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wrcwill
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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"…