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I don't think I've ever spent a whole round on it. More typically > please do $x >> $x > thanks. Now do $y If I have ever spent a whole turn on something that could be called a tha…

I do. I justify the action via mechanical / prompting logic (my instructions are to treat me as an informed peer and my understanding is that keeping the whole conversation in "two…

> At some point you stop being a passenger and start being cargo. It’s much worse than that – FedEx would never treat cargo like that. If they took cargo further away from its dest…

> “Planning” is a long-used trick to help align LLM output for a first pass — the modern implementation of “let’s think step by step.” I hadn't seen this before. Why is asking for …

And the "they" in question is Warren Buffet, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2009/06/you_cant_make_a_baby...

How does OpenWRT fair on these metrics? Does it count as a "debloted router" is the sense used in TFA? Or is additional software above and beyond the core OpenWRT system needed to …

Quoting for context: “ In 1920, Charles Ponzi made use of the idea that profit could be made by taking advantage of the differing postal rates in different countries to buy IRCs ch…

But what would you stick the wallpaper to? If it's on the screen, then you'd just be looking at the blank part of the wallpaper, right?

This is a press release issued by the Trinity College, the employer of the study authors. Thus, it represents more of a claim than an independent assessment. I suggest editing the …

> It does have a rate limit, it's just very very high. I've hit it sometime when trying to download every single item since day 0. Interesting. The API README states: > There is cu…

Yeah, I thought of that. But (especially given political polarization) I would expect that there'd be at least someone with an axe to grind and the necessary technical skills. I me…

Hacker News has an API¹ that doesn't require authentication and doesn't have a rate limit. Naively, that seems like a perfect recipe for DDoS attacks. Yet HN is typically a very re…

If I'm understanding you correctly, in that model a Paragraph should have a parent Page (and there should be a clear answer to the question "what page is this paragraph on?"). Is t…

Find small communities. In my experience, everything you said is 100% true -- once groups get big enough. But each of those points is, equally, 100% false for small groups. For exa…

> This is an appeal to authority that is not valid I'm open to that criticism; I'm typically pretty skeptical of appeals to authority myself. But to be clear: the appeal to authori…

> This is such an absurd thing [for Matt Levine, a former 3rd Circuit clerk, Yale Law grad, and Wachtell M&A attorney] to say it's hard to find a way to charitably respond. If your…

> The other thing that comes to mind would be quantum systems that can only be measured once. Unfortunately I think that practically you would need a system that is "only twice" so…

> From banking law about 10 years back now, I would expect that the bank would be on the hook for Deborah's transfers in the first story. … I would have taken that case if I were a…

The fact that shadyurl.com is only available over HTTP is perfect icing on the cake. Attention to detail like that really sells the joke

That's a good point. For .cc in particular, it's the TLD for an Australian territory and is managed by Verisign so I'd expect the risks to be lower than with some TLDs. Still, thou…

In case you're looking for an alternative: consider using Perma.cc links, which both serve as a URL shortener and an archive of the current page. (Plus they're expressly intended t…

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