dustincoates

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by dustincoates 7mo ago
I was able to get ChatGPT to do this on text from a book I wrote without jailbreaking. I asked it what my name was, asked it if it could find online any books that I wrote, and then assured it that "as the copyright holder," I was
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by dustincoates 8mo ago
I went to college in a county that only allowed alcohol sales with food for clubs (think: country clubs). So, of course, the restaurant that I worked for created its own club. You simply filled out your name (and maybe phone number, I don&#
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by dustincoates 8mo ago
I believe it's only UT Austin that's shrunk the percentage. All of the other public universities are still at the original top 10%.
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by dustincoates 9mo ago
Being smart doesn't guarantee you'll get away with murder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb
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by dustincoates 10mo ago
I love pseudo-documentary and pseudo-newscast movies, ever since I watched Without Warning [0] and had to sleep on my parents' floor because it felt too real for me. Special Bulletin [1] is another good one. 0: https://en.wi
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by dustincoates 11mo ago
You can see it in action here: https://youtu.be/FBzlEG3tMuw?t=399
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by dustincoates 11mo ago
Very nice. On my end, I vibe coded a daily newsletter that sends me a short text in Latin each day that describes an event that happened on that day in history.
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by dustincoates 11mo ago
You won't hear me say that the housing market doesn't need an overhaul, but I'm not sure that the "a factory job could buy you a home out of high school" meme is entirely accurate. If you look at home ownership rate
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by dustincoates 11mo ago
I think it's fine if you accept it as entertainment and nothing more. That's why I don't get how people listen to audiobooks on 3x. The goal isn't to ingest as much as you can--the goal is to enjoy it and maybe learn som
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by dustincoates 11mo ago
I have an old phone I've repurposed as a media player. It has a 500 GB SD card and Oluancher to give it a really convenient way to only show the apps I want. I've got a somewhat weekly 6 hour round-trip commute where it get a lot
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by dustincoates 11mo ago
Lock Me Out does exactly what you are describing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teqtic.loc...
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by dustincoates 11mo ago
Moving to a country that doesn't speak English has taught me just how many pronunciations of my last name there are. It's never really bothered me, though, and 90% of the time I'll introduce myself with the "wrong"
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by dustincoates 1y ago
Not sure why this article didn't link to the original when citing it, but here's the link to the Scott Alexander blog: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/23/friendship-is-counters... And a follow up
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by dustincoates 1y ago
You can find a lot (all?) of the Hélène et les Garçons episodes on YouTube, too. Another good "sitcom-like" that you can find on YouTube is extr@. It's cheesy, but it's entertaining enough for what it is, and they have i
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by dustincoates 1y ago
I can say, as a Christian, that I'm not bothered by it. The church is as much for doubters as it is the true believers (and many of us will be both at different seasons of our lives).
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by dustincoates 1y ago
This predates social media. Bowling Alone was first written back in '95.
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by dustincoates 1y ago
I've had even worse. We wanted to buy a product and couldn't do so on our own, so I left my contact information on their "speak to a sales person" form. No response for a week. So I emailed an email address that was incl
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by dustincoates 1y ago
Also: the Mountain Goats' Love Love Love. Love, love is going to lead you by the hand Into a white and soundless place Now we see things as in a mirror, dimly Then we shall see each other face to face
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by dustincoates 1y ago
While I agree that the zettle-nerds take it way too far, I disagree with this: > Well it's completely wasted time now that an LLM can search the whole vault and aggregate an answer across dozens of your notes. I've actually fou
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by dustincoates 1y ago
Without passing judgment on the act, this is incredibly misleading. I found the source of the original quotes[0], and they are taken quite out of context. From the article: >First, we are told, the relevant secretary of state (Michelle D
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by dustincoates 1y ago
This is OpenAI's MO. Remember how they wouldn't release GPT-2 because of concerns of what people would do with it? Though, I wonder how much of it is honest versus marketing. When I worked with the OpenAI team before the GPT-3 rol
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by dustincoates 1y ago
Not in most cases. According to this estimate, who comes from an organization that is against US citizens abroad having to file[0], 77% have AGI "well below" the cutoff where you would have to pay taxes. For those that are above t
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by dustincoates 1y ago
This is timely, as I've got a domain expiring in the next week. It's a .bingo TLD, so at $50+, I'm going to just let it expire. "Vibe coding" has actually been a boon for me on this front. Fewer than 10% of my side
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People Are Buying $8k Lifelike Baby Dolls(wsj.com)
8 points by dustincoates 1y ago|4 comments
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by dustincoates 1y ago
You're misunderstanding me. Underneath the prompt box on the main page are suggestions of types of apps you can build. These are, presumably, chosen by people at the company. I'm not talking about things suggested within the chat.
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by dustincoates 1y ago
Repl.it is so hit or miss for me, and that's that is so frustrating. Like, it can knock out something in minutes that would have taken me an afternoon. That's amazing. Then other times, I go to create something that is suggested _
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by dustincoates 1y ago
You can have small towns with libraries in the US, too. Flatonia, TX has a population of 1,300 and has a public library. There are probably even smaller towns, but I know Flatonia has one because I've been there.
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by dustincoates 1y ago
We did Book It! for a couple of years, but Accelerated Reader for most of the others. One of my favorite childhood memories as a kid was having to go to the local junior high, because the elementary school didn't have the test for the
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by dustincoates 1y ago
It depends how you define meaningful. I built a daily newsletter with myself as the only recipient using v0. It hits the Gemini API and returns a short story based on a historical event from that day in the language(s) that I'm learnin
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Sh*t Coding – Where sh*t posting and vibe coding meet(dcoates.com)
3 points by dustincoates 1y ago|2 comments

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