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monk_grilla

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About monk_grilla

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49150370

    Ask someone for feedback on your website. To you it might look ok, but to me and I think many others, it is unintelligible. I have no idea what I'm looking at and it is impossible …

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    Comment #49150066

    Did you look at the other four posters in the top five? They were all way better imho.

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    Comment #49149996

    > ...typing notes into a dumb markdown file with the textbooks name is good enough What sorts of things are you writing into your markdown file? After 3.5 years of uni I still don'…

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    Comment #49149948

    Wow, that was a highly relevant and specific website to source here!

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    Comment #49149798

    I don't know I think it is charming in a way that is lacking in nearly everything else an LLM tries to do creatively. I have always preferred the result of getting an LLM to draw a…

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    Comment #49149422

    Any time I've been in an age-restricted venue here in Australia they have taken a picture of me and my ID at the door.

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    Comment #49118554

    They first starting appearing after Fable in my memory. The first HTML docs I generated with Fable had that cream serif with orange highlight look. I thought it looked awesome unti…

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    Comment #49106107

    There is no reason to distinguish LLMs from other forms of software, though. If calling them intelligent makes you uncomfortable, perhaps you can concede that they can solve proble…

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    Comment #49105934

    That second one resonates a bit better for me. Personally I don't think I'm ready to hand over total access to my digital life until I can self-host the model capable enough to act…

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    Comment #49105683

    > An example, a friend just emailed me asking to meet for at 1pm but I have class at 1:30, so a proactive AI would see that conflict and send me a notification about it, asking if …

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    Comment #49092553

    Can anyone explain why Apple needed Klarna for this? They have Apple Card so presumably they are capable of providing financial services like loans on their own, why bring in a thi…

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    Comment #49078173

    Tokenmaxxing is referring to the phenomenon of developers in big tech deliberately trying to use as many tokens as possible because it is a KPI? Then yeah, I would say you're right…

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    Comment #49078134

    The most American thing I've ever heard lmao

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    Comment #49078130

    Yep. Sick of reading stuff that operates under the assumption that America is the faultless good guy and the only one to be trusted with the most dangerous and capable technology. …

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    Comment #49077986

    I think you're right. "Guardrails" as a concept has always struck me as a band-aid solution which any sufficiently motivated actor will circumvent by either bypassing them or using…

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    Comment #49077893

    > Someone who until yesterday did not seem bothered by his technology being possibly used to bomb elementary girls school in another country... I might have missed something but wa…

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    Comment #49030006

    > Echo does not disclose its per-request routing decision because that policy is the product I have not had need for a router product thus far so excuse my ignorance if this is sta…

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    Comment #49029993

    I imagine that most small to medium sized businesses are on either individual plans or Teams plans. The vast majority of firms do not need more than 150 seats, and API rates are no…

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    Comment #49016473

    Yeah this is truly crazy subtitle tech and it always blows my mind how they make it so seamless.

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    Comment #49015494

    > ... with software engineering going the way that it is. What lateral like passion could I transition to, as she did? A question I ask myself increasingly frequently. Do let us kn…

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    Comment #49014944

    That's an interesting observation. I wonder if simply prompting for that in your personal system prompt might help? "Be aware of 'xy problems': when the user asks x but really, the…

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    Comment #48988451

    Do you leave your gaming rig switched on at home at all times?

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    Comment #48988391

    I tried to verify that figure and I'm pretty sure you mean ~$28/user/ year . Instagram's global ad revenue ~$83.6B in 2025. [1] Instagram passed 3 billion monthly active users in S…

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    Comment #48903033

    Would love to give this a try once it is working in Australia. Our options are just DiDi and Uber.