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DevDesmond

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    Comment #48992106

    Are you trying to cite the U15 Dallas FC academy team as a “random” team? Please do share your prompt / conversation, because it sounds like you might actually just have an issue u…

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    Comment #48980147

    High Score: 81 Succesful Landings in 6:53! Video here so you can copy my sweet strats: https://youtu.be/7f1WgnAqckk I'd love to watch a professional SC: Brood War player give this …

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    Comment #48756864

    On the other hand, comment trees encourage shallow content highjacking the top comment thread with little to no regard for preceding comments.

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    Comment #48703766

    Well, most platforms operate primarily as an algorithmic scroll based feed, and the actual utilities (like event planning, or marketplace) are related to second class citizens – us…

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    Comment #48599154

    I actually use this line of reasoning to motivate and inspire some of my own art and cultural artifacts. When a far future galactic civilization pauses to ask, “who are we and wher…

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    Comment #48210720

    Music was already worthless. Here's Deadmau5 giving advice to aspiring producers in 2012: > You need to make a world. So you have a rollercoaster in your backyard. And it’ll be the…

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    Comment #47745000

    I got addicted to scrolling content on my phone, so I built a digital pet whose growth and well-being depends on you staying off your phone! This way, if I spend all night scrollin…

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    Comment #47061787

    Project: Hail Mary, a fantasy world where geopolitics are trivially simple and every state in the world collectively agrees how great it would be to cede power and work together. (…

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    Comment #47026858

    Arguing with an LLM is silly because you’re dealing with two adversarial effects at once: - As the context window grows the LLM will become less intelligent [1] - Once your convers…

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    Comment #46226239

    Text is an LLMs input and output, but, under the hood, the transformer network is capable of far more than mere re-assembly and remix of text. Transformers can approximate turing c…

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    Comment #46225949

    Perhaps consider that I still think coding by prompting is just another layer of abstraction on top of coding. I'm my mind, writing the prompt that generates the code is somewhat a…

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    Comment #45806706

    Location: Boston / Somerville MA Remote: Yes, or Hybrid/In Person Willing to relocate: No Technologies: My current favorite stack for building products is with TypeScript, React, (…

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    Comment #45401514

    I know that UI! https://lichess.org/learn

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    Comment #45322926

    I like to keep a personal recipe book of prompt modifiers. For bash scripting I often write my prompt and then copy-paste the following to prompt: ``` When making edits to the scri…

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    Comment #44303285

    CSS or Tailwind has always been a tough one for me. I have banks of flashcards to help me remember stuff, (align-items, justify-content, grid-template-columns, etc.). Even with all…

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    Comment #44133075

    From my experience, (and to borrow terminology from a HN thread not long ago), I've found that once a chat goes bad, your context is "poisoned"; It's auto completing from previous …

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    Comment #43517404

    I think the magic is often in how you prompt. The best written art I've gotten from Claude was after a very extended dialogue; eventually, in the same context window, I prompted fo…

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    Comment #43386139

    There is a Sci-Fi Noir TV show "Altered Carbon" (based on a book) featuring an AI using Edgar Allan Poe as their persona. That Edgar Allan Poe is seminal in both genres makes me ap…

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    Comment #38856014

    High score: 50060 The biggest part of my strategy is to do a lot of stutter steps/dash dancing to try and collect the power up as close to the ghost as possible. Doing so is more l…

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    Comment #34711844

    For technical solutions, I would recommend the plugin DF YouTube to remove suggested videos on YouTube. You can search for videos but won't have a home page of fun stuff to watch. …