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Do you have a nose like an anteater or are you actually a cyclops? I don't think typical human's noses occupy a large space in the center of their vision.

ChatGPT has done that for me too, but as you note asking the question a slightly different way produced a positive response. I think they simply trained it to produce “I don’t know…

I asked chatGPT questions about some Open Source libraries, such as what interfaces to use for certain tasks. It recommended deprecated APIs and claimed that the preferred APIs did…

I can't even. Did they use the one that's basically Forth with a string stack (No, not Postscript, Forth with a string stack) or the one that's basically m4 (the higher level of th…

I used BeOS. It had some great features, but it wasn't great the way NeXTStep was great. If it had been built on top of C++ 11 or later, instead of whatever C++9x they were using, …

Technically that was an SQL injection attack. :)

Bitcoin's value is backed by people's belief in Bitcoin. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth any more than Dogecoin. And calling the massive waste of resources involved in Bitcoin minin…

Netflix chooses to use DRM. That's completely on them.

Earlier this year I downloaded a season of a TV show I wanted to catch up on, into Google Play on my tablet. A few weeks later I was on a plane, and finally had a chance to watch t…

Flash and Silverlight were low friction. And both are deprecated or unavailable on a lot of players now. Making DRM harder for the end user is the only effective push-back. It work…

> i want DRM to be a difficult and cumbersome stack to use Exactly. Even flash plugins are too easy, really, so long as flash is ubiquitous. NOW would be the time to hit it, as fla…

Unnecessary dependencies are a bug. I've seen people pull in half a dozen nested libraries just to avoid writing ten lines of code. Sometimes re-inventing the wheel is the right th…

Simplify the interface. Don't combine unrelated functionality in a single library.