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dave84··on Replit AI for All
And you probably can’t turn it off in replit education teams if the other feature are anything to go by. Going to have to re-evaluate.
dave84··on 'This Is a False Advertisement': X Ads Are Being Challenged by Reader Context
I remember Third Voice, even installed it iirc: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice
dave84··on 9/11 in Realtime
OK, the menu bar was throwing me off... makes no sense. Thanks.
dave84··on 9/11 in Realtime
I'm a bit lost, changing the timeline doesn't seem to correspond to the events or coverage of them. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
dave84··on Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland
Names are usually withheld until families have been informed, this may have been the case at the time of writing.
dave84··on Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland
Some sources are reporting that one death is being investigated as a possible cardiac arrest, still a bit of a stretch.
dave84··on Ode to the M1
That’s not true at all. Have you actually used one?

Edit: obviously if you need a windows vm you’re out of luck at 8gb ram

dave84··on ChatGPT: The end of new programming languages?
No, then we’d need to write an English compiler, I’m talking about an output language.
dave84··on ChatGPT: The end of new programming languages?
In most cases it made perfect sense. One joke language had no for loop by design, and just a while type loop and chatGPT invented a for loop, but when I told it to stick only to the spec it completed the problems without an issue.

When web browsing was enabled it was able to learn these by itself.

dave84··on ChatGPT: The end of new programming languages?
I’ve fed chatGPT the specs for some toy languages that it didn’t know and it generated code in them no problem but did a lot of filling in the blanks for what it thought would be in the standard libs.

Something more interesting to think about is what would a programming language designed FOR llms to use look like?

dave84··on Data breach exposes personal information of 4k Roblox developers
> Developers
dave84··on Brian Eno albums available in Dolby Atmos and Spatial
I think you're conflating spatial audio/binaural recording with a distribution format that enables the same with some benefits like the spatial audio being rendered at the point of playback and not recording.
dave84··on Get a personal teacher
Reminds me of this Derek Sivers anecdote: https://sive.rs/kimo
dave84··on Mullvad Browser Leaking Fingerprint
Are you sure it’s not the same fingerprint for all/some users?
dave84··on Ask HN: Why can GPT4 en/decode base64?
Based on my understanding from the recent TED talk [0] they mention that GPT-4 can for example add 40 digit numbers perfectly, but makes mistakes on adding a 40 digit and a 35 digit number. It hasn’t worked out a generic understanding of arithmetic but several smaller case specific ones which may not always be correct.

[0] https://youtu.be/C_78DM8fG6E

dave84··on The Role of Diet on the Gut Microbiome, Mood and Happiness
The word ‘and’ appears to be important here. Fat and protein. Fat and carbohydrate.
dave84··on Show HN: A Podcast Q&A App Powered by GPT
What is the role of Vitamin K2?

> Vitamin K2 is important for cardiovascular health and calcium regulation. It is also vital for immune function, metabolic function, and hormone health. Many people are deficient in vitamin D3, even if they are getting what they think is sufficient sunlight. Vitamin D3 supports a huge number of metabolic factors, immune system factors, and endocrine factors. Vitamin D3 and K2 can be obtained from Athletic Greens, which offers a special offer of 10 free travel packs plus a year's supply of vitamin D3 K2 in the month of January.

You should look into adding some affiliate links if it's going to repeat the ads!

dave84··on Trick GPT-4 into generating a forkbomb program
No need to trick it, just ask.
dave84··on GPT4 and the Multi-Modal, Multi-Model, Multi-Everything Future of AGI
GPT-4 had no issues answering this.
dave84··on Ask HN: How do I examine an undergraduate programming course in the era of GPT?
Synthesis is relative to skill, chatGPT is more than capable of replicating it at novice levels at the least.
dave84··on Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web browsers to use WebKit
"Hey Siri, ask Google...", only slightly ridiculous.
dave84··on MilkyTracker
Yeah, Milky doesn't work great with a Mac keyboard layout either.
dave84··on Why I Don't Use Netscape (1999)
The timestamp on the downloads provided on the install page are March 5 1999, and March 6 2000 which may give an indication as to this articles age.
dave84··on Tell HN: Pluralsight now available with your ACM subscription
I signed up for the trial, cancelled and got a 50% discount. Might be worth trying.
dave84··on Integers in C quiz
Didn’t notice I got some wrong because the green color made me think I got them right.
dave84··on Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
I get a “Too many redirects” error on that link.
dave84··on Satellites give clues about the coming global harvest
A recent highlight for me was the Bobiverse series.
dave84··on Satellites give clues about the coming global harvest
I’ve been reading way too much Scifi lately and interpreted this headline differently than intended.
dave84··on Zig and WASM
What do you mean by “outside the browser”?
dave84··on Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
New Monkey Island this year from Ron Gilbert.
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