tvmalsv

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by tvmalsv 4mo ago
How well would it work to ask the working LLM to rewrite the prompt to get the best results? Do the models understand enough about themselves to do that?
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by tvmalsv 4mo ago
>> (but why would you have off-black text anyway?) I had read a long time ago that when doing web design you should avoid pure white and pure black, especially when one is on top of the other. I presume it’s to avoid harshness or to k
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by tvmalsv 4mo ago
Came here to mention the same thing. Very well be on me, tho. I’m using the Brave browser (is it safari-powered?) and on iOS 18.7.9, which is the newest my old iPhone X supports.
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by tvmalsv 5mo ago
My monthly subscription for Claude is up in a week, is there any compelling reason to switch to Codex (for coding/bug fixing of low/medium difficulty apps)? Or is it pretty much a wash at this point?
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by tvmalsv 7mo ago
Alliance! Get ‘em!!!
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by tvmalsv 7mo ago
For me it was Turbo Pascal, Turbo C/C++, regular Borland C++. Not an enterprise app, but I worked on a project (kind of like a primitive CMS) for a church using PFS:Write and PFS:Professional File. That was a terrible experience.
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by tvmalsv 2y ago
I definitely get the appeal. It’s analogous to the single file executable. One file to move around, no install process needed, just grab and run. It was the main reason I used to reach for Delphi back in the day for Windows utilities.
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by tvmalsv 6y ago
In case anyone sees this, thank you for the comments despite my comment being down-voted, I appreciate the insite!
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by tvmalsv 6y ago
That's a good point, thank you.
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by tvmalsv 6y ago
Interesting how different two people can come to two completely polar conclusions. I guess it depends on your social bubble, on either side. In my experience, the right was very opposed to NAFTA (while the left was pushing it), in favor of
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by tvmalsv 6y ago
Nah, just replace it with the community_scribe_of_appropriate_self_hatred. It can be aliased to 'scribe' if it helps, though it loses some of it's power.
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by tvmalsv 6y ago
I offer another option: bad actors that are taking advantage of the disputes to further their own agendas. Only, it's not an option, it's more of a documented reality. And it's even more alarming.
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by tvmalsv 6y ago
Very nice, that was my first language on a PC-compatible (Epson Equity I if anyone remembers those, later upgraded it with a 20MB Seagate ST225!). Man, those were the days... and get off my lawn! lol
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by tvmalsv 6y ago
No, on the newer iPhones press and hold simply brings up Siri. Gotta press and hold main button and either volume button simultaneously. If that doesn’t work you should be able to use the trick I describe above.
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by tvmalsv 6y ago
My iPhone 10 locked up hard a few days and I couldn’t get it to turn off using the standard method. After some digging, I found a new trick that I guess is implemented at a lower level: press and release volume up, then volume volume down,
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by tvmalsv 6y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but does the test detect the actual virus or fragments that result from the infection?
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
Age old argument, but it's pronounced like soo-suh. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9bq_alk-sw (on the SUSE youtube channel)
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
One really big advantage of Send over attachments is that you don't have seemingly immortal copies of the files hanging around in people's mail clients and/or IMAP servers.
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
Very true. A few years ago I quit drinking sodas and switched to sugar-free flavorings (eg. Crystal Light, Mio, etc). After a year or so I ordered a Mt. Dew, my previous vice, while at a restaurant and it tasted like pure sugar syrup. Min
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
I agree, and would also throw in Mac Lethal[1] :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Lethal
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
I'll second TiddlyWiki. I've used it for several years and became a fan early on. These days you might run across some hiccups in getting it to work in your browser of choice. Over the years the browser vendors became less and l
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
Good point, thank you.
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
That was my first impression, too :) I clicked one headline to see what happens and thought, "cool." Clicked 'back' to return to the title list, and suddenly I'm looking at the HN comments and thinking "what
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
And, from what I've read, Amazon is supporting legislation of a higher minimum wage. Which, seems to me, would be more of a burden on their competitors than themselves, thus giving Amazon a competitive advantage.
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
It's also worth noting that, in a sense, the shell is actually shrinking. Every moment, more of our observable universe disappears "beyond the veil", so-to-speak, as the universe on our side of the edge transitions from near
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
I completely agree. I was thinking it highly unlikely that other universes would be operating at full efficiency, so the average would more on the zero side. But, yeah, that's not how infinities work I suppose :) Still, I'm enj
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
I would say "yes" to that. But fortunately, with the load being so widely distributed, the load on our "local" quantum computers would effectively be zero (ie. x/inf). Unless, of course, our universe is the oddbal
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
Yes, and I really like the idea of embedding the text definitions of diagrams in my markdown files, and being able to view it and export to html/pdf. Very nice. I'm somewhat familiar with PlantUML, BlockDiag, Flowchart.js and a
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
This looks very interesting, how did I not know about it already? I was searching for what was available in the uml/diagram space (such as PlantUML, nomnoml, Mermaid, etc.) just last week. Obviously, VNote isn't just about diagr
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by tvmalsv 8y ago
Simple: you don't accept a license. If you want to reverse engineer it, just do it. You don't need their permission.

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