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I was given promethazine to help with sleep, an antihistamine with sedating properties.

Was told by the doctor it was a much safer alternative to most other treatments. Could be worth asking about.

It sounds a fantastic claim, but I'll read up a bit on it so thanks.

Must admit though I've not had any drug - prescribed or illicit - that had a more immediate and powerful effect on my anxiety than a benzodiazepine (granted I've not tried heroin before!).

Thankfully they are incredibly hard to get prescribed where I live due too all the above associated dangers.

Very odd! Appreciate you've been up front with lots of privacy on the site.

It feels like a really odd coincidence given the size of the town in question. I suspect the db-ip service has cached the IP somehow against other data for me, perhaps the ipv6 if you use that?

Nice, but can I ask how you determine location?

It added mine as my old home town but I haven't been to that location for a while and it's 20 miles away from where I was when I posted.

Update: I am on mobile, used chrome and Firefox, normal and incognito mode. All show my old town location, Max mind says my IP is in a different town 70 miles away. Either some super odd coincidence and stale geoip lookup or some very advanced device fingerprinting tracking! Feels too odd to be a coincidence

I did an odd interactive media course in college - not CS but lots of programming in various languages.

I loved Director and used it for many assignments. Made so many CD-ROMs, even 3d games using Shockwave and models we'd make in 3DS Max.

It was fun graduating and trying to get a job in 2003! Realising CD ROMs were becoming a thing of the past and having to immediately teach myself HTML and Flash.

On reflection it set the tone for the 20+ years of continuous learning and language swapping!

Coining a new term on the fly:

https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/16/ai-chatbots-developed-a-...

Remembering that term and incorporating it into its mind:

You're ignoring simple things like a growing context but also the possibility of online learning

I don't see why this couldn't be possible. We use LLMs whose weights are frozen and are not updated at inference, most likely this is due to reasons of cost, stability and control.

Theoretically you could update the weights at inference time too though so the model evolved as it's used. Surely some people are trying this already.

I often have to teach basic OOP concepts to junior - mid level developers.

Many who've entered the career in the last decade or so seem to have missed what I 'd consider to be quite a fundamental grounding.

Not even advanced concepts from the gang of four book - though I have taught these too - but often just an un-awareness of OOP in general, even simple things like understanding encapsulation.

Frameworks and languages do evolve, but never being taught basic things like encapsulating state or exposing dependencies seems an issue. Very differnt from my own time as a junior when this stuff was constantly hammered home.

An unfortunate name for certain audiences in the UK!

If only the Roman's had digitized their self help literature!

It is interesting to know! My assumption would be it's technical or scientific publications, maybe things like the Springer back catalog (assuming they've not already licensed these). Some of these are "rare" as in they are essentially published PHD theses with very little in the way of sales / print runs.

Of course I could be wrong and they are destroying 14th century monastic scrolls or out of print Mills & Boon editions.

Should take a look at some of the ISO specs for various MPEG standards for example.

The container formats are defined in a way that could potentially make this possible.

Indeed, I've never developed my own film but I do respect it entails a fair bit of effort, and the funky old camera is cool.

But scanning, cropping using one of the latest image editors, then running it through imagemagick does not feel like the hardest way to make a gif.

I like the core of the game and similar ones like Boggle. But agree for this the timer and having only one game per day makes this not enjoyable.

Not enough reward in the mechanics, I played about 50% of the archive games and each was the same. A feeling a frantic pressure and an inability to hit the 18 words every time (i.e. I lost)

Maybe I'm just too slow, but I feel like a good game should cater for players of mixed ability. This one seems stuck in pro / turbo mode and left me feeling frustrated - which is the only thing really thats stopped me bookmarking it or sharing with my family.

Edit to add - Boggle also has a timer and puts you pressure. But there's multiple paths through the grid which means your less likely to hit a brick wall and also allows for small side wins that help you along (e.g oh there's another three letter word when I am really looking for a 5 or 6).

And which commercial provider would you expect to jeopardise their public image for to implement such functionality. Grok comes close I guess, but X have not come out of it looking great.

Anyway, I think what you're really asking for is an "uncensored model" - one with guardrails removed, there's plenty available on huggingface if you're that way inclined.

Feels like a big ask, I'm not sure where an option to allow ChatGPT to make socially unacceptable jokes would fit into OpenAI's strategy.

> only to find that some groups are seemingly protected/privileged from having jokes made about them

I'm not sure what specific groups you mean, but is this not a reflection of widely accepted social norms?

It's not boasting, I'm not sure why what I wrote would come across that way. I'm describing how I use a product and the functionality it presents to me.

But yes, it's an emerging area and I am questioning if I am sharing too much with it. I 100% would not want my chat histories exposed.

Saying that though, facebook can read my highly personal messages, google every email, my phone is tracking my every move, I have to sign up for random janky websites for my kids school where ther medical info is stored, etc.

LLM chat history presents a new risk and a different set of data, but it's a crowded minefield already.

I'm curious from the other direction, what are the conversations like if you feel they are easy to move?

Do you have the memory feature disabled? I have the feeling this in particular is doing absolutely loads behind the scene, e.g summarising all conversations and adding additional hidden context to every request.

I can start a new chat in the UI right now, ask it what my job is, what my current project is, how many kids I have, what car I drive etc. It'll know the answer already.

I think it's this conversation history - or maybe better yet if we think of it as this "relationship" - that people are saying is going to make it hard to move.

This is not the case.

I use OpenAI a lot on the paid plan via the UI. It now knows absolutely loads about me and seems to have a massive amount of cross conversational memory. It's really getting very close to what you'd expect from a human conversation in this regard.

Sure the model itself is still stateless, and if you use the API then what you say is true.

But they are doing so much unseen summarisation and longer context building behind the scenes in the webapp, what you see in the current conversation history is just a fraction of what is getting sent to the model.

Others getting nostalgia over the Xbox 360 reminds me how old I am!

I was playing about with Chat GPT the other day, uploading screen shots of sheet music and asking it to convert it to ABC notation so I could make a midi file of it.

The results seemed impressive until I noticed some of the "Thinking" statements in the UI.

One made it apparent the model / agent / whatever had read the title from the screenshot and was off searching for existing ABC transcripts of the piece Ode to Joy.

So the whole thing was far less impressive after that, it wasn't reading the score anymore, just reading the title and using the internet to answer my query.

I went to Lidl UKs first walk out shop a few weeks ago. You get the bill and receipts about 40 minutes after you've left.

It certainly felt like it could have been sent off to a lower paid country for a human to tot up.

Also consider you're in the store for what, 10 mins - that's a lot of video processing presumably using state of the art CV models. It's quite possibly cheaper to pay a human than rent the H100 to do it.

I don't get this kind of indignation against anything shell related.

I often favour low maintenance and over head solutions. Most recently I made a stupidly large static website with over 50k items (i.e. pages).

I think a lot of people would have used a database at this point, but the site didn't need to be updated once built so serving a load of static files via S3 makes ongoing maintenance very low.

Also feel a slight sense of superiority when I see colleagues write a load of pandas scripts to generate some basic summary stats Vs my usual throw away approach based around awk.

It's because phones speakers aren't loud enough to be audible over the sound of the tube itself!

It is noticeable on buses and overground when people play things out load, but to be honest quite rare in the grand scheme of things.

Clearly one use case where it wouldn't work.

On the other hand I'm a software engineer and my incredibly powerful MacBook could be not much more than a fancy dumb terminal - to be honest it almost is already.

If I can play a very responsive multiplayer game of the latest call of duty on my $300 TV with a little arm chip in it, then I could well imagine doing my job on a cloud Mac if the terminal device looked and felt like a MacBook but had the same tiny CPU my TV has.

Not sure if I'd choose it as a personal device but for corporations it seems a no brainer.

I'm not really a big gamer but was looking into buying an xbox again. I already had a controller and thought why not try xbox cloud gaming on my Samsung TV.

With a decent internet connection I now struggle to see why anyone would want to buy a hardware Xbox. Games on the cloud version load instantly, play brilliantly and cost the same as the usual Game Pass as far as I can tell. The catalogue seems smaller maybe but aside from that I see little downside.

I could see it working well for PCs too - as long as the terminal device is seamless. I guess us devs have been renting computers in "the cloud" for decades anyway.

That's actually about the same price as the pi 500+ without the screen. Except that one has 500gb Vs 256gb SSD, but doesn't have the snazzy led keyboard.

Processor comparison too

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-raspberry_pi_5_b_b...

I dunno, I brought a pi 500+ with an SSD, 16GB RAM, little screen, PSU, mouse and cables. It was around £300.

It's not super powerful but my young kids use it to surf the net, play Minecraft, do art projects, etc. (we are yet to play with the gpio).

I don't get on with the keyboard but otherwise would make a decent development machine for me, considering my development starts with me ssh'ing into some remote VM and running vim.

The whole lot is tiny and extremely portable, we pack it away in a draw when not in use.

All in it felt like good value for money for something that took about 3 minutes to get up and running.