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wrcwill

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About wrcwill

williamscullion (at) gmail (dot) com

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    Comment #47459738

    this reads as a very low quality and probably fully llm written post. the analysis is very suspicious: “gpt 5 mini had api failures due to wrong temp setting”? wtf? whatever you us…

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    Comment #46254171

    ugh this is so amateurish. i swear since the release of o3 this has been happening on and off.

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    Comment #46166473

    can someone explain why zig is often compared to rust? i understand zig as a better C, but in what world is another memory unsafe language a good idea? i mean i kinda get if the th…

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    Comment #46135634

    im not sure why we need to go off rumours, the knowledge cutoff for each openai model is clearly listed in the table: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/compare?model=gpt-5...…

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    Comment #45904737

    Unless I'm missing something, this has nothing to do with asynchronous code. The delete is just synchronous code running, same as if we called a function/closure right there. This …

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    Comment #45254232

    can you ctrl-f now?

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    Comment #44965274

    still a low frequency pwm phone.. what i would give for a modern no-pwm / high frequency pwm phone

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    Comment #44867631

    i split the context and give it in two messages :/

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    Comment #44854678

    definitely 1! it seems to truncate your prompt even under the "maximum message length" and yeah around 55k is where it starts to happen. extremely annoying. o1 pro worked up until …

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    Comment #44833087

    how are you using it? codex-cli?

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    Comment #44830176

    well no, thats where it gets confused. as soon as you sail across to the other pole you are forced to go up to a speed of 1670kmh. when models try to be smart/creative they attempt…

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    Comment #44829731

    ugh still fails my test prompt: https://chatgpt.com/share/689507c7-5394-8009-b836-c6281a246e... "Assume the earth was just an ocean and you could travel by boat to any location. Yo…

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    Comment #44252335

    while it doesn't take away from the article, i find it worrying that it seems mostly written with chatgpt "This is not just a technical glitch; it’s a deep theoretical problem that…

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    Comment #43922059

    what about the vscode agent? is there a reason it is never in the conversation? I thought they added an agent early 2025?

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    Comment #41493242

    yup, ill keep using the 11/se until they stop using pwm for their oled screens (most oled tvs can dc dimming just fine)

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    Comment #39604303

    yeah i meant if each field could be a tuple of (val, bool) or (val, err) to get around the pointer issue

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    Comment #39598165

    yeah, is there a way to deserialize using (val, err) instead of *val when the field is optional?

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    Comment #39595008

    sorry, type cast it to what? Say i have `*Thing`. Are you saying i should cast it to a `Thing`? That is what I was doing initially (im fine with copies), but then you can't call fu…

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    Comment #39594453

    question for experienced go devs: how do you deal with the lack of optional type or narrowing? from what i understand, pointers become used for that purpose instead (in addition to…

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    Comment #39403515

    definitely. I couldn't go back to a language without result types, null safety, and a way to control mutability. Unfortunately the list is pretty short.. rust, haskell, and now gle…

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    Comment #32756336

    yeah, i had hope with the "open Messages" prompt on the satellite finder view, but then they didn't mention it unfortunately

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    Comment #32756182

    With garmin gps phones you can text any number, not just emergency services. Did anyone catch if this would be possible with the new iphone's emergency satellite plan?

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    Comment #29369537

    i was using rust numpy for this, i wonder how much faster this is and if it supports passing arrays of strings

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    Comment #27630966

    this just reads to me as "our tests don't test for the right things, since when we act on those tests (even if they were 100% accurate), it doesn't lead to better patient outcomes"…