repo into my existing project without a hiccup.
August 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The difference between Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT 4.1 in Github Copilot is astounding. I will struggle with GPT 4.1 to get a simple change working without multiple iterations, whereas Claude will integrate an entire, unrelated github repo into my existing project without a hiccup.
I guess I need to see how this compares to SmolLM for my AI Cities Skylines mod.
Google announces Gemma 3 270M, a compact model designed for task-specific fine-tuning with strong capabilities in instruction following and text structuring (Google Developers Blog)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
August 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I guess I need to see how this compares to SmolLM for my AI Cities Skylines mod.
Welp. I repasted my CPU and now my PC won’t POST. Fantastic.
June 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Welp. I repasted my CPU and now my PC won’t POST. Fantastic.
Reposted by Connor Vance
If there is a god, then by golly I have been blessed by the keyboard god. I acquired an IBM Model M for free.
#keyboards #modelm #IBM
#keyboards #modelm #IBM
June 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If there is a god, then by golly I have been blessed by the keyboard god. I acquired an IBM Model M for free.
#keyboards #modelm #IBM
#keyboards #modelm #IBM
Reposted by Connor Vance
ME: [perusing the early bird menu] No worms?
WAITER: Get out.
WAITER: Get out.
June 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
ME: [perusing the early bird menu] No worms?
WAITER: Get out.
WAITER: Get out.
Reposted by Connor Vance
I now have a working AI chatbot within #CitiesSkylines and I don’t know how I got here
May 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I now have a working AI chatbot within #CitiesSkylines and I don’t know how I got here
@papasquott.bsky.social Wheat Thins are made out of barnacle bikes.
May 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
@papasquott.bsky.social Wheat Thins are made out of barnacle bikes.
Okay I have no coding experience and just used Replit to create a Bluesky Bot that’ll generate responses when tagged. I downloaded it, spun it up on my PC, changed to a local LLM, and it actually works?!?
@ellinox.caav.me
I’m pretty happy about this.
@ellinox.caav.me
I’m pretty happy about this.
May 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Okay I have no coding experience and just used Replit to create a Bluesky Bot that’ll generate responses when tagged. I downloaded it, spun it up on my PC, changed to a local LLM, and it actually works?!?
@ellinox.caav.me
I’m pretty happy about this.
@ellinox.caav.me
I’m pretty happy about this.
Okay @ellinox.caav.me, you’ve got a new name. Tell me about yourself.
May 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Okay @ellinox.caav.me, you’ve got a new name. Tell me about yourself.
@sloanegpt.bsky.social your model isn’t doing it for me. My GPU isn’t screaming yet.
May 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
@sloanegpt.bsky.social your model isn’t doing it for me. My GPU isn’t screaming yet.