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How well would it work to ask the working LLM to rewrite the prompt to get the best results? Do the models understand enough about themselves to do that?

>> (but why would you have off-black text anyway?) I had read a long time ago that when doing web design you should avoid pure white and pure black, especially when one is on top o…

Came here to mention the same thing. Very well be on me, tho. I’m using the Brave browser (is it safari-powered?) and on iOS 18.7.9, which is the newest my old iPhone X supports.

My monthly subscription for Claude is up in a week, is there any compelling reason to switch to Codex (for coding/bug fixing of low/medium difficulty apps)? Or is it pretty much a …

Alliance! Get ‘em!!!

For me it was Turbo Pascal, Turbo C/C++, regular Borland C++. Not an enterprise app, but I worked on a project (kind of like a primitive CMS) for a church using PFS:Write and PFS:P…

I definitely get the appeal. It’s analogous to the single file executable. One file to move around, no install process needed, just grab and run. It was the main reason I used to r…

In case anyone sees this, thank you for the comments despite my comment being down-voted, I appreciate the insite!

That's a good point, thank you.

Interesting how different two people can come to two completely polar conclusions. I guess it depends on your social bubble, on either side. In my experience, the right was very op…

Nah, just replace it with the community_scribe_of_appropriate_self_hatred. It can be aliased to 'scribe' if it helps, though it loses some of it's power.

I offer another option: bad actors that are taking advantage of the disputes to further their own agendas. Only, it's not an option, it's more of a documented reality. And it's eve…

Very nice, that was my first language on a PC-compatible (Epson Equity I if anyone remembers those, later upgraded it with a 20MB Seagate ST225!). Man, those were the days... and g…

No, on the newer iPhones press and hold simply brings up Siri. Gotta press and hold main button and either volume button simultaneously. If that doesn’t work you should be able to …

My iPhone 10 locked up hard a few days and I couldn’t get it to turn off using the standard method. After some digging, I found a new trick that I guess is implemented at a lower l…

Pardon my ignorance, but does the test detect the actual virus or fragments that result from the infection?

Age old argument, but it's pronounced like soo-suh. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9bq_alk-sw (on the SUSE youtube channel)

One really big advantage of Send over attachments is that you don't have seemingly immortal copies of the files hanging around in people's mail clients and/or IMAP servers.

Very true. A few years ago I quit drinking sodas and switched to sugar-free flavorings (eg. Crystal Light, Mio, etc). After a year or so I ordered a Mt. Dew, my previous vice, whil…

I agree, and would also throw in Mac Lethal[1] :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Lethal

I'll second TiddlyWiki. I've used it for several years and became a fan early on. These days you might run across some hiccups in getting it to work in your browser of choice. Over…

Good point, thank you.

That was my first impression, too :) I clicked one headline to see what happens and thought, "cool." Clicked 'back' to return to the title list, and suddenly I'm looking at the HN …

And, from what I've read, Amazon is supporting legislation of a higher minimum wage. Which, seems to me, would be more of a burden on their competitors than themselves, thus giving…

It's also worth noting that, in a sense, the shell is actually shrinking. Every moment, more of our observable universe disappears "beyond the veil", so-to-speak, as the universe o…