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It's the exact auth control I want. However, it seems it's not a safehouse for local agents, but a safe cage, IMHO. After all, it prevents damage they might cause.
Re:Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023) on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @01:59AM (#46043061)
IMHO the right-click menu these days seems to get better, at least I can find "Open with Code" or "Open in Terminal", etc. Except that I need the old menu to create a desktop shortcut occasionally.
Re:Ask HN: What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking? on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:05AM (#45577414)
Good for you. It's like you are a 2-thread human-LLM CPU.

Ask HN: What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking?

I use ChatGPT-5 Thinking a lot for day-to-day work. I prefer the response quality over speed, so I always pick the longer-thinking model. It takes ~1–5 minutes (often 1–2) to respond, but those short waits are getting increasingly distracting.I find myself doing something else, and it eventually takes more than the thinking time. Such as right now, it takes me 5 minutes to write this post, and...

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This reminds me of S07E01 of the TV show Black Mirror, which tells a story about a free brain tumor operation, followed by a monthly fee for "remote mind hosting". The standard plan goes worse and worse; your brain needs to serve as a computational resource while sleeping, and they keep pushing you to upgrade to Plus or Lux plans.
Re:Minesweeper Thermodynamics on Thursday September 04, 2025 @01:57AM (#45124006)
This is actually a quite interesting game, I played it for like 2 hours when I saw it first time.
Re:Prime Number Grid on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @06:11AM (#44950009)
Decreasing the number of columns looks like rotating some noisy parallel lines counterclockwise. Very fun.
Re:Proofs Without Words on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @03:11AM (#44307378)
There's a book called "Proofs without words". Fun to have a glance. (https://ia801405.us.archive.org/24/items/proofs-without-word...) It also has a sequel.
Re:Ten Digit Problems (2011) [pdf] on Sunday March 09, 2025 @01:29AM (#43306768)
Very interesting problems and satisfying solutions