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The memories cause issues for me, because when I ask for something unrelated to my current projects, it makes the incorrect assumption that I am always referencing those projects when asking questions.

And, if I tell it, "No, I am asking about Postgresql." then it might update the memory that I am using Postgresql for my project instead of realizing that I am asking two separate (which is why I opened a different chat in the first place). Other times, though, it is helpful not needing to be verbose in my explanation.

I am often asked "What do you do?" when I meet someone new. I know they are asking about my job, but I throw off the expectations by saying, "Oh, I like to play video games and watch movies primarily." This is usually followed by, "Sorry, I meant what do you do for a living?" I will then, of course, tell them what they expect to hear; however, even the question "What do you do for a living?" implies that we live to work. I play video games and watch movies for living. I work merely to survive and buy the things that allow me to live my life the way I want.

AI has not been used to write any comment that I have ever posted on Hacker News. You can observe my previous comments over the years, even prior to the adoption of modern LLMs, which demonstrate how I communicate.

(While the patterns may be similar, I have a tendency to be more loquacious due to my larger token limit! %)

Using AI to write content is seen so harshly because it violates the previously held social contract that it takes more effort to write messages than to read messages. If a person goes through the trouble of thinking out and writing an argument or message, then reading is a sufficient donation of time.

However, with the recent chat based AI models, this agreement has been turned around. It is now easier to get a written message than to read it. Reading it now takes more effort. If a person is not going to take the time to express messages based on their own thoughts, then they do not have sufficient respect for the reader, and their comments can be dismissed for that reason.

This is such an impossible to solve problem that every advanced nation on Earth has already solved it, except the United States.

I thought this was a post about graphics.

There needs to be a way to see how much it is being used then and not simply the life of the Sprite.

Merely choosing lines to copy and paste from one file of your own code to another is a learning experience for your brain. AI is excellent for removing a lot of grunt work, but that type of work also reinforces your brain even if you think you are learning nothing. Something can still be lost even if AI is merely providing templates or scaffolding. The same can be said of using Google to find examples, though. You should try to come up with the correct function name or parameter list yourself in your head before using a search engine or AI. And that is for the moist simple examples, e.g. "SQL table creation example". These should be things we know off the top of our heads, so we should first try to type it out before we go to look for an answer.

Some models of the motorcycle are available right now and can charge to 80% in 10 minutes and go ~350 miles. Unless it is a scam, and you will not get your motorcycle... However, this seems legitimate.

This reminds me of the way the Internet was in the past. And the random sites to which this site links. (If you have not seen Neocities, it is another similar place which is the predecessor of Geocities before Yahoo! bought it and killed it.)

This article talks about martinis about as much as it talks about the careers of lawyers being threatened by AI. The article provides no real justification for its claims outside of anecdotal opinions. The only value of this article is that it results in a discussion in the comments section that provide the actual credence to the claims.

I thought they were talking about redesigning hardware from the ground up. There will always be history and baggage if you are working with the same computer instruction sets. From the very beginning at the level of assembly, there is history and baggage. This is not ambitious enough.

In many cases, it may be to fulfill rules associated with PCIDSS requirements, even if the company never sees the credit card. This all originates from consultants, and the consultants are engaged in security theater.

Yes, it makes sense if the environment has changed, the device has changed, or if the person is logging in from a higher threat source such as a VPN IP address. However, if nothing changed, it is a waste of time in many cases.

Along with having block lists, perhaps you could add poison to your results that generates random bad code that will not work, and that is only seen by bots (display: none when rendered), and the bots will use it, but a human never would.

This might be because they are referencing single step, and I do not think o1 is single step.

In the past, BASIC was certainly the easiest programming language to use, but ironically, many newer programming languages are now actually easier to learn. Yes, BASIC is easy, but Python, PHP, and C# are actually just as easy as the old syntax when it comes to web based solutions.

The 'people' that undergo this first will experience the most incredible pain imaginable if we do not figure out a way to block such pain first.

I consider that I have likely died more than twice in my lifetime already. And before this body gives up, I will have already died more times. Must simply enjoy the present and give gifts to my future self.

The LLM will apologize for the mistake, tell you it understands now, and then proceed to make the exact same mistake again.

Is the country wide 2FA implemented by the country or a private company? While rare, what if a person does not have access to the 2FA mechanism, and what mechanisms are permitted to confirm an identity?

You cannot copy a nuclear weapon via drag and drop.

I had a hard time getting Doom to run on my 486. I only had something like 4MB of RAM if I recall correctly so I had to restart my computer, edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT to remove options that I would use to load Windows, and then boot back into DOS to launch DOOM each time I wanted to play it to get that last bit of memory I needed. Then, when I wanted to run Windows, I had to edit the HIMEM.SYS stuff to get it running again. (I was a teenager with no Internet access. I have no idea how I figured out this stuff or where I got information from.)

We need to create something that look better! Let us update a small set of applications one at a time and leave the others that look like they are from Windows 98 still in place.

Years later, that look is old. We should update the look. But what about the other stuff we have not updated yet that is still old looking? We will get to it later.

Meanwhile, you have three or four different layouts and designs and patterns throughout the system. It is crazy. They finally updated "System" to look like the rest of Windows, but if you click "Advanced System Settings", it still brings up the old System Properties. And it is crazy that the old one is still easier to navigate and find what you are trying to find.

For one thing, they need to hire someone to be "Chief Executive of Naming Things That Make Sense" because they are terrible with naming stuff.

"I got an Xbox One!" "Oh, the first one?" "No, the XBox One not the original XBox 1."

Or, looking at the .NET evolution:

.NET Framework 4.8 .NET Core .NET Core 2 .NET Core 3 .NET 5

There is no .NET Core 4 because people would get confused with .NET Framework 4 which is still getting bug fixes and has support. And they wanted people to move from .NET Framework 4 so they called it .NET 5 instead of .NET Core 5.

Well, the name of the company is Microsoft, not Microhard.

I think Google is afraid of Microsoft.

The Apply button was pointless. OK is supposed to apply. Apply simply made the changes, but it did not dismiss the dialog. Apply seemed confusing to most users and there should have only been two buttons. If you click OK, there was no reason to keep the dialog visible since you should be able to click the same thing (easily) to get back to it.

If the Apply button was necessary because you could not easily get back to the dialog, then it was a problem with the interface before the dialog opened. That is, it should be easy to open dialogs, close them, and open them again.

The important thing is that they never said it was Johansson. They were not pretending to be her. They are not imitating her likeness whatsoever.

I have totally wanted to build out "pet VR". Put an animal on a type of treadmill in a virtual world and let them run around. The major issue with the idea is that dogs rely on smell quite a bit so it would likely not be a decent replacement experience for them versus going outdoors.