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pcshah1996

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pcshah1996··on 507 Mechanical Movements
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

pcshah1996··on GM's Cruise Unit Is Laying Off 24% of Workforce
Alternate source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/cruise-slashes-24-of-self-...
pcshah1996··on Gemini AI
Some discussion on twitter about misleading evaluation: https://twitter.com/a_a_cabrera/status/1732454328307511807

(nitter: https://nitter.net/a_a_cabrera/status/1732454328307511807#m)

pcshah1996··on Time to preserve those floppy disks
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.

pcshah1996··on Who invented vector clocks?
As usual, a (semi-)relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/978/ (Citogenesis)
pcshah1996··on ChatGPT-4 is unable to do a simple thing
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

pcshah1996··on New 13-inch MacBook Pro
Something that I've found useful is https://pock.dev/ . It lets the touchbar replace the on-screen dock