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Re:507 Mechanical Movements on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:15PM (#49468981)
If you haven't checked it out before, Nicholas Rougeux often does these types of modernization conversions for older printed content: https://www.c82.net/

e.g. here's a very beautiful reproduction of Euclid's elements https://www.c82.net/work/euclid

Re:Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:49PM (#38547196)
Re: on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @06:32PM (#37398708)
One of my first (toy) websites was a silly floppy disk size calculator. You could enter an amount of songs/movies/files/etc and it would tell you how many disks it would take: https://howmanyfloppydisks.com/

It was very grounding to understand how disk capacity has grown over time.

Re:Who Invented Vector Clocks? on Monday April 10, 2023 @12:26AM (#35509165)
As usual, a (semi-)relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/978/ (Citogenesis)
Re:ChatGPT-4 is unable to do a simple thing on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:18PM (#35473083)
Interesting stuff! Prompt engineering can really help improve the LLM output(s).

For example, replacing "that's two part name, I want one part name" with "those are compound names, I want a single-part name." Note that the only change is changing "two part" to "compound."

Results look much more reasonable with that: I apologize for misunderstanding your request earlier. Here are some single-part name options for a Diablo 2 Necromancer:

Vex Kain Zoltar Mordecai Stryfe Xander Grimoire Lazarus Zephyr Azrael

Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:38PM (#23070153)
Something that I've found useful is https://pock.dev/ . It lets the touchbar replace the on-screen dock