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Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by amscanne »

johnchristopher wrote: post #54

At first I was clicking the top but people kept unchecking my stuff. Why can't we (we ? who's that we ?) all get along toward clicking them all ? So I figured there would be less people fighting down the window, right ? For a while I was alone. It was a boring and meaningless job but it felt peaceful. Then I met someone who's also checking boxes, 5 seconds top, they are gone. Okay, then I kept scrolling, checking box…

Such a strange reflection of ourselves that I had the exact same intent and methodology as you.

I’m sure that we were not alone, and there were many of us appeasing the goblins in our brains yelling for order, diligently checking boxes row by row (or some other orderly pattern). If I had landed on the page with every box checked, I would have felt a sense of doneness and left it in that perfect state. It’s so hard to empathize with all these maniacs here who would destroy that beauty just to write “boobs” ;)

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by nomel »

falseprofit wrote: post #212
crdrost wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a rectangular grid. People aren't going to troll with dicks, but swastikas.

Virtually all monitors are rectangular grids

You could sorta kinda claim that most OLED displays are not rectangular [1], since only green is at full resolution, with blue and red being at a partial resolution, by sharing those sub pixels between "logical" pixels.

[1] https://www.oled-info.com/gs5-diamond-pixel-architecture-not...

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by furyofantares »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #213
Vampiero wrote: post #206

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Well maybe next time OP will actually do their analysis and figure out that the project is DOA before even writing one line of code.

The project was wildly successful. I didn't know who eieio was, and now I do. I suspect that's true for lots of people now.

Oh that's Celine Dion minus the consonants

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by nomel »

green-eclipse wrote: post #147
eieio wrote: post #59

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it's a tiny flask server, a bitset stored in redis, updates broadcast (too frequently! but i don't want to change it now) via websockets, and react-window to only render the checkboxes that are in view. I'll do a writeup when i finish putting out fires!

I don't understand, where is the AI + LLM part

Actual Intelligence + Logical Language Manifestation

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by sillysaurusx »

crdrost wrote: post #210
matthewfcarlson wrote: post #83

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I spent five minutes writing “hey you, yes you” only to read your comment and realize my message is unparsable for those not on mobile.

This problem is traditionally solved by attempting to teach the aliens how to decode the pattern inside the pattern itself. For example a rendering might look like x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x x x x x x x x x…

How long did you spend crafting this comment? Be honest.

I could imagine doing that with Vim, but I don’t think I could do it in less than ten minutes. And then I’d get sidetracked about whether to represent empty checkboxes with _ or - or a Unicode box.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by nomel »

paulnpace wrote: post #195
eieio wrote: post #90

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for future readers, i ended up swapping things out and batching my updates. spooky to do live, but helped a lot with performance

You could sell T-shirts to cover your costs: A T-shirt with a checked box on the front an unchecked box on the back. A T-shirt with an unchecked box on the front and a checked box on the back.

You have two bits, which clearly results in four shirts.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Post by teractiveodular »

lobsterthief wrote: post #162
green-eclipse wrote: post #147

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I don't understand, where is the AI + LLM part

Each time a checkbox is checked, a backend job asks ChatGPT to analyze the board state and write a script using Brainfuck that updates the checkbox states and runs it directly in production. AI LLM cloud crypto.

But can I mint an NFT of my checkbox designs?
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