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Leta told me it was shutting down months ago. leta.mullvad.net doesn't exist anymore. I'm sad, because it was a great search engine I could trust.

Is slightly modifying some weights in a markov chain somewhere really preserving it's contents?

I see a lot of concern about whether or not people will tolerate some behavior of mine that isn't harmful to anyone. I'm Gen X, so maybe it's how I grew up, but I just dgaf about w…

Could someone show me what a shared helper would look like in this case? This code looks easily readable to me and I fear abstracting it will just make it harder to reason about. I…

It's not wrong, though.

I'd love to know what one of those conversations looked like. "Using this construct in this part of the code increases it's performance by half of a percent. Obviously, this should…

Why are there differences at all? Unplanned differences based on training data sets? Or are the companies behind the LLMs trying to shape discourse through their models? I've been …

That one for me is particularly painful. We were playing the alpha release before the game officially came out after work. I still work at the same place, though I've moved jobs wi…

If you have hundreds of Steam games you bought through sales events, then that changes the calculus a bit.

> Cynically, I want to blame it on the absurd lack of empathy of rural Americans and a complete lack of ability to imagine day-to-day lifestyles that do not match their own. Doesn'…

This divide will never heal. I have no idea of how to get either side interested in the idea. I don't see a path to victory from any direction.

It's possible to care about more than one thing at a time.

Seat belts aren't forced on you - if you want to not use them and face the risk of fines, you can do so. Media ratings systems are informational, you can choose to let your kids wa…

I kind of have a soft spot for the human race, I think it's worth the extra effort to try, at least.

I was thinking along those lines when I wrote it. I do keep the thought in mind when interacting with an LLM that it could mislead me because they always sound so confident and yet…

One more very minor step towards making the human race meteor-proof.

I just use it as a "mentor". A captive demon that has to answer my questions, no matter how trivial. Writing the code is the fun part for me, searching for answers to questions can…

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It happened to me, and I'm 60. I lived in a rural area, maybe that's why.

I'd suggest going the route of having Claude teach you what you need to know. How do I uppercase this string? What's the best way to tackle this problem? Is there a standard way to…

Track down the short story it's inspired by, Eight O'Clock in the Morning by Ray Nelson. I had read the short story somewhere, maybe in a compilation, and was delighted when the mo…

I get a blank white screen in firefox on windows. I don't consider this to be blue, so I guess their blue is not my blue.

Do LLMs even learn? The companies that build them build new models based partly on the conversations the older models have had with people, but do they incorporate knowledge into t…

I'm starting to do this at home, but the instinct to just do a web search is still there. I'm only using Claude Code at work because they are paying for it, so why not use it. I th…

Also having the cursor show up in the proper place on a new form and having tab order work.