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samcollins

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About samcollins

@smcllns

http://samcollins.blog

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    Thanks for the answers! Found it: > All Project Gutenberg metadata are available digitally in the XML/RDF format. This is updated daily (other than the legacy format mentioned belo…

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    Comment #48150621

    Very cool! Do you have a recommended way for an agent to see an index of the books and epub links? (I can’t quite tell if that’s an egregious abuse of the site or you’re perfectly …

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    Comment #48010792

    OP here. It took me an afternoon to try different methods and test the limits. But now we know how it works it’s very fast to create new ones: 1. Prompt to make SVG - review in bro…

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    Comment #48003489

    TLDR: use SVG to outline image correctly first, then send that image with your text prompt to get Gemini 3.0 Pro to render with correct numbers and text

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    Comment #47977991

    I found a simple technique to get reliable text and numbers in AI generated images. I’m surprised the image models aren’t already doing this, so wanted to share since I’m finding t…

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    Comment #47863435

    Why do you say that? I thought this pattern was well established, or are you aware of known issues with it?

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    Comment #47445914

    Yep, I suspect this is the rationale/driver too.

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    Comment #47445885

    The business driver I assume is not lock-in on UX (as some say here) but the additional signal Anthropic gets when using their harness vs a 3P one. It makes sense to discount the p…

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    Comment #46378707

    Nice! I made a similar thing but the html for the text editor fits in a data uri, so it can be a bookmark or new tab page for taking quick notes https://gist.github.com/smcllns/8b7…

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    Comment #45426181

    Re 19, I made this with an iOS Shortcut a few weeks ago > A minimal voice assistant for my Apple Watch. I have lots of questions that are too complicated for Siri but not for ChatG…

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    YMMV but a few things that helped me debug myself: 1. I got tested as an adult for ADHD 2. I experimented with diet, and found that a low carb diet reduced my symptoms quite notice…

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    Comment #13202535

    I agree. The implementation here will still enable us to learn about some aspects of UBI. The question of how benefits affect the motivation to gain re-employment will still need t…

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    Ask HN: What would you ask a perfect AI teacher to teach you?

    I work at Udacity and am interested in seeing how AI will end up playing a big role in education. I'm just curious -- if a perfect AI we're created that could teach you any concept…

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    I've done this. It's very strange how growing instead of learning can feel like the right thing to do sometimes. It seems, at least in my mind, like some instinctive reaction to de…

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    Comment #3542576

    This is fixed in the latest version. Alternatively you could just ensure zocial.css is the referenced below bootstrap.css to make sure it takes priority on styling.

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    Comment #3523747

    personal bias, sorry :-)

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    Screenshots in Safari just captured the FOUT ( http://paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-font-face-fout/ ). Not sure I'm totally convinced about those IE8 + IE9 screenshots - I've tes…

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