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So it turns out that the way ChatGPT plugins operate, any user can use unverified plugins from arbitrary urls, just by pasting in a URL: https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/in…

That just generated an empty test function in a convenient place for me. I'm not just talking about boilerplate, it's definitely a more... organic-feeling sort of pattern matching.…

Oh shit, you're right, I forgot about loops. Guess I'll go uninstall copilot now.

Copilot user here. Copilot (the existing gpt-3 one) definitely helps at writing unit tests. Yeah, sometimes it doesn't nail it, but one thing it can do reliably is to repeat a patt…

> So many people don't seem to realize that without suburbs you don't have farms. This strikes me as a bizarre take. What do you consider a "suburb"?

Sure, it's the influencers pumping the oil, but it's social media networks running the pipelines, and they're splitting the profits. Unfortunately, toxic content is a lot harder to…

There's an intuitive model that makes some sense of this finding: Masks, air filters, and distancing are effective at preventing transmission by reducing -- not eliminating -- vira…

The essay [1] from which the hairdryer anecdote is quoted has the thesis that categories (in general) are instrumental, and don't have much value separated from their context. ADHD…

I had the same experience cancelling my subscription. I was able to avoid the sales pitch the author received (I guess I was a little firmer), but I doubt I'll be subscribing again…

The gameplay experience is extremely impressive. I expected input lag and streaming quality to be problematic, but I've been a frequent stadia player ever since my (free) premium b…

The "object" syntax reminds me a lot of Clojure/script's Hiccup ( https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup ) style, which has become a de-facto standard across many popular libraries.…

On July 11, 7-11 offers a free slurpee to all customers. The free slurpee cup is a fraction of the size of any of the already-very-cheap options available for sale. I have seen lin…

Why do people make mistakes at all? Everything would be much easier if people would just be less fallable.

The incinerators used in this case (claim to) recapture the emissions from the incineration. However, they do leave some amount of toxic ash, which requires special disposal.

"Better, for people!"

The drive across India took place in a non-electric Kwid.

For more details on Japanese zoning law, see https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.htm...

I think it has less to do with the languages themselves, and more to do with the frameworks available, and the metaprogram-y things those frameworks are free to do without a type s…

.NET-the-technology is pretty good, but for many developers, .NET is synonymous with expensive licensing and tooling (and you pretty much have to use Windows, ick). The JVM and .NE…

A few notes on why this is so: - Keywords (i.e. `:vehicles`) can be used as getter functions, as covered in the OP. - mapcat (like most collection functions in clojure) treats `nil…

> Unless OP means to imply that people can't mentally separate the machinations of the state from the rules of a game I think this is pretty much it. Behavior is learned. The parti…

I believe you can and have always been able to insert the bang anywhere in the query, as long as it has spaces between it and any words.

Compared to popular open-source options like Python, Javascript, and Java: - Linq is great but less unique than it once was, and almost everyone has async and await (or some equiva…

I'd love to see some docs/examples around supporting pluggable brokers; Faust looks like exactly what I want from a python stream processor, but for various technical and operation…

To be fair, the US isn't noted for being especially good at bicycle safety either.