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Every time I see stuff about age verification (which I do admit is likely just a justification for control and surveillance over the internet) I can't help but wonder if there's so…

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Semi-related: I always wished there was something like the unholy combination of a spreadsheet and notebook rolled into one. I picture it notebook-like at the top level, then each …

The thing that gets me is these large companies obsess over their UIs, so don't they consult with UI experts? Yet why do their UIs become predictably worse over time? Perhaps a cer…

"Please don't write lots of code unless I explicitly request it, or its the only way. Just show the minimal code necessary to respond to my request" It ignores it literally every t…

I use Alacritty and really like it :). I use it primarily for scripts and other cases where I want a terminal to open extremely fast. Some day I'll get around to finding a way to e…

Yes! Finally something relevant I can post to hacker news I use this little script https://github.com/jmacc93/paste-to-tmux-script daily. Its for pasting your current clipboard ite…

I've long thought a good challenge to aim development toward in machine learning is to make an agent that can finish Skyrim zero-shot, unassisted, in real-time. I'm just a hobbyist…

This is a demonstration prototype I made of a transpiler to Javascript from a variant of Javascript extended with type conjunctions and tag types (I describe both on the page) for …

When I want to use behavioral directives, I've been putting the directives for ChatGPT in a parenthetical reminder header at the top of all of my messages to it For example, you wo…

This webpage caused my laptop (4 GB) to OOM. Really cool though!

I've discovered that when role-playing (or really doing anything that extends over many messages) with ChatGPT, its a good idea to add a header to all of your messages that describ…