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In a home with only responsible adults, it would be fine. With kids it would be a repeat of the olden days before unlimited texting when the parents would get the cellphone bill at the end of the month.

But I wonder how soon we’ll have fine-tuned or otherwise customized specialized LLMs that are cheaper to run? In the mean time this kind of thing is a really neat proof-of-concept of how ChatGPT’s abilities can be harnessed.

Seconded! And put on the album "Eye in the Sky" by The Alan Parsons Project while you play. I happened to listen to that while playing the game and thematically it's very appropriate.

A "good stopping place" is the worst place to stop. This article is a good example of making it easier to get started next time by leaving some loose ends for your future self.

Reminds me of Bill Watterson.

Nice. For anyone getting an LCD tablet for drawing, look for one like the link above where the drawing area is all one color. My kids have one with a rainbow gradient, which I find annoying -- especially because the darkest/lowest contrast color goes right across the middle in the prime drawing area!

Hah, sounds similar to a fecal transplant to restore the gut biome.

The Savoy entrance on Google Maps, in case anyone else is curious.

Does anyone know why they have drivers enter on the right instead of the left? Does it make valet parking faster or something?

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5106158,-0.1210778,3a,17.4y,...

One car driving significantly slower than the rest of traffic can itself be a safety problem:

"To keep a smooth traffic flow, some highways also have minimum speed limits. If you drive slower than the minimum speed you can halt the traffic flow and create a dangerous condition. Even if there is no minimum speed limit, those driving too slow can be as dangerous as those who drive too fast."

https://dmv.ny.gov/about-dmv/chapter-8-defensive-driving#yre...

That’s it, thank you!

I wish there was an easy way to correct typos online for the sake of the next person. I understand that this would open the door wide for abuse, but I can dream, right?

I can't find it now but I remember reading a post on HN with the suggestion to make all your runbooks shell scripts, even if all they start out as a series of prompts walking the user through the checklist of manual tasks.

This way you can incrementally automate various pieces of it so that gradually the user is doing less and less, but there's continuity on their end: run the script and do whatever it says to do next.

As far as I'm aware, racoons are not dangerous (unless they have rabies). They can just be a nuisance since they're good at getting into containers to steal food.

This interactive website lets you test your ability to spot drowning and develop a sense of what to watch out for - can you see which person in the wave pool is drowning before the lifeguard blows the whistle and jumps in?

http://spotthedrowningchild.com/

Relative to a particular floor, there are stairs that go up to the floor above and there are stairs that go down to the floor below.

I like this distinction between raw data and processed understanding; thanks for sharing your insight!

"NASA has spent decades learning how to survive in the harsh environment of Congress, and that knowledge is bearing fruit today."

This is a great line.

No, it's just a half-baked idea I've had after reading people's arguments for and against various interviewing approaches.

I wonder to what extent they did it for practicality and to what extent they did it because they could.

I think companies could test their interview process this way. Fill some positions by choosing from the candidate pool at random (there could be a baseline filter to ensure a minimum level of competence) and compare the random hires with the regular hires to see how much of a difference the interview process really makes.

It's also not practical to fit into a size 32 if one's true band size is 40, any more than someone with a 40 inch waist can wear size 32 pants.

You can go the other way more easily and in my understanding/experience that's typically what happens (i.e. someone who's true size is 32DD wearing a 40A due to a limited set of options available in many brick-and-mortar stores).

Picture trying to fit an orange into a cup that's too small — there will be space between the orange and the cup, which could make it seem like the cup is too big. If you can't get a cup that's big enough for the orange to fit in, a flat plate (i.e. 40A) is the second-best option since at least it won't have weird gaps. This leads to women underestimating their true cup size.

For me what puts Hacker News in the same bucket as Twitter, Reddit, or Facebook is that it’s a constantly refreshing feed of content that requires very little choice or initiative on my end to access. It’s always here, always novel, and I don’t have to think from a blank slate to figure out what I want to read, I just come and pick from the menu that’s been put in front of me.

I can contribute and participate actively by doing critical thinking and leaving comments but I can also read passively and barely even think my own thoughts. For me that passive version is the default.

I agree that social media is not the most accurate term. I wonder what a good alternative would be. “Mindless feed reading” could refer to the act of consuming it.

If it’s a tradeoff between login speed and security, it seems reasonable to allow users to chose where they want to land between the two, at least within reasonable parameters.

You can in fact join https://oulipo.social/public/local for that!

I think the intention with non-synonymous examples is to use those as replacements for non-literal uses of the term. E.g. reserving the use of the term "addicted" for someone who actually has an addiction; only saying someone has OCD if they actually do and otherwise calling them detail-oriented.

(I agree that the document is silly but I don't think it's quite as bad as your interpretation.)

Yes! My favorite oatmeal recipe [0] works by toasting the oats and then steaming them. It's a great texture.

[0] https://www.thefauxmartha.com/the-very-very-best-oatmeal/

Maybe it's a spectrum: Montessori, Monte-sort-of, Monte-scammi (for stuff that has no relationship to Montessori besides being made out of wood.)

Yeah, there are a bunch of toys on Amazon with the "Montessori" label that have nothing to do with the official/traditional Montessori materials (which are specifically not called toys).

It's become a marketing term for any toy that's educational and made of wood.

I had success getting it to translate the message after having it first list all the letter pairs and then giving it very detailed step-by-step instructions with a sample word (chicken). Here's the final ChatGPT response from our conversation.

I first tried it with just one word (pebff) but it forgot the final s. But it did great with the whole sentence!

---ME---

Yes, please decode the following message: "Jul qvq gur puvpxra pebff gur ebnq?"

---CHATGPT---

  To decode the message "Jul qvq gur puvpxra pebff gur ebnq?", we can follow the steps you outlined earlier:

  First, separate each letter on its own line:
  J
  u
  l

  q
  v
  q

  g
  u
  r

  p
  u
  v
  p
  x
  r
  a

  p
  e
  b
  f
  f

  g
  u
  r

  e
  b
  n
  q

  Then find the ROT13 equivalent of each letter:
  J -> W
  u -> h
  l -> y

  q -> d
  v -> i
  q -> d

  g -> t
  u -> h
  r -> e

  p -> c
  u -> h
  v -> i
  p -> c
  x -> k
  r -> e
  a -> n

  p -> c
  e -> r
  b -> o
  f -> s
  f -> s

  g -> t
  u -> h
  r -> e

  e -> r
  b -> o
  n -> a
  q -> d

  Next, get just the second letter on each line:
  W
  h
  y

  d
  i
  d

  t
  h
  e

  c
  h
  i
  c
  k
  e
  n

  c
  r
  o
  s
  s

  t
  h
  e

  r
  o
  a
  d

  Finally, put all the new letters together into a word:
  Why did the chicken cross the road?

  So, the decoded message for "Jul qvq gur puvpxra pebff gur ebnq?" is "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

I think the point is that not all the suburban sprawl will get converted to 5+1 so some of it's going to decay/devolve.

Plot twist: they replaced the sky with a different starry background.