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pinkcan

not a native speaker, but have been reading and writing english long enough to pick up the meaning immediately

anyway, had the same though when typing my sibling comment, felt so disgusted reading that

thanks for clearing that up
yea, it's just another one to add to a list of expressions that are unnecessarily aggressive, and for which there are better alternatives
it's hip, they use hip tech and hired hip folks, so you know it's the place to be ;)
what's up with the status page?
DO, OVH, and Hetzner are more stable because they don't use buzzwords?
monitoring means you might get called-in on your night-out

who wants that?

> a throat to choke

yikes

unless the intent of the code is to demonstrate some implementation where the optimisations would be distracting
Re:Custom Instructions for ChatGPT on Thursday July 20, 2023 @03:24PM (#36805453)
in order to reduce hallucinations one can use other tricks, chain-of-thought and reflection being two popular ones
Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT on Thursday July 20, 2023 @02:01AM (#36797322)
models are still having trouble reasoning – current tricks still depend of feeding back an intermediate answer with a different prompt, but it is still an LLM, and most times the same LLM
Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT on Thursday July 20, 2023 @01:55AM (#36797283)
that would be copilot not chatgpt
parent gave five examples of issues they found while using a taxi in the manner you described

you could have just believed them instead of being antagonistic about it, this is especially unnecessary given the topic has a history that supports the experiences the parent poster listed

> uses half the memory

this is false

> two orders of magnitude faster

incorrect

> doesn't let your users DOS you by triggering huge file reads on each request.

I understood what you were trying to do on your first reply – "Prolly don't want to read the file on every request though" – no need to repeat yourself.

plese remember:

1. it's pseudo code, the optimisation is superfluous

2. it never ran, the optimisation is useless

congratulations, you've optimised a snippet that never ran – it was typed into the post form from memory
Re:Tor is not just for anonymity on Sunday July 16, 2023 @02:16AM (#36744158)
and how do you get access to the VPN?

all VPNs need authentication and payments, otherwise your just connecting to another open network with the same issues as TOR.

if you make payments, and then auth on connection, they "know" who you are and TOR at the start is not giving you anything

  import flask
  import random
  app=flask.Flask()
  @app.route('/')
  def random_redir():
    with open('urls.txt') as of:
      return flask.redirect(random.choice(of.readlines()))
I guess I got lucky as it sent me to: https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
Re:Can Neural Stimulation Zap Addiction? on Saturday July 15, 2023 @04:12AM (#36734668)
"Exploring Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Potential Treatment for Addiction: Promising Results but More Research Needed"
Re:Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:42AM (#36734510)
you could start by pushing all articles into a database; have another process quickly label/tag the entries based on the criteria you care about; web or tui app to show you only the entries you care about; slower clean up job for entries you don't care to keep around anymore
Re:Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:36AM (#36734483)
1. the script is generated by the llm

2. the user runs the script that does the scraping

these are temporally separate actions

Re:Tor is not just for anonymity on Saturday July 15, 2023 @02:48AM (#36734236)
what is tor adding to that setup?
Re:Tor is not just for anonymity on Saturday July 15, 2023 @02:45AM (#36734229)
tailscale

got a mini at home serving as an exit node

set this up one time the it dep was being obtuse about fw rules, and locked us out of ssh, so we couldn't push to gh - amateur hour; add more shadow it

Re:Game Design Wiki on Friday July 14, 2023 @04:52PM (#36729780)
anonymous/guest editing does not a wiki make
> impactful against the users

dude, what?

People committed suicide the last time this shit happened.

Maybe redirect your outrage at the company's executives?

Re:How Will ATSC 3.0 Transform TV Advertising? on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:10PM (#36700944)
can we agree to abolish the pedantic class, they produce boring commentary
Re:The Horror Game of the Year Is a Doom II Mod on Saturday July 08, 2023 @10:39AM (#36644852)
this is right – I apologise for misleading folks on creating that folder

my local alias is actually: mkdir='mkdir -pv'

Re:The Horror Game of the Year Is a Doom II Mod on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:54AM (#36642011)
on mac?

go to gog.com and buy a doom2 copy, then forget about it

search for doom2.wad and get it from the archive

get gzdoom 4.x

mkdir -r ~/Library/Application Support/GZDoom && open ~/Library/Application Support/GZDoom

put the doom2.wad in that folder

download the myhouse.pk3 from the google drive and drop it on the gzdoom app

enjoy!

Re:The Horror Game of the Year Is a Doom II Mod on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:27AM (#36641890)
I just purchased I and II from GOG, they're EXEs; i'm on a macos machine :'(
Re:The Horror Game of the Year Is a Doom II Mod on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:15AM (#36641817)
where is the doom2.wad coming from?

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