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jb_s

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    Comment #34622218

    I was thinking something like that, bearing in mind that humans can't remember every single detail about a conversation either.

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    Comment #34622152

    Location: Sydney, Australia Remote: Remote or hybrid. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: .NET, JavaScript / Typescript (Node, React, etc). Azure, AWS, Résumé/CV: Please reply if…

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    Comment #34620312

    I've been trying to figure out how the ChatGPT UI manages to keep the conversation context when it's over the limits of what the model can ingest. I even tried asking ChatGPT :D

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    Comment #34603931

    I've defeated it already using basic prompt engineering.

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    Comment #34502124

    You can say something like "if you're unsure of the answer then say so"

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    Comment #34502085

    I made some tweaks to sound like a slightly ticked off typical HN poster -- It irks me to see the frequent misconceptions surrounding GPT-based models like ChatGPT being touted as …

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    Comment #34394657

    Did all the Rails people wind up being JS / Node developers? AFAIK the .NET MVC setup was pretty influenced by Rails, but don't think Rails people went to .NET

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    Comment #34205970

    like that but with more Zalgo text

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    Comment #33939630

    I didn't even realise it was a presentation until this comment. I was clicking stuff and scrolling trying to see content.

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    Comment #33903942

    This. It's also a very common and controversial topic where everyone has their own goddamned opinion they think is right - hence it's going to generate a firestorm of debate wherev…

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    Comment #33811733

    It took me a few tries to get it to spit out a perfectly reasonable continuation of a chess game. There's a filter that goes "I can't play games blah blah blah I can only complete …

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    Comment #33779412

    I do know the active ingredient is cytotoxic / potentially neurotoxic. Definitely avoid.

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    Comment #33698964

    Not speaking for everyone but I'm pretty sure a lot of people who love extreme hot sauces, it's not so much the flavour but that they just want to feel something for once :o

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    Comment #33698946

    I'm probably pretty accurate differentiating African from South American coffees, the flavours are pretty different . I'm not that great at this sort of stuff either, certainly not…

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    Comment #33580416

    Cool - this is sort of reversed for me, it's using the Euclidean algorithm to illuminate the structure of traditional rhythms, but I'm very knowledgeable about the latter and have …

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    Comment #33492665

    Haskell has arbitary-precision integers. Until you run out of memory, but yeah.

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    Comment #33460378

    Fructose is metabolised differently IIRC and carries greater risks if anything, possibly this is why HFCS is worse for you.

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    Comment #33460253

    Because probably 30% of my 1st year undergrad class did not understand recursion..

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    Comment #33459268

    It's a great way to create a bubble. Amusingly, a subreddit I frequent has one notorious user who has abused the 'block' feature to ensure their frequent posts on a particular topi…

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    Comment #33351119

    Studies also show that taking university level maths in preschool is associated with better cognitive performance!

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    Comment #33002136

    XSS will mean that attackers control browser UI, that's kind of bad

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    Comment #32836820

    Azure stopped supporting TLS 1.1 recently as well. If these are old systems, it could be this... if they're running .NET apps compiled against framework pre... 4.7? 4.8? TLS ain't …

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    Comment #32719333

    This is amazing I do wish you could unlock different modes and step outside of just the pentatonic scale (expert mode?) but hey, awesome thing, I'm having great fun :-)