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DrSiemer

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About DrSiemer

Web and other dev

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    Comment #49181863

    That only strengthens the example. Their recommendations are usually awful. I'd argue even that is done better on underground services. Plus they'll just show you actually useful m…

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    Comment #49114684

    Europe is full of people who are not fans, but will still hear all about the games when their country plays, because it's basically impossible to avoid. Chat groups, work banter, w…

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    Comment #49046429

    Being able to distill a story down into bite sized chunks sounds like an optimization for the younger generation, with their 20 second attention span. It's not something I necessar…

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    Comment #48988616

    Haha, yep, first thing I thought of as well. I still have a offline copy of that exact site saved somewhere.

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    Comment #48965567

    One of my side projects is a tool that lets you control your entire system with STT. It's built on Whisper and supports hot swapping custom profiles, so you can add easy commands f…

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    Comment #48959935

    The one advantage of actually trying to use SO was that the fear of asking a question usually made me do so much research that I'd solve my issue in the process of fully describing…

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    Comment #48818360

    It would be pretty cool if it could convert a splat to a super compact high performance 3D ASCII widget

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    Comment #48817426

    That money is for the research, not salary

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    Comment #48631376

    Wealth, not income. The statistic is about net worth growth. Saying "that's wealth, not income" doesn't refute it. It just clarifies the mechanism.

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    Comment #48628610

    If the system is rigged heavily against you, relying on it to affect change does feel like a losing strategy. The fact that such a large part of the population supports literal mur…

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    Comment #48457417

    CodeMerger: https://codemerger.nl I've never liked the lack of control I feel using agents or tools like Cursor or Antigravity. I found myself having much better results simply pas…

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    Comment #48176008

    https://web.archive.org/web/20260516000259/https://www.scien...

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    Comment #47963534

    A random experiment I made a few weeks ago does something similar, but it only uses the real cursor position for now: https://2shine.nl/demo/mousemaze/

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    Comment #47380450

    Plenty of annoyance in here for sure. Looks like 17 cannot be finished on mobile though. Switching to desktop view resets progress.

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    Comment #47098908

    Adding a deadline to a disclosure of a vulnerability of this nature is standard practice. Every day it's not patched is a day data could be compromised. Any halfway competent lawye…

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    Comment #46628832

    That sounds cumbersome and even more wasteful than my own method of simply dumping a fixed selection of project code in Gemini for each set of requests. Is there any benefit to pru…

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    Comment #46588708

    Recent models have started to "fix" HTML issues with ugly hacks like !important. The result looks like it works, but the tech debt is considerable. Still, it's just a temporary hin…

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    Comment #46497034

    This is exactly how I feel about it. The cognitive load of starting a new project is so small now. It's also made it very easy to switch between projects, something that took way t…

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    Comment #46486415

    We'll get to the point where we can mass moderate core knowledge eventually. We may need to hand out extra weight for verified experts and some kind of most-votes-win type logic (p…

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    Comment #46428025

    So "Corporate profit taxes are a game of hide-and-seek", but "you can tax the value flow, the revenue generated in-country, or the massive energy consumption of the data centers"? …

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    Comment #46307101

    The way I work with LLMs is a bit different. I use a custom tool, that basically merges all my code into a single prompt. Most of my projects are relatively small, usually maxing o…

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    Comment #46296174

    ChatGPTs implementation of Memory is terrible. It quickly fills up with useless garbage and sometimes even plain incorrect statements, that are usually only relevant to one obscure…

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    Comment #46144879

    The tech works well enough to function as an excuse for massive layoffs. When all that is over, companies can start hiring again. Probably with a preference for employees that can …

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    Comment #46144843

    Most of the people that dislike genAI would have the exact same opinion if all the training data was paid for in full (whatever a fair price would be for what is essentially just r…

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    Comment #45976390

    Your desired setup is just a single prompt away...