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trentearl

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About trentearl

Traveller. İstanbul. working for the banks

https://twitter.com/24qdu https://earlearlearl.com

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    My friends and I used Menuet back in 2003 to circumvent our highschool's OS restrictions. Impressive to see it's still around, great project!

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    Comment #46756693

    The alternative is better trained officers with more accountability.

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    Comment #45640830

    cat is a classic unix program that outputs the contents of one or more files to stdout. It's short for concatenate

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    Comment #43661984

    There is DARPA program called TRACTOR to pursue this: https://www.darpa.mil/news/2024/memory-safety-vulnerabilitie...

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    Comment #41149798

    Nice new website! Great project, I've been using it since the pro55esing java applet days. I got my 10 year old niece interested in programming by showing her some quick openproces…

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    Comment #39730467

    Tinariwen. The very best. Ladysmith black mambazo. Miriam makiba and my favorite William Onyeabor.

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    Comment #38220414

    Looks cool, im interested. When I click on the documentation link in the landing page hamburger menu, navigation doesn’t happen (iPhone safari).

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    Comment #37207262

    Thanks! Actually, this project is born out of the chaining idea youre talking about. I've been dogfooding this with another app like google translate for language learners ( https:…

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    Comment #37203337

    Originally I planned to include output validation using zod but I scrapped it in favor of simplicity. I never considered regex validation that would be much simpler. I'm open to ad…

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    Comment #37202580

    Sorry about that, should be fixed now. An app is just way to group multiple related functions/prompts. It was throwing a 403 because it thought the app didnt belong to your user. I…

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    Comment #37201002

    Ive been getting good JSON results by just including a typescript type named Output in the prompt, but it performs poorly for usecases that have to handle unexpected or widely vary…

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    Comment #37200526

    Thanks, thats a great blog post. I never thought of using prompt as interactive instructions like that. Yes the cacheing is super helpful for certain use cases, like composing mult…

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    Comment #37200100

    Thanks a lot! I purposefully avoided looking at similar projects while developing until now, so this is the first time I'm seeing other projects in this space. Superfunctions is di…

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    Comment #37199850

    Thanks! That specific prompt is just an example and it's pretty bad, it was the shortest and simplest prompt I could come up with that would be easily understood. You can set respo…

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    Show HN: Superfunctions – AI prompt templates as an API

    Hi HN, https://superfunctions.com I'm working on a web app that allows Ai prompts to function as an API. I want to make it easier for developers to use Ai. I've found it painful to…

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    Comment #37040429

    I built a canoe out of plywood with no wood working experience. It was very difficult, and involved a lot more epoxy, sanding and clamps than I expected. But in the end I could flo…

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    Comment #37039429

    Cool project

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    Comment #37012915

    Lovely project, much more polish than I anticipated.

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    Comment #37001665

    Yes that is true, but that is a scientific fact and is not an appropriate comparison when talking about human populations and their approach to pair bonding, which is driven mostly…

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    Comment #36999499

    Is it antiquated if most humans living today still think that way?

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    Comment #36290336

    Strange, I have the exact opposite experience. I have personally have felt ostracized multiple times for suggesting it was likely there was an unintentional lab leak. I often got c…

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    Comment #36290142

    I've lived in Airbnbs on and off for the past few years and am currently 6 months in a row. Quality is really a roll of the dice. I use a travel router which solves most internet p…

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    Comment #35846412

    I tried this during university. I hosted a party with a bunch of fruits and vegetables. It was a really fun time, it really does work. I remember being surprised that many people s…

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    Comment #35034405

    Keep in mind without residency Americans can only stay in Europe (Schengen zone) for 90 days in any 180 day window.

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    Comment #34767001

    Looks cool, good work. I made something similar a few months ago, but yours looks a lot more polished. https://github.com/trentearl/aicli . https://earlearlearl.com/posts/aibash-op…